Best Indoor Shooting Simulator for Practice?

[movekid]

Hello everyone.

Has anyone tried an indoor shooting simulator for improving their shooting skills? I'm looking for recommendations on the best systems available for home use. I’m especially interested in something that offers realistic training, from basic target practice to tactical scenarios.

The ability to adjust difficulty and incorporate different firearms would be ideal. I’ve heard some systems can provide immersive experiences, even using virtual reality, but I’m unsure of which one provides the best value for the features offered.

Does anyone have experience with a high-quality indoor shooting simulator?

Please share your thoughts!

 

[movekid]

Hello everyone.

Has anyone tried an indoor shooting simulator for improving their shooting skills? I'm looking for recommendations on the best systems available for home use. I’m especially interested in something that offers realistic training, from basic target practice to tactical scenarios.

The ability to adjust difficulty and incorporate different firearms would be ideal. I’ve heard some systems can provide immersive experiences, even using virtual reality, but I’m unsure of which one provides the best value for the features offered.

Does anyone have experience with a high-quality indoor shooting simulator?

Please share your thoughts!

thanks in advance for any help

 

[blume357]

Hopefully someone will come up with something... the best I can suggest is I have a laser target cartridge in a pistol on my desk just like my carry gun and it has a special electronic target that tells you when you've hit it. The interesting part is the target is about 2" round and I have no trouble hitting it from about 15-20ft away and so it is actually pretty boring.

 

[PRichardson87]

 

[contender]

As I mentioned,, at the SHOT Show,, I've tried a few of the types of indoor "training simulators" offered by different companies. My take-away has been that while they can do some things,, they are limited, and expensive. In fact,, a few of them can be "tricked" into allowing you to perform better than you actually are. I watched a guy do it to one simulator,, right in front of the company folks,, and they were trying to make all kinds of excuses about "why" it did what it did.
Several of us just chuckled at what happened.

There are other less expensive alternatives,, exactly like what blume has shown above,, but again,, limited in what you can do.

I can look at some again when I go back to SHOT in January.

 

[s4s4u]

I feel a simulator would be useful for training, draw and target acquisition, but the ones I have played with are pretty forgiving when it comes to "accuracy". Minute of pie plate, more or less. I 'spect there are some that more critical as far as POI, but likely priced over my means.

 

[blume357]

The real issue with these is there is no 'bang' and recoil and so it is pretty easy to hit the target over and over. One of the things I noticed when growing up and my buddies and I would do some shooting... just about everyone did pretty good on the first shot but then most were awful on the second because they were now anticipating the gun going off.