Dry Fire -

[Stubob]

There are many ways to practice with out going to the range. We have practiced at home with the snap caps and have a Family Drill. We start out with everyone in their bed rooms and the alarm goes off.

Lots of preparation goes into the practice. All live ammunition is removed and placed in the safe. All practice guns are checked and rechecked, and then they are still treated as if they are loaded.

By having an understanding of where all of the family members need to be when the alarm goes off helps with knowing where shooting could occur with out hitting a family member.

Dan talks about practicing so that the body will remember the movements. This needs to happen in the house drill with dry firing from different positions.

Any other drills for home defence.

[magnum]

Part of your training in this should also be starting out when family members are not in the bedrooms. Perhaps someone is up getting a late night snack. You should practice being able to idenfity the family member coming to the safe room from a BG. Or depedning on the situation you may have to go out and get them.

Also, all family members should know where the firearms are and how to use them as well as knowing where the cell phones are in case the phone lines are cut.

It would be a good idea to have a signal established to let famliy members know you are entering the safe room instead of the bad guy. Yelling out "Honey, its me I am coming in". Will only telegraph your location to the BGs.

[VegasGeorge]

Since its just my wife and me, I have a much simpler problem to deal with. I can imagine how difficult it would be to safely respond with teenagers in the house.

What about the possibility of putting an emergency light in every room and hallway, all controlled by one or two switches, including one in the master bedroom? That way, you could light up the entire interior of the house all at once. No more guess work in the dark. I suspect an electrician could wire to existing fixtures in most areas.

[magnum]

Lighting up the interior of the house would expose you and alert the BG as well. I think I would opt for a few flashlights through the house wil maybe red lenses. Would light the areas well, but not as noticeable as a bright white flashlight.


Emergency lights to help in the case of a fire or other emergency would be good where everyone needs to see how to get out and fast. But when posed with fighting off a BG, I think stealth is the best option.

[ErnieH]

In my home it seems to be very easy. It is just me and the wife, no other ones to worry about, so that really makes things easy. Here is my problem, we just moved into our first new home this past week. It is alot bigger then the townhouse we had downtown. We have an upstairs area and some blind corners. I have installed a few mirrors to make those corners less of a problem. But it is still alot of ground to cover.
It is funny how when your life revolves around protection and defense you put things in places without even thinking why. I have thengs in every room that are great to use on BG's. But that is a whole other story.
Back to the topic.
Being that we are in the process of moving to this huge house, it is a struggle with boxes and stuff all over right now. My wife and I have come up with a very simple call system that identifies who is who. It was funny, we were at an amusement park not to long ago with some friends and I called her using our system and she responded in a crowd, my friends were really amazed. So calls make a big deal. When I run through little drills at my place I always throw in a few, even if she isn't there, drill it in and when you have to use it, it comes automaticlly. Practice it, Drill it till it is all muscle memory and automatic

[VegasGeorge]

Snce this thread is titled "Dry Fire ..." I just thought I should mention that I do practice dry fire around the house every so often. I do it mostly to combat the tendency to flinch on trigger pull. I think it actually makes a difference in my shooting.

[magnum]

Dry firing is great. I back off and go through a wall drill or something to dry and keep me from flinching as well because I tend to hold a gun lighter than I should due to arthritis.

However, when dealing with self defense or around the home you have to combine your dry fire with the motion of brining your gun up from the ready position and firing the shot. The BG is not going to give you time to sight in that first shot. For this I like to use a airsoft pistol. If you get a good one that has some recoil to it you can get pretty good simulation with it.

[DAN]

Magnum, I agree airsoft is the way to go. Air soft is a great training aid as long as use exact replicas, including weight and function. They are also great for force on force, you get stug by an airsoft you learn a lot about utilizing cover.

Again they must be exact replicas of what you carry including the magazine. All of mine will shoot one inch groups at 7 yards and are exact replicas of 1911s includingfunction, weight,disassembly and cleaning.

Dan

[magnum]

As soon as I get over my neck injury I am going to try some force on force. Been 5-6 years now, I htink a few more years and I will be ready :roll:

I agree the Airsoft needs to be the same so you can learn those muscle movements. Not good to have a practice pistol with a safety different than your primary gun.

[BiblicalFirst]

I have used dry fire to practice stance and sight picture. There are a lot of great ideas here. Thanks for posting. :)