Since you asked, Ernst…
First shot to the left (circled) was the outlier to get my bearings on a new target, and to test if I could see the hit through the 6x magnification (I’d been shooting the hostage target prior to this one — no kills on the chick yesterday, better grouping on Keith Richards’ forehead; I’m now working on hitting particular areas of the head and neck and arm). This target is an 8×8″ VisiShot, the applicable target area slightly smaller than the human head. Shots taken at 100 yards w/ SCAR 17 using 147gr FMJ 7.62×61 NATO mil surplus. Shot off a grip pod swivel and shoulder, no rifle mount. I shot 8 rounds after the test round. That grouping is boxed in Sharpie.
To give it a sense of scale, here’s that same target with an ordinary post it note applied to the center:
Today I’ll be working pistols with rapid fire drills. My gun club doesn’t allow for holster pull to fire, so I’m going to have to go out into the mountains with my SF buddy to work on that kind of thing.
I’ll update later on the results.
Not perfect by any means. But I’m getting pretty decent at controlling my breath and not anticipating the bang.
Nice shooting, Tex! Now, when you do pistol, don’t forget to practice shooting with either hand. Don’t worry about draw-and-fire with the off hand, just point-and-click.
I also heard a good piece of advice that you could try: (if at all possible) do wind sprints before you shoot the pistol. That way you will be familiar with shooting through fatigue with a high heart rate. (Just a suggestion.)
Good shooting, Jeff.
Are there other ranges you can check out in your area? Does this particular range only have lanes to fire in? Those are fine if you are a cop qualifying for the year or you are certain that all intruders will be straight ahead and 50-100 yards away in decent light and, of course, that they will hold still.
If you go shooting with your buddy, take a stop watch and have him time you from holster draw to bang! dead soda can or clay pidgeon. (Me, I’d be cautious about firing into an open field (cattle, sheep, dogs) or a stand of trees (kids, Farmer Bob))
I’ve forgotten who suggested it to you, but it was a great idea: Get a deer tag or two (buck season and doe season) and get some hunting in. We have a 20 rabbit a day bag limit here. You could take Satchel and get yourselves a sackful of Thumpers. Their skins come off in one piece after they are incised. Every kid needs a rabbit’s foot to carry in his pocket, after all.
No need for sprinting; just do a couple dozen burpees.
What does eating garden seeds have to do with anything?
Are you using that contraption as a foreward handgrip or a bipod?
That was Tom Selleck’s advice for shooting basketball last night.
I’m using it as both, Ernst. Opened up I can still grab with my thumb around the top and cup the rail.
Da Missus likes the show, and it seems to apply here, too. The military tries to do the same thing… (Drills = bloodless combat and combat = bloody drills)
The closer you configure your training to what you expect to encounter, the less surprised you will be when the S actually does HTF.
Cool. Now, if only it telescoped into a 60″ shooting stick.