I agree 100% with this. Go to the average range any day and look at peoples targets. Most people can't shoot B27 targets at 7 yards and keep in the 8 let alone the 9 & X ring but are we supposed to judge ourselves on that? Accuracy is relative IMHO to the task. I agree the OP is doing fine on a static range but he is also alluding to being able to make a shot in a defensive situation. Shooting precision groups on a square range at a target is one thing. Shooting on a 2 way range is another. They are 2 different skill sets. They over lap but they are not the same.
Like I said earlier in the thread. I watched a guy shoot out the center of a B8 target at 25 yards. He was all in the black. He was dicing that thing up. He stood in a perfect traditional bulleye stance and he went to town. The end result was almost no black left on the target and one big hole in the middle. His level of precision accuracy was stunning. He technique was impressive. He took is time. He had a routine for each shot like Larry Bird shooting free throws. Went through the routine and put the bullet where he wanted it each time.
That said I was banging away shooting The Baer Solutions Drill at 5 yards. Basically you load 10 rounds into a mag then 3 into another. From the draw you shoot the one rectangle 5 shots and then shoot the other rectangle 5 shots. You then do a slide lock reload and shoot 3 to the center circle. Par time is 9 seconds. It is a pass fail drill.100% hits under 9 seconds. I shot it in 9.73 and failed on time and I dropped a shot on the center circle. This tests a lot of skills. Accuracy is in the mix but not what I would call precision accuracy. Combat accuracy or gunfight accuracy maybe. It is testing your ability to engage more than one target and do a tactical reload. I feel like I am sooooo slow compared to those who can really shoot. In reality I am faster than most and much slower than others. I do not consider myself a precision shooter. I am combat accurate and am maybe fast enough to defend myself if called upon to do so. I do not shoot competitions much. I shoot as a hobby and for defensive skill purposes. This is what my target looked like. This is with a Wilson Combat EDC-X9. I am a duffer with a nice set of clubs. That stray at 10 o'clock is the miss on the circle. I am not post this to brag I am posting this to show that precision is relative to the task. In this scenario this is accurate enough, almost.
Here is a link to the target.
https://static1.squarespace.com/sta...ca5ee966c4cd/1482552772309/BAER+Standards.pdf
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So take the 2 shooters the bulleye guy and myself who are shooting next to each other at the range. If we both stick to our style of shooting his being all about precision and my being about speed with combat accuracy who is going to win the gunfight? My money is on me. This is hypothetical because for all I know he would smoke me on the same drill but you get my point. I am getting off 13 shots all within the size of a grapefruit in the time it is taking him to fire 2-3 rounds into the same hole. We are both shooting guns but we are practicing different skills.
So to the OP what kind of accuracy or precision are you looking to obtain? What type of shooting are you training for?