Your Dry Practice Plan: 1-31 Oct
October was a tough month for me. To those of you that think I dry practice because I enjoy it, read on.
This Month's Skills
I missed eight days this month, doubling the days of dry practice I have missed so far this year. A couple things were going on. First, I don't do dry practice because it is fun. I do it because it conveys a benefit to me. Many of you have written in or said things like, "I wish I liked dry practice." I wish I liked it, too. I do it in spite of not terribly enjoying it, but I did find I needed a mental break.
This coincided with us having family in town. Though they aren't anti-gun they aren't exactly gun aficionados and I didn't feel like explaining why I was in the yard every day drawing my gun and aiming at a target...and again, I wanted to spend all the time I could with them. Finally, I have a ganglion cyst on my left wrist. You can see it from some of the photos in last month's dry practice post. I wanted to give my wrist some rest time....so I decided to move to SHO. I spent the latter half of the month working SHO draws and trigger control, an area that I need work anyway.
Despite missing an entire week this month (and other day) I have still dry practiced all but 16 days this calendar year. On top of it, I've done double days 60 days this year (adding in either carbine or shotgun). I feel pretty good about that.
My Results
I'm very close to 50 hours of dry practice this year (with my EDC gun - add ten hours with rifle and shotgun). I love watching minutes turn into hours turn into work-weeks. Minutes quickly turn into hours and it's not hard to find ten minutes a day. What have you done?
Below are my day-by-day results of the past month.
January 1 - 15: 150 minutes, January 16 - 31: 160 minutesFebruary 1 - 15: 150 minutes, February 16 - 29: 140 minutesMarch 1 - 15: 150 minutes, March 16 - 31: 160 minutesApril 1 - 30: 300 minutes, May 1 - 30: 280 minutesJune 1 - 30: 280 minutes, July 1 - 31: 300 minutesAugust 1 - 31: 290 minutes, September 1 - 10: 290 minutesOctober 1: 10 minutes presentationOctober 2: 10 minutes reloadsOctober 3: 10 minutes malfunctionsOctober 4: 10 minutes presentationOctober 5: 10 minutes presentationOctober 6: 10 minutes presentationOctober 7: 10 minutes presentationOctober 8: 10 minutes reloadsOctober 9: 10 minutes malfunctionsOctober 10: 10 minutes presentationOctober 11: 10 minutes presentationOctober 12: 10 minutes presentationOctober 13: 0 minutesOctober 14: 0 minutesOctober 15: 0 minutesOctober 16: 0 minutesOctober 17: 0 minutesOctober 18: 0 minutesOctober 19: 0 minutesOctober 20: 10 minutes SHOOctober 21: 0 minutesOctober 22: 10 minutes SHOOctober 23: 10 minutes SHOOctober 24: 10 minutes SHOOctober 25: 10 minutes SHOOctober 26: 10 minutes SHOOctober27: 10 minutes SHOOctober 28: 10 minutes SHOOctober 29: 10 minutes SHOOctober 30: 10 minutes SHOOctober 31: 10 minutes SHOMonthly Target: 310 minutesMonthly Actual: 230 minutesCumulative Target to Date: 3,050 minutesCumulative Actual to Date: 2,970 minutes (49 hours, 30 minutes)Cumulative Actual w/ Carbine & Shotgun: 3,480 minutes (58 hours)Current Streak: 10 days (138 previous)Tobacco Free: YES
