Days 151 to 171 — Dry Practice
I’m still here and I’m still practicing every day; however,I obviously haven’t been keeping up with my posting. There’s a good reason for this. Well, actually, the reason is pretty lame and something I was a bit disappointed to discover.
I suck at multitasking.
After the Shot Show, a very exciting and important project that I’ve been working on with a partner — but had been on the back burner for a while — became my number one priority. I shouldn’t mention it at all since we can’t publicly discuss it quite yet; however, working on it has consumed almost every waking moment of my life (except for time spent at my day job) for the past few weeks. Today we’ve reached an important milestone and that has freed up some time for me to catch up on the website.
Given how busy I’ve been, I haven’t been able to get to the range for any live fire practice. For the past 3 weeks I’ve done nothing but dry fire. I put in a total of 3 hours and 36 minutes and did a total of 1,869 repetitions. I won’t bore you with the actual break down of those reps, but was a combination of the same stuff I usually do — concealed draws, reloads, press-outs, and Wall Drills.
A few days ago, after approximately 19,000 trigger pulls, the trigger return spring in my training gun broke again. This time it was a clean break and very obvious, unlike last time. I really need to get a set of spare parts on hand and stick the the 12,500 round (or in this case trigger pull) replacement interval that ToddG suggests. In the mean time, I’ll be using my carry gun for training.
I’m going to try to keep things up to date here on the website. Despite having reached an important milestone, there is still a plenty of high priority work to do on the other project that will likely consume the majority — if not all — of my free time for the foreseeable future. As a result, there will likely be more multi-day catchup posts (like this one) if I have long stretches of nothing but dry fire. I am disappointed since my original plan was post each and every day, but sometimes life (and more important things) conspire against us and plans need to change.