Bad day at the range.

hahaha...how was the sandwich???

I've had bad days at the range. It happens. If you want to improve as a shooter, you have to learn to deal with them.

If the bad day is because I'm performing poorly on a particular drill or skillset, then I usually spend some extra time working on that drill. For instance, the other day I was having some trouble with my first shot, from concealment, on a 3x5 card. I scrapped the rest of my practice and did about 30 very slow, perfect draws, focusing on perfect form. Then I did another 30 with a fairly generous par time (2.5 seconds, I think), and kept whittling the time down. By the end of the hour, I was feeling much better.

On the other hand, if everything is just going poorly and I can't focus on shooting because of other life issues, fatigue, or what have you, I'll shoot some slow fire groups at mid- to long-range and pack it in. You have to be in the right frame of mind to learn, and if you're not in that frame of mind, you shouldn't force it.

I hope this helps.

-C

I had a pretty bad one yesterday.
I get there to find that my custon moulded ear protection isn't in my bag where it usually is in the outside pocket.
Neither is my velcro inner belt for my IPSC holster.
I open my range bag and it smells like my kitten had a pee in it.
By the time I put 100 rounds of 9mm and 70 rounds of .45ACP downrange I realized that my day wasn't about to get any better so I packed up and went home before anything else went wrong.

I'm about average most of the time, but there are days when I'm just in robot mode and for whatever reason am dead on all day. That is a lot less frequent than a below average day, though.

In my life, I've been to the range when it was so cold skin would stick to magazines.
Also days where it was so hot the stocks would sweat BLO.
Been out on days with gale-force winds or pouring-down rain, too.
My average range day in the summer would be windless, unwavering hot (heat mirage even in the shade hot), with humidity like a punch in the stomach.
But, long ago it was inculcated in me that shooting skills are not things that are fair weather only.

So, I've a different definition of bad day at the range.

My bad day would be one in the glory of Texas' spring--fine, fair, comfortable. No wind, but a pleasant breeze; neither too sunny nor too overcast. Even no jerks along the drive to the range to spoil the drive. Even better, a decent crewe of folks along to shoot. To have carefully sorted out arms, ammo, ears, the works . . .

All to have left every one of the magazines you need at home 28 minutes' drive away.

Which is why there are spare mags in all, say again, all of my range bags.

Now.

LFMF

hahaha...how was the sandwich???

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After I wiped the blood off my face and arms, along with some effort to pull little bits of brass, steel, and paint out it was the best ham and chesse I've had.

Had a good day at the range today...



I am not the worlds greatest shot by any means, but this gives me my good starting point for this bullet!

Yup.....actually had a pretty bad day Saturday. Out to 10 yards I was keeping 3" groups (good for me), and then when I stepped out to 20 yards I only shot one group of 5 rounds (out of 5) inside of a 6" circle...