Disclaimer ? I?m just an intermediate-level IDPA shooter and make no claim to any great expertise or skill, but here?s some free advice, FWIW.
I haven?t read the Anderson book, but I do have one of Stoeger?s dry-fire books. It is good and very thorough, but you?ll need a fair amount of room and various props (barricades, scale targets, etc) to do the program.
Some simple dry-fire drills to get you started while you are tracking down copies of those books and associated paraphernalia:
- Wall-fire (coin or empty casing on top of your slide, point gun at blank wall, try to pull the trigger as quickly as you can without coin/casing falling off)
- Dot Torture (not a speed drill, but gets you some practice with draws, reloads, and smooth trigger pull, also does not take much room; you can download target here:
https://pistol-training.com/drills/dot-torture)
- FAST (good practice for draws and reloads; does not require a lot of room;
https://pistol-training.com/drills/the-fast)
- Strong-hand only/weak-hand only on a target of your choice (you can just use the larger portion of the FAST target; also good to do this as a wall-fire drill, with coin/casing on top of the slide)
- If you have room, shooting on the move (advancing and retreating) can also be worked in dry-fire. Not something you can do at indoor ranges, but something you will see in virtually every IDPA match, so worth the time to practice in dry-fire, even if you only have enough room for three or four steps.
- As stated above, if you have the room, setting up three targets and shooting a Bill Drill is good practice. Shoot it with two hands, then strong hand-only, then weak-hand only, and you?ve just practiced the first stage of the IDPA classifier.
You can download some scaled-down IPSC-type targets here:
//tinymicros.com/wiki/File:IPSC_Scale_Printable_Targets.pdfThis 5? circle target is also a useful generic target for dry-fire and live-fire:
https://loungecdn.luckygunner.com/lounge/media/5x5-drill-1.pdfThe good thing about dry-fire is that you don?t need a real $100 shot timer ? any of the various free shot-timer apps for your phone or tablet will work fine.
Key with all dry fire drills is to be honest with yourself and really concentrate on a good, strong grip, and focus on your front sight. Without recoil, it is very easy to get sloppy and deceive yourself.