Originally Posted by
SSGN_Doc
I'm working on 5 yd now. 3 yds took a bit. Always seemed to throw one just as I started to think "I got this".
Some folks make it look easy, and ten when you get that target out in front of yourself, you find out how easy it is to ruin what would have been a clean run.
I was shooting some 1" dots at 3 yds at an indoor range and someone said, "Man he's shooting pretty good." The other guy in the lane, said "Anyone can do that up that close."
First guy came over to me and asked if I had any more targets and if he could trade a couple targets for some of the 1" circles. I just gave him a half a dozen, and said to have fun.
He went back to his buddy and said, "It does look easy. Try it." I heard a few bots of cursing along with some chuckling after they put that target out there. A few minutes later they came over to ask me what I was shooting. I pointed to the two pistols I brought that day, a Beretta Px4 Compact and a Canik TP9V2. My targets weren't perfect out of strings of 5 shots each on 5 circles I had managed 4 misses with each pistol. (So, 8 misses out of 50.) They looked a bit confused. Then they asked what I had done to the pistols. I told them I put a 12# hammer spring in the Beretta, but nothing had been done to the Canik. I told them there were a lot more misses on targets like that before that day, but those targets make me focus on the details and keeping the pistol still through the whole shot.
I'm late in figuring out that much of the stuff at the range doesn't look impressive or cool, but a lot of things with training and practice value don't look cool, and often aren't cool while you are doing them.
