M&P 9mm First day at the range!!!!
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Scott Bear
Regular
- Location
- Prince George
Yep, it's just like my kids I coach in biathlon. You are shooting a target at 50m and can't see where the bullet impacts so you have to rely on consistent body position. It must be the same every time. The sights get you in the neighborhood but you have to take it home.
Try one-shot drills. This will break your position so you will get use to establishing it again and again. Fire a round, put the gun down, do a push up, a jumping jack or a spin in a circle and pick the gun back up and try to grip the pistol EXACTLY the same again. Remember, just like skeet shooting, everything starts with your feet. Once you get it right consistency, consistency, consistency. This will only come with practice.
Dry fire is the one biggest thing you can do to improve your shooting. This will help with fine motor skills, quick twitch muscles, stance and body position, trigger control, sight picture, breathing. Get a sharpe marker, put a dot on the wall and aim at it for 30 seconds. Relax and breath. Lower the gun and repeat 50 times, three days a week. Get some snap caps or make some with some spent brass and an eraser.
If you really want to get into it nutrition, fitness, problem solving skills, variety, sleep (9 hours a night), mood (can't stop thinking about that @-hole that cut me off in traffic) all play a significant role in your shooting performance.
It took many engineers many years to build that pistol. They probably knew what they were doing. Try not to get frustrated. Like anything good in life you have to work for it. You are on the right track by asking for help.
Try one-shot drills. This will break your position so you will get use to establishing it again and again. Fire a round, put the gun down, do a push up, a jumping jack or a spin in a circle and pick the gun back up and try to grip the pistol EXACTLY the same again. Remember, just like skeet shooting, everything starts with your feet. Once you get it right consistency, consistency, consistency. This will only come with practice.
Dry fire is the one biggest thing you can do to improve your shooting. This will help with fine motor skills, quick twitch muscles, stance and body position, trigger control, sight picture, breathing. Get a sharpe marker, put a dot on the wall and aim at it for 30 seconds. Relax and breath. Lower the gun and repeat 50 times, three days a week. Get some snap caps or make some with some spent brass and an eraser.
If you really want to get into it nutrition, fitness, problem solving skills, variety, sleep (9 hours a night), mood (can't stop thinking about that @-hole that cut me off in traffic) all play a significant role in your shooting performance.
It took many engineers many years to build that pistol. They probably knew what they were doing. Try not to get frustrated. Like anything good in life you have to work for it. You are on the right track by asking for help.
Scott Bear
Regular
- Location
- Prince George
The Todd Jarret video has some really good info in it.
telesquirt
CGN Regular
- Location
- Fort Frances
I remember when I first shot a duty pistol with the three dot sighting system, always way low, then someone showed me that I had to have all the dots lined up squarely with where I wanted the bullet to strike resting on the top of the front sight. I had always been taught to take " A fine bead " point of aim by dropping the front bead into the notch of the rear sight untill just a sliver of the top of the front bead was visible, I found out this was a great way to shoot about 6 inches low! ( I still use the old " fine bead " technique for minute of partridge head with the old BL 22. ) 
