The Accurize Dryfire Laser was a Great Idea but has one major pitfall
The accurize barrel insert dryfire laser is a good idea and I really wanted to love this product, but it has a few drawbacks that lead me towards recommending some other options. If the accurize team could address these, I think their product would dominate the dryfire tools market. I’m excited to dig in.
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Accurize Dryfire Lasers
These products are so close to being perfect. If you’re context is bullseye marksmanship, these may work well for you. However, the 1.2 second delay between shots prevents these form being useful in any serious target transition training, essential for USPSA / IPSC / IDPA competition training.
The Accurize Dryfire Laser is a great idea as it’s designed to be used with .177 Caliber airguns
The accurize sound activated laser had me really intrigued specifically because its the only option that I know of on the market right now that can be used with 0.177 caliber airguns or 6mm BB guns. As you know, there is no shortage of companies producing real life, gas blowback replicas, which makes this product extremely interesting for serious dryfire training.
The only other option that I know of is the pic rail mounted sound activated laserlyte, which arguably, is a really great option as well, but having to be rail mounted has the disadvantage of not being able to use light bearing holsters, which pretty much everyone is running a light on their pistols these days. So this product seems like it could solve a very critical issue in dryfire training. But in practice does this product do what we want it to do.
The Good things about the Accurize Dryfire Laser
Let’s first go over the positives. The product has a really nifty design. The end is magnetized so it should ideally hold in the barrel of your training device. It also has O-rings that should help keep a tight seal in the barrel and keep it from moving around too much.
I did notice it still was fairly loose in this Umarex glock 19 clone that I have and after a few dryfire shots, without CO2, the device started to come out. That said, a piece of tape held it in snug so no issue here.
I really appreciate the design. It is compact enough that it doesn’t exceed the slide width at least on this glock 19 clone, although the umarex itself is out of spec with factory glock as its a bit wider and doesn’t work in very many glock holsters. That said, this setup with a TLR-1 works just fine in a universal blackhawk omnivore, which is my preferred holster for dryfire testing.
So on the actual product design, I can say right away, I’m a big fan here.
Biggest Con with this product: 1.2 second delay between shots
But in usage this is where the product starts to show its cracks. This product has one design choice that keeps it from being practical for practical shooting training.
The sound activation is fairly sensitive, it picks up the dryfire mag sound activation just fine, which is really awesome. However, I immediately noticed that it would not detect follow up shots. So i hopped into the manual and saw that the accurize is purposely designed to have a 1.2 second gap between shots.
That is an eternity in a gun fight. No-one waits 1.2 seconds between shots, especially not for serious competition training.
Accurize Dryfire Lasers
These products are so close to being perfect. If you’re context is bullseye marksmanship, these may work well for you. However, the 1.2 second delay between shots prevents these form being useful in any serious target transition training, essential for USPSA / IPSC / IDPA competition training.
The Accurize Laser wasn’t designed for USPSA or IPSC Competition, but rather, Precision Bullseye Marksmanship
Now I realize that the accurize product was built for European competition. It is a european product, and olympic sport shooting is generally about bullseye marksmanship, not neccessarily speed. So for this purpose, I am sure the product is ideal.
However, Americans, who like to compete in USPSA, and even Europeans who take part in the equivalent IPSC shooting events, the focus for competition is practical shooting, which means acceptable accuracy characterized by fast speed.
In other words we aren’t trying to shoot a fly off of a camel’s back. Instead, we’re trying to put several rounds into a small circle as quickly as we can.
So with that 1.2 second delay, this product is not usable for USPSA style competition. And this for me was heartbreaking, because it would pair so perfectly with the huge variety of ultra realistic bb pistols now on the market, like my springfield XDM BB gun which is nearly a 1 to 1 replica with the real thing.
The Product isn’t designed to be used with CO2
Similarly, the product is also not rated to be used with presurrized environments. Which I fully understand. My plan was to weld the inside of the barrel and have the Blowback BB gun be entirely a laser dryfire training aid. However, with the 1.2 second delay this really doesn’t make sense.
It bothers me because this product is so dang close to being the perfect product.
And I think I know why that 1.2 second delay is there. The laser is pretty sensitive, it actually sometimes fires just on the sounds associated with the trigger pull itself on some models. The rail mounted laserlyte has this problem as it doesn’t have such a long delay, so things like the cylinder rotating on revolvers causes the laser to go off. I think they were trying to avoid that problem. Still, I’d rather have that issue than have such a long delay.
What would make this product perfect
The ideal in my opinion, so accurize if you see this video, please take note, would be able to have a model with a 0.15 second delay. Why 0.15? Well most shooters are not really able to get faster split times, even on a bill drill, than 0.2 seconds on average. Sometimes that will be exceeded a little bit, but faster then 0.15 seconds is extremely rare unless you’re Jerry or Lena Miculek. Still yet, if the fear is that sounds like the release of the trigger will result in a false positive, 0.15 seconds is enough to overcome that. I will be emailing accurize with this suggestion for a future product.
Accurize Dryfire Lasers
These products are so close to being perfect. If you’re context is bullseye marksmanship, these may work well for you. However, the 1.2 second delay between shots prevents these form being useful in any serious target transition training, essential for USPSA / IPSC / IDPA competition training.
Conclusion
So this product still has its uses in training new shooters since a new shooter isn’t going to be focused on speed. If you’re a bullseye shooter, of course this will have a lot of utility and it really is marketed to you at the end of the day. But those of us who are looking for a solution for USPSA style competition shooting, unfortunately this isn’t the product for us.
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