How do you practice?
 

Hey im wondering how do u guys usually practice your shooting, aiming, and tactics?

Like how do you guys usually shoot at home?
Do you set up a mini range in a room where its empty or find some place in your basement?

I take my gun out with a dozen or more other guys and we all get "practice".

Use your gun enough and you will figure out it's quirks and tendancies, as well as it's range, accuracy, bush penetration, etc.

It's all up to you as long as you don't take it outside in plain view in your backyard or something.

Did you realize that once you gain experience your nickname will be sort of useless?

This is a video of my last team practice:

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

X targets, spotter calling shot placement.

" Head, left. Chest, right. Ready.... UP!"
shot/shot

*repeat*

Infront of a mirror with lots of lube

Hehe. Nice.

Dress up in your full combat uniform.

Start from your basement.

Work your way up.

I do that every single night before I sleep....

Boy, am I glad you're on MY team. Damn.

I gotta show you some wounded pistol reload/tactics ;)

i do house cleans in my house when i'm alone, i do reload drill in my room, any real shooting is done on field.

same

I also like to run down the road and take hostages and steal peoples cars

+1 - What he said....

https://www.condoms.co.uk/acatalog/I...rming-Lube.jpg

Scenario, Communications, Tactics like the center peel this and that. Need something to in between games.

I stab myself in the arm with a safety pin.
It helps me practice screaming like a woman, cause thats exactly what I do during any type of airsoft sim or game. Scream like a woman.

i get into my gear and clear rooms in my house with targets set in each room. i don't have a big yard so i can't train on my own for woodland games.

Get drunk with my squad and dress up in our gear.

>_>
<_<
Mutual sinning I see.

Join the army.

This thread is hilarious and pathetic at the same time...

Hmm.. we only carry KY if the other team complains from the pain!

Well first off, just to get in the mood. I shoot BBs at a metal plate in my basement and try to avoid the ricochets as much as possible, just for survival sakes.

Next, just to make sure I can retreat efficiently, I go do naked jumping jacks in someone else's yard then run away to a high grass field to practise my stealth.

When it comes to shooting, one day, I go at a game.... I point my AEG and....shoot.

Then one day, in band camp...

so nobody practices or has pick up games or anything? Dont even meet up? Is it because no one has a field to play on, or is it because you all think its stupid?

If anyone here thinks "clearing" their houses by themselves in full kit is better practice than getting out on the field with a few mates, they're retarded.

Not to mention a little sad.

I sit there to meditate and then bond with my rifles...."These are my rifles, there are many like it, but these ones are mine........."

Here I thought I was bipolar, no wonder I feel so sad recently!

(note the amount of smart asses and sarcastic natures that responded to the thread KG3, the only real way to practice this hobby is obviously playing against fellow airsofters... It's a sport not masterbation)

i do practice with my team. We just dont drive 300k to get to the field and play the rest of the provinces here in the atlantic region. Its the players on our team versus players on our team, that have certain goals in mind (a drill, a dry run, whatever) I consider this practice.

I dont clear my own house by myself though, thats just too much.

I pratice long distance shooting (50 meter) on a plain terrain so I can see the effect of the wind on my bbs. Also pratice shooting while moving toward the target. For the gbb I do the same but at 30 meter. I also try to put down and draw the aeg betwen burts so that way your instinctive shooting improve.

Average pitol engagement distance in real combat is 7-10 meters.

go out to hilled field with my friends and shoot each other

Oh God... trash bin, meet thread...

I live out in the country, so I practice in my back yard. I either plink, target shoot or pound squirrels :). I also took spray paint and marked the side of our cement so that I have a 10 yd. mark, 20 yd. mark, and a 25 yd. mark.

I practice reloading when I got the time at home.

hmm. thats a really good way of training your reflexes. eye protection is a must. :cool:

When I feel like it, I'll do either quick draw from my drop leg, unsnap, draw while moving towards one of my posts in the basement (acts like either a tree or a corner from cover) and double tap an alumimum oven sheet 20ft away (insticitve shooting, front sight about 16" from my eyes, same as I always shoot my Glocks), from both left and right side of the post, then reholster; or I'll do transition drills, I'll burst the plate with one of my MP5s, move to the pole while drawing my sidearm, double tap it from cover, both sides, reholster then do the same with a burst from my MP5 from behind cover. I might do a few cycles of either, and spend 10-20 mins for repetition sake. And I do it like I need to, fast. Now that I have a KSC Mk23, I have to relearn it all with a new system! Luckily my G19 will always be my sidearm, Mk23 is more a special purpose gun.

Aside from that, I get enough practice from playing.

are you as good as this?
YouTube - Stock Glock Speed Reload Race

I usually grab one of my GBB and I can feel all of this energy going up my arm and into my chest so all energized and hyped I go upstairs, grab some cookies and watch some tv while I lay my GBB by the table next to me... You never know when you might need it..

Strangely enough, that's something I'd do...

Me too, I thought I was nuts but I guess not. :)

me too. wow i thought i was the only odd one. I bring along my favorite GBB when i move about in the house but most of them are displayed on my desk, but i put my favorite one beside me when i'm in bed and stare at it till i fall asleep.

I used to cuddle my M4 at night when first got it.

Nope but are you as good as this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RgH6tHgyvY

i honestly turn to ghost recon and rainbow6 for tactics and ideas, esspecially the online play, its just like AS lol.... lots of people use counter strike as practice. but as for shooting ect.... theres nothing you can really do except put time in on the field.

I feel better to know I'm not the only one carrying his GBBs around the house :P

me 2, why does everyone else do it?

:| this is creepy , as I do the exact same thing. Now that I have 4 (5th is being built) it's hard to choose. Always feel like I'm leaving someone out... :(

airsoft is my pratice for me. nuff said.

kos, I have separated them by days. One day it's my glock, the other my sig, the next my beretta and so on and so on..

When I'm on the phone for more than 3mins I can't hold myself but to play around with a GBB...

Damn that was fuckin sick!

get a holster thats got 2 on the waist and a duel armpit style?

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nah I usually go down to the local tim horton's for some gun drills. Good fun!

I want everyones hands on the counter! You! Make me a Ice Cap and a Boston Creme, or ill kill someone i swear to god!

I play counter strike, I find the tactics and immersion very similar to real world situations. Ussally i try to microwave and eat pizza pops right from my game chair if I get up an leave my fat as jiggles and my carpal-tunnel flares up.

Dry fire and playing dress up in you house may seem ghey, but it's very often encouraged, especially in the Real Steel world where your training level may determine if you live or die..LOL

They say train like you fight. So getting all your shit on and just drawing a few times can be a real eye opener. I don't know how many times I have seen guys try to get out the old secondary under a little pressure and COMPLETELY fuck it up (myself included). Just recently I had to move a whole bunch of shit around on my main rig (and get some of it off on a subload) because what looked good just didn't work. I couldn't draw/holster my pistol without hooking on my med kit, and having to look away from the X to get it in. The ONLY way I figured that out was DOING IT.

Add a little adrenaline, and you hands turn into flippers. Your fingers just don't work. So, if you are POSITIVE you can get that nice new 1911 out of that brand new Safariland 6004 you bought last week without any practice at all, more power to you.

But I bet there is pownage in your future.. :D

Kinda hard to holster 2 rifles, and 2 pistols ... :p

Jesus could do it.

wrong, Jesus only needs 1 rifle. It's called the Holy Rifleth

Getting geared up is the key, but going full out in BDUs, helmet, fake riot cuffs and such is overkill. Hehe, ya, I've worn my chest rig around at home (holds about 6 beer) and wear it when arranging my gear, seeing best way to arrange MP5 and M24 slings at the same time, etc. And wearing the stuff during transistion drills in the basement because things always get in the way and it's best to work out the bugs first.

So does mine. I wore it at Hallowe'en and used it to store a 6 pack and randomly go up to people and say "hey, want a beer?" and then just give them one then and there. Was working perfect until I put my open one in there (instead of putting it down on a table) but then proceeded to FORGET it was there. Then, I went to pick something up from the ground....not so great.

I like to also practice my hand t hand skills so when someone puts a pistol to my head and says mercie I just turn aroundgrab there hand and break it and win =]

I don't need practice,

My sheer 1337ness repels any attackers.

agreed i put it on like deet. chuck norris aint got shit on me! lol.

I screwed up a cell phone the same way once, it was in my shirt pocket and I bent down to put the cat's waterbowl on the floor after filling it.......................

AAANND!??? oh man i hate clifhangers, they leave so much to the imagination!!

i practice target aquisition...
place targets at different ranges, hide behind cover...
do quick one shots: hide, expose, aim, fire, hide in one smooth motion. i repeat this until i get faster with every round.
ofcourse i do this with my mask on, with an RDS mounted on the gun.

Wow.... Maybe you should write and how-to guide, if you do so eMail it to me. :confused:

My phone fell out of my pocket, I grabbed it fast and turned it off. Still worked after it dried out, but had some issues.

Practice? Who needs practice when you play as much MGS as I do.

You TOO? And my friends thought i was crazy...

Everyone seems to bitch that i drop mags in combat :/ So i gave up on it XD

Used to do that, but in front of my Gun.
I kept confusing my Gear Grease with KY :s

I can tell you what Barrels are NOT for...
and that is why i can never have children XD

the reason why i practice this is because i sometimes find myself hesitating and sort of semi-panic when i spot a tango. a few times i've fumbled with my gun trying to my best to aim only to miss and get spotted giving the tango time to take cover.
i realized i was taking too much time aiming. so i made it a point to practice quick aiming and shooting.
the drill honestly improved my game a lot. nowadays it seems that IF and when i spot a tango first within range i manage to pick him off most of the time compared to very seldom before the drills. :) my RDS helps(both eyes open ofcourse), i don't know if i can do this without it.

what i do is i place targets at different distances beyond a corner. i take cover behind the corner a distance away. i practice running to the corner, taking cover for a second, then i peek while drawing my gun AND aiming with the intent to break off a single shot. Idealy as soon as the gun is level you should have already acquired a target and have the RED DOT on it, ONCE the red dot is on target break off a shot immediately.
i do 2 variations, gun drawn from below ready position, you know, gun pointing down, and one drawn from above, like when the gun is beside your face when taking cover in corners. BIG DIFFERENCE with both. drawn from below takes more time because the muzzle travels a longer sweep upwards but DOESN'T obstruct your view when you break cover, meaning you have more time to survey(quickly ofcourse, less than a second idealy) the target zone. Plus, it's easier to place the RED DOT where you intend it to, again idealy as you end the upward travel of the muzzle as you aim. remember that all this happens in one smooth motion, shouldn't take more than a second or two. I find this works better for me.
Drawn from above, near the face, is a lot faster, but there is a split second where the gun can and will obstruct your view, so this is riskier overall for me.
others who have mastered their guns may find this easier.
forgot to mention, i just shoot one target at a time per "breaking cover", at first. when i get that down perfect i try shooting all targets within an absurdly/unreasonable short amount of time (to add pressure) :) just for fun. just use your internal judgment clock. haha

(((There is also such a thing called muscle memory, the more you practice drawing your gun and aiming repeatedly, using basically the same stance (with respect to your head, arm and shoulder position, basically what you use to shoulder/aim your weapon) the more you become faster, because your muscles REMEMBER that pose. Not the exact pose but close to it.)))

this may sound more compliacted than it really is, its just an explanation, actual practice is better and more fun. oh yeah, the reason why i run to the corner is so that my body position varies, therefore kind of making me forget where the targets are to a degree. making it a little more difficult, since i can easily pick off targets with one stroke in less than a second if i stay in the corner long enough. well its a good idea to change things around so you learn to adapt.

i've read there are a lot who swear by iron sights, i'm not one of them, i guess i'm not that good.:) i need my RDS, its just so much quicker, making me more accurate.

Note: this drill does not in any way simulate actual field conditions. coz in the drill you know there are targets beyond the corner, and you know where they are. The drill just develops quick aiming and shooting. once mastered you'll find that your game will change, missing will no longer be that big of an issue. The game will really be who sees who first, which has been what the game really is about.

hope this helps, it helped me a lot. :)