help i suck at shooting

[Joe Gunns]

One gun. Shoot it all the time until you know and shoot it well, then, while keeping up with the one, concentrate on another. Probably will take much less time to become competent with that one. From then on, you should be able to do reasonably well with any you pick up. YMMV.
James

 

[bnkrazy]

I did several things, one of which was get some snap caps so I could dry fire at home when I had 10 minutes or so to practice.

Another unintentional, but EXCELLENT training tool I happened across was a pair of CT Lasergrips. When combined with a snap cap, you can immediately see the effect of your trigger pull and correct the placement of your finger on the trigger, etc. Dry firing with the CT grips cut my group size by 50% at least. You can contact Bruce Gray at GrayGuns and get his free dry fire packet that will help get good results. Someone here may have a copy and can send it to you.

I also shot about 4-500 rounds per weekend for several months two years ago. Practice does indeed help. Get to the range!

 

[Crow1108]

+1 on just focusing on one gun. I find I do my best shooting when I just take one gun with me to the range, and not 2 or 3.

Something interesting I came across a few months ago for practicing dryfiring is snapcaps and a dime. Hold the pistol as you normally do, with a snapcap in the chamber. Balance a dime near the muzzle-end of the slide and practice dry-firing. My CHP instructor mentioned this technique for learning to control your flinch.

 

[bnkrazy]

Regarding the dime on the barrel method, it works. Keeping the dime on the barrel is easy though compared to keeping the red dot from the laser grips stationary.

 

[mccook8]

1. Narrow down your efforts to ONE gun to begin with. Become as proficient as possible with that ONE gun.

2. Get some actual TRAINING, even if it's just having a competent shooter coach you. The key thing is to have someone else watching, who can recognize and correct mistakes. If you don't have that, you might be training yourself in bad habits. Practice doesn't make perfect. PERFECT practice makes perfect.

 

[2nd 41]

If no one at the range will help you....take a professional lesson or two from a certified instructor. Otherwise the same mistakes keep getting repeated.

 

[Zedicus]

I've found this video to help quite a bit.

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v6966916RAE66Rt9

 

[ProficientRifleman]

dry fire...DRY FIRE...DRYFIRE!!!

Cock the hammer, sight in on your close range target, begin to apply pressure to the trigger, and calmly tell yourself, "front-sight-press, front-sight-press, front-sight-press..." until the hammer falls.

Re-cock the hammer.

Repeat.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

 

[icebones]

more often than not, you arent hitting what your aiming at becase of the sights... (ruling out you are not flinching, pulling off ect)

i am a decent shot, but for some reason when i first got my glock 30, i couldnt hold a decent group, so i swapped out the factroy plastic sights, with square profile adjustible sights,

this is based on personal preference, but i shoot (handguns) better with square sights that give a sharp picture, as opposed to sights with rounded corners, or blade type front sights.

i prefer sights with a little ammount of space between the sides of the front sight and rear sight notch, so i can tell if the left-to-right alignment is correct. you can be surprised just how accurate the human eye is to alignment...

also, because your px4 is a polymer frame, do you have problems with it getting slippery? i know if im shooting, sweat, water, rain, mud and gun-oil can make the grip very slippery and hard to hang on to...

remedy this with some black electric tape. on polymer frames it wount harm the grips. but be careful with wooden grips.

also, hold the sights the same way and try to break the shot on the same place each time...

just keep practicing, you WILL get better with time and expirence. it takes time to get used to a particular gun, and a handgun is the hardest weapon to master...

 

[3rd Generation American]

Dry fire and do it till it hurts.
also check out this site; http://www.bullseyepistol.com/training.htm

Lots of good infomation here the chart helped me(remember to keep your targets when you go shooting)to figure out what I was doing wrong. Good luck