{"id":6225,"date":"2020-04-18T14:19:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T18:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6225"},"modified":"2020-04-18T14:19:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T18:19:25","slug":"trigger-time-during-quarantine-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/trigger-time-during-quarantine-time\/","title":{"rendered":"TRIGGER TIME DURING QUARANTINE TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Trapped at\nhome. Many if not most ranges closed, depending where you are. How can shooter\nfolk get some trigger time for skill maintenance, recreation, and the\nall-important boredom prevention?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Airgun fun is quiet…don’t forget eye protection.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Well, for\none thing, consider air guns. \nSilent.  Easy to make a bullet\ntrap <\/s> Airsoft, BB or pellet trap at\nhome if you have a big cardboard box, some carpet scraps or an old rubber mat,\nand a pile of old books or magazines at the back to be sure to prevent\nover-penetration.  No toxic indoor gunsmoke,\nno loud noises to frighten the neighbors, and if you\u2019re careful no projectiles\ngoing through apartment or condo walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My local gun shop is bare of AR15s and suitable defensive shotguns, and has only a few handguns left. Oddly enough, their air gun inventory has been untouched in the mad rush to purchase home defense firearms.\u00a0 WalMart gave up on handguns in all their stores a long time ago, except in Alaska, and word is they\u2019re not going to be selling them there anymore, either. The shorter barrel shotguns and autoloading centerfire rifles got dumped by Wally World in the PC aftermath of the Florida school shooting.\u00a0 Yet when I went in there to buy food and hardware, my local WalMart had a full display of air guns and related accessories.\u00a0 Hint, hint. I have an article on this coming out in the July 2020 issue of Airgun Hobbyist<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MantisX10 with Umarex Airsoft copy of Glock 19.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Of course,\nthere\u2019s also dry fire. With the air guns, you get everything but recoil and,\nunless you have a helluva <\/em>system  you can set up indoors, moving target and\nreaction practice. \u201cClicking\u201d  your empty\n\u201creal gun,\u201d you lose both of those things and also the ability to see your hits\non target and analyze them.  However, the\nflip side of that is that with no recoil, you get great follow-through\npractice, and the sights on your gun will tell you whether you jerked the\ntrigger or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OR\u2026you can invest in a MantixX. This neat little device has been out for a few years now. You synch it with your smartphone, and it tells you where you hit, how quickly you did so, and with the appropriate app, what your score was. I became a fan (and the Evil Princess became a huge <\/em>fan) of the Mantis-X when it was introduced, and both of us are even more enthusiastic about its updated version introduced this year, the MantixX10, which among other things can also analyze your draw-to-the-shot if you have a handgun\/holster combination that can accommodate the device. (If you don\u2019t, it\u2019s small enough to allow you to draw from holster-less \u201cstuffed inside the waistband\u201d carry. That\u2019s not perfect practice, obviously, but you\u2019re not going to shoot yourself by accident with a gun you\u2019ve tripled-checked to be unloaded for dry fire\u2026are <\/em>you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information on the MantisX can be found at \u00a0https:\/\/mantisx.com\/<\/a> .\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously, dry fire practice has to be done SAFELY,\n<\/em><\/strong>and because we\u2019ve run out of space here, we\u2019ll address the subtleties\nof that in the next blog entry here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Umarex Airsoft closely duplicates handling and feel of “real” pistols.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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MantixX10 with Turkish SAR9 9mm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trapped at home. Many if not most ranges closed, depending where you are. How can shooter folk get some trigger time for skill maintenance, recreation, and the all-important boredom prevention? Well, for one thing, consider air guns.  Silent.  Easy to make a bullet trap  Airsoft, BB or pellet trap at home if you have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6225"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6235,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions\/6235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}