Posts Tagged ‘10-meter target rifles’  The importance of dry-
firing  by B.B. Pelletier  Today’s report was requested by blog
reader NotRocketSurgery. He’s been watching the NSSF videos on
You Tube about shooting in the Olympics, and the subject of dry-
firing comes up repeatedly. He wanted to know why. I’ll address
this subject with enthusiasm, because this is something with
which I actually have some experience.  Have you ever watched
the Olympics and seen a slalom racer standing at the top of the
course with his or her eyes closed, swaying as they envision
running the course? We might have made fun of such behavior in
the 1960s, but today we know that’s what all the winners do.
They’re conditioning their minds to respond correctly to the
course ahead of them.  Dry-firing a gun is like that, but it’s
more than a century older. We don’t close our eyes, nor do we
sway about, so onlookers don’t have quite as much to comment on.
When we shoot our guns without discharging a shot (dry-firing),
we’re conditioning ou