kotengu
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I just got a CED 6000 to work with at the range and home to help improve my speed in shooting - mostly for pistol, but I'll use it for shotgun and rifle as well. I feel pretty good with my accuracy, but without a timer it's hard to quantify the speed, and work your way up in a deliberate manner. Either I'd shoot too fast and miss my targets, or hit the bull every time but be pretty slow.
All that being said, after just one night of dry-fire practice with this thing I wonder WHAT TOOK ME SO LONG to get one of these. It's easy to use, and by repeating an exercise on a par time, then decreasing that time just by a 0.1 of a second at a time (and doing it over and over again) I was able to push myself faster, without getting sloppy and losing control. We'll see this afternoon if it works that way at the range.
The bad news is that in comparing myself to listed par times (for example, in the back of Suarez's newer pistol book) I am worse off than I thought and definitely have my work cut out for me.
What kind of drills have you found to be most helpful in improving speed while not losing the accuracy? Any tips for a "new to a timer" shooter to make sure my practice is perfect?
Matt
All that being said, after just one night of dry-fire practice with this thing I wonder WHAT TOOK ME SO LONG to get one of these. It's easy to use, and by repeating an exercise on a par time, then decreasing that time just by a 0.1 of a second at a time (and doing it over and over again) I was able to push myself faster, without getting sloppy and losing control. We'll see this afternoon if it works that way at the range.
The bad news is that in comparing myself to listed par times (for example, in the back of Suarez's newer pistol book) I am worse off than I thought and definitely have my work cut out for me.
What kind of drills have you found to be most helpful in improving speed while not losing the accuracy? Any tips for a "new to a timer" shooter to make sure my practice is perfect?
Matt