This has been sitting in the inbox for a while. Slowly digging myself out. 🙂

Steven Gilcreast, Senior Instructor at Sig Sauer Academy wrote an article about dry fire practice, including a good practice routine. One interesting bit about this routine is the gearing towards Sig’s, or more specifically, the fact that (most) Sig pistols have DA/SA triggers and so a lot of the drills in the practice session consider this factor. While I don’t care for Sigs nor DA/SA guns, I really like the fact this practice routine is geared towards acknowledging the realities of the hardware and ensuring practice takes those factors into account.

I also liked this tidbit:

Your dry practice should be conducted 3-5 times per week and last no more than 20 minutes. I often work through the scheduled session and repeat if any time remains. When conducting the training, I work at 50% or less speed, focusing more on consistent, perfect practice repetitions over speed.

Good guidelines for practice, whatever routine you use. Short, frequent practice sessions do more for you than long infrequent sessions. Plus, working on being correct and consistent with every rep you do.

If you don’t know what to practice, starting with a program written by someone else can be a good way to get started. As you practice more, as you shoot standards and formal drills to assess your skill, you’ll find where you need work and can custom tailor your practice sessions to focus more on those skills. And yes, that means more weak-hand-only shooting for me. 🙂