Dryfire Shotgun Practice

Here's another important video from the Personal Defense Network. Right, Daryl, here we are in our dryfire training area. I'm going to put the target up. Why don't you go ahead and load your shells into your side saddle, cool? And what I'm going to be doing here is coaching Darryl through a little bit of dry fire with a shotgun.

We're going to be working on several exercises presenting from the low ready, chambering round and presenting from the low ready and doing a little bit of reloading as well. So there you go. All right Daryl, what we're going to do is I want you to start in a ready position. When I give you the up command, you're going to bring the shotgun up and fire a shot. I want you to follow through on target and make sure that you don't have any dip as if you're pushing the shotgun and being afraid of the recoil.

Also, I want you to make sure that you're very consistent with your cheek weld onto the stock of the shotgun and that you keep it the same each time that you do the presentation. Okay. Okay? Okay. Up.

All right, come back down, now re-cock it. Let's do that again. Up. and re-cock it. Right, now this time, when you come up, I want you to break the shot and I want you to immediately work the action as if you were going to have to fire a second shot.

Cool. Okay? Up. Good. Good.

All right, now what I'd like you to do is to press the trigger so that the action is on cocked. Now sometimes, people will be uncomfortable with having the chamber of the shotgun loaded if they were moving through their house. So what we're going to do is we're going to simulate as if the shotgun had an empty chamber, a loaded magazine tube and the safety was off and the shotgun was not cocked. So what we can do in that case is if we needed to engage a target, simply bring the shotgun up, load it as we are bringing it up and then break the shot as the sights come into view. And keep in mind about your consistently cheek weld there.

Okay. Come to your ready position Up. Good. All right, let's try that again. Up.

Good. Really good. And I noticed that you don't have any movement in it. You're not anticipating the recoil. So that's excellent.

Let's work on a little reloading drill now. Okay. And what I'm going to have you do, Daryl is, after you break your shot, you're going to, at that point, you're going to take one round out of your side saddle, put it over the top into the chamber. Okay. And then close it and then break a shot with that round.

Okay. And remember your consistency with the cheek weld, very important. Ready? Up. Excellent.

All right, let me have that round. And this time we'll do the same thing again. And you're going to load with one round into the chamber over the top, and then I want you to keep it up at the shoulder and put one round into the magazine tube underneath. And you're going to be working both of those from the side saddle. Cool.

Ready? Up. Excellent. Excellent. So we've done a little bit of dry fire practice with the shotgun.

We've presented it from the low ready, as if it was loaded. We presented it from the low ready as if the chamber was not loaded, but the magazine tube were as if we were perhaps moving through the house with it. We've done a little bit of reloading practice both with one round and two rounds. Daryl was very conscientious about making sure that he maintained a good cheek weld. Cause that's very important with a shotgun especially one that has a bead.

If you don't maintain a good cheek weld it will definitely throw the point of impact. And also Daryl was very good, except when I told him not to, at maintaining the shotgun in the state of readiness, by working the action every time. Now that we've finished with that we're going to take our target down and take a little break Check out more videos, just like this one at the personal Defense Network.