Pistol-How far and how accurate ?

**paperseeker** · May 22nd, 2012, 02:30 PM

The only way to get better is to push your limits.

Shooting bullseye has taught me a lot about trigger control and sight picture. Shooting at the 8 inch black area at 50 yards with iron sites, one handed, will really highlight flaws and that flinch you think you don't have.

Shooting under stress is another thing. Add a little competition pressure and people crack. I shot a defensive pistol match a couple of weekends ago. The last stage was a full sized hostage target at 10 yards. A lot of hostages took multiple hits.

Don't limit your self to "most self defense shooting occur within a few feet" state of mind. Maybe yours will be across the yard.

**customloaded** · May 22nd, 2012, 07:02 PM

Hitting a two liter bottle at 100 yards while standing shooting a Glock 23, four out of six shots is what I call good shooting. Shooting a bowling pin at 100 yards with any combat style pistol, glock, 1911, Sig, etc...4 out of five shots is good shooting.

CL

**dman** · June 12th, 2012, 09:00 AM

I can't shoot worth a crap . No hits at paper plate at 15 yards. I will keep trying though , I love shooting.

**QuackXP** · June 12th, 2012, 10:11 PM

I usually shoot at 8" circles anywhere from 0 - 25 yards.

Most defensive training is done whiten 7 but I do a little past that.

Slow fire target out to 25. At the range I belong to we have steel setup at about half and two thirds of the 25 yard range.

If not doing slow fire type shooting I run some drills from a pistol course. We have a shoot house at the range. I shoot with a friend and we randomly setup the shoot house and load each others mags with random dummy rounds to simulate failures and surprise mag changes.