{"id":3461,"date":"2012-03-12T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/03\/12\/sheriff-jim-on-dry-fire-practice\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:17:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:17:53","slug":"sheriff-jim-on-dry-fire-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3461","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff Jim On Dry-Fire Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16144,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.safedirection.com\\\/buysafetyproductsnow.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20120406050533\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.safedirection.com:80\\\/buysafetyproductsnow.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 18:56:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 00:14:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 00:14:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think there is any question about how much dry-fire practice can help improve your shooting skills. In this video, Sheriff Jim Wilson talks about how to do it safely.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qp-pSuWbebE\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nThe ballistic pad that Sheriff Jim uses can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safedirection.com\/buysafetyproductsnow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. One alternative to using a pad like this is doing your practice facing an outside wall of your house which has a backstop beyond it. By backstop, I mean a hill or retaining wall and not a wooden fence.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think there is any question about how much dry-fire practice can help improve your shooting skills. In&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3318,2652,423],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dry-fire-practice","tag-sheriff-jim-wilson","tag-training-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7783,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/7783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}