Old Grump
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I'm old school, bullseye and plinking off hand to learn. Bench to sight in. Its been my experience a good bullseye shooter can pick up PPC easier than it is for a PPC shooter to learn bullseye and a good pistol shooter will be a good rifle shooter but being a good rifle shooter doesn't necessarily mean you will be a good pistol shooter. I am no longer as steady on my hindlegs as I was 45 years ago when I first started shooting high power rifle and bullseye pistol competition and my eyes don't see as much detail as they used to but I can still break water filled milk jugs shooting one handed unsupported at 100 yards consistently and 200 yards once in awhile.
I shoot at 50' bullseye targets at all ranges with rifles and at 7 yards to 50 yards with all handguns to keep in shape for hunting and SD shooting because it forces me to concentrate on the sight. Cutting cards is a sometime thing if the light is right and I hold my face just right. 30 years ago it was just a show off trick I could do at will. Can't stand on the range and compete for 12 hours like I used to but for a few minutes I'll stand up to the line with anybody. Like previously posted I find the best shooters on the range aren't the ones who show up bragging about 100 yard hits on tin cans with their 44 mag and then can't hit paper at 25 yards, they have feet and yards confused and a lucky shot once does not equal hours on the range practicing.
The good shooters just show up, put up their targets, make a few small groups and go home. Doesn't matter if they are shooting a Hammerli or a S&W snubby. They generally don't show up with a large noisy crowd, a boom box, a cigarette dangling from their mouth and a 6 pack in their trunk next to their ammo.
Socializing is a good thing but if you're going to shoot, then shoot. Maybe its the dinosaur in me after having been taught by another pair of dinosaurs. Targets speak louder than bragging, you just have to ditch the bad targets before anybody see's them. If I'm going to brag its about the progress my students have made from barely knowing how to hold the gun to shooting the pants off of me. That I brag about.
I shoot at 50' bullseye targets at all ranges with rifles and at 7 yards to 50 yards with all handguns to keep in shape for hunting and SD shooting because it forces me to concentrate on the sight. Cutting cards is a sometime thing if the light is right and I hold my face just right. 30 years ago it was just a show off trick I could do at will. Can't stand on the range and compete for 12 hours like I used to but for a few minutes I'll stand up to the line with anybody. Like previously posted I find the best shooters on the range aren't the ones who show up bragging about 100 yard hits on tin cans with their 44 mag and then can't hit paper at 25 yards, they have feet and yards confused and a lucky shot once does not equal hours on the range practicing.
The good shooters just show up, put up their targets, make a few small groups and go home. Doesn't matter if they are shooting a Hammerli or a S&W snubby. They generally don't show up with a large noisy crowd, a boom box, a cigarette dangling from their mouth and a 6 pack in their trunk next to their ammo.
Socializing is a good thing but if you're going to shoot, then shoot. Maybe its the dinosaur in me after having been taught by another pair of dinosaurs. Targets speak louder than bragging, you just have to ditch the bad targets before anybody see's them. If I'm going to brag its about the progress my students have made from barely knowing how to hold the gun to shooting the pants off of me. That I brag about.