If you remember, about the first of last year I had a hemorrhage in my right eye that created floaters that looked like patches on a Holstein cow. I couldn't focus on an iron sight or electronic dot. I was really concerned that my shooting days were over.
I compete in bullseye using the S&W Model 41 with the Sig Sauer Romeo green dot sight. I have been competing in bullseye for many years. I didn't want to give it up. So basically I had to relearn to shoot bullseye righthanded but left eyed. The current optical sight was a distinct improvement over the one I had used before and it brought me up from absymal two years ago with an improvement of 69 points of a total 1800 in the big regional Harrisburg match.
My absolute worst stage has been slow fire, no stress but a smaller target. From the end of last season, I began working on my slow fire bullseye stage 1 handed at 25 yards. I began holding a handgun heavier than my Model 41 on a target at home to try to build up my shoulder for steadiness. And almost once a week, I was shooting 80 - 100 rounds at slow fire targets at the indoor range outside Harrisburg.
With the practice and exercise I began shrinking my cone of fire. I would fire 20 rounds at a time at a target, to overwork what would happen in a match. And today, standing up offhand at 25 yards, I put 18 out of 20 rounds on the target, with all 18 rounds in the rings and 12 of the rounds in the black rings.
So from a 1+ year ago thinking I was finished shooting to starting to punch out the target black rings, I'm looking forward to this season.
I compete in bullseye using the S&W Model 41 with the Sig Sauer Romeo green dot sight. I have been competing in bullseye for many years. I didn't want to give it up. So basically I had to relearn to shoot bullseye righthanded but left eyed. The current optical sight was a distinct improvement over the one I had used before and it brought me up from absymal two years ago with an improvement of 69 points of a total 1800 in the big regional Harrisburg match.
My absolute worst stage has been slow fire, no stress but a smaller target. From the end of last season, I began working on my slow fire bullseye stage 1 handed at 25 yards. I began holding a handgun heavier than my Model 41 on a target at home to try to build up my shoulder for steadiness. And almost once a week, I was shooting 80 - 100 rounds at slow fire targets at the indoor range outside Harrisburg.
With the practice and exercise I began shrinking my cone of fire. I would fire 20 rounds at a time at a target, to overwork what would happen in a match. And today, standing up offhand at 25 yards, I put 18 out of 20 rounds on the target, with all 18 rounds in the rings and 12 of the rounds in the black rings.
So from a 1+ year ago thinking I was finished shooting to starting to punch out the target black rings, I'm looking forward to this season.
