In May, I wrote an article extolling the virtues of regular practice. Between a busy time at my day job, COVID, the secondary infection that followed it, and some side job stuff I had to do in order to pay some bills, I hadn’t pulled a trigger in at least two months.
I finally made it yesterday. How did that go?
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Apparently I suck now.
This was from five yards. As you can see, low and left seems to be my thing again. I always do that to an extent, but this is beyond the pale. At least at five yards.
Three different firearms were used to create this masterpiece of an object lesson. The top, and worst, one was a Springfield Hellcat. I guess I can cut myself a little slack there since it was the very first time I’d ever fired that particular gun.
The right target was a Glock 19. Left was my Sig P365.
I’ve never really been that big of a Glock fan. I have nothing against them, but they’re not really my first choice. And here we are with a Glock being the one I’m best with.
Every once in a while, one should check one’s views against reality. I’m not ready to decide Glock is best for me, but I will continue looking into it.
Let’s look at 10 yards.
I honestly expected worse after the five yard results.
I didn’t shoot the Glock at 10 yards since I’d accomplished my goals with it that day. And I was starting to run a bit low on ammo.
Right side is Sig, left is Springfield. I’m really hoping that I get better with the Hellcat with practice. That’s beyond iffy and into, “this isn’t working,” territory.
Again, pretty sure this is me and not the gun. I’ll do a review about it sooner or later. When I do, I’ll change this article to have a link to that review for the answer to that questions.
One other thing.
I did around 300 rounds. My right hand was done. On the 10 yard target, the last 20 or 30 with the Hellcat were fired left hand. I think you should learn to shoot with your off hand, but I didn’t really expect to have to do so at the range because fatigue in my strong hand.
Cramps and pain in your shooting hand makes it hard to hit anything. Not that that’s an excuse for the five yard results, since I started there.
Conclusion
In the end, training and good equipment can only get us so far. Both are useful and important, but we have to go practice what we’ve learned with the equipment we have.
In other words, don’t go two months or more without getting to the range.
