"Class C to Class A in three months!"

No guarantees - but that's the sort of thing that happens when you use DryFire!

Intensive practice with DryFire helps you climb beyond those annoying plateaus as your shooting improves.

250 shots after work every night of the week is totally realistic with DryFire - how much would that normally cost you in cartridges and range fees?

All this in the comfort of your own home, in the warm and dry, 365 days a year!

The photos show DryFire Version 3 with dual heads and with a single head - both systems support simultaneous doubles.

Both are about 185mm x 140mm x 110mm (About 7.5" x 5.5" x 4.5")

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We want this site to provide you with all the information you need when thinking about DryFire so we have provided pages about most of the things we have been asked about.

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Important warning

Software downloaded from the web site of our USA distributor must NOT be used on simulators sourced from outside the USA.

Using the USA software will corrupt the memory of simulators from outside the USA and they may require recalibration after return to the UK.

Please see the support page for more details.

DryFire in a nutshell

DryFire lets you practice clay shooting in the comfort of your own home.

• You use your own shotgun - the DryFire muzzle insert pops into any 12g, 20g or 28g barrel - S/S, O/U or single barrel.
• You have total freedom of movement - no wires from your shotgun.
• You use your choice of chokes and cartridges.
• It supports all clay disciplines - skeet (English, American, Olympic), trap (DTL, ABT, UT, Olympic singles/doubles, American) and sporting.
• It works in front of any wall (bedroom, study, living room, garage) 3m (10ft) or more wide. Please avoid brick, stone or rough walls - the laser gets lost.
• You call "Pull", acquire, swing, fire and follow through exactly as normal.
• You must allow the same amount of lead as when outdoors.
• DryFire shows you exactly where your shot string went in relation to the clay - to the nearest centimetre (1/2").
• Do it wrong, or drop your concentration, and you will miss with DryFire - but at least you will know where you missed.

How does it do this?

• DryFire software runs on any Windows-based PC. (Note: you can run it on an Apple Mac as long as you are running Windows.)
• The simulator is connected to the PC with a USB cable.
• Each simulator head contains a laser to generate the target and a digital camera to detect your shot.
• You enter your gun, cartridge, choke and personal details into the PC.
• You select your discipline and target using the PC.
• On the call of "Pull" the simulator launches a laser dot across the wall in front of you. The dot represents the leading edge of the clay.
• The laser dot follows exactly, the same angular trajectory at exactly the same angular speed, as the real thing.
• You acquire, swing and fire, exactly as normal - the muzzle insert sends a beam of invisible IR light towards the wall.
• The digital camera in the simulator head picks up the IR shot, the software does its calculations and the PC screen shows you the result.

"Wow! Dryfire totally exceeded my expectations. I couldn't imagine it working very well... so when it worked brilliantly, it was a bit of a surprise! Awesome product - amazing coding! Practising skeet with full chokes makes it seem a breeze to shoot a perfect round once you open up to cylinder and stick a number 9 cartridge in each barrel!! My new laptop is an OLD laptop off ebay - 100 quid got me an XP machine with 1gb ram which I've stripped right down and uninstalled everything. I've switched OFF access to the net or any auto-updates and it runs like a dream.

Thanks again for such a great product! - My wife may disagree... I don't know... I never see her!"

"I am over the moon with it! I shot over 900 targets using DryFire then went out to do the real stuff on the Skeet range. I was smashing them dead centre all over the place - it was fantastic! I was very sceptical about the system before I bought it - it is almost impossible to explain to someone why it works. However, it does work and I am absolutely delighted. Trouble is, I have now decided to upgrade from the single head to the double!"

"Got it up and running last night and my instructor came round. My weakness is on Skeet crossers, stations 3,4,and 5, and we put over 1,200 shots at it during the evening! Fantastic! The lead was spot on. My instructor stood behind me, called the shots and then we looked at the screen - it was accurate every time! Brilliant!"

DryFire requires subdued or artificial lighting - because the sun is a major source of infra-red light - used by DryFire to detect your shot.

Bob (the guy in red in the second photo) has come up with a brilliant solution - a mobile unit as used on building sites - you can see it behind the DryFire sign in the first photo. Bob makes arrangements with the nearest local supplier to drop off a unit at the start of a shoot and to pick it up afterwards - this particular shoot was at the Silver Dollar Shooters Club in Florida. The unit comes complete with security on the windows and, because it is the USA, air-con!

The units are just the right size to do a presentation of DryFire and to allow shooters to have a go. The wall width (8 - 10 feet) is ideal for ATA trap shooting - the most popular discipline in the USA. We would recommend a width of 12 feet, or slightly more, for disciplines like sporting and skeet which require wide crossers.

Bob's son Tom is an artist and paints/sells backgrounds for use with DryFire - you can see one on the wall with a 3D trap house in place at the bottom of the painting - ideal for getting the right hold point before calling "Pull". The guy with the orange baseball cap is standing in the position normally taken up when using DryFire.

"Really neat stuff, Bob" - as they say across the pond. (In England we would say "Not bad" or, if we were feeling wildly enthusiastic, "Nice!")

Do you just want to see where your gun is pointing? If so, the correct answer is "have a lesson with a qualified instructor."

If you still don't know where your gun is pointed (ever thought of taking up golf?) then get a cheap laser pointer and tape it to the end of your barrel.

Lasers won't do gun fit for you - go to a professional who has the right equipment and who has done it hundreds of times before - your investment will pay off in improved scores.

Do you want something that:

• supports all clay disciplines (sporting, trap, skeet - national, international and Olympic)?
• puts targets anywhere - including wide crossers and overheads?
• tells you exactly where your shot went in relation to the clay ("18 inches behind and 15 inches below")?
• works in exactly the same way as a real outdoor clay?
• supports all types of chokes and all types of cartridges.
• works with guns of any Point Of Impact (POI).
• requires you to use the same amount of lead as outdoors? Get the lead wrong and you will miss - with DryFire and outdoors.

If you want something that will genuinely improve your scores, please look at our comparison page.

Video and painted backgrounds for US trap shooting

Bob Ridge, DryFire's distributor in the USA, has produced a great web site for American shooters complete with an excellent introductory video. Much of the material relates to ATA trap shooting but will be of general interest to all readers. Bob also offers some superb canvas backgrounds in a variety of different widths.

Bob has tailored the DryFire software for the US market - the software on his web site can only be used on simulators sourced from him.

Translate the manual

We apologise for DryFire only being available in English.

We have put the DryFire manual on-line so you can translate it using Google.

Go to your local Google site, select "Language tools", go to "Translate a web page", select the language you want: for example, "English >> Spanish" then enter this web site address:

      http://www.dryfire.com/dfmanual302/userguide.htm