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The Case for Dedicated Carry Magazines: Why Your Life Depends on Pristine Mags

By Jacob Paulsen / December 19, 2025

Your carry gun is only as reliable as its magazine. Discover why experts maintain pristine carry mags separate from training magazines.

The Ultimate Guide to Safe Dry Fire Practice

By Jacob Paulsen / August 28, 2025

Prevent dry fire negligent discharges with this comprehensive safety guide. Equipment recommendations, procedures, and mindset tips for safe firearm training at home.

Comprehensive List of Popular Dry-Fire Firearm Training Tools

By Jacob Paulsen / June 20, 2025

An overview of all the various training pistols, targets, cards, and other tools designed to enhance your dryfire training experience and results. There are as many dry fire techniques as there are products to support them!

S9E9: Revolvers and Other Handgun Options

By Riley Bowman / October 2, 2023

Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster discuss the idea of carrying and practicing with revolvers. Are these timeless pieces no longer relevant in today’s world? Or do they still serve some purpose? This topic was recently featured as our monthly Shooter Ready Challenge where Riley highlighted doing some dry fire practice with a revolver. Check it out at https://www.shooterreadychallenge.com and tune into today’s episode!

S7E9: Working Around Cover

By Riley Bowman / October 13, 2022

Today, Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster discuss how to work around cover in a variety of positions and how to get the most effective hits on target while doing so. This was recently featured on the latest Shooter Ready Challenge. Check it out at https://www.shooterreadychallenge.com and tune into today’s episode!

Comparing The 3 Dry Fire Gun Options

By Jacob Paulsen / June 24, 2022

I’m going to assume you’ve read one of the many pieces of content we have on our website explaining the importance of dry fire practice. If not, you cant check…

Where Does the Glock E-Trainer Fit In Your Dry fire Training Strategy?

By Jacob Paulsen / May 24, 2022

Dryfire training is important but does the Glock E-Trainer do more harm than good? A quick look at the product that is getting everyone talking.

When Dry Fire isn’t ‘Dry’ – I only Killed my Refrigerator

By Matthew Maruster / January 11, 2022

Handling firearms comes with substantial risk. Unfortunately, the risk doesn’t disappear just when we leave the range. Many unintended discharges (UDs) occur when people conduct dry fire practice. When Dry…

BarrelBlok – The Indispensable Dry Fire Practice Tool

By Matthew Maruster / December 2, 2021

If you conduct any dry fire practice as part of your firearm training, a little-known product called BarrelBlok should find its way into your Christmas Stocking this year. Why the…

Own an AR-15? Check out the Blackbeard from Mantis

By Matthew Maruster / November 18, 2021

The Blackbeard AR-15 laser training device is relatively new to the market. However, it’s already dominating the competitive products in the space with its impressive features and performance. For those…

S4E9: Throttle Control – What is it? And How Can We Practice it in Dry Fire?

By Riley Bowman / November 10, 2021

Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster discuss Throttle Control, what it is, what it isn’t, and how we can practice it in dry fire. This concept was recently featured on the latest Shooter Ready Challenge.

S3E13: The Physical SECRET to Becoming Both Fast AND Accurate

By Riley Bowman / September 2, 2021

Today, Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster discuss the “secret” to being both accurate AND fast at shooting. We talk about one method for being able to develop the physical skill necessary to achieve this in dry fire practice, and this method was recently featured on the latest Shooter Ready Challenge.

S3E12: Sub-Second Draws and Your Priorities with Bryan Eastridge

By Riley Bowman / August 31, 2021

Today, Riley Bowman and Bryan Eastridge, Host of the Off Duty / On Duty Podcast, take on a topic that can be controversial at times…just how fast do you need to draw? And how do we properly prioritize our training and practice time to gain the most benefit?

1 Question: Will Dry Firing Hurt My Gun?

By Matthew Maruster / May 13, 2021

A common question I get asked is, “will dry firing hurt my gun?” There are so many different answers that people don’t know what to believe. I want to cut…

Do You Record Your Dry Fire Practice?

By Joshua Gillem / April 16, 2021

We need to get as creative as possible regarding our training regimen, especially during this ammo shortage. Lately, I’ve been doing more dry fire practice in the comfort of my…