What have you learned about your shooting lately?
I figured this could be an ongoing discussion about habits that each person is currently trying to learn or unlearn. I don't really see these discussed often unless it relates to a specific piece of gear or course AAR but it may be beneficial to figure out what people are identifying for themselves. For example, my trigger finger discipline with a rifle is usually very good, but I'm bad about mounting my pistol trigger as soon as I draw. I'm trying to fix it so that I'm not on the trigger until my sights are on target. Another big one is fumbled mag reloads. I have a really bad habit of basically quitting and resetting to try again instead of pushing through the fumble and getting the gun back into action. That one reminds me of the stories of police being trained to draw, fire twice, and reholster - and getting killed for it. Any specific things you guys are working on? I always find a few things at a course and sometimes when I force myself to dry fire.
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What have you learned about your shooting lately?
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Bluedreaux
I've learned how important vision is to shooting. Not just "have good vision", but knowing what I need to see and learning to only see what I need to for each shot.
I like the way you put that.
This morning I was thinking about the expression, "don't rush to failure" and meant to post it here:
Some time ago, we were on the range and did a small competition. It involved a sprint, and then shooting a few steel targets at varying distances. First one to shoot it clean wins. I felt that I should have been better than the guy I was up against and I let it get to me. I had him beat on the sprint and got my initial round off first. It missed so I lost - damn ego. What I realized this morning is the interesting part. I fired a follow-up shot almost instantly, before I even realized that my first shot didn't hit. It's almost as if I knew my first shot was going to miss so I subconsciously fired a second shot as soon as I got on target, which couldn't have been more than a second later.
It really goes back to one of the recent BCM clips from Northern Red on "making noise." I knew it was a bad habit of mine but I hadn't thought about it in that scenario until today. I guess on the positive side I did a good job at checking my work through my sights and follow through...
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