Live fire: a mere validation of your dry practice

There is a way to develop a high level of skill without firing a single shot.
It is called dry practice.
Dry practice is the effort a student puts forth off the range at home, with an unloaded firearm.
Dry practice allows you to execute perfect repetitions of all gun handling manipulations without the distracting muzzle blast or recoil.
Live fire is an important but minor part of the training.
Look at live fire as a mere validation of your dry practice.
The daily dry practice is the training; the occasional live-firing drill is the final exam.

Gabriel Suarez, 1999. The Tactical Rifle; USA, Paladin Press