About 2 hours a day. Set your goals and accomplish them. Dry fire seems redundant or somehow unnecessary to make an argument for the efficacy of dry fire training. When the weather outside is unpleasant or even dangerous, you can still dry-fire at home. It doesn’t matter if it is cold or raining or hot dry-fire will be there waiting for you !
For most competition shooters, vast majority of their training will be done in dry-fire. This is both terms of repetition and in terms of time commitment. I recommend you dry-fire everyday. If you truly want to improve, you will take time to put the gun on.
Obviously, live-fire on daily basis is non-starter for most people. It just plain isn’t going to happen ! The time commitment to travel to and from the range , shoot, and load ammunition is too much. Not to mention the financial burden of firing 300 rounds a day would cost crazy amount of money 💲💰 I only go out live-fire once a week only. But most people goes once or twice a month only.
Dry-fire you’ll going to work on your grip, draw, reload, movement, sight acquisition and so forth in dry-fire. You will program yourself to execute every little technique certain way. When you get out to the range to fire bullets, you are testing yourself. You are seeing if you have progressed ?
You can constantly strive to go faster, be more efficient, see your sights better, and so on. Don’t settle for sloppy trigger control when you are striving for excellence ! The point is to build habits that make you successful when firing live ammunition.
Most of these drills require that you use a par time. The way it works is that , you figure out your par time for some defined action. This will not be too difficult after you work with the drills in the book for a while. Soon, you will know that it takes you about X time, to engage Y targets, at Z distance. With just a little bit of scenario specific twerking, you will very quickly nail down a time that you can repeatedly hit. As soon you figure out your par time, follow the instructions of the drill.
With a single action pistol, such as a 1911 or 2011 firearm, you only get one pull of the trigger. The rest of the time you press back on an inactive ( or “Dead” ) trigger.
What does it mean to “Master a Drill ?” Often , people ask me if they should move on from a drill after they have “Mastered” it. “Mastering” a drill is a problematic idea. You can certainly become proficient with a drill. You can gain the skill to consistently nail the drill under the goal time. That doesn’t mean that you are perfect, it just means you have the ability to perform the drill to an adequate level. I wouldn’t call this mastery , but then again I wouldn’t neglect the other drills.
Gary Hybridge 