Dry Practice Ep. 6

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Dry Practice Ep. 6. The 6th episode has the 5th exercise that I use in dry practice and that is simple reloads. Enjoy.

all right hey what's up guys so today

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we're going to start episode 6 which is

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the fifth exercise in the series and

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it's going to offer uh just simple

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reloads now when it comes to reloads uh

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you'll need a few things to do this

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exercise right so if you're going to do

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it from outside the waistband you should

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have outside the waistband equipment if

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you're going to do it from ins inside

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the waistband you should have that

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inside the waistband equipment uh you

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will need mag pouches and if you are

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using magazines uh they can be unloaded

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but unloaded without dummy rounds uh

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make for hanging up a lot so if you've

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ever noticed

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it let me drop some of these rounds out

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of

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here with an empty mag it has these

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Jagged edges for the feed lips and those

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edges like to get caught and not really

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seat into the gun smoothly with a bullet

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at the top an inert bullet or real ones

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if you're doing this outside on the

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Range uh it is very easy to get those

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rounds back in there or at least get the

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gun to or sorry the mag to insert into

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the gun so just something to pay

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attention to so if you are practicing

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this with empty mags uh you are going to

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have a harder time potentially not not

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for sure and if you're using big mag

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Wells it probably doesn't matter but at

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least when when you're using uh standard

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uh mag Wells like this and nothing

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nothing no attachments or anything like

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that you may need or you may get hung up

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based off of not having a round there or

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you may get hung up with a round like

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that so you'll need a few mags um I

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usually try to do two to three mags uh

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one I like having one that's empty for

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the initial like drop the mag out of the

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gun I find that that is something that I

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want to practice uh it's not necessary

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per se but it is something that I like

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to practice so when I go about my reload

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practice I may practice some of them

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with slide lock and go from there and

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then drop a MAG and retrieve a MAG to go

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into the next one or I may start off

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with a slow a Clos slide because I am

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doing a MAG change from a or without

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retention and reduced capacity reloads

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and stuff like that so it depends on

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what you're doing and what you're trying

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to accomplish but when it comes to the

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the blast

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and the setup of the mags uh an empty is

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something I like to use to drop on the

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ground for no reason or when I'm not

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doing anything fancy now I will

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also have two fully loaded with weighted

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dummy rounds so remember no primers and

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no gum powder in these things but

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they're weighted so they they definitely

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weigh the same as live mags uh that are

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fully loaded now I like using live ones

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to load into the gun because because it

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feels like the mag that I'm going to

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retrieve from my belt or my my inside

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the waistband mag pouch and I think

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that's important that's good practice

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stuff versus an empty which weighs way

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less so something to pay attention to if

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you guys are doing this uh and set up

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properly um but also just uh just

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depends on how much you're you care

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about it and how you want to accomplish

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this now when you do this you could

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start out static and I like to start out

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with a learning Pace right and a

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learning Pace May especially if this is

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very new to you or you're trying A New

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Concept on how to reload you want to

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start out with a learning pace which

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would be almost slow motion right so

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you'll be you'll be going from this

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position and dropping a MAG inserting

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mag slowly releasing a slide and getting

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back into it like all those things

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should happen in slow motion if you're

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just trying to learn like where are my

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hands supposed to be for different

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things where should my mag be or my mag

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well be before my mag inserts into it

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things like that I like using some form

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of learning Pace it doesn't matter if

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you want to or not I'm just giving you

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an option the second Pace I go is

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something that's more comfortable hand

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speed so the speed of which that I can

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get it like 10 out of 10 almost 10 out

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of 10 let's say 9 out of 10 to 10 out of

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10 times uh that I try it I will insert

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and make it to where I want to be

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because I'm going at a speed that my

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hands can do this my brain can process

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it and I'm not going very fast for that

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anyway but comfortable hand speed is

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definitely a thing then you want to go

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what would be Ricky Bobby pace and Ricky

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Bobby pace is literally try to do it as

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fast as you humanly can now the reason

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for that is to start getting you

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comfortable with going that fast and to

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make sure that your previous stages of

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speed are actually helping you get fast

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reloads because a Reload isn't something

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that I want to do slowly ever um if

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you've ever fumbled a Reload really

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quick it's probably because you haven't

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practiced it at that speed before and it

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just happens and you're all excited and

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jazzed up on Mountain Dew and hate and

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you need to insert that mag and you mess

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it up because of the speed that you

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haven't practiced it at so something to

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think about something to try something

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to practice and uh varying speeds to

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play with this stuff at because it may

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help you so hopefully that makes sense

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guys and if you need any help or would

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like some more help with this let me

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know or go to a class man uh classes

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will definitely help you with little

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things like this and somebody can

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actually watch you and do it and it

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doesn't have to be my class it could be

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a lot of other reparable instructors

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classes and you can get quite a bit of

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reps in those things because you're

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going to be shooting all day or all

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weekend and you'll be reloading

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throughout that time so you get live uh

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really good reps in getting your mag

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changes done um one thing I don't do a

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lot is practice these live just to the

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practice reloads I used to a lot and I

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found very little value in that where I

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can get all the value out of my dry

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practice doing that and then when I'm

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doing other things and reloads pop up I

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can evaluate my reload after that and be

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like well was that good was did that go

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as smoothly as I wanted did I lose the

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mag and it flew into nardia and that

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gives me more use out of my ammo on the

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Range as well as my time on the range

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and then dry practice wise you're doing

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all the mechanics that you need for

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reload anyways so

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whatever style of reload you want to do

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uh and whatever way you want to slide

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release a slides that is all in in your

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hands man literally uh so uh hopefully

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this helps guys and uh and you saw some

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of the demonstrations of things that you

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can do with dry practice but this is the

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uh another exercise that I will do

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personally to really try to accomplish

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um

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reloads and oh one other thing uh you

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would would probably want to start doing

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this on the move at some point point so

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either moving from point A to point B

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while you reload or point A to point B

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to point C or in different directions so

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left to right right to left front to

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back back to front at diagonals in front

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and back positions uh it is important to

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be able to reload on the Move uh not

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only in a competitive nature but also in

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a tactical nature if you want to look at

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it that way but it's shooting is

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shooting guys so get good at it and

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it'll just pop up one day and you're

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like whoa my gun just reloaded itself

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but didn't cuz your hands did it they

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just did it really good all right take

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care guys