Tips for training during an ammo shortage?

[shane77m]

Anyone have any tips they could give for marksmanship training during an ammo shortage?
Right now is not a time to be practicing less.

I have been shooting my air rifle more. I read about tying weight to the end of gun barrels to help develop the ability to hold a rifle still. I am planning on trying that with my air rifle.

If anyone has any tips/techniques then list them here.

 

[oyarde]

Well , you have it , I was going to suggest a .177 cal pellet rifle.

 

[Acala]

Dry fire. Draw from concealment. Field strip.

 

[AFPVet]

Dry fire, shoot airguns, and get creative. Remember, the most important thing is to practice fundamentals... the worst thing you can do is get back into the point where you are anticipating the recoil—that will throw you off. Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals... they are fun

ALSO, practice tactics! Know what cover and concealment are... and the differences. Be a hard target... not a softy

 

[coastie]

Dry fire. Draw from concealment. Field strip. Magazine changes. Clear malfunctions(failure to feed/stove pipe, etc.). Hand to hand combat. Knife skills.

You left some out

 

[deadfish]

"pew pew"

 

[erowe1]

I've seen ads for a product that is a laser made the shape and size of any of several standard rounds that you use to dry fire in your own gun. I like the idea. But I have no experience with it.

 

[pacelli]

Airsoft. Practice indoors with no noise, re use ammo, cheap but true-to-scale versions of every arm imaginable, and you get your major actions covered. There are even metal versions available, but more expensive. Set up a sheet and you can afford to train all day, every day in relative silence.

Get creative and set up black uniformed moose figurines across the room.

Don't see air soft as toys but rather training aids.

 

[chudrockz]

Appleseed Project has some good dry fire / indoor practice type tips. Otherwise, grab a decent .22lr rifle and practice with that! Around southern Minnesota you can still get 555 rounds of Winchester .22lr for around $23, give or take. Still spendy for .22, but nothing compared to some of the other calibers folks might shoot.

 

[osan]

The suggestion of air rifles is a good one, but I will put in my plugged kopek's worth on that.

Rather than practicing at the normal ranges, I would endeavor to open things up a bit. How about 75, or even 100 yards? If you can hone your skills such that you can deball a flea at 100 yards with an air rifle, you will have developed many of the skills to be a fine marksman. Breath, trigger technique, body mechanics for proper positioning and strength building are all essential to precise and consistent marksmanship. The only skill you will not develop there is that of your recoil response.

For this sort of training I would recommend you purchase the finest weapon you are able to afford. If you can acquire a match gun, do it. Get yourself thousands of pellets, and knock yourself out. My practice exercise was to shoot carpenter bees out of the air. I got pretty good at it. They were eating my house.

 

[mello]

"pew pew"

You beat me to it! lol.

 

[Aeroneous]

My practice exercise was to shoot carpenter bees out of the air. I got pretty good at it. They were eating my house.

For some reason when I read this I imagined the karate kid chopsticks/flies scene. That's pretty impressive.

 

[Dr.3D]

Appleseed Project has some good dry fire / indoor practice type tips. Otherwise, grab a decent .22lr rifle and practice with that! Around southern Minnesota you can still get 555 rounds of Winchester .22lr for around $23, give or take. Still spendy for .22, but nothing compared to some of the other calibers folks might shoot.

Darn! I can't find any boxes of 555 rounds around here. They will only sell me 50 rounds at a time and there is a limit on how many times I can do that per day.