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JFK
07-11-2013, 08:56 AM
I was blessed this year with the busiest spring meeting season I have had ever. Great for my pocket book but not so good for my shooting. The few weekends that I have had at home this year I have not had ammo, bullets, powder, or some combination of that.

Long story short is I can probably count my meaningful practice sessions and matches with one shoe off.

So now that I am going to have some time in the summer I am going to get myself in shape again so to speak. I am looking forward to it and looking at is as a opportunity to break some of my bad habits. (not following through, looking over my sights at the target, trigger control.)

My question is two parts.

Letter 1.
If you were able to have a good starting point to change, address, or test something that was not ingrained into your bad habits what would you do?

Number B.
How would you approach this "retraining"? Start with the fundies as if you were a new shooter? Jump into it?

Thanks

ToddG
07-11-2013, 09:01 AM
Number B.
How would you approach this "retraining"? Start with the fundies as if you were a new shooter? Jump into it?

Start with a self-assessment, preferably something that measures a number of skills and that you've done in the past so you can compare results. Hackathorn Standards (http://pistol-training.com/drills/hackathorn-standards) & IDPA Classifier (http://www.idpa.com/compete/rules) would both be good ones. But any honest evaluation of your current skill level will suffice.

From there, it's like any other shooting program. Set your priorities and address deficiencies based on them.