Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns What accuracy do you expect?

You must hang around with a bunch of rooky shooters.

I guess I do. Because shooting a 1" circle at ten yards, five times in a row, is completely out of the question for the overwhelming majority of shooters I see.

It'd be easy enough to figure out. Post up a monthly shooting challenge. Five shots, standing, offhand, all shots have to land completely inside a 2" circle. Touch the edge and you lose. We can use the dot torture target that a lot of people already have. The guys who clean that can shoot the 1" circle. We'll see how many make it that far. Besides you.

one has to wonder if a good 1911 might be easier to shoot 1.5 inches for 5 shots at 10 yards over a Glock or other striker fired guns.

I'm sure it would.

If it didn't jam

I do not shoot compacts. Commander is the smallest. No striker fire either. I probably could not do it.

10 yards is not a long distance. 1" @ 25 yards (slow fire) and you have a competition.

Mine dam sure don't jam.

John, there is one in every crowd. No worry. They have not come full circle in the pistol world.

Does NRA have an official "Broad side of a barn" target?

I am DTF.



Dave

The target to the far right was fired off hand at 15 yards with a 3" compact .45 RIA

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Despite being a Deputy Sheriff for 17 years who actually practiced, and have continued to practice for the last 17 years I believe I'm just a moderate marksman. I practice defensive shooting with handguns meant to be carried. Once my groups shrink I believe I'm shooting too slow and speed up. Once I start tightening up the groups I speed up again. If I can't keep all the rounds in a 4" circle at 10 yards I'm shooting too fast, or have allowed my technique to get sloppy, and need to slow down and pay attention to the basics.

I guess I must be one of the chosen ones...

I can still do that regularly. Back when I was young, and had youthful eyes, I could shoot them through the same ragged hole at that range.

I remember when the FBI sent a couple of guys to our department to "teach" us how to instruct and train our officers better....

Myself and the other ranger officer for the department took them out to the range and listened to them awhile, then when it was our turn to shoot, we taped bottle caps on the silhouette in the X ring, and took turns shooting the bottle cap out at 25 yards.

We were both pretty fair hands with a revolver.

It makes me warm all over when I see, or read, accounts of local police embarrassing the Famous But Incompetent.

10 yards isn't so hard.



I only used one hand...but I cheated. It was my right hand.

What .44Special did you shoot for the thread about compact and subcompact 9s, 40s, and 45s?

Perhaps their course of fire has changed, but the one I shot was nothing to sneeze at.




Dave

Anyway this is a G27 with 180 grain reloaded ammo and a SW shield 45 with 230 grain WW ball ammo at 12 yards stepped off. this is my first attempt to post images with the new image gallery. about the best I can shoot.

Good eye for detail.