Would it be useful to have a DA revolver just for dry-fire/trigger control practice, even if you normally carry something else?
I keep seeing ugly-but-functional S&W Models 10s at reasonable prices, and wondering if keeping one full of snap caps would be a good addition to the toolbox.
Depends on what you normally use.. It can be good for general trigger control, but for mastering a specific platform the best practice is with that platform.Originally Posted by peterb
I do my dry fire with a 642, and all of my manipulations with my M&P. I carry the 642 when I am unable to carry my M&P.
I find dry fire much more enjoyable when I don't have to continously rack the slide.
No
Dry fire is not just trigger control practice. Trigger control can be a part of dry fire but there is also sight alignment, draw stroke, malfunction clearing, reloads, etc.
So you would be buying a gun (never a bad thing) only to practice one aspect (trigger control) but the trigger would be totally different from your carry gun.
That being said, I have spent many an hour dry firing my revolvers to learn THEIR triggers and how to work them differently from my other guns.
Buy a revolver to learn to shoot it, not as an expensive finger exerciser.
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Definitely YES. If you can master the DA stroke - delivery hits precisely and building speed at, you are learning the hardest trigger there is and mastering a Glock trigger will come much easier. FOLLOW THROUGH. You can get all your manipulations with your primary of course.
I think this training carry over can apply to Glock triggers, M&P triggers, probably the LEM triggers, and the DA pull of some autos.
I don't suppose it helps with pure SA triggers like a 1911 however.
There is just no doubt about it. I've done it and I've coached a couple shooters on it and it's worked.
The used .38 would be good for dry fire. Also, go all in and get a .22 lr so you could cheaply shoot it for the feedback of the hits. I've used a K22 and Model 18 for this purpose for decades.
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I've been dry-firing with a 442 for about 7-8 months, and with a 617 since I bought it about 3 months ago. For me, it's been immensely valuable. I think some folks get confused and think that if they can master a long hard DA pull, they'll be able to pull any other trigger without any practice. Not so! I had to work on my Glock trigger quite a bit - and to be sure I'm still working on it - but I do believe that my work with the revolvers has really helped me get a certain deep-seated intuition about trigger mechanics. This intuition has made it a lot easier to make quick progress with the Glock trigger.
As someone else mentioned, getting a DA revolver in 22lr is a good idea, too. I shoot my DA/SA 617 most weeks at the range. I figure if I can the same accuracy with DA as with SA, that's a clue that my overall trigger control is sucking a lot less than it used to...
That's what I did with my M-49...I've been dryfiring the hell out of it for a while...then it died on the range.
I think if you use a DA revolver specifically to force yourself to shoot accurately, ie. little groups at such and such range, which will force you to pay closer attention to your front sight and trigger control, then incorporate that with whatever pistol you normally shoot, then you can make strides towards improving. Then again, you could probably accomplish the same thing with your preferred pistol. Regardless, it helps to have a plan for your range sessions.
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Given your handle, I'd have thought you'd be more supportive of what's obviously an excuse to acquire some beautiful wheel guns!
Seriously - I think practicing with a DA/SA 22lr revolver has helped me immensely... but I also feel like the value I get from that practice will keep diminishing over time. It seems like it's one of those things that's more valuable when you're starting out. (To be clear, it's still valuable to me!) At the same time, I've come to love my 617 for itself, as a beautiful gun that's a ton of fun, rather than the utilitarian training tool I bought it for. I see more revolvers in my future, though not for fighting.
on the topic of revolvers as training aids, 617 or 317?
is it better to learn with a shorter sight radius or longer?
with a longer sight radius, you get more visual feedback for a given angular displacement, so you can servo your gun more accurately based on visual feedback.
Is that a good thing? to accentuate the sight alignment feedback? Would it mask poor grip/trigger technique by making corrections easier?
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