If you carry a gun, you do so because you believe you might be in a gunfight. If you knew you were going to be in a gunfight tomorrow, would you spend some time dry practicing today? We all waste countless minutes per day mindlessly scrolling social media or watching TV. Take just ten of those minutes each day and better yourself. Here is your dry practice plan for the next two weeks.
Last week I told you guys that last week would be the last post in my usual “dry practice report” format. I want to change this up into a sort of training plan for readers. Unfortunately my schedule hasn’t permitted me the time this week, so this is still in the old format.
My Results
My first post of this year described my desire to spend ten minutes per day dry practicing. These are my results to this point in the year:
January 1 – 15: 150 minutes, January 16 – 31: 160 minutes
February 1: 10 minutes malfunction clearance
February 2: 10 minutes malfunction clearance
February 3: 10 minutes presentation w/ lateral side-step
February 4: 10 minutes malfunction clearance
February 5: 10 minutes malfunction clearance
February 6: 10 minutes malfunction clearance
10 minutes carbine “up” drills
February 7: 10 minutes presentation/trigger
10 minutes carbine transitions to left side
February 8: 10 minutes malfunction clearance
10 minutes carbine reloads
February 9: 10 minutes malfunction clearance
10 minutes carbine malfunction clearance
February 10: 10 minutes presentation
10 minutes carbine transition to handgun
February 11: 10 minutes malfunction clearance
10 minutes carbine “up” drills
February 12: 10 minutes malfunction clearance
10 minutes carbine transitions to left side
February 13: 10 minutes presentation/trigger
10 minutes carbine reloads
February 14: 10 minutes malfunction clearance
10 minutes carbine malfunction clearance
February 15: 10 minutes malfunction clearance
10 minutes carbine transition to handgun
Monthly Target: 290 minutes
Monthly Actual: 150 minutes
Cumulative Target to Date: 600 minutes
Cumulative Actual to Date: 460 minutes (7 hours, 40 minutes)
Cumulative Actual w/ Carbine: 560 minutes (9 hours, 20 minutes)
Current Streak: 46 days, 56 days (including last 10 days of 2019)
Tobacco Free: YES
Focus Areas
This two-week period was spent doing malfunction clearances. Next to simply getting the gun out of the holster and manipulating the trigger, this is possibly one of the more likely skills to be needed. I worked a rough sequence of Type I (tap/rack) malfunctions, stovepipes, and double-feed/FTEs. I probably owe you guys a lot more words here but this week has been killer (and this post is already two days late).
You’ll also notice I spent a good deal of time working the carbine. I’m working on “dry practice challenge” over at my buddy Matt’s Everyday Marksman blog. I’m not factoring these minutes into my overall dry practice math – I want to keep my EDC handgun hours/minutes separate from everything else. I have a lot of lessons learned on the carbine, but I’ll cover that in a different post.
