what's your shooting level

whats your shooting level

  • i can hit i tin can at 20 paces

    Votes: 133 37.3%

  • i get 1 inch at 50 yards

    Votes: 78 21.8%

  • i shoot moa at most distances

    Votes: 90 25.2%

  • i average .5 inch groups at any distance (sub moa)

    Votes: 15 4.2%

  • whats a group?

    Votes: 41 11.5%
  • Total voters
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We don’t have one combat-ready unit in THR Spec Ops Command!
 
I would like to put this in perspective. If you compare my shooting ability (along with most of the responders here) to the entire US population from about age 15yrs and up, I would assume that I am easily in the top 1%. Most of my friends that I shoot with consider me an excellent shot and I get asked to sight-in rifle scopes during deer season and try out other peoples new stuff. However, I used to shoot competitively (USPSA mostly) and I was generally happy with middle of the pack in Limited 10. I saw what these guys and gals could do and they were clearly better than me in both accuracy and speed. Generally speaking, I can hit a target with my 1911 if it is at least as wide as the front site. Smaller than that and I start to miss. Not horrible, not great. So let's just say that I just shoot somewhere in the middle of the pack of everyone here at THR, am I still a good shot? My opinion is that it all depends on who you go shooting with.
 
Shootn' level

Before I share, I would like to know if RONSTAR ever apologized to "COM". Is "COM" dead, mostly dead, or just really pissed off? LOL. Jes' kiddin'.

K. Shootn' level. A few years ago someone taught me how to hit a an enlarged COM (center of mass) sized target at 100 yards with my 1911. I think the target was maybe about the size of two milk jugs. No, I'm not kidding. Oh, and no, I haven't done that in a long time!

I used to be able to shoot an 1-1/2" size group with my handloads at 25 yards with a Browning Hi-Power MK III. Right now, I shoot a 3" group at 10 yards because of being away from practice. I've spent the last few years building a family and working waaay too much. BUT now I'm a dusting off my ol' Dillon RL 550B and changing that situation. Lotsa 9mm is on its way!
 
I'm a little weird. I can keep ten shots in the 8-rind with my Ruger Mk3 at 25 yards but 50 is still a stretch, I can consistently hit center-mass with my S&W 469 (worn iron sights) at ten but don't expect much tighter, and can keep everything on paper with my AK at 50 but don't have that down yet.

But hand me just about anything with a good scope, and I'll pluck flies off the north end of a southbound horse.

Just better with a scope, I guess.
 
It depends on the gun. I think the best answer is what my dad tells people when they ask how good I am. His words "Well i wouldn't wanna be running from him"
 
i voted 1' @ 50 yards. but it is going to depend on wheather you are talking rifle, or pistol. and if it is off hand, or from a rest, etc. to many variables. worse case for me is tin can @ 20 paces (rapid fire pistol) or all the way to moa at most distances from a rifle on a rest.
 
Depends on just how you break down what you are asking.

A good rifle to me can be shot MOA from a bench. One of the rifles I have shot submoa.

A good semi auto from the standing unsupported at 100 yds 3"-4'' on a good day and a bad day 6"

Pistol M1911 old slabside type and not customized 2" group shooting while standing easily 15 yards with either single hand. I will occaisonally get a flyer.

Point shooting with a pistol 10 yds into a man sized torso pretty easy. 15 adequate.

22lr single shot standing hits metal gongs at a hundred consistantly.

M1911 hits a metal gong at 100 yards fairly consistantly from the bench. Fun but that is definitely not what a pistol is designed to do.
 
With my two match rifles I'm sub .5 MOA, my other bolt action hunting rifles are all MOA, my semi auto hunting rifles are mostly 1-1.5MOA, my single shot open sighted rifles are all 2-3 MOA+.
 
I find I am finally getting to the level where I can quickly draw and double-tap accurately at combat ranges, and continue to fire rapidly and accurately. I've even gotten a few wows from people at the range. I credit a lot of this to a LOT of practice with my .22 conversion kit.
 
My wife and I can hit the broad side of a barn from the outside!!
If I can get the pic to show. This was at 30 ft measured with 38 spcl in a 357 snubbie on a windy day with S&B 158 grn fmj. The rose wood handle .38 spcl is hers. She shot the paper on the right, with my 357 and .38 spcl ammo (gun on the left). She can be pretty good with a snubbie
 

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19th ranked USPSA Production 'A' class in the nation.
USPSA Limited 'B' class.
I'm generally in the top 3 at local 3gun matches, and in the top quarter at national ones.
IDPA SSP Expert, although I haven't shot IDPA in two years.
NRA Indoor Conventional Pistol Expert, although I haven't shot any bullseye in much, much longer.

- Chris
 
Is that group anything like a gaggle?
Fire 3 shots, see how big of a circle all 3 shots fit in, thats your group.
Or thats your sign....I get so confused.
 
Whats a group? :(

I am still practicing, I can shoot 15 yards and put all the bullets in center mass under semi rapid conditions... but outside the walls of defending my arse within 15 yards, I am by no means a marksmen.

I am practicing though.
 
With my hunting guns -- I'd say I'm minute of moose all day long
With my handguns -- minute of badguy out to my back door - usually ;)
 
I'm extremely accurate with both handguns and rifles. I don't know anyone in my circle of shooters who can out shoot me. I'm also modest.....:rolleyes:
 
I can hit a can

provided it's big enough. Something akin to a 55 gallon drum at 15 paces (short) is about right. :D
 
Benching, or "shooting"?

I can get MOA most of the time, sometimes under, when I bench. My varmint rifle will do way under that from a solid rest.

Shooting from normal field positions, though, things open up to about twice that. Kneeling or hasty sling gets me about two inches at 100 yds and offhand gets me about 2 1/2 to 3. Wider if I've overused the coffee.
 
Bullseye:
22- Master
CF & 45 High Expert
Distinguished Pistol # 1298

Just started High Power to attempt a double distinguished level.

Stork
 
I have trouble holding a 12" group at 50 yards with my pistols (any of them!) :eek:

I don't really fare all that much better any closer, though I'm still "minute of chest" at 20 yards.

Rifles, however, I'm much better with... .22lr rifles, I can usually hold to an inch, inch and a half at 100 yards. My 30 cal rifles, I can hit with two inch groups out to two hundred yards.

And... that's about the best I can do most days. I'm really not very skilled at all. :banghead:

(Note that none of this is from a bench, most is from standing)
 
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