Myself and everyone I know has trained by dry firing at home every day, which has helped inprove real performance at the range. Never once have I witnessed someone get confused and rack their slide out of habit.
I'm amazed you "see this on 90% on your ranges". I have never ever seen this and I shoot a lot and mostly in competition with people who dryfire. Also if you look at the worlds best shooters they all dryfire. And "slow motion practice" is a normal part of dryfire - for all different parts of the practice. Btw: Why do you move your vision from target focus to front post focus after the shot in the first example? Isn't that when you you focus on what you shot at? I'm confused.
I have only seen this once, with a guy who had never shot a round out of his only gun yet due to ammo shortage and after a year of dry fire went to the range. He did it once, and never again. I think mike made up/lied about seeing this all the time.
Yea I like Mike but this is dumb. I shoot thousands of rounds out of a bolt action but I’ve never reached up when shooting a semi automatic rifle by habit. When I shoot a semi automatic shot gun I’ve never attempted to pump it. When I’ve shot single action hammer fired guns I’ve never attempted to cock the hammer despite fire tons of double action guns.
@@Bethehustler96 I think this video is geared to the very new shooters who don't have a researched dry fire (or practice) routine and think that it means "extend gun, pull trigger, repeat" and not fully thinking through the process. This racking the slide thing has been documented in police shootings as well, so Glover isn't the only one to recognize this.
May have to always qualify the words instead of general statements that can be taken out of context. Especially when you'd qualify dry-fire vs dry-practice. Quite honestly, in over a decade in the competition sphere where everyone "dry-fires" or "dry-practice", whatever one want's to call it, I have never seen anyone who tried to reset the hammer or striker after letting a round off. The loud bang generally would help a shooter activate a different response as opposed to just "resetting the hammer or striker" as if he was "dry-firing" instead of actually running the gun. Dry-firing or dry-practice will helps sight acquisition, picture and trigger press. I agree that anyone who does it to build a general muscle memory of the whole process is doing it wrong. But it's also the reason why people can be proficient even when not live firing, and is what helps one shoot more accurately by getting reps in without cost. So when one actually live-fires, then they'll remember the practice of the proper trigger press vis-a-vis sight acquisition and picture, hence they will print shots better like say in a more difficult drill like the "Dicken" 40Y drill.
I find it interesting that this video has gotten so much negative attention from a 30 second clip in the beginning of the video. Obviously people saw the clip and ran with it without watching the entire video. DON'T GET PLAYED.
That feeling when you fill your glass full of soda, only to find out there’s hardly anything in there once the fizz settles….that’s what has happened here.
IDK dude. If someone is resetting the trigger during live fire out of habit because they've practiced it so much during dry firing, maybe they're just too damn dumb to be owning a firearm to begin with. 🥴 I get what you're saying here, though. People are out there saying "Mike said to stop dry firing because 'muh training scar'" I don't believe that's really what you're trying to say here.
Thank you for the target focus to front sight focus comment. I juat had a discussion today with a ccw instructor today . That target focus was imperative to front sight focus until the shot.
It seems that many people missed Mike's points here about dry practice, particularly his main point -- "cognition." In the quest for building speed, it's easy to get into the habit of mindless "reps," which can create dangerously bad habits. Personally, I wish he would have mentioned some dry-fire tools that are currently available that don't require you to rack the slide for trigger resets (DryFireMag, CoolFire, airsoft, SIRT pistols, etc.). Top shooters such as Ben Stoeger have also developed some good ways to get in trigger reps on dry pistols that don't require racking. Happy shooting.
Thank you. I didn't realize I do have good habits thanks my grandfather and uncles. I have more to work on but it's nice to know. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to more.
Dry fire helps with trigger control amd front sight focus.. Let me explain. Place a post it with a dot on it or something with a dot on it on a wall. Stand 3-5 away. While in the shooting position, place the front sight on or in the middle of your dot. Pull the trigger without moving the front sight off the target. Its an accuracy drill. Not a movement drill. Then go to the range and see your improvement. Having a Stikeman or Mantis makes it easier to practice for accuracy.
Unless you are using an RDS. Changes many things. Many of the instructors I have been to recently have adopted dry practice. These are instructors with years of military engagements and training. They have you just place your finger on the trigger while performing the dry practice. This is good training. Go to the range and practice firing with real rounds to help all the aspects of shooting. There is no better aspect of training while not under duress of combat.
@@EricTheSwede Negative brother, “dry fire” vs “dry practice” is just semantics at this point. I even watched it again to make sure im not mis-speaking. He literally just dry fired slower. I value only the betterment of citizens ability to perform when they need to, i could care less about internet fandoms. Mike is obviosuly vastly more accomplished than I am, but he is not the end all be all when it comes to TEACHING in this particular capacity.
@@EricTheSwede he’s saying dry firing is bad because you build a habit. That’s the most idiotic shit I heard. If what he said true you couldn’t do any type of drill because you’d build that movement and you’d use it at the wrong time.
“I know that’s a lot of words”. See, ya gotta listen to them all then understand em. Dry firing is bad. You create “muscle memory”. You have to be cognizant of what you are doing and why. He creates breakers between the good “present and fire” and the bad “racking”. We get into the habit of fire, rack, fire, rack. I’ve watched my GF do 500 dry fires this week and 500 racks. For now it’s ok because she is learning to shoot and rack, but we will move to a Coolfire in a couple weeks so she can focus more on the present and fire. Then reloads, reloads, Reloads, but not while dry firing. I want to keep that as it’s own thing at first.
It’s like playing a video game, you never have to think about how to reload, only when and where and with the push of a button a script runs and the character performs a perfect reload every time. Start slow and focus on every detail in the body and the movement and then ramp up the speed staying conscious without breaking the form to build the neurological pathways. Like it
This is a good point. For example when I go lift at the gym I always find myself just pushing/pulling the weights to no real effect - repetition. But when i focus on the muscle that is at play and visualize how the weight is affecting it's ability to do work through the movement, I find that less is more. I'll definitely be adding this to my toolbox - thank you.
Hilton Yam of 10-8 Performance said it too: “practice does NOT make perfect, but practice makes permanent”.. if you practice the wrong thing all the time, it becomes a bad habit.
@@mgoo1713 hmm, ok, what would you suggest is a better way, or maybe the best way? I have been looking into many others giving dry fire tips, so I am trying to get an overall understanding. Also, you seem to suggest he doesn't know what he is talking about, (maybe im wrong) but if so, that doesn't seem to follow logic.
Unless you have a Taurus G3C or other similar pistols that will reset and re-engage the firing mechanism to a ready state when it's dry fired, allowing you to fire at least two repetitions. Granted that is limiting but if you wanted to try fire, admittedly without the realistic feel, action and physics of the actual weapon firing a live round, you can at least with a weapon like that break two shots and a dry fire exercise and not have to worry about resetting or re-enabling the action on the weapon.
I remember from either Fieldcraft Survival, Warrior Poet Society, or Carry Trainer (one of those), to wear your eye protection but use clear tape on it where the opposite area of the eye your trying to train. IE - I'm training my right eye to focus so I put clear scotch tape over where my left eye would be. Just enough to cover my central vision but not the peripheral vision.
Eye dominance is way less of an issue than people make it out to be. Mike is actually cross eye dominant, he’s gone over it in a previous video. If you run a red dot it’s completely irrelevant, and on a pistol with irons, you literally just present the gun to your dominant eye. Lucas from TRex does the same thing.
If your left eye dominant and a righty lol welcome to the club. Embrace it and just cover your right eye. Then switch to your left hand and use your left eye. Congrats you are now an ambidextrous shooter.
Mike is the only Asian dude that says Hola in such way that you would think you are right in Tijuana trying to score some mamacitas 🤣 Great video guys 👍🏼
Okay so you’ve taken dry-fire drills, called them dry-practice and told us to go slow. Semantics and bad advice. This is a really shitty take. Your brain needs to learn how to observe, process, and decide at speed. You only get there by pushing speed with deliberate thought. If you aren’t actively thinking during dry fire, you will build bad habits, given. But if you move like a turtle, you’ll never get better either. Train at the maximum speed that you can interpret what your body is doing and force yourself to think.
I'd LOVE for you to show me an instance of someone racking the slide every time they fire a round at a range. Tell me you're out of content without telling me you're out of content....
Yup My gun training instructor dry fires a lot and he has never did that shit. Dude has trained many people and never saw anyone do it. Not saying it's never has anywhere else. But to me it has to be common sense not to
What about red dot? I wouldn't have to shift my vision very much just stay target focused and slightly look at the dot? During the initial drive out I quickly reference the front sight in my peripherals to get a straight presentation, but after that its all target focus
One of my bad habits is, when at the range, I break the shot and immediately retract back to high ready. No idea where I started it, but it takes a lot of mental focus to follow through well.
A trick learned from Pat McNamara is after breaking shot is to always acquire another sight picture. So one shot two sight pictures. Two shots three sight pictures. You can see Mike is doing that by staying on target after breaking the shot.
Did the same, started doing individual or double shots and holding on the sights for a bit after. Few hours later had it down, makes alot of sense to check your shots through your sights
@@mikeg3754 This is fine but when you train shooting multiple targets you need to make sure to start transitioning before you achieve that last sight picture.
Alright, I just heard that it’s bad to dry fire a gun and you could break it which I think is absolute bullshit, but just in case if I’m wrong could anybody tell me if that’s true, i been dry practicing with my Glock for a while and it doesn’t have anything wrong with it
Botkin does that, but I assume he's good enough to actually remember the amount of rounds left in the magazine. Some people mimic that and just do it for the sake of doing it, while not registering the amount of bullets left. Like people pick up their phone and look at the time, then do it again ~30 seconds later and still don't know the time when asked.
Makes sense to me Mike! As a long time drummer, I can say that figuring out a complicated part of a song or simply building skills on the kit always starts at slow speeds and gradually builds up to performance level...
It’s crazy because slow motion practice is what I’ve been doing for a while. I just know that doing things slow you can understand what you’re doing right or wrong.
Mike...thanks so much for breaking a couple bad habits before they manifest...I just began dry fire training with mantis and the acquisition drills will build my skills even when not on the system all of this information makes a lot of sense and I'll try and organize my drills accordingly
All he’s doing is arguing against building speed. “You see guys draw and go boom boom boom and ask them what they did…” a good fast shooter can shoot fast and process the information at that speed. I can shoot fast and call my shots and know what my gun is doing. But I wouldn’t be able to shoot fast if all I did was slow dry fire. I agree with him that your dry fire has to be deliberate, but it has to be deliberate AND fast.
I saw clips from this video on IG where people were shitting on you about dry fire, so I decided to come here to watch the whole video and what you’re saying makes sense. Idk how true it is that people mess up that bad on the range that they shoot once and then rack the slide like how you were saying at the beginning of the video, but you’re on the range training others WAYYY more than I’m ever training on the range at all, so I can’t disregard your experience in that manner. I don’t get why people are shitting on you over this video and what you’re saying on this.
Call it what you want, dry fire vs slow motion practice vs dry practice, Mike makes excellent points. Pretty sure he isn’t trying to coin any new terms here. Shit I don’t even use the term dry fire. Who the f’ cares. His point is about GOOD PRACTICE. But hey, idiots (clowns) missing the point is always comical.
💯💯💯 I’ve personally developed a lot of bad training scars from bad dry firing practice. When I slow things down like this and then slowly speed it up it makes a huge improvement to my live shooting performances. Separating when you reset the trigger and when you run through the actual process of drawing and shooting makes total sense when it comes to properly developing muscle memory.
Thanks Mike, slow motion training is what I love to teach wrestlers five to ten minutes on certain techniques helps a lot. Those who embrace always improve. At home I encourage them to get in front of a mirror to shadow wrestle for ten minutes, start at a snails pace then pick it up.
This might be getting overly meme’d online, but I do feel like it’s a bit of a redundant video. Essentially saying “don’t dry fire badly, do it properly”.
This dude in front of our eyes is developing a complex where he thinks whatever he says is valid. 100% it comes from listening to himself talk all day on his show. Mike you're a corny veteran, not a firearms specialist. I've watched excerpts of your classes where you repeat yourself 4-5 times in one tangent because you don't have any real input, you like to hear yourself talk and take peoples money while you make it up as you go. Prime example.
I took Fieldcraft’s Gunfighter 1 in NRH, TX on 8/27. While Mike didn’t teach the class, it was a joke. Seriously, if anybody wants legit af training, and doesn’t wanna wait for the hypebeasts training co du jour. I’d say head out to TN and either train with Tactical Response or Reid Henrichs at Valor Ridge.
@@OneD33pTX Yeha there alot of guys, SWAT/LE guys and comp dudes escpecially ones who run sim's in a gun fighting or CQB class are the real deal. Having served at some point and running a RUclips channel doesn't qualify these clowns to take peoples money. Totally valid point king.
@@praharin I tend to get long-winded so I'm going to try to stay concise. Also do keep in mind I'm not a high level instructor so I suspect there might be some ambiguity with what I'm saying. I'll start with a dude named Mike Pannone (former CAG). I disagree with Mike Pannone to a small extent but Mike gets the broad strokes down pretty well. He doesn't think training scars exist. He believes as long as you know why you are doing what you are doing you aren't going to be stupid enough to do something that applies to an admin setting in a competitive environment (3 gunning) or combat. I don't know the number of hours I put into dry fire in the USMC and the Army, but it was A LOT (over 80, my guess is much more than over 80). Once we rolled to live ammo I didn't start ejecting live rounds due to the "training scar" of immediately charging my weapon. In fact, I don't know of anyone that did do it in all the units I have been in. Mike Pannone actually talks about training scars in depth in a podcast he did on IG. Run a search for Xray.alpha.llc and there's a podcast with Mike along with 3 others on aug 9. I forgot the time hack on it when they are talking train scars however I feel like Mike and the rest of the group will explain this better than I can. I'm pretty sure the group might be doing an IG podcast in response to Glover in the next day or 2 come to think of it. Who knows? Maybe they'll get Glover on the Podcast, I know he's already been invited.
Dry fire exercises is great for practicing trigger control and accuracy. If people don't know how to not create bad habits or break bad habits, then maybe they shouldn't own a firearm.😳
Nothing beats firing actual rounds while under duress. Flat range is good but it all goes out the window if you are need to run and gun while getting to cover.
You know who must not ever activate their neocortex in dry fire? National and world champions. 😂😂😂 dang wait until they hear how wrong they’ve been all this time!
Ok all....much of the hate on here is from Pranka's followers, as it is so apparent. If you are limiting yourself to just one team to train you in the most life changing, lethal decision in your life, you are wrong. The other thing I can probably place money on is 50% of those jokers dogging this video have A). made mistakes on the range themselves, B). don't train in anything other than the flat range, and C). have a weak, if any amount of medical training to follow all this badassery shooting talk. You are 99.9% more likely to come up on a medical need than to shoot someone. I carry a pistol, and it is a Shadow Systems MR920 in some bags without one in the chamber. OMG......How can that be! It is all about context. I carry one in the pipe on my person because I like to party. "Oh but that goes against all training Lord Pranka tells us to do". Yeah well deal with it. Some situations have a need to carry without a round in the chamber. Find multiple sources. Period. I wouldn't use Prankster for training anyhow since he is such a douch by dogging other 2A folks.
Slow motion practice is dry fire lol. This guy is a clown hiding behind his title of “former special forces”. Anyway, gotta go train my eyes! Hopefully if a real threat presents itself I don’t just put my finger up at them and shift focus from the threat to my fingernail!
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As usual a lot of people aren’t listening to what’s being said the whole way through. Seriously people, you need to work on your attention span. Not everything can be conveyed as a meme.
@@ants9574 you’re right. I hate when people post things like they invented something when all they did was regurgitate what everyone has known. Keep following you’re hero who you probably never even taken a class from. Lol. Fanboy.
@@mikev2761 never said I was a "fanboy" as you call it. Just stumbled on this video. But keep name calling people on RUclips. It's real tough. Sounds like your feelings got a little hurt.
He’s made up nonissues. I’ve never seen anyone eject a live round trying to reset their trigger. I’ve also never seen anyone drop their mag to check it (and assuming his story is real, they didn’t pick that up from dry fire, you shouldn’t have mags anywhere near your gun unless you’re practicing malfunction clearing). Mike has made up a problem that doesn’t exist and given generally bad advice to people trying to improve their speed and accuracy.
Wow. Mike Glover has run out of intelligent things to say. Well, I guess he still needs to come up with fluff for 10 minute videos to show off that P365 so he can fulfill his contract and get that big fat check from Sig...
Hey your the sap that tells people don’t use dry fire laser lol you should advice people about their situational awareness. I’ve become a great marksman due to these inexpensive “lasers”.
Can confirm: This is how the brain learns. I've seen many videos of police doing some weird learned behavior mid gunfight. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
Nonsense. Almost all competition shooters dryfire at speed and do not have the issues you describe. Got to be honest man, you do not know what you're talking about.
I don't understand the hate, I see nothing but facts here and awesome helpful information to become a great shooter from the experience of a spec ops guy that has done this for real. And at no point is said that dry fire is bad, just how to do it in the most beneficial way. Amazing the amount of butthurt people out there. Thanks Mike for all the info!
Plenty of people who know him & his resume better than you have been calling him out as the fool he is... but keep up with the rumpswapping I'm sure mikey likes it
Myself and everyone I know has trained by dry firing at home every day, which has helped inprove real performance at the range. Never once have I witnessed someone get confused and rack their slide out of habit.
Someone doesn't understand dry fire...But hey continue to talk about it
Yeah cause you know more than a former GRS member. CLOWN.
I have dried fired with a striker fired pistol for years and I have never built the bad habits mentioned in this video 🤔
Neither have I
Your Pro Tips are Awesome, Thanks Mike, Please keep them coming!
Thank you for posting this!
I'm amazed you "see this on 90% on your ranges". I have never ever seen this and I shoot a lot and mostly in competition with people who dryfire. Also if you look at the worlds best shooters they all dryfire. And "slow motion practice" is a normal part of dryfire - for all different parts of the practice.
Btw: Why do you move your vision from target focus to front post focus after the shot in the first example? Isn't that when you you focus on what you shot at? I'm confused.
I have only seen this once, with a guy who had never shot a round out of his only gun yet due to ammo shortage and after a year of dry fire went to the range.
He did it once, and never again. I think mike made up/lied about seeing this all the time.
Yea I like Mike but this is dumb. I shoot thousands of rounds out of a bolt action but I’ve never reached up when shooting a semi automatic rifle by habit. When I shoot a semi automatic shot gun I’ve never attempted to pump it. When I’ve shot single action hammer fired guns I’ve never attempted to cock the hammer despite fire tons of double action guns.
@@Bethehustler96 I think this video is geared to the very new shooters who don't have a researched dry fire (or practice) routine and think that it means "extend gun, pull trigger, repeat" and not fully thinking through the process. This racking the slide thing has been documented in police shootings as well, so Glover isn't the only one to recognize this.
If you have ever seen him shoot you would understand. He's slow and inconsistent, like someone who doesn't dry fire.
He’s a quack dude.
Glad I found this video. This is invaluable information. Thank you.
May have to always qualify the words instead of general statements that can be taken out of context. Especially when you'd qualify dry-fire vs dry-practice. Quite honestly, in over a decade in the competition sphere where everyone "dry-fires" or "dry-practice", whatever one want's to call it, I have never seen anyone who tried to reset the hammer or striker after letting a round off. The loud bang generally would help a shooter activate a different response as opposed to just "resetting the hammer or striker" as if he was "dry-firing" instead of actually running the gun.
Dry-firing or dry-practice will helps sight acquisition, picture and trigger press. I agree that anyone who does it to build a general muscle memory of the whole process is doing it wrong. But it's also the reason why people can be proficient even when not live firing, and is what helps one shoot more accurately by getting reps in without cost. So when one actually live-fires, then they'll remember the practice of the proper trigger press vis-a-vis sight acquisition and picture, hence they will print shots better like say in a more difficult drill like the "Dicken" 40Y drill.
I find it interesting that this video has gotten so much negative attention from a 30 second clip in the beginning of the video. Obviously people saw the clip and ran with it without watching the entire video. DON'T GET PLAYED.
That feeling when you fill your glass full of soda, only to find out there’s hardly anything in there once the fizz settles….that’s what has happened here.
Cool story bro. 🙄
@@gb8641 This video sucked.
IDK dude. If someone is resetting the trigger during live fire out of habit because they've practiced it so much during dry firing, maybe they're just too damn dumb to be owning a firearm to begin with. 🥴
I get what you're saying here, though. People are out there saying "Mike said to stop dry firing because 'muh training scar'" I don't believe that's really what you're trying to say here.
Thx Mike! Very applicable for me . Thank u again for ur keen awareness of what's relevant
Thank you for the target focus to front sight focus comment. I juat had a discussion today with a ccw instructor today . That target focus was imperative to front sight focus until the shot.
It seems that many people missed Mike's points here about dry practice, particularly his main point -- "cognition." In the quest for building speed, it's easy to get into the habit of mindless "reps," which can create dangerously bad habits. Personally, I wish he would have mentioned some dry-fire tools that are currently available that don't require you to rack the slide for trigger resets (DryFireMag, CoolFire, airsoft, SIRT pistols, etc.). Top shooters such as Ben Stoeger have also developed some good ways to get in trigger reps on dry pistols that don't require racking. Happy shooting.
Thank you. I didn't realize I do have good habits thanks my grandfather and uncles. I have more to work on but it's nice to know. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to more.
Great tips! Thanks Mike!
Dry fire helps with trigger control amd front sight focus.. Let me explain. Place a post it with a dot on it or something with a dot on it on a wall. Stand 3-5 away. While in the shooting position, place the front sight on or in the middle of your dot. Pull the trigger without moving the front sight off the target. Its an accuracy drill. Not a movement drill. Then go to the range and see your improvement. Having a Stikeman or Mantis makes it easier to practice for accuracy.
Unless you are using an RDS. Changes many things. Many of the instructors I have been to recently have adopted dry practice. These are instructors with years of military engagements and training. They have you just place your finger on the trigger while performing the dry practice. This is good training. Go to the range and practice firing with real rounds to help all the aspects of shooting. There is no better aspect of training while not under duress of combat.
Jesus....Go watch 1 single Ben Stoeger video I beg you.
Sir you are quite literally just dry firing. 😂
If you can't see the difference between what he showed at the start and what he shows later, you're just here to hate honestly
@@EricTheSwede Negative brother, “dry fire” vs “dry practice” is just semantics at this point.
I even watched it again to make sure im not mis-speaking. He literally just dry fired slower.
I value only the betterment of citizens ability to perform when they need to, i could care less about internet fandoms. Mike is obviosuly vastly more accomplished than I am, but he is not the end all be all when it comes to TEACHING in this particular capacity.
@@EricTheSwede he’s saying dry firing is bad because you build a habit. That’s the most idiotic shit I heard. If what he said true you couldn’t do any type of drill because you’d build that movement and you’d use it at the wrong time.
“I know that’s a lot of words”. See, ya gotta listen to them all then understand em. Dry firing is bad. You create “muscle memory”. You have to be cognizant of what you are doing and why. He creates breakers between the good “present and fire” and the bad “racking”. We get into the habit of fire, rack, fire, rack. I’ve watched my GF do 500 dry fires this week and 500 racks. For now it’s ok because she is learning to shoot and rack, but we will move to a Coolfire in a couple weeks so she can focus more on the present and fire. Then reloads, reloads,
Reloads, but not while dry firing. I want to keep that as it’s own thing at first.
It’s like playing a video game, you never have to think about how to reload, only when and where and with the push of a button a script runs and the character performs a perfect reload every time. Start slow and focus on every detail in the body and the movement and then ramp up the speed staying conscious without breaking the form to build the neurological pathways. Like it
Love how you put this. Really makes sense when you think about it ✌🏼🤘🏻✊🏼
Another awesome video
Practice does not make perfect.
Perfect practice makes perfect.
This is a good point. For example when I go lift at the gym I always find myself just pushing/pulling the weights to no real effect - repetition. But when i focus on the muscle that is at play and visualize how the weight is affecting it's ability to do work through the movement, I find that less is more. I'll definitely be adding this to my toolbox - thank you.
Hilton Yam of 10-8 Performance said it too: “practice does NOT make perfect, but practice makes permanent”.. if you practice the wrong thing all the time, it becomes a bad habit.
Well if you "dry fire" the way Mike thinks you'resupposed to, you're practicing the wrong thing.
@@mgoo1713 hmm, ok, what would you suggest is a better way, or maybe the best way? I have been looking into many others giving dry fire tips, so I am trying to get an overall understanding. Also, you seem to suggest he doesn't know what he is talking about, (maybe im wrong) but if so, that doesn't seem to follow logic.
Unless you have a Taurus G3C or other similar pistols that will reset and re-engage the firing mechanism to a ready state when it's dry fired, allowing you to fire at least two repetitions. Granted that is limiting but if you wanted to try fire, admittedly without the realistic feel, action and physics of the actual weapon firing a live round, you can at least with a weapon like that break two shots and a dry fire exercise and not have to worry about resetting or re-enabling the action on the weapon.
I'm a Drummer and us drummers apply this same practice basically. Start slow then bring up the tempo. Good stuff right here man thank you!
Helpful
Do you have any drills to help eye dominance issues?
I remember from either Fieldcraft Survival, Warrior Poet Society, or Carry Trainer (one of those), to wear your eye protection but use clear tape on it where the opposite area of the eye your trying to train. IE - I'm training my right eye to focus so I put clear scotch tape over where my left eye would be. Just enough to cover my central vision but not the peripheral vision.
@@TheBroBie thank you!
Iirc @tactical_rifle recommends chap stick on you shooting glasses to help with that
Eye dominance is way less of an issue than people make it out to be. Mike is actually cross eye dominant, he’s gone over it in a previous video. If you run a red dot it’s completely irrelevant, and on a pistol with irons, you literally just present the gun to your dominant eye. Lucas from TRex does the same thing.
If your left eye dominant and a righty lol welcome to the club. Embrace it and just cover your right eye. Then switch to your left hand and use your left eye. Congrats you are now an ambidextrous shooter.
Mike is the only Asian dude that says Hola in such way that you would think you are right in Tijuana trying to score some mamacitas 🤣
Great video guys 👍🏼
Well said about training your eyes..
If I did it outside on a rainy day, what would it be?
Okay so you’ve taken dry-fire drills, called them dry-practice and told us to go slow. Semantics and bad advice.
This is a really shitty take. Your brain needs to learn how to observe, process, and decide at speed. You only get there by pushing speed with deliberate thought.
If you aren’t actively thinking during dry fire, you will build bad habits, given. But if you move like a turtle, you’ll never get better either. Train at the maximum speed that you can interpret what your body is doing and force yourself to think.
I'd LOVE for you to show me an instance of someone racking the slide every time they fire a round at a range. Tell me you're out of content without telling me you're out of content....
Yup
My gun training instructor dry fires a lot and he has never did that shit. Dude has trained many people and never saw anyone do it. Not saying it's never has anywhere else. But to me it has to be common sense not to
I'm willing to try this out too
What about red dot? I wouldn't have to shift my vision very much just stay target focused and slightly look at the dot? During the initial drive out I quickly reference the front sight in my peripherals to get a straight presentation, but after that its all target focus
Practice Makes Permanent NOT Perfect!
-Band Camp
This dude was a guard for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Let that sink in . . .
what does that mean? I mean I know what those guards are, but the part about "let that sink in" i don't understand.
One of my bad habits is, when at the range, I break the shot and immediately retract back to high ready. No idea where I started it, but it takes a lot of mental focus to follow through well.
A trick learned from Pat McNamara is after breaking shot is to always acquire another sight picture. So one shot two sight pictures. Two shots three sight pictures. You can see Mike is doing that by staying on target after breaking the shot.
I was caught doing the same thing during Fieldcraft's Gunfighter I class. It's taken work to break myself of the habit.
Did the same, started doing individual or double shots and holding on the sights for a bit after. Few hours later had it down, makes alot of sense to check your shots through your sights
@@mikeg3754 I was just about to mention this. Acquiring a final sight picture is essential. If you take 4 shots, you should have 5 sight pictures.
@@mikeg3754 This is fine but when you train shooting multiple targets you need to make sure to start transitioning before you achieve that last sight picture.
Great video as usual. Thanks.
dry practice. no lube. going in hot on a one man mission.
Alright, I just heard that it’s bad to dry fire a gun and you could break it which I think is absolute bullshit, but just in case if I’m wrong could anybody tell me if that’s true, i been dry practicing with my Glock for a while and it doesn’t have anything wrong with it
Been seeing this for a while and totally agree. Thank you for addressing the issue.
Woof
1:15 is he talking about T.Rex arms?? 😂
Botkin does that, but I assume he's good enough to actually remember the amount of rounds left in the magazine. Some people mimic that and just do it for the sake of doing it, while not registering the amount of bullets left. Like people pick up their phone and look at the time, then do it again ~30 seconds later and still don't know the time when asked.
@@EricTheSwede its a fidgety thing and to feel weight. Not actually assess exactly how many rounds are in the mag.
Makes sense to me Mike! As a long time drummer, I can say that figuring out a complicated part of a song or simply building skills on the kit always starts at slow speeds and gradually builds up to performance level...
AIRSOFT with applied fundamentals and blowback
It’s crazy because slow motion practice is what I’ve been doing for a while. I just know that doing things slow you can understand what you’re doing right or wrong.
Really good info. Never thought it could be broken down to identifying target & aiming your freakin finger. Awesome stuff.
Thanks. That was super helpful.
Mike...thanks so much for breaking a couple bad habits before they manifest...I just began dry fire training with mantis and the acquisition drills will build my skills even when not on the system all of this information makes a lot of sense and I'll try and organize my drills accordingly
With both eyes open and your eye goes from target to finger you see two fingers than two targets . Should I shut one eye?
Just learn to shoot with both open and a target focus instead of front sight focus like actual high performers do and not this goober.
What's with the drunk cameraman?
What is the gun in the thumbnail. Also great stuff.
Slow motion practice.
So. You are training yourself to rack the slide anyway and then put the gun away.
Winning.
I’m so glad I watched this and didn’t take all the haters word for it. Solid tactics here. Gratitude
All he’s doing is arguing against building speed. “You see guys draw and go boom boom boom and ask them what they did…” a good fast shooter can shoot fast and process the information at that speed. I can shoot fast and call my shots and know what my gun is doing. But I wouldn’t be able to shoot fast if all I did was slow dry fire. I agree with him that your dry fire has to be deliberate, but it has to be deliberate AND fast.
I agree. All the haters are from Pranka's team of followers
I saw clips from this video on IG where people were shitting on you about dry fire, so I decided to come here to watch the whole video and what you’re saying makes sense. Idk how true it is that people mess up that bad on the range that they shoot once and then rack the slide like how you were saying at the beginning of the video, but you’re on the range training others WAYYY more than I’m ever training on the range at all, so I can’t disregard your experience in that manner. I don’t get why people are shitting on you over this video and what you’re saying on this.
Call it what you want, dry fire vs slow motion practice vs dry practice, Mike makes excellent points. Pretty sure he isn’t trying to coin any new terms here. Shit I don’t even use the term dry fire. Who the f’ cares. His point is about GOOD PRACTICE. But hey, idiots (clowns) missing the point is always comical.
💯💯💯 I’ve personally developed a lot of bad training scars from bad dry firing practice. When I slow things down like this and then slowly speed it up it makes a huge improvement to my live shooting performances. Separating when you reset the trigger and when you run through the actual process of drawing and shooting makes total sense when it comes to properly developing muscle memory.
So would you not recommend training with systems like the elms laser trainer?
Thanks Mike, slow motion training is what I love to teach wrestlers five to ten minutes on certain techniques helps a lot. Those who embrace always improve. At home I encourage them to get in front of a mirror to shadow wrestle for ten minutes, start at a snails pace then pick it up.
This might be getting overly meme’d online, but I do feel like it’s a bit of a redundant video. Essentially saying “don’t dry fire badly, do it properly”.
Appreciate the info Mike
Somebody does something stupid and you’re willing to throw away a good tool? You’re wrong in this one, Mikey.
So do you personally shoot with both eyes open or just your dominant? TIA
Red dots are the way shortcuts much of this
Not really. But they allow you to be target-focus easier. You still have to train your vision to lead your gun.
This dude in front of our eyes is developing a complex where he thinks whatever he says is valid. 100% it comes from listening to himself talk all day on his show. Mike you're a corny veteran, not a firearms specialist. I've watched excerpts of your classes where you repeat yourself 4-5 times in one tangent because you don't have any real input, you like to hear yourself talk and take peoples money while you make it up as you go. Prime example.
I took Fieldcraft’s Gunfighter 1 in NRH, TX on 8/27. While Mike didn’t teach the class, it was a joke. Seriously, if anybody wants legit af training, and doesn’t wanna wait for the hypebeasts training co du jour. I’d say head out to TN and either train with Tactical Response or Reid Henrichs at Valor Ridge.
@@OneD33pTX Yeha there alot of guys, SWAT/LE guys and comp dudes escpecially ones who run sim's in a gun fighting or CQB class are the real deal. Having served at some point and running a RUclips channel doesn't qualify these clowns to take peoples money. Totally valid point king.
@@thatWASdum328 Then why are you still watching these vids? Asking for a friend.
I don’t see a problem with any of this. Different names maybe but if haters try this for awhile and see if it helps, then give an opinion.
Why would a scratch golfer try what a 10 handicap golfer recommends “for a while”?
Dude mike I love you and most of the stuff you say I pretty much agree with but you’re just wrong here
What is he wrong about?
@@praharin I tend to get long-winded so I'm going to try to stay concise. Also do keep in mind I'm not a high level instructor so I suspect there might be some ambiguity with what I'm saying.
I'll start with a dude named Mike Pannone (former CAG). I disagree with Mike Pannone to a small extent but Mike gets the broad strokes down pretty well. He doesn't think training scars exist. He believes as long as you know why you are doing what you are doing you aren't going to be stupid enough to do something that applies to an admin setting in a competitive environment (3 gunning) or combat. I don't know the number of hours I put into dry fire in the USMC and the Army, but it was A LOT (over 80, my guess is much more than over 80). Once we rolled to live ammo I didn't start ejecting live rounds due to the "training scar" of immediately charging my weapon. In fact, I don't know of anyone that did do it in all the units I have been in.
Mike Pannone actually talks about training scars in depth in a podcast he did on IG. Run a search for Xray.alpha.llc and there's a podcast with Mike along with 3 others on aug 9. I forgot the time hack on it when they are talking train scars however I feel like Mike and the rest of the group will explain this better than I can. I'm pretty sure the group might be doing an IG podcast in response to Glover in the next day or 2 come to think of it. Who knows? Maybe they'll get Glover on the Podcast, I know he's already been invited.
@@lawrencewu3356 that’s literally the same thing Mike Glover said in this video.
Im so confused
Dry fire exercises is great for practicing trigger control and accuracy. If people don't know how to not create bad habits or break bad habits, then maybe they shouldn't own a firearm.😳
Nothing beats firing actual rounds while under duress. Flat range is good but it all goes out the window if you are need to run and gun while getting to cover.
Another reason double action is better lol
You know who must not ever activate their neocortex in dry fire? National and world champions. 😂😂😂 dang wait until they hear how wrong they’ve been all this time!
Didn’t watch the whole video?
This is so tacticool my eyes are bleeding
Ok all....much of the hate on here is from Pranka's followers, as it is so apparent. If you are limiting yourself to just one team to train you in the most life changing, lethal decision in your life, you are wrong. The other thing I can probably place money on is 50% of those jokers dogging this video have A). made mistakes on the range themselves, B). don't train in anything other than the flat range, and C). have a weak, if any amount of medical training to follow all this badassery shooting talk. You are 99.9% more likely to come up on a medical need than to shoot someone. I carry a pistol, and it is a Shadow Systems MR920 in some bags without one in the chamber. OMG......How can that be! It is all about context. I carry one in the pipe on my person because I like to party. "Oh but that goes against all training Lord Pranka tells us to do". Yeah well deal with it. Some situations have a need to carry without a round in the chamber. Find multiple sources. Period. I wouldn't use Prankster for training anyhow since he is such a douch by dogging other 2A folks.
Do you also wait until a car crash is happening before putting on your seat belt? 😅
Slow motion practice is dry fire lol. This guy is a clown hiding behind his title of “former special forces”. Anyway, gotta go train my eyes! Hopefully if a real threat presents itself I don’t just put my finger up at them and shift focus from the threat to my fingernail!
He wanted dont want to use the word dry fire he wanted it to be called slowmo practice haha. What a joke
You deleting comments again? Lol
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As usual a lot of people aren’t listening to what’s being said the whole way through. Seriously people, you need to work on your attention span. Not everything can be conveyed as a meme.
Watched the entire video, nothing useful or intelligent was said...
this guy hasn't got a clue
@@moustache6622 did you notice the part where he described dry firing and gave it a different name?
Oh yeah BRC all the way. You teach Travis anything?
Title should read, “How to destroy credibility in 11 mins or less”. Fieldcraft instructors better jump ship right now.
you should watch the whole video a few times, and maybe practice on your comprehension more.
@@xcd87 you mean where all he is doing is literally dry firing. Lol. Ok fan boy.
@@mikev2761 okay hater
@@ants9574 you’re right. I hate when people post things like they invented something when all they did was regurgitate what everyone has known. Keep following you’re hero who you probably never even taken a class from. Lol. Fanboy.
@@mikev2761 never said I was a "fanboy" as you call it. Just stumbled on this video. But keep name calling people on RUclips. It's real tough. Sounds like your feelings got a little hurt.
Travis? Is that you?
This is Gold 🙏🏻😎
Soo good
Algorithm buster
This is ridiculous, you're not going to develop a bad habit dry firing.
Got a lot of panties in a wad calling out people's bad habits. Love it.
He’s made up nonissues. I’ve never seen anyone eject a live round trying to reset their trigger. I’ve also never seen anyone drop their mag to check it (and assuming his story is real, they didn’t pick that up from dry fire, you shouldn’t have mags anywhere near your gun unless you’re practicing malfunction clearing).
Mike has made up a problem that doesn’t exist and given generally bad advice to people trying to improve their speed and accuracy.
Wow. Mike Glover has run out of intelligent things to say. Well, I guess he still needs to come up with fluff for 10 minute videos to show off that P365 so he can fulfill his contract and get that big fat check from Sig...
90% is a lie Mike . Your probably a badass but that is a lie .
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You literally just gave the most round about way to explain what dry firing is but then gave it a different name, lmao
Shooters tai chi..
Hey your the sap that tells people don’t use dry fire laser lol you should advice people about their situational awareness. I’ve become a great marksman due to these inexpensive “lasers”.
Can confirm: This is how the brain learns. I've seen many videos of police doing some weird learned behavior mid gunfight.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
Slow is slow…
@@burgio57 in your case it is
Nonsense. Almost all competition shooters dryfire at speed and do not have the issues you describe.
Got to be honest man, you do not know what you're talking about.
RAD
Real clown “instructor” hours 😂
I don't understand the hate, I see nothing but facts here and awesome helpful information to become a great shooter from the experience of a spec ops guy that has done this for real.
And at no point is said that dry fire is bad, just how to do it in the most beneficial way.
Amazing the amount of butthurt people out there.
Thanks Mike for all the info!
Man you hit the nail on the head. I use my brain and take from all who train me and who I watch in instructional videos.
Calling this man a clown is abject absurdity. You clearly have no idea what his resume looks like. Take a knee.
Plenty of people who know him & his resume better than you have been calling him out as the fool he is...
but keep up with the rumpswapping I'm sure mikey likes it
Are you really "firing" that with your thumb at the rear of it?!!
Talk about bad habits!
Dry firing does not build bad habits. This is why you don’t take advice from the Army… 🤦🏼♂️
I like how you went out of your way, twice no less, to point out that it's a Sig P365...XL!
Sigfluencers.
Mike not making a video outing himself as an absolute clown challenge (impossible)
Only clowns here are the haters.