A summary of what the system offers

With DryFire you can practice: in the comfort of your own home with your own shotgun with your own chokes in each barrel with your favourite cartridges using your own style: "maintained lead", "follow-through", "move, mount, shoot" etc. with accurate body movements with accurate angles exactly the same as on the range: acquire, swing, fire, follow through with exactly the same amount of angular lead to hit the target all trap, skeet and sporting disciplines all national, international and Olympic rules singles, simultaneous doubles and on-report doubles crossers, incomers, driven, quartering, rabbit, teal, tower etc.

How does it work?

The DryFire simulator

The simulator measures about 155mm x 140mm x 110mm (6.1" x 5.5" x 4.3") and projects a bright red laser target spot on to a wall in front of you. The laser target moves along exactly the same angular trajectory, and at exactly the same angular speed, as a real clay target.

The simulator contains a microphone so that you can call "Pull" to release the target.

The simulator also contains a digital camera which looks at the area round the laser target. It is sensitive to infrared light and sees exactly where you shoot.

The DryFire Gun Assembly

The gun assembly fits on to your own shotgun. A trigger switch fits round your trigger and a soft plastic insert goes into the muzzle.

When you press the trigger a short pulse of invisible infrared laser light is sent out from the muzzle insert.

PC Software

The DryFire software controls the simulator and it knows:

• Where the target is, where it is going and what speed it is travelling.
• What chokes you have in your gun.
• What cartridge you are using (type, size, load, muzzle velocity).
• What distance the simulated target is away from you.
• What angle the target is presenting to you: edge-on, face-on or somewhere between.
• What energy is required to break the target.

The software calculates where the centre of your shot string would be at its closest point to the target. To do this it takes into account all the above variables and the required lead.

If the target is within your shot-string the software calculates whether or not sufficient pellets would strike it to break it. I.e. if the energy from the pellets is sufficient to break the clay.

Information after each shot

The software provides you with:

• Hit/miss information.
• The distance of the centre of the shot-string from the clay. How far above, below, ahead or behind you were.
• The distance of the clay from you at the time the shot string reached it.
• The time after release when the shot-string reached the clay.

Two hits on Skeet station 4

How do you know it will work?

Try this simple experiment:

1. Imagine that you are on Skeet station 4 and you are going to shoot at the high target.
2. Stand about 2m in front of the middle of a wall.
3. Mount your shotgun to your shoulder.
4. Take up position as if you were about to shoot at the crossing point on a Skeet range - the point where you would like to break the clay.
5. Close your eyes and swing to the left to the point where you think the high trap would be.
6. Open your eyes and note where your gun is pointing.
7. Close your eyes and swing to your right to the point where you think the clay would hit the ground.
8. Open your eyes and note where your gun is pointing.

You have followed the flight of the high target from the trap to the ground and you have probably gone from one side of the wall to the other.

That is exactly what a DryFire target does. It follows exactly the same angular path as a real clay and at exactly the same angular speed. This means that your body movements must be exactly the same with DryFire as they must be on the shooting stand.

Too good to be true?

"It's realistic and it works", Pull Magazine

"I've improved my average from 33 ex 50 upto 43 ex 50 in Olympic Double Trap"

"It's a serious tool with genuine benefits for competition shooters", Clay Shooting Magazine