I know a lot of people on this board know shooting. That’s why I’m here. I can hit a skillet with my pellet pistol one handed from 41 feet away. Is that decent shooting? Or am I a novice? All feedback is appreciated.
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I know a lot of people on this board know shooting. That’s why I’m here. I can hit a skillet with my pellet pistol one handed from 41 feet away. Is that decent shooting? Or am I a novice? All feedback is appreciated.
yeah
So I’m not bad? I’m trying to figure out if I have any talent in this.
You're fine. Get a smaller skillet.
I’m too shaky to get better at this. I’m an alcoholic.
Good job anon 🙂
>hit a skillet with my pellet pistol one handed from 41 feet away
Try using meters, a real gun and an actual target, yankee boy.
Gun is irrelevant. Fundamentals are the same if you are pulling a trigger.
Meters and yards are practically interchangable within intermediate rifle range. Of course, you'd already know this after participating in a joint exercise, wouldn't you?
hitting a 9" target at 15m is honestly OK. Ideally you can group 5-6 all into an area (assuming this is your std PCP airshit) no more than 2" in diameter, so move up to sody cans at the same distance
Would you agree being capable of hitting targets at a distance makes lining up a shot on closer targets faster?
sorta? target acquisition and accuracy aren't the same thing but if you don't have to think about the accuracy part it sure does make it work better
I sometimes walk towards my target and fire at it at the same time. Usually at about 20 feet away.
I usually hit it.
hey that's the idea! there's a bit of an art to this, lots of competitive shooters will bend your ear on how/why you do this but stick to basic stuff aimed at USPSA skills and pick up a few tricks
>air pistols are incredibly inaccurate,
god damn dude it ain't 1977 airshit is pretty fucking accurate even the cheap stuff
>Principles of marksmanship have nothing to do with target acquisition.
well if you can't do the one then t'other don't matter and if you can't do t'other than that one don't matter either so I think you're full of beans
>>air pistols are incredibly inaccurate,
>god damn dude it ain't 1977 airshit is pretty fucking accurate even the cheap stuff
this, lots of different pellets on the market too
If he's spending $1500 on a PCP and using consistent pellets in an indoor environment they can be tremendously accurate. This dude is shooting a $100 pistol at a skillet out in the wind with pellets he got off amazon.
>assuming this is your std PCP airshit
It's a 10 pump. PCP doesn't look like that and it's like a $500-600 model. OP's pic is a $50-60 model, no exaggeration. And the trigger kinda sucks on it.
I may be an alcoholic, but I’m pretty fucking good in spite of it.
congrats, you can hit a 12" target at 12 yards. You can effectively shoot 100MoA.
I don’t know what any of that means.
MoA is a measure of precision using distances, you generally scale it off 1 MOA being near enough 1" at 100yd. because of trigonometry, this goes to 2" at 200yd, 3" at 300yd etc etc.
100 MOA is very inaccurate, and the equivalent to being able to hit a 8 foot target at 100yd, a small car.
Don't be discouraged though, air pistols are incredibly inaccurate, especially shot freehand in outdoor (windy) conditions. Try shooting at smaller targets now like coke cans or empty food tins or something.
Principles of marksmanship have nothing to do with target acquisition.
I have the same pellet gun. My accuracy improved greatly when I put plinker cans on a swing and had them move. Sure, the movement is predictable, but having the movement is important. I also have one of those rotating tables and used a sander jury rigged to make it rotate somewhat fast for plinking.
>some newb asks for tips
>polite and civil thread
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