Many Days of Much Shooting

I have clearly fallen out of the habit of posting range day reports on a regular basis, but that doesn't mean I haven't been poking holes in paper bad guys. Despite the distraction of rifle shooting, I have put in a couple of good 100 round pistol sessions. I have been struggling with speed on the press out which has been partly responsible for my slow draw/first shot speeds. As it stands I can have speed or precision, but would like both. To this end I have taken to shooting Bill Drills, 6 rounds at 7 yards on an 8 inch circle shot cold at the beginning of a range session. My best time so far is a 3.33 clean. I can go faster but not better. I also shot a 6.59 FAST the other day, which wasn't bad considering it was after a long stint of unserious pistol shooting. Also recorded in my notes are a 46 and 49 out of 50 on Dot Torture at 4 yards.   Shouldn't be long before I'm back another yard.

How am I going to work on my precision problem? The same way I worked on my accuracy. Shooting tiny targets at shorter distances. This should help me with my press out precision, or make me go back and fundamentally alter the way I present a pistol from the holster. Break it down and build it back up correctly seems to be the way to fix bad habits and unsatisfactory performance.

Between these range sessions and shooting with friends and family I have put another 400 rounds through the USP 9. 28 measly rounds remaining on the 2000 round challenge. So close.

In other firearms news...
If you have any interest whatsoever in old guns, get your C&R license. It's easy to get and you can get cool stuff like this Type 53 delivered directly to your door. This handy little recoil machine from AIM Surplus shoots straight and sounds like a cannon. A Type 53 was the first Mosin Nagant variant I ever fired, and now it's the first C&R firearms in my collection.

I will warn you that a C&R license will do dangerous things to your bank account, and you will bring up things like cosmoline removal and proof marks in everyday conversation and people will look at you like you are crazy. Oh well. Their loss. They didn't know how to get cosmoline off the cocking knob of your M39 Finnish Mosin anyway.