I always enjoy your posts Slamfire. The honesty, candor, and straightforwardness stands in contrast to so much I read on the internet. It is refreshing.
Thanks. One way to learn your limitations is to shoot competitively. If you can't acknowledge them, you won't last long.
You know, I've met many pistol shooters that were better than I, but I've never known any that were satisfied with how they shot.
Never ask a competitive shooter how he did, you will get a five minute tale of woe, for every one minute of shooting. Competitors are never "happy". If they clean the target, they did not have enough X's. Incidentally, that may be why they come back. Flashes of brilliance, followed by crashes of despair.
I liked hearing about your attempts at bullseye with .22LR. I'm confident there are .22 target pistols that may shoot MOA, and have little doubt some .22LR ammo can shoot sub MOA groups..
I have had my Anschutz rifle tested by Lapua and Eley. Rifle targets are tiny compared to the pistol targets, if the rifle ammunition shoots sub MOA at 100 yards, that is pretty good stuff.
Pistol ammunition is probably just as accurate, in rifles. I am going to say, I would trade off accuracy for function reliability in a pistol. A little inaccuracy for better function reliability is a good trade, all things considered. Alibi's ruin scores.
Incidentally, this pistol target, made at the CMP Talladega, in a Bullseye match there, is an example of what a really good shooter can do on his feet. This shooter has two Bullseye National Pistol Championships under his belt. He is very good, and guys like this, they don't need to brag, they just put them in the middle, and show the rest of us, what we can be, if we try hard enough.
I scored him at a 25 yard reduced Bullseye Match. I took this picture. of a 90 shot composite group of his, with his 22 lr.This is the bottom target, we peeled off the slow fire, timed fired, and rapid fire targets and this is the base. Anyone think they can duplicate this, in Bullseye Competition?