How To Structure a Dryfire Session

A dry fire session should last anywhere from ten to thirty minutes in duration depending on numerous factors such as hand strength, muscular endurance of the forearms, the ability to maintain laser focus and attention to detail, as well as what exactly you are trying to improve on. I find it difficult to work more than one or two specific isolated skills during a training session. It is also much more productive to dryfire once or twice a day for ten minutes at a time than it is to wait several days and then try and complete an hour to two hour long session. Your ability to pay attention to the minute details required in order to not build in bad habits begins to deteriorate as soon as fatigue sets in. Here is an example of how I would structure a dryfire session for fifteen minutes with the desire to work on two specific skills plus I personally always throw in “trigger control at speed” as a bonus drill. The first five minutes would be dedicated towards drawing and indexing the gun onto target. After that the next five minutes would be drawing the gun and then transitioning from one target to the other while maintaining a hard target focus. The third and final drill that is an easy bonus would be working trigger control at speed. So pick a couple of different isolated hard skills and put together a dryfire training session with consistency and watch your performance at the range during live fire training significantly improve.