BassCliff
Professional
Greetings friends and neighbors!
Yes, I snuck away for a couple hours to do a little practice. I was able to procure lane #7, my favorite lane!
I used my three semi-auto pistols with some 9mm WWB, Norma training .45, and Aguila "Super Extra" .22, shooting at ten yards the whole session. Spoiler alert: I was reminded that my P22 does not like this Aguila ammo and the old WWB had a few duds in this box. Drat.
I started off with 20 rounds of .45 on this B-8. The second string of 10 was much less low and left.
I pasted on a reactive and tried another ten shots, much fewer low and left.
I patched up the reactive and used it again. Seems I let a few more get low left. Drat.
Here's my last target with the .45. Still a little low left but consistent. Ha!
OK, let's shoot 50 rounds with the XD9. I was the only one in the range at the moment so I decided to shoot a 10-10-10 drill. Unfortunately the old WWB had different plans. There were a couple of duds in the first magazine so my target was short a couple of hits.
I even stuck the cartridges back in the gun and hit them again. Nothing. Drat.
I tried the 10-10-10 drill a second time, this time successfully. If you use Larry Vickers' scoring, this is actually a passing score.
Vickers deducts one second for every hit out of the black. This still gave me a score of 90 under the par time of 10 seconds. Yay me! I'm incredibly average! I shot this drill from low ready, 1.53 seconds for the first shot and 6.22 for the last shot.
I did some un-timed double taps with this magazine. I let one get outside the 8 ring, a sacrifice to the bullet gods.
This string, again, had a dud. Hence only nine shots on the target.
The last target with my XD9 was on the reactive 12x18 silhouette. Yes! This is ten shots through only six holes.
Then I patched it up and sent it back out to plink with my P22. This is what the bull looked like after 20 rounds.
Then I put ten shots to the head. Hey! I think my practice is starting to pay off.
I had a couple of magazines left so I also shot the left and right bulls. I seemed to do much better in the right one.
OK, that's it. Fifty rounds from each pistol is all I had time for today. I hope you can see a little bit of improvement. I still have quite a ways to go before I'm comfortable pushing the distance out farther.
I wish each and every one of you a Happy New Year. Be blessed.
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
Yes, I snuck away for a couple hours to do a little practice. I was able to procure lane #7, my favorite lane!
I used my three semi-auto pistols with some 9mm WWB, Norma training .45, and Aguila "Super Extra" .22, shooting at ten yards the whole session. Spoiler alert: I was reminded that my P22 does not like this Aguila ammo and the old WWB had a few duds in this box. Drat.
I started off with 20 rounds of .45 on this B-8. The second string of 10 was much less low and left.
I pasted on a reactive and tried another ten shots, much fewer low and left.
I patched up the reactive and used it again. Seems I let a few more get low left. Drat.
Here's my last target with the .45. Still a little low left but consistent. Ha!
OK, let's shoot 50 rounds with the XD9. I was the only one in the range at the moment so I decided to shoot a 10-10-10 drill. Unfortunately the old WWB had different plans. There were a couple of duds in the first magazine so my target was short a couple of hits.
I even stuck the cartridges back in the gun and hit them again. Nothing. Drat.
I tried the 10-10-10 drill a second time, this time successfully. If you use Larry Vickers' scoring, this is actually a passing score.
Vickers deducts one second for every hit out of the black. This still gave me a score of 90 under the par time of 10 seconds. Yay me! I'm incredibly average! I shot this drill from low ready, 1.53 seconds for the first shot and 6.22 for the last shot.
I did some un-timed double taps with this magazine. I let one get outside the 8 ring, a sacrifice to the bullet gods.
This string, again, had a dud. Hence only nine shots on the target.
The last target with my XD9 was on the reactive 12x18 silhouette. Yes! This is ten shots through only six holes.
Then I patched it up and sent it back out to plink with my P22. This is what the bull looked like after 20 rounds.
Then I put ten shots to the head. Hey! I think my practice is starting to pay off.
I had a couple of magazines left so I also shot the left and right bulls. I seemed to do much better in the right one.
OK, that's it. Fifty rounds from each pistol is all I had time for today. I hope you can see a little bit of improvement. I still have quite a ways to go before I'm comfortable pushing the distance out farther.
I wish each and every one of you a Happy New Year. Be blessed.
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
