Olympic International Rapid Fire Pistol and US Army Reserve Team Champion SFC Keith Sanderson discusses his approach to dry practice and its importance to improving your marksmanship skills.
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Feb 17, 2011 @ 12:27:50
I watched the “dry fire video”. Dry firing is a good practice, but live fire works for me. SPC Sanderson was saying “in short”, To be a good shooter, practise,practise,practise,and practise somemore. It’s muscle memory.
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Feb 17, 2011 @ 12:29:45
Sure, just go practice.
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Feb 18, 2011 @ 11:57:21
I shot my first gun a 6, built my first gun at 16, and I’m from Kentucky. I’m 47 now, I’m a self taught Gunsmith. If it goes bang I can fix it and shoot it. 30 years of working on guns and were did Yall learn about “Kentucky Windage”, It’s in blood. 70% of the best shooters from WWI to present come from Kentucky. I’m not the best shot in the world, but I’m not the worst ether. As for being a “Real Gunsmith”, if I can’t find a replacement part I’ll make it. I’m not a “parts changer gunsmith”.
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Feb 18, 2011 @ 12:00:32
I’m not questioning your ability, just playing devil’s advocate! No worries.
>> 70% of the best shooters from WWI to present come from Kentucky.
Interesting. I never knew there was any formal study or research conducted on this. Can you cite a reference for that statistic?
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Aug 08, 2011 @ 20:09:58
“@Mark Hillard
Feb 17, 2011 @ 12:27:50
I watched the “dry fire video”. Dry firing is a good practice, but live fire works for me. SPC Sanderson was saying “in short”, To be a good shooter, practise,practise,practise,and practise somemore. It’s muscle memory.”
I just want to clarify and correct you a smidge. (respectfully)
“PERFECT practice, is required to be a good shooter, or good at anything for that matter” if you practice, practice, practice doing it incorrectly, you just instill bad habits.
And Sanderson absolutely is saying that “Dry fire is 100 times more important than live fire”. Dry fire will tell you what you are doing in regards to delivery, live fire subsequently results in recoil, which can mask your shot delivery from view/perception.
And, It’s NOT “muscle memory”. It’s properly point, then delivery the shot without misaligning.
Instinctive bow shooting rely’s heavily on muscle memory, not precision shooting.
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Aug 09, 2011 @ 07:42:08
Everyone would be wise to listen to anything Rob Mango says.
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Mar 31, 2015 @ 18:39:35
Those of you who know me, know I preach dry fire. McGivern technique, Sanderson technique, YOUR technique – but dry fire!
I just stumbled on this video with SFC Sanderson.
His one omission – he doesn’t give the live-to-dry fire ratio from his practice. It was (less than) 500 to 100,000; that is more than 1-to-2,000 live to dry.
So, get out there and snap!
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Mar 31, 2015 @ 18:44:42
SFC Sanderson did state his preferred ratio is 100:1 dry to live. His point is that proper, concentrated dry practice is highly beneficial.
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