I’m considering getting a dry-fire practice system.
If you follow the gun-tubers, you’ll have heard of Mantis. I tried to figure out what their system consists of. My concern was that I would have to attach something to the outside of my pistol, changing how it holsters and how I draw. I would rather not have a special holster for my dry fire system.
I read that they have a cartridge system, but what I read didn’t really help me understand how it fit into their system.
Strikeman is another system. It requires my phone to do the analysis, but that would be fine for indoor practice. Better than picking the safe corner for dry firing.
Google suggests Triumph Systems and CooFire Trainer.
Does anybody have any personal experiences with dry fire systems? If so, which system? What did you like about it? What did you dislike?
I have and use the IDryFire system. http://www.idryfire.com. Its a laser cartridge based system that uses their laser reactive targets, mobile phone, or computer and USB camera with timer program and photo recognition of shot placement.
Since its a laser cartridge, you dont need to change holsters and you cannot chamber live ammo. They periodically run sales.
JMO!! most of the dry fire systems require you to rack the slide to reset the trigger to me, this creates muscle memory of racking the slide after every shot…
what will you do in a REAL encounter??
go bang then rack the slide??
I “dry” fire with hammer down on my 1911, practice draw, pistol alignment and sight picture, squeeze trigger as if it cocked. its what I do. you do you
you will fight like you train and adding extra steps into training will cause issues later.
I realize that. So, what I do is practice draw to 1st shot; with the system I have I can set par time and review accurate shot placement.
For repeat shots, I may switch to a TDA semi-auto.