Did you ever just QUIT?

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I did it once with a NIB Beretta Tomcat, but only because one round was all it was good for before going off the rails. :mad: In all, I fired 66 rounds through it before sending it back to Beretta for good.
 
I'll never be one of those guys that puts 5 rounds into one ragged hole...... but its sure fun trying! Thats the fun of this sport, maybe a fluke of sorts one can get them all "fairly" close to one hole, this is why I continue to go back...... maybe one day!!
 
I technically don't pay anything to go shoot, but because the range is 15 miles away I make a point to shoot at least the same amount of time it took me to drive there from the time I put my gate code in, and to the time I sign in and sign out.
 
I will quit if I'm shooting badly for whatever reason. If I'm shooting really well, the only reasons I'll stop are running out of ammo or sunlight. I reinforce good practice, not bad practice.
 
I don't always shoot to "practice". Sometimes, all I want to do is challenge myself. I've reached a certain level of performance and ability, and if the challenge I put to myself with a given weapon is met, I move on to other things.
 
Consistency is why I practice. if I brought more ammo for that gun I'd be shooting it. You may have just got lucky.
 
Week before last, I showed up at the range with one firearm. A bolt action rim fire that is magazine fed. I forgot the magazine.

It is so annoying to have to single load, 200+ rounds of .22lr with a scope and extractor cuts in the way.:eek:

Clutch
 
I understand your point.

Yes, I have quit while ahead. Many times.

Last time, about six months ago, with a 50 round group with my HK P7....I did great....the planets were aligned.....and.... I took the target down and (while I wanted to frame it and put in my living room), I put a thumb tack thru it and display it in an inconspicious place in my shop.

Meanwhile, back at the range, and after the HK, I switch to a different gun and got my usual not-bad but good-enough results. But still....after the HK....it was a great day simply to be alive.

So I understand your point, don't I?

Back to your point. The posted target in the shop reminds me of the shooter that I CAN be, that I am capable of, that I can do again....and maybe even again.....after all, I don't believe that there is such a thing as dumb luck.
 
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It happened to me, once. I was shooting my little Savage .22LR. I shot one complete mag's worth (10 rounds) and had started on the second mag. I tweaked my back after the second shot, just because my normal back pain wasn't enough for me that day. :rolleyes: I could barely breathe without looking like the combination of the leaning tower of Pisa and the Hunchback of Notre Dame. :eek: I packed up, did kind of a half-walk, half-crawl out to my car and left. It was my best day ever!!!!! :uhoh:
 
When stars..........
Few years ago, I arrived to the public range ona Sunday morning I guess we were only five shooters and the range officer close to me talking about the perfect weather we had, no mosquitos, no hot (around December) after placing the target at seven yards as warm up.Waited for the speakers to say line is hot. Load with four rounds the CZ75 as usual, focus, breath and shot the first with perfect X so neat, so round hole on top of X that barelly see it. I called him, man Im done for today told you it's a perfect day for shooting, removed the mag, packed and went home with a texas smile in face. I kept the target for some time.
I had joy enough to go home because I felt that I handle of variables as I should for once.

CZhen,
FL
 
Nope. And it's not likely to ever happen. I have never ran out of ammo at the range because I often take twice as much as I'm gonna shoot. But for the past couple of years I shoot behind the store where I buy most of my guns. Impossible to run out of ammo there unless they do. But I do remember being in the mood to throw some rabbit in the skillet one day in the late 60's and I only fired one round and quit. I was hungry and the skillet was waiting.
 
Never

When I go to the range there will be many rounds spent that's for sure :D
 
I've went home with 199 out of 200 rounds in the boxes still before.

Stepped up to the range, smurf target, shot at the little guy and hit him square in the head. I smiled and left.

It was a good day to be alive.
 
I don't go home when a great shot happens, I try to replicate it. I was shooting my S&W 35-1 at 30 yards and a few young former students of mine were at the 50 yardline scaring a 1 liter water bottle with an AR and an AK, I leaned over while they were reloading and popped the bottle in the middle and knocked it off the post. When they looked up from putting in new mags they looked at each other and asked did you hit it? when they turned back down range, I put a 22 right thru the middle of the cap and blew water all over. They looked over at me and I just grinned and held up my little 22...


It was a great time to explain Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast.
 
Once.

I had been at the range a while, and the guy in the next lane offered to let me shoot his S&W 340PD(?). A little snub nose, .357 magnum, that didn't weight anything...

Now, I really eased back on that trigger, because my 1911s have me spoiled - I didn't want to jerk the shot. I put one of those .357 magnums in the ten ring, said "ouch" along with a few other colorful words, opened the action, and told the owner thanks as I handed his pistol back to him...

That was enough for one day.
 
Many of my 1st shots of the day are my best. I keep on shooting just to prove that theory.
 
A friend an I were shooting balloons with our carry pistols. I decided to break out my rimfire. I pulled the trigger once and both balloons ruptured. I was like ok Im done. Later as I bent down to grab my earplug that had fallen and noticed the first casing was from a shot shell. I eventually told my buddy. Eventually
 
My Mom shot a gun one time...a .22 rifle from a moving pickup truck at a running jackrabbit...and killed it. She handed back the gun and said "I'll never top that" and never touched another one.
 
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