Dry Fire and Moving Targets

[ssb]

Is there any effective way to practice dry firing at a moving target? This is something that I rarely have the opportunity to practice in live fire.

One thought I had was snapping from one target to another some distance away. Thoughts on the effectiveness of this?

[Eyesquared]

From a safety perspective this might be kinda sketchy but maybe dryfiring at a video on a computer screen?

[secondstoryguy]

I remember Cooper talking about using a TV for dry practice. I’ve done it many times, just make damn sure it’s empty.

[beenalongtime]

This is why I like/use those Laser Ammo dry fire lasers. They have that orange marker that sticks out the barrel, and you can use your real trigger, as compared to a SIRT gun.

[41magfan]

I remember Cooper talking about using a TV for dry practice. I’ve done it many times, just make damn sure it’s empty.

Yep .... I've taken Africa's "Big Five" about a thousand times. I don't know what all the fuss is about .... it ain't that hard.

[Gio]

There used to be a Predator Tactical (Matt Burkett's company) animation of a swinging target that you could adjust size, speed, and cover on that was great for dry firing on a laptop screen. That site is no longer active though, but you may have some luck looking through cached pages and finding/downloading the animation.

EDIT: Here's a youtube video of the animation starting at 3:40:

[taadski]

There are lots of options. As mentioned above, using a TV with an inert pistol like a SIRT, a dedicated training pistol or something similar is probably the most simple/convenient solution.

This YouTube channel has a large assortment of computer generated ones that work pretty well, especially if you mirror them on a full sized TV screen.

https://youtu.be/5vMBcWSs2Rs


Here’s a tutorial on making your own dryfire swinger:

https://youtu.be/SRwfB6uFozQ


Quick clip of one Steve Anderson made:

https://youtu.be/N6uVv6_9FDA


I eventually purchased my own full-sized swinger. It’s nice to have, although I don’t use it as much as I should.

[nwhpfan]

Yes....

So I wanted to practice shooting at swingers. I set up a cardbord piece of steel that tripped the swinger; then I put the swinger at an angle to represent it swinging. I try to ambush or trap the swinger when it hits the bottom....so I dry fire on the steel, shift to the swinger getting ready to shoot when it's at the bottom, and I DF hit it there. Texas Stars are very similar....the trick with a star is when you knock off a plate you hit it where it almost stops to go in the other direction so it is almost stopped... You can set it up in DF and shoot the top one, imagine it rotates, shoot again, etc. Horizontal targets for me...which I have not shot alot of. I would just use a white wall and envision tracking the target and shooting and continuing to follow. Like shooting clay pigeons.

[mrmoose]

I had the same problem, so I thought it would be useful to share what I found:

I found some great youtube videos with moving targets, they have some swingers, and I guess they simply used Powerpoint to create these drills (great idea)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZV2lZyopFk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwM5OLsaa40

I also use https://www.dryfireonline.com they have moving targets, but no swingers.

My TV has a built-in YouTube client and a web browser as well, so both work fine for me, and it is great to dry fire on my huge flat screen, but I have to take extra caution, since I have just a drywall behind my TV (do not want to shoot into my neighbours living room)