DistantTea
12-06-2004, 07:48
Saturday I had a couple hundred rounds of practice to try to get over my distance issues at 25 yards.
Starting from 25 yards I was printing five to six inch spreads, with the occassional "Wasn't paying attention" B ring shot on an NRA D1. I did this for 34 rounds with my G34... it was a good look'n piece of paper. Then I moved up to the 25 foot mark to help my dad with his trigger control on his G17. My next 17 rounds cut the 1" center out of an air rifle target (I was using the grid to show my dad shot placement with a laser sight so he could see his trigger pull cause his left muzzle jerk).
I gotta tell ya I was feeling pretty super about my shooting. My dad was amazed at my 25 foot shots. Then I went to 50 feet and did fairly well, but I was filling out the NRA D1 about the same as I did when I started at 25 yards. I pondered if this was shooting fatigue. I moved back to 25 yards and proceeded to shoot like complete crap with a 10" to 12" spread, lucky to make it on the paper at all with some shots. I didn't feel tired... but my shots were awful.
I went back to 25 feet and was laying down 4" spreads (previously I had it squared down to sub 1" spreads at this distance).
So I stopped after about 150 rounds or so because my shooting was definately not getting any better. So thats all the steam I have in me? A hundred rounds? How lame is that? My first 50 rounds were spectacular, borderline genius... but after that I became mediocre and by a hundred rounds I was just downright shooting poorly.
What is fatigue really? Is it waining concentration when shooting? Actual muscle fatigue? Eye strain? Is my gun warming up and becoming more random or changing in its behavior as I shoot and get tired? I know I'm not the strongest guy but I thought I could keep things together longer than 100 rounds at slow fire. Even doubletaps, which I can manage 3" close double taps when I start become amazingly random after the 100 round mark.
I will note that my shooting does not degrade after 100 rounds... it stays the same for the next several hundred rounds, but it makes me suspicious because my first 50 shots are just magnificent. I'm pretty confused about the whole situation really.
Starting from 25 yards I was printing five to six inch spreads, with the occassional "Wasn't paying attention" B ring shot on an NRA D1. I did this for 34 rounds with my G34... it was a good look'n piece of paper. Then I moved up to the 25 foot mark to help my dad with his trigger control on his G17. My next 17 rounds cut the 1" center out of an air rifle target (I was using the grid to show my dad shot placement with a laser sight so he could see his trigger pull cause his left muzzle jerk).
I gotta tell ya I was feeling pretty super about my shooting. My dad was amazed at my 25 foot shots. Then I went to 50 feet and did fairly well, but I was filling out the NRA D1 about the same as I did when I started at 25 yards. I pondered if this was shooting fatigue. I moved back to 25 yards and proceeded to shoot like complete crap with a 10" to 12" spread, lucky to make it on the paper at all with some shots. I didn't feel tired... but my shots were awful.
I went back to 25 feet and was laying down 4" spreads (previously I had it squared down to sub 1" spreads at this distance).
So I stopped after about 150 rounds or so because my shooting was definately not getting any better. So thats all the steam I have in me? A hundred rounds? How lame is that? My first 50 rounds were spectacular, borderline genius... but after that I became mediocre and by a hundred rounds I was just downright shooting poorly.
What is fatigue really? Is it waining concentration when shooting? Actual muscle fatigue? Eye strain? Is my gun warming up and becoming more random or changing in its behavior as I shoot and get tired? I know I'm not the strongest guy but I thought I could keep things together longer than 100 rounds at slow fire. Even doubletaps, which I can manage 3" close double taps when I start become amazingly random after the 100 round mark.
I will note that my shooting does not degrade after 100 rounds... it stays the same for the next several hundred rounds, but it makes me suspicious because my first 50 shots are just magnificent. I'm pretty confused about the whole situation really.
