I've been pushing reloads hard in dry fire and continuing to work shooting on the move. Seeing the importance of maintaining a neutral grip and pulling the trigger straight back without disturbing the gun when shooting on the move also got me d…
I've been pushing reloads hard in dry fire and continuing to work shooting on the move. Seeing the importance of maintaining a neutral grip and pulling the trigger straight back without disturbing the gun when shooting on the move also got me doing a bunch of untimed shooting on tiny targets in dry fire. Nearly constant rain here meant two weeks of this before checking in with live fire.
It’s not in the video, but I started with untimed shooting of my 4" plate at 25 yards. Results there were much better then in the past—I was able to regularly connect with 7 or 8 shots out of 10. Not bad given that the plate is roughly the width of my 0.090" front sight. Moving to my 8" plate at 50 yards, I was able to connect on it 6 or 7 shots out of 10. The flight time the bullet was pretty cool here in that I had an instant to call the shot before seeing the plate move and hearing the hit (or not). Consistency and shot calling improved across about 400 rounds of slow-fire shooting.
On both of these targets, I'd have to take up the slack, then gradually increase pressure against the break point in order to hit the plate. I couldn't start with my finger just off the trigger and pull through in one smooth motion. But I was able to connect more often than not doing that with the 8" plate at 25 yards. Something to work on.
It was getting late at that point, and I banged out a couple runs of the aperture drill, putting the 8" plate at 10 yards in aperture along with a pair of paper targets at 7–10 yards on each side. The goal was to hit the plate without stopping and nail a quick reload before engaging the last two targets. The reload practice in dry fire very much paid off—I was actually getting some done at a respectable pace. Consistency needs work, as I deleted a couple videos with spectacular reload failures. On the plate, there was plenty of time to make the shot if I got my eyes on the plate and started aiming before the barrel, cleaning up the sight picture and gently pressing the trigger once it came back into view.
Accuracy on the paper was just okay with lots of Charlies. That needs work in the coming weeks. But overall I'm pleased with the progress I'm making.
