GaryinVirginia
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What distances do you target practice with handguns? How tight a pattern can you shoot? Where should a beginner be?
What distances do you target practice with handguns? How tight a pattern can you shoot? Where should a beginner be?
1/2 inch to 100 yards.What distances do you target practice with handguns?
Accuracy is good, but it's not everything. Your goal with a handgun should not be to just shoot as tight of groups as you can. The idea is to be accurate enough, fast enough. Big difference. Make getting to a good, professionally run training class a priority and it'll clear up a lot of these questions.How tight a pattern can you shoot?
A beginner, like everyone else, should be always seeking to be better than they are now.Where should a beginner be?
Do you happen to remember what the writer's name was? Hitting 10 inches at 10 yards is child's play, although I do believe you that a "gun writer" wrote such nonsense. Some of the "standards" out there are hilarious. A couple weeks ago, just for fun, I shot the Texas LTC Shooting Proficiency Test. http://www.stateoftexaschl.com/chl-shooting-test/ I changed it up just a little and fired each shot with my eyes closed. Passed easily and I'm not even close to what I'd call a "great" pistol shooter.For what it's worth I read an article where some gun writer said if you could hit 10" at 10 yards 100% of the time then you were proficient.
What is your purpose?What distances do you target practice with handguns? How tight a pattern can you shoot? Where should a beginner be?
Do you happen to remember what the writer's name was? Hitting 10 inches at 10 yards is child's play, although I do believe you that a "gun writer" wrote such nonsense. Some of the "standards" out there are hilarious. A couple weeks ago, just for fun, I shot the Texas LTC Shooting Proficiency Test. http://www.stateoftexaschl.com/chl-shooting-test/ I changed it up just a little and fired each shot with my eyes closed. Passed easily and I'm not even close to what I'd call a "great" pistol shooter.
What distances do you target practice with handguns? How tight a pattern can you shoot? Where should a beginner be?
Do your really think it likelyy that you will ever awfully engage an attacker at thatThe Lady and I usually practice from 7 to 10 yards with our self-defense pistols.
That may work for a hostage situation, but for a violent criminal attack it involves shooting much too slowly and striving far too much for unnecessary precision.shoots two rounds at a 2” circle. He says start at 3 yards and increase the distance to 7 yards as you can put all of your shots inside the circle. There is no time limit or movement or drawing from holster.
Just put two rounds inside each circle.