A dry-fire drill that isolates just the gun-to-magwell-to-magazine part of a reload and repeats it 3,000 to 10,000 times to build muscle memory. The focus is relaxed shoulders, consistent hand placement, and a smooth gun path you can repeat without thinking.
All right, so here we go. Yes, I'm bebopping to music as I'm trying to do my dry fire because You know, it should be fun. So first thing I do is forget what drill I'm supposed to be doing because tonight we are doing micro drills. And what, pray tell, is a micro drill? A micro drill is where we take a little bit of a complete movement, like a full reload, and break down just little pieces and parts of it. So What am I doing? My finger's on the trigger, I'm touching the— whatever that's called. Oh, super slow-mo to show how much I missed the magwell by, because the total misses are the ones where you're like, okay, I need to fix something. So I want to make sure that the gun goes the same place every time, and I'm going to do the same thing forwards and backwards, and that's what I'm doing here is just like recreating my body to understand. It's like, all right, the gun stops here, the hands go there, and I'm gonna try again. So where is that space that I need to be? Well, as it says right here, we have 3,000 to 10,000 reps, so I want to have really good reps as I'm doing this. The idea is my magwell is is pointing at my mag pouch so that we're taking the least amount of space to go from my mag pouch to my mag well. And for those of you who don't know, mag well is where the magazine actually gets inserted into the grip. And I'm trying to do as efficiently as possible. And one of the things that helps me do this is just break it down into little tiny pieces. Now, I actually have two things I'm supposed to be working on, but ideally work on one thing at a time. I do not have a timer set up for this. I am just working on getting the actual movement of the gun up in front of my face on target while I'm listening to music, because, you know, that's always more fun. And I want to get my gun— oh wait, remember all those this week how I kept forgetting to hit record? Right there, I'm just verifying that I really did hit record and the little timer was going. So anyway, anyway, that was Justin Timberlake. Um, yeah, so that's what I'm dancing to. But the workspace where I'm getting my gun to, to do the reload, I want the gun to come to a complete stop, and then I'm going to actually get the mag— my finger to the magwell. And that is the plan for this evening. Is just work on that movement. And again, trying to relax my shoulders and keep them down. See, that's my shoulders relaxed. As soon as I put the gun out, I'm all tense again. I need to really work on trying to get my shoulders down. And so the music helps a little bit, but obviously I can't be bebopping on the range. So there it is, just relax those shoulders, roll them down. And again, I'm working on the consistency of where I bring that gun to. All right, that was the end of "Can't Stop This Feeling" by Justin Timberlake, in case you were wondering, because, you know, that whole whatever that is YouTube thing. KDA pop? Well, you know, pop stars. And this is where I pinch my finger, and that's not awesome, but hey, beauty does not come with pain, and the idea is to get these to be beautiful, fast reloads. That's kind of it. I hope you guys enjoyed today's dry fire. It will take a lot of practice to get to that perfect place so that I can be smooth and do the least amount of movement as possible. And no one ever got anywhere perfectly, and that's my eyes on you. That's what that line was from KDA. All right folks, my finger's on the trigger, shoulders are supposed to be relaxed. I just kind of bring them back down and I just can't even anymore. So that's it for tonight. Have an awesome day. I will see you all tomorrow.
