Tracking on Standards vs. Skill-building, and agree. You need consistency - skill is defined as consistent performance on demand. Skill is not "one-off's".
Not gonna all out agree on your statement on competition shooters though
Most of the top guys shoot all the points they can. Case in point, Ben Stoeger won the USPSA Area 3 match recently, and out of 383 scored hits, he had 367 A' and 16 C's. No misses, penalties, no-shoots etc.
What they also have is consistency and efficiency. At that level, you can't afford many mistakes.
Some say that in competition that you can shoot fast enough to miss - not true.
I shoot competition now, as a way to maintain skillset and own guns, and one of my biggest "flaws" with regards to improving at the sport is my focus on tight groups. I will beat myself up for what I consider bad shooting.
I always have a goal of 80% A's, but even if I reach that goal, I am still upset if targets with 2 A's show the hits far apart. One approach I use here is to use mini-targets for practice = smaller hit zone.
It's not about surviving, it's about winning!
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