March 18, 2020 01:35AM
Back when I was more serious about competition I would dry fire about 20 minutes per day, practice mag changes, drawing under different circumstances, clearing failures, etc. Tremendously helpful for a shooting competitions where speed and accuracy are equally important. For someone not in competition, it does one very important thing and that is to build muscle memory. If you start off holding the gun wrong, or any other bad habit, your brain will default to that under stress. Best thing to do is to learn it correctly from the start and train your brain to that default behavior.

There are mixed opinions about mounting a light on a gun. One of the arguments against is that you give your position away in an actual tactical situation. I'm not sure that holds up considering that the better lights are easily activated/deactivated while maintaining a proper grip. So you don't have to move around with the light on all of the time. But you can turn it on to identify a target.

One of the cons and the reason I don't mount a light is that to light up anything you also have to point your gun at it. Generally bad unless you are 100% sure it is something that needs a gun pointed at it.

I recommend a hand held light like the one I linked to. At the highest setting, much brighter than anything that will mount on a pistol and allows for enlightening things without muzzling them. This is also one of the arguments against a long gun for home defense. Keeping one hand free to hold a light, open a door, etc. while still maintaining full control of your weapon is a good thing.
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  So, speaking of guns..

sstrams401March 15, 2020 02:45PM

  Frankly...

JamesJM260March 15, 2020 03:03PM

  Yeah, i know shotgun..

sstrams202March 15, 2020 05:10PM

  Re: So, speaking of guns..

Aries229March 15, 2020 04:06PM

  Yeah, that's a good point..

sstrams196March 15, 2020 05:08PM

  No worries

Aries216March 15, 2020 06:12PM

  Its a nice day for a migraine headache..

sstrams167March 16, 2020 06:38AM

  Re: Yeah, that's a good point..

NorCalRamFan206March 17, 2020 03:47PM

  Yeah, lets bump that to 8 days now..

sstrams167March 18, 2020 02:50AM

  Recommendation for the zombie apocalypse

SeattleRam219March 15, 2020 05:21PM

  Holy crap..

sstrams172March 16, 2020 06:37AM

  Re: Holy crap..

SeattleRam200March 16, 2020 08:02AM

  Man, I want one of those..

sstrams171March 16, 2020 08:34AM

  Re: So, speaking of guns..

NorCalRamFan182March 17, 2020 03:39PM

  Re: So, speaking of guns..

CeeZar171March 17, 2020 05:15PM

  Dry fire...

JamesJM154March 17, 2020 05:39PM

  Re: Dry fire...

CeeZar170March 18, 2020 01:35AM

  Ceezar! ..and Norcal.. and Jjimmy!

sstrams163March 18, 2020 03:00AM

  Well, as you know...

JamesJM164March 18, 2020 07:01AM

  Re: Well, as you know...

CeeZar181March 18, 2020 08:47AM

  I have one...

JamesJM162March 18, 2020 08:52AM

  Meh!!!!! I THOUGHT.......

Ramgator182March 18, 2020 10:36AM

  Gator...

sstrams159March 18, 2020 10:42AM

  Re: Gator...

NorCalRamFan168March 18, 2020 01:08PM

  True, but I'm hoping that..

sstrams164March 18, 2020 01:10PM

  Re: True, but I'm hoping that..

NorCalRamFan168March 18, 2020 03:05PM

  No?

sstrams158March 18, 2020 03:08PM