I tend to jump around and don't really have any particular skill I focus on. Well, I guess I have many that I focus on, but - it is a lot and years of practice. I don't hunt, but I practice shooting sometime with the idea that I might, or could if I had to. So, I do basic handgun practice, practice with .22LR pistol(revolver and semi auto) and rifle, semi-auto and I have an old gallery pump I get out once in a while for special occasions. I inherited a couple 20 Gague shotguns a few years ago, and eventually learned to just strip them down, clean the whole thing, assemble it, and one of them I got out to the range a we shot a propane tank and a steel gong at 50 Yards with a few boxes of slugs. Only did it once, and my attitude is I can do that, if I wanted to take a deer with that at that distance it would be a relatively easy shot, if you know where to shoot a deer, but a learned skill I did not have before, and I just move on to the next. I've had and older 30-30 out a few times, and same thing, if I wanted to shoot a deer with it, I'm confident I could.
Eventually the idea, is to shoot steel targets out to 100, 200, 300 yards, maybe longer, probably .223 - just to shoot a modern cartrdige in a modern firearm. A lot of my stuff is older, which has a cool factor, but new has an it is new cool factor. Anyway, there are a lot of general skills and overall things to practice, and only so much time. I guess I practice as a hobby, just to be an overall generalist. I've been to the range with people who immediately I can tell they are leaps and bounds ahead of me shooting a pistol, in their skill, speed, and just way better. And it could be this skill or that skill, or this type of practice or whatever it is, I see different people really good in some areas, and good for them. To me that is just an opportunity to see I have reason's to just keep practicing, but only so much time.
So, I kind of move around in what I practice. Sometimes I might bring only .22s out, sometimes only pistols, sometimes I have in my head I want to practice x, y, z for whatever reason. Sometimes I just want to practice with a Red Dot, or whatever. Just curious how people measure their general proficiency and if you use that measurement to focus on training or practice in one area or another.
You see threads on specific in the weeds of a particular skill or training, but - I guess the idea is how does someone get there vs. practicing someting else.
Eventually the idea, is to shoot steel targets out to 100, 200, 300 yards, maybe longer, probably .223 - just to shoot a modern cartrdige in a modern firearm. A lot of my stuff is older, which has a cool factor, but new has an it is new cool factor. Anyway, there are a lot of general skills and overall things to practice, and only so much time. I guess I practice as a hobby, just to be an overall generalist. I've been to the range with people who immediately I can tell they are leaps and bounds ahead of me shooting a pistol, in their skill, speed, and just way better. And it could be this skill or that skill, or this type of practice or whatever it is, I see different people really good in some areas, and good for them. To me that is just an opportunity to see I have reason's to just keep practicing, but only so much time.
So, I kind of move around in what I practice. Sometimes I might bring only .22s out, sometimes only pistols, sometimes I have in my head I want to practice x, y, z for whatever reason. Sometimes I just want to practice with a Red Dot, or whatever. Just curious how people measure their general proficiency and if you use that measurement to focus on training or practice in one area or another.
You see threads on specific in the weeds of a particular skill or training, but - I guess the idea is how does someone get there vs. practicing someting else.
