Do you Challenge yourself?

[cracker57]

I didn't know where to post this,but since I practice to safe my life I figured this is a good place.
When I have a student with me at the range that range session for the student NOT ME. I sometimes don't even get the gun out.
If when the instruction is over I get to send I few down range I usually don't want to take the time to go set new targets at farther distances and just shoot what is all ready set which are usually pretty close.
so to make close targets a challenge (always Challenge yourself)
its as simple as trying to get real tight groups, or how about making a smilely face. take the 4 corners of a target and try to hit them at a fast rate of speed.
If you can only shoot at 5 yrds you can still learn a lot, just always challenge yourself.
sending rounds down range is expensive today, don't waste your ammo on what you can do, work on what you can't do. if you can put 10 rounds on target at 7 yrds all day long you are doing it wrong all day long. try 10 15 or 20 yrds. if at 7 yrd you are putting all round in target in x amount of time, try doing it faster than X.
only PRACTICE what you can do and TRAIN on what you can't. once you can do it practice that a little then move on.
if you are serious about training and not just shooting and you don't have a timer, you are kidding yourself.
Stay safe and carry on.

 

[bmcgilvray]

I like to challenge myself, however the older I get the less it requires to become a challange.

I've almost always shot handguns at 10 yards to 25 yards, hardly ever bothering with 3 yards to seven yards. If afield at our old family place I may shoot the handguns from 50 yards out to 200 yards, mostly just for fun, but it can be instructive too, employing a snub .38 like a mortar.

Oh, and I am kidding myself because I deliberately don't possess a timer. Well...the microwave oven here has a timer feature.

 

[sigp220.45]

I shoot for fun.

 

[Muss Muggins]

I’m still trying to finish Rastoff’s first challenge . . .

 

[tops]

I think the thing I liked best about a .357M was I could shoot at 100 yds. and the recoil wasn't bad. Now 25 yds. is a challenge unless I'm shooting at the side of a barn. I have a timer but I thinking of trading it for an hourglass. I do practice some from the hip and I also sometimes set targets about 3 ft. apart and rotate shots. Larry

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

NO........

 

[Nevada Ed]

Practice is a good thing when you are young and good shape.

Now that I am old and "Gray", there is plenty of "End shake" in my grip and
where the bullets are placed on target , when in SD mode.

I can no longer Guarantee where my shots are going to end up,
which is a really BAD thing for any BG that might cause me to pull the trigger !!

He could end up on the "Slab" , when I actually tried to wing him.

If they are smart, they will leave old people alone.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I spend most of my practice time these days with these.

 

[Grayfox]

I used to shoot IDPA regularly. But age and health issues have put an end to that. However, I do highly recommend it as its the closest thing to real world practice that there is.

I am still qualified for the Action Range at my club. Every now and then I still go over there to practice shooting from the draw at various distances out to about 25 yards. Practice shooting and moving too.

 

[31FordA]

Shooting is my hobby, it’s supposed to be fun. When it stops being fun it’s time to find something else to do.

Most of my shooting is at 12 or 25 yards because that’s where the back stops are. We also have bowling pins on strings at 25 yards. Sometimes I will go the 100 yard rifle range and see how well I can do with my pistols and revolvers at 100 yards. I enjoy the challenge, and proving to the doubters that you can hit a steel plate at 100 yards with a SP-101.

 

[islandguy]

At 75, and a shooter since I was 10, I am still my own best and most serious challenger. I am a respectably good shot with a handgun, but I am at my best with a rifle. The most pleasure I get on the range these days is finding a young shooter who understands how to use their eyes and their rifle sights to consistently put rounds in the 10-ring. I reckon if the folks I'm competing against are good, then it behooves me to up my game.

 

[swsig]

I spend most of my practice time these days with these.

Do they make those in +P?

 

[Donn]

"I've never seen a stopwatch in a gunfight." Clint Smith.

 

[SF VET]

After over a half century of shooting, I not going to ever get any better with my rifles or pistols. But I do try to at least maintain my skills, as age and eyes and more begin to affect much of my life. Just putting holes in paper at an indoor range is boring, and I don't waste much ammo on that. But I do shoot IDPA often, and if I do stop by my near indoor range, where I can't draw, I still do a lot of strong/weak hand and both hand "snap shooting" at various indoor distances.

I bring my handgun down, look away, then try to get on center of mass as quickly as I can. Pretty much just looking down the barrel and pointing, trying to simulate a car jack incident. I put my eyes on the target, not my sights. I find that instinctively I shoot with both eyes open, whereas when slow precise shooting, I close my other eye. Besides, while I practice with Rx ballistic glasses, if I am every attacked, I will be wearing my bifocals anyway.

Same thing at a rifle range, trying to control my breathing and heart rate and flinch better and better, or at least as much as I can.

SF VET

 

[venomballistics]

yeah ... not limited to defensive toolkit by any means.