The Best Tool for Dryfire Training with Striker Fired Handguns
The dryfire mag is a product that allows you to practice dryfire with a resetting trigger on your striker fired handgun. This tool is extremely useful. Let me explain.
Dryfire Mag
A great training aid for practicing trigger rest on any striker fired handgun. I like to pair these with a sound activated laser and our Project MARS training apps.
Why you should Dryfire Train?
If you are serious about improving as a marksman, dryfire must be a part of your training regimen. Dryfire is about practing your fundamentals frequently. As world champion Ben Stoeger has been quoted as saying, the only difference between professional shooters and competent shooters is that the professional shooters do the fundamentals faster.
So dryfire is a huge component of this. Professionals suggest that you should dryfire train 10 repetitions for every live fire round that you fire. But dryfire can be boring and unless you’re a professional you might not know what sort of training scars you’re introducing into your shooting. This is why at CRACKSHOT.tv we build dryfire tools to help you train practical shooting. Other dryfire apps focus on bullseye type marksmanship, our apps are focused on running multi target transition drills and fast shooting. So you can learn to apply the fundamentals faster without spending a ton of money on ammo. We’ll have links in our blog to every product featured in this video, as well as in the video description.
Dryfire Mag Takes Dryfire with Striker Fired Guns to a New Level
The Dryfire mag takes dryfire to a whole new level though for striker fired guns. In a striker fired design, the trigger may perform multiple functions. On glock designs, the first portion of your trigger pull will disengage the internal safety mechanism, in effect depressing the safety plunger in the slide. Once you hit the “wall”, which is the hard portion of the trigger pull take up, you’re hitting the pressure of the glock disconnector. The harder pull here overcomes the force of the disconnector, the rear cruciform of the trigger bar will release the back pressure on the striker lug, causing the striker to shoot forward.
With a loaded round, this will result on a hit to the bullet primer, which will cause the gun to recoil back, ejecting a round, and resetting the striker as well as the rest of the fire control group.
So the trigger in this configuration is akin to single action firearms (although they technically do perform more than a single action in defeating the safety), that is, the trigger does not reset the hammer or striker. This means that if you dryfire, there is not reset action of your trigger since the slide isn’t being reset by the bullet’s explosion between trigger pulls. So you end up having to rack the slide repeatedly in order to dryfire a striker fired handgun.
The dryfire mag instead takes advantage of the Glock design. It pushes the trigger group forward. It has internal pressure mechanisms that mimic the action of a the disconnector. Thus the trigger has the effect of being reset between pulls with the dryfire mag installed, even though the striker isn’t being engaged with every trigger pull.
Dryfire Mag
A great training aid for practicing trigger rest on any striker fired handgun. I like to pair these with a sound activated laser and our Project MARS training apps.
Advantage of Dryfire Mag versus Traditional Dryfire
The dryfire mag therefore has a few advantages over typical dryfire in striker fired guns.
1) Your trigger will reset, allowing you to practice more advanced dryfire drills. With just typical dryfire, you’re confined to simple drills like single shot precision shooting and drawing from the holster. While these are great skills to practice, the dryfire mag allows you to dryfire practice while replicating your typical trigger pull. This is great for practicing drills such as the bill drill, drawing from the holster and putting 5 rounds on target in fast succession.
2) Similarly, you can transition between multiple targets, practicing drills like the classic 2-2-2 drill or change it up with 1-1-2-1-1 drills. Seen here, I am practicing these drills using my dryfire software, Project MARS, Marksmanship Augmented Reality simulators, and utilizing a sound activated laser. I’ll have a full equipment guide video coming soon, but i’ll link our blog post in the description.
3) It puts less wear and tear on the internal components of your firearm. The dryfire mag isn’t engaging the striker after initial installation, thus you aren’t putting wear and tear on those fire control components. Besides, one of the advantages of glock is how cheap the components are, so I like to have a spares of everything on hand for all my glock pistols.
4) The dryfire mag adds a lot of utility to other training products and works well in tandem with them. The dryfire mag with a sound activated laser, and our own PROJECT MARS all work extremely well together in conjunction to provide you with incredible training options at home. All of this technology is extremely affordable as compared to buying even just a case of ammo let alone your tenth handgun.
Conclusion
So overall I highly recommend the dryfire mag. It is an awesome product and well worth the investment if you are a serious shooter. If you liked this video, please consider subscribing to the channel. We’ll see you next week!
Dryfire Mag
A great training aid for practicing trigger rest on any striker fired handgun. I like to pair these with a sound activated laser and our Project MARS training apps.
