Posted on 07/05/2017 5:47:08 AM PDT by w1n1
We all love to shoot and have fun doing it but sometimes we suffer from a lack of knowledge on how to correct our mistakes when shooting our pistol. Many times we’re not aware of these mistake in the mechanics or finger placement but we are very aware of their effects on paper. (our groupings)
Here are some quick tips to turbo charge your basics that you may have forgotten.
Slow Down – Everybody wants to shoot fast, but when shooting that fast you give up accuracy. Get into a rhythm then you can speed it up.
Dry Fire – This is a very boring drill but its a prerequisite to solidifying your marksmanship, plus it'll save you ammo ($)
Trigger Control – This may be one of the most important basics of any firearms marksmanship training. The basics is with trigger control is to get that "surprise break".
Read the rest of the pistol tips here.
Another problem for shooters is an inconsistent pistol grip. Many shooters aren’t aware of their changes in gripping the handle. I worked on this and it really improved my scores.
Thanks for posting. I had not seen the chart before.
Call your shots.
For later
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Keyword ‘banglist’ added to reach the Free Republic shooting community.
Tell the lib to start at a fast walk and work his way into a full sprint.
You will think them when you need your weapon and you go to fire your weapon on a real cartridge and everything works.
I called’em...
CHS...
GOT Me a pump!
Learn instinct shooting.Sights and trigger control become irrelevant then.
[[but we are very aware of their effects on paper. (our groupings) ]]
Does one hit ‘somewhere on the paper’ count as a ‘grouping’? With a pistol I’m horrible- with a rifle- I’m fairly good=- I can not seem to hit the broad side of a barn with a pistol though for some reason (not quite that bad- but a standard target paper- nope- can’t seem to hit it much
Are we target shooting or combat shooting - cause they are not related.
“Surprise break”? No. In combat shooting you are not waiting for a surprise break. You are, gasp, jerking the trigger. The most important skill in combat shooting is to be able to consistently ‘jerk’ the trigger without moving the point of aim. Everything else follows that.
instinct shooting with a bow I’m great at- (not ‘shoot a flying bird out of the air great- but 60 yard or so target shooting good or at least i used to be- could not get used to sights of any kind- always resorted back to instinctive shooting- We would ‘nock’ each other’s arrows (hit the other person’s nocks off at about 30 yards or so not every time- but enough that stopped shooting one after the other lol)- got pretty expensive when we practiced lol)
instinct with a pistol? Nope- no good for me- sight shooting also not good with pistol- dunno what it is about a pistol with me- I suppose if i trained more instinct shooting i might eventually get hang of it- like with the bow- but with hte bow i got hangof it very quickly- not so with pistol
Bttt
Bump for later, i’ d like to make broad aides of barns fear me.
Thanks!
What you master in training you’ll execute in combat. Jerk away in training, and make wide holes on the huge silhouette and they’ll get even wider in combat. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast... But, jerk away.
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