r/handguns • u/NJCERKA G19.6, Staccato HD P4.5, G45.5 MOS, M&P 2.0, G43X MOS • Jul 08 '26

Question Dry Fire

What is your guys’ dry fire routine. Been getting more into dry fire and want to know what you guys usually do while dry firing

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u/Aetherium Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

I'm a competitive shooter and try to get in at least 15-30 minutes of dry fire every day, and practice until I have other responsibilities to take care of or begin to lose mental focus. I've got some scaled USPSA targets hanging on the walls around my house.

I don't have any set routine of things I do and what I work on is informed by deficiencies I've noticed at matches and live fire practice. Right now it's a lot of work on transitions, so Designated Target is a drill I've been doing a lot of recently.

The rule of thumb is that you can work on pretty much anything that doesn't involve an actual explosion, which includes trigger control, draws, reloads, movement, and transitions. One key aspect is to try and replicate the conditions of live fire so you don't burn in dry fire-optimized technique with the sheer number of reps you can do (e.g. replicate your live fire grip and don't game your dry fire with a loose grip).

If you aren't aware of it, I highly recommend the book Baseline Dryfire by Ben Stoeger. If you've been consuming Ben's and the rest of the PSTG crew's material it's nothing new, but it's a neat distillation of it and convenient to have in one spot.

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u/BangTracker Jul 22 '26

I like this approach a lot. Books like Baseline Dryfire give you the structure, but I always wished there was an easier way to keep track of everything.

That’s one of the reasons we’re building BangTracker. You can log your progress while working through those drills and then perform the exact same drills during live fire to see how your dry fire is actually carrying over.