What is Your Most Perishable Skill?

[Doc_Glock]

I haven’t been able to shoot as much as I would like lately. Usually at times like this I find my general slow speed marksmanship isn’t affected much, but my ability to control my flinch and trigger on longer strings of time pressured fire goes into the toilet.

Examples:

Dot Torture: no problem.

Supertest: really challenging to keep on paper once the timer starts.

[Peally]

Shooting in general is very perishable, if I don't dry fire for a few days my ability to do basic things like get a nice index, grip, or complete a clean reload go straight down the toilet.

[Clusterfrack]

Support hand shooting.

[Joe in PNG]

DA first shot

[wmu12071]

Glock shooting. I don't know why but I can take months off from LEM or DA/SA guns and not lose much but if a take a week off from Glock for something else I'm ruined.

[ViniVidivici]

Trigger control. If you can't shoot, continue to dryfire. You'll be glad you did.

[Duces Tecum]

Patience.

[JHC]

Great precision, esp longer ranges. Trigger trigger trigger. I see that in other friends I shoot with too.

[Nephrology]

Trigger control. I would say "Especially with Glocks," but that's basically almost all I shoot so it's hard to say. but yeah, trigger control.

[Matt O]

Trigger control followed by speed reloads.


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[Totem Polar]

Speed.

[45dotACP]

I'd be interested to know what skill you lose most profoundly when you change guns.

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[Clobbersaurus]

For me it is grip strength, or more precisely, remembering to grip hard.


I'd be interested to know what skill you lose most profoundly when you change guns.

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With a brand new gun it is index on the draw that gives me the most problems. Otherwise it’s a just .10ths here and there until I get more time on the gun. Switching back to a platform I have had lots of quality time on is less problematic.

[Greg]

Trigger control and getting the grip I want with the gun in the holster.

Dry practice fixes both.

[LSP552]

Accuracy at distance.

[Hambo]

Trigger control, accuracy at distance, accuracy at short range, watching the front sight instead of the target, basically everything. I need weekly live and dry fire to stay decent, which is Hambo decent, not Gabe White decent.

[spinmove_]

Probably trigger control followed by gripping hard enough. If I take some time off I don’t grip hard enough with my support hand. After a while I’ll start gripping too hard and I’ll have to consciously back myself off.


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[cornstalker]

I would say my visual focus at speed is the first thing to go. Everything else kind of descends into chaos from there. But then I have never developed a high level of skill in that area, so it is pretty fragile to begin with.

[Tom Duffy]

Double action revolver. It takes me about 18 shots to really get back in the groove (for my values of groove). I try to shoot two steel challenge matches a month with revolver. I've taken to dry firing a bit at a safe table before my first stage. It improves my first stage scores noticeably.

[rjohnson4405]

Speed (with acceptable accuracy), but only because it takes the worst "cumulative" hit of slow draw, bad grip, bad index, poor visual focus, bad trigger control, more likely to flinch, and less follow-through.

I have to slow down and really concentrate on the fundamentals.

[cheby]

For the last two years I had to take several months breaks from training each year due to injuries (Severe case of elbow tendinitis to the point that I could not move my trigger finger at all and the broken wrist last year). Here is what I noticed when I started shooting again. I was doing everything as good as before the injuries but slow. Especially target transitions, and hoser stuff such as a bill drill, and 4A's. What is interesting, the long distance drills suffered the least. It took several months, at least 3-4, to get to the same level as before in terms of speed. Daily dry fire pushing speed.
Perhaps everybody is different but I believe the speed is WAY more difficult to improve than accuracy in general. And it is the most perishable.

[TopShot]

Grip, shooting at distance and shooting with only one hand.