25 yard accuracy with a pistol seems impossible...

[testosterone]

Some of you guys need to get out more. Go watch a Metallic Silhouette match with targets at 200 meters. 25 yards is child's play.

indeed, it is easy to fall into.

The vast majority of folks are shooting man size target at 7-15 yards and getting some A zone hits and thinking they are doing good.

And it's not that it's bad, it is just accurate enough at that range, combat accurate if you will.

I never had a sense that I was any kind of even moderate shot with a pistol, then I started going to local bullseye matches(25 yards) and realized I was pathetically inept with a pistol from a pure marksmanship point of view.

 

[Drail]

Not to bash anyone on this forum but I have seen a lot of guys start out with a handgun and work at 5 to 7 yards until they can get a nice group and that is as it should be. Once you reach that point you must start moving back further and further repeating the process and learning the finer points of sighting and hold. Ideally you will start to become proficient at any range out to 50 yards - it's really not that difficult if you simply pay attention to what you are doing. Take your time and don't get tense - relax and let the gun fire when the sight picture is in that tiny zone of acceptibility. Eventually you will be able to call exactly where the shot landed just from what you saw on the sights before you walk down and look at the target.

 

[thales]

The 10 ring of the official B8 target is about 2 1/2 inches. That target is used for timed and rapid fire at 25 yards. So if you can get 10 shots into 2 1/2 inches at 25 yards, you have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of except perhaps your tendency to exaggerate. Perfect scores at that game happen occasionally but are not common.

Of course I can shoot .38 inch groups at 50 yards all day long, as long as the groups are just one shot.