What to shoot for at 25 yds?

Dewy12

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Going to go to the range (back yard) this afternoon. On your recommendation I bought several NRA 25 yard targets. I'm going to shoot 1 handed, no support. My questions are:
How many shots per target?
What is a decent score?
Thanks.
 
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Get to where you can hit a can first. 10 shots at a target--5 at a time. Practice with your weak hand every once in a while. White foam plates 150 bundle at a time are a lot cheaper than targets. It takes 3 or four staples for a target. It takes 1 for a foam plate. Start at 15 yards on the cans. The more you hit them the longer they go. Easy to see when you hit a can & they can be recycled. SHOOTING GLASSES ARE A MUST.
 
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Dewy...... not sure your shooting backround...it's clear that there were "other" threads...but I like to start new shooters with .22s at about 10yds......

starting at 25yds usually just leads to a lot of frustration.....
 
Dewey about 5 - 10 yards is a good starting distance. Once you can hit the target every time, then start working on you group locations and size.
Aim at target, no matter where your shot hits on the target, aim for that spot with your following shots. Once you start to get decent grouping, you can adjust for elevation and Center of Mass.

Good luck
 
I started my shooting at 50 feet, the distance used in indoor bullseye shooting. When I started pistol shooting I had already done some .22 rifle matches so trigger control was not an issue. Initially though, my goal was to keep all my shots within the black target area. I eventually gained confidence and ability to compete both indoor and at outdoor matches as well. Outdoor pistol matches, if you're not familiar with them, are fired at 25 and 50 yards.

You need to challenge yourself and use discipline to master shooting no matter what shooting sport you choose. Plinking is fun but accuracy is another matter. I still put an occasional silhouette target at 25 yards and shoot my snubbie to see how I do. I know common defensive shooting would not normally be done at that distance but I think, if it happens, I can hold my own.
 
I've been shooting Bullseye competitions for about 30 years. The NRA Conventional Pistol targets are intended to be scaled so that the scoring rings subtend the same MOA, regardless of distance. In practice, I and most of my fellow shooters find we do just a bit better on 25-yd targets outdoors in the summer than we do on the 50-ft targets indoors over the winter, and if you do the math it turns out the rings on the 25-yd targets are just a tiny bit proportionally larger than on the 50-ft targets.

That aside, assuming you're talking about the Slow Fire (B-16) target, in competition you would fire 10 shots in a period of 10 minutes, which obviously allows you to put the gun down and rest between shots (and you should). With regard to your question about what's a good score, having seen literally hundreds of Bullseye shooters and many thousands of Bullseye targets come and go over the years, I tend to think of a pretty good target as one that has all shots in the black (as Krell1 mentioned). My experience has been that such a target tends to score in the mid-80s or higher (a shot that just barely touches a scoring ring is awarded the higher score, so a shot can be almost entirely in the white "6"' ring yet score as a "7", which is the first ring in the black). Scoring in the 90s in the Slow Fire stage is very good shooting indeed, and only the top competitors in our league do that consistently.
 
Comment on my earlier and Oldbear's posts....... for me distance is somewhat dependent on your backtop soft or hard......possibility of ricochets.......

Your "backyard" ....... steel objects, rocks, sand or dirt......
 
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Since I like to use my paper targets as long as as possible, I have mastered hitting the wall of my indoor range at 25 yards without damaging them. I never miss the wall.
 
Start close, work on groups, then increase distance.
25 yards is a long way and unless your good , it can get discouraging.
For scoring 10 shots are fired, at least that was the rule back when I shot NRA Bullseye. Get the rules and go from there.
Still a good idea to start up close. Shooting tiny groups, one handed, is a challange.
 
I started shooting at 25yds. I could hit a coffee cup at 25yds. With my colt 357 python. Now I just shoot clusters and cloverleaf with my 1911. Being a 44 Magnum guy all my shooting life the rest is cake.
 
If I am inside ANY of the rings at 25 yards (standing without support), I am pretty satisfied!
 

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