My oldest daughter (28 and mother of two) is a hell of a shooter - WITH REVOLVERS.
With my 686 with Red Dot mounted or my Taurus Raging Bull .44 Mag with irons or my Ruger Vaqueros in 45 LC with their crappy irons she can drill a 3/4" dot or group within a half inch around it on a paper plate out to 15 yards all day long (not quite that good with the Rugers but that's the guns not her). Move out to 25 and her groups open up but not much (maybe 1 and a half inches or so -which means about 3" groups I guess). And! - we're not talking mouse phart loads here - the .357 and .44 are full power magnum loads. The 45 LC's are 250 gr LRNFP clocked at 980 FPS. It amazes me how good she is (in fact I find my self being embarassed because I'm no where near as good as she is and very, very proud of her at the same time).
BUT! And this is a really BIG but - a humongous but...
Put a semi-auto pistol in her hand and she can't even hit the paper plate from 7 yards. She consistently shoots about a foot low and 2 or 3 inches left. She's got a good stance and grip. Sometimes she uses a bit too much trigger finger but I don't think thats the source of her problem. We've gone over sight picture repeatedly. She thinks the guns (CZ-75's, Sig P220, S&W 1911 Target) are too light. They feel light to her but they're really not that light compared to the revolvers she is firing. With each of the autos I can drill the dot or get within an .5" or so (.75"+.5"=1.25" times 2 is 2.5" groups) all the way out to 15 yards and get 3 to 4 inch groups at 25 so it isn't the guns.
She broke her wrists in a bicycle accident about three years ago and they sometimes bother her but if that was the problem one would think it would rear its ugly head with the revolvers not the milder autos.
I am at a loss. Been trying for a year to figure out what is going on. She wants to know what she's doing wrong too.
Any ideas?
With my 686 with Red Dot mounted or my Taurus Raging Bull .44 Mag with irons or my Ruger Vaqueros in 45 LC with their crappy irons she can drill a 3/4" dot or group within a half inch around it on a paper plate out to 15 yards all day long (not quite that good with the Rugers but that's the guns not her). Move out to 25 and her groups open up but not much (maybe 1 and a half inches or so -which means about 3" groups I guess). And! - we're not talking mouse phart loads here - the .357 and .44 are full power magnum loads. The 45 LC's are 250 gr LRNFP clocked at 980 FPS. It amazes me how good she is (in fact I find my self being embarassed because I'm no where near as good as she is and very, very proud of her at the same time).
BUT! And this is a really BIG but - a humongous but...
Put a semi-auto pistol in her hand and she can't even hit the paper plate from 7 yards. She consistently shoots about a foot low and 2 or 3 inches left. She's got a good stance and grip. Sometimes she uses a bit too much trigger finger but I don't think thats the source of her problem. We've gone over sight picture repeatedly. She thinks the guns (CZ-75's, Sig P220, S&W 1911 Target) are too light. They feel light to her but they're really not that light compared to the revolvers she is firing. With each of the autos I can drill the dot or get within an .5" or so (.75"+.5"=1.25" times 2 is 2.5" groups) all the way out to 15 yards and get 3 to 4 inch groups at 25 so it isn't the guns.
She broke her wrists in a bicycle accident about three years ago and they sometimes bother her but if that was the problem one would think it would rear its ugly head with the revolvers not the milder autos.
I am at a loss. Been trying for a year to figure out what is going on. She wants to know what she's doing wrong too.
Any ideas?