OK, it's been a few weeks since I checked in on this thread. I had to lessen my dry fire schedule as I was developing some pain in my finger joints. Some claim it is old age but nah, can't be true. Anyway, I haven't quit training or shooting. It's taken a few weeks but the progress is noticeable to me and some of my shooting buddies. I figure when those who are trying to beat you on the range every week begin commenting there must be progress happening.
One valley I have been struggling with is to get a good, consistent index from the draw. All the visual input that SWYNTS has created was telling me I was "on target" less than half the time. The improved speed and improved visuals from doing the exercises (thanks @
JCN) allowed me time to micro adjust but the time wasted from bad indexing was aggravating to say the least. I've changed holsters, holster mounts, belts, holster cant, etc. My wrist anatomy is such that I need the holster mounted with the muzzle forward. For the last several years I've mounted the holster at about 2:30. That was comfortable so it had to be right?? None of the changes resulted in any index improvement. For no particular reason I decided to move the holster back to 3:00 and voila, that seems to have helped immensely. Duh!
Today I decided to dryfire SWYNTS Phase 2. I did Phase 1 first so was warmed up and did the 3 yard and 7 yard iterations. No 15 yard today as my hands were beginning to hurt. The biggest takeaway was the visual feedback. My shots on the first target were visually acceptable but I was on target much better on the second target. If this had been live fire I would say the groups on target one were 8" and the groups on target two were 3". This was true whether going right to left or vice versa. I'm not sure what that means. I'd appreciate your thoughts @
JCN.