Please rate my shooting skills

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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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    yeah

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      So I’m not bad? I’m trying to figure out if I have any talent in this.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You're fine. Get a smaller skillet.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I’m too shaky to get better at this. I’m an alcoholic.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Good job anon 🙂

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Gun is irrelevant. Fundamentals are the same if you are pulling a trigger.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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?

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Would you agree being capable of hitting targets at a distance makes lining up a shot on closer targets faster?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I sometimes walk towards my target and fire at it at the same time. Usually at about 20 feet away.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I usually hit it.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            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

            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.

            >air pistols are incredibly inaccurate,
            god damn dude it ain't 1977 airshit is pretty fricking accurate even the cheap stuff

            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.

            >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

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >>air pistols are incredibly inaccurate,
              >god damn dude it ain't 1977 airshit is pretty fricking accurate even the cheap stuff

              this, lots of different pellets on the market too

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >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.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I may be an alcoholic, but I’m pretty fricking good in spite of it.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    congrats, you can hit a 12" target at 12 yards. You can effectively shoot 100MoA.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I don’t know what any of that means.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        Would you agree being capable of hitting targets at a distance makes lining up a shot on closer targets faster?

        Principles of marksmanship have nothing to do with target acquisition.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >some newb asks for tips
    >polite and civil thread
    Dear diary, /k/ was not gay today

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