antagonist22
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I have been shooting for about 4 years now. Once a week I shoot at my rifle club(they only shoot one night a week) at an indoor range.
Its termed "sporting rifle" that means scoped 22LR in either bolt action or semi-automatics,it is suppose to "simulate" the type of shooting encountered in hunting conditions.
Since last year,my scores have been on a downfall. I reached a peak about a year ago when I constantly became one of the top 5 shooters of my club(90% or above in terms of the scoring) and I even got 2nd place at a competition,now my score average around 75% mark.
75% was the type of scores I was achieving after 6 months of shooting.I have loss my touch to shooting
I do not own a rifle and there are factors such as financial constraints and other factors beyond my control which I will not discuss here in detail. However the earliest possible I could've owned a rifle was about 3 years ago.(I live in New Zealand,my firearm laws are different to the ones in the U.S).
I have felt that I needed one of my own after about a year's worth of shooting but I just wasn't in a position to get one.
Recently,I qualified as a range officer (for rifles only) and someone "hooked me up" with pistol shooting and since I always wanted to try it,I went.
I loved it.Its adrenaline pumping,exciting. It felt like as if I was shooting something. Rifles felt so slow and boring. While those 2 are completely different disciplines of shooting, pistol shooting felt like as if there's "life" to it.
Yet with all the energy in pistol shooting,there's also that strict concept of safety and discipline.
I am thinking of joining pistol shooting even though its much more expensive than rifles (its a politics/law thing)
Anyone have any thoughts? Anyone experience a loss of "touch" to shooting before,etc...?
By the way,anyone else think ammo is way too expensive these days? In NZ,the price of a pack of 50 rounds 22lr has gone up about 3 times its price in comparison to when I first started shooting. Should've bought 20000 rounds or something 4 years ago.
Its termed "sporting rifle" that means scoped 22LR in either bolt action or semi-automatics,it is suppose to "simulate" the type of shooting encountered in hunting conditions.
Since last year,my scores have been on a downfall. I reached a peak about a year ago when I constantly became one of the top 5 shooters of my club(90% or above in terms of the scoring) and I even got 2nd place at a competition,now my score average around 75% mark.
75% was the type of scores I was achieving after 6 months of shooting.I have loss my touch to shooting
I do not own a rifle and there are factors such as financial constraints and other factors beyond my control which I will not discuss here in detail. However the earliest possible I could've owned a rifle was about 3 years ago.(I live in New Zealand,my firearm laws are different to the ones in the U.S).
I have felt that I needed one of my own after about a year's worth of shooting but I just wasn't in a position to get one.
Recently,I qualified as a range officer (for rifles only) and someone "hooked me up" with pistol shooting and since I always wanted to try it,I went.
I loved it.Its adrenaline pumping,exciting. It felt like as if I was shooting something. Rifles felt so slow and boring. While those 2 are completely different disciplines of shooting, pistol shooting felt like as if there's "life" to it.
Yet with all the energy in pistol shooting,there's also that strict concept of safety and discipline.
I am thinking of joining pistol shooting even though its much more expensive than rifles (its a politics/law thing)
Anyone have any thoughts? Anyone experience a loss of "touch" to shooting before,etc...?
By the way,anyone else think ammo is way too expensive these days? In NZ,the price of a pack of 50 rounds 22lr has gone up about 3 times its price in comparison to when I first started shooting. Should've bought 20000 rounds or something 4 years ago.
