Muscle Memory 1

[LR1955]

I am acquainted with a former Olympic shooter who went through some extensive leading edge training.

When I asked him what his secret to accurate shooting was and he said simply, "1000 dry fires a day".

I was floored. That is a quite a lot of practice!

That's how important practice and repetition was considered at that time.

SG:

1K dry fires a day? I wonder who keeps count.

Maybe an Olympian but even then, difficult for me to believe. That would be about six or eight hours of dry firing.

I use a SCATT Biathlon machine for dry firing. I try to go 15 strings prone and 15 standing per session. Takes me about 90 minutes and that is rapid fires. I imagine slow fire would take about six or eight hours for 1K rounds if the shooter would not go catatonic from sheer boredom after about two hours of it. The most important strings to me are 1 - 4 then 14 and 15.

There are other things a person can do if they want to spend time. Visualization sessions between dry firing strings is a good one. Bottom line though, 1K dry fires a day is about 700 more than needed. Maybe 800 in terms of slow fire. However, could well be that is how they trained or maybe even train today. Personally, I think it is way too much and will lead to burn out.