I’ve always shot my glock 43 kind of meh and I got a range timer finally and decided to time myself so I was shooting much faster than usual. It seemed my accuracy improved most of the time. It was like 70% of my rounds got much more accurate, 20% were about the same accuracy and 10% were little guys no one should worry about that missed the bullseye by 18 inches.
When I usually do slow fire with the 43 I’m consistently mediocre. With speed I am generally better and sometimes dangerously off target, but I think that’s me learning the balance of not breaking the shot too quickly.
I wonder though if shooting faster can make you more accurate because you’re thinking less and just breaking the shot faster?
One weird thing I noticed is that I put a snap cap as my last round always to avoid the sensation of the slide locking to the rear and me not reloading. Most of the time I don’t incorporate reloads into training since I am a bad person and don’t carry one. Anyway, this last shot more importantly makes me see if I’m flinching and when I’m slow firing, I usually don’t flinch in that last snap cap shot. But today at speed I was flinching 100% of the time On the last snap cap. Which is weird because I was hitting 10 rings consistently at 5 yards at speed. So it made me wonder if the effect rob laetham talks about is working here where my body anticipates the recoil and flinches the gun opposing it to keep the gun on target and when there’s no recoil, my body still does that little flinch. Rob says that’s good and I’m wondering if I unconsciously developed it because I have not intentionally trained it.