My work involves handguns, rifles, shotguns and occasionally fully automatic weapons, but most of my teaching and just about all my competition revolves around the former. In classes, I demonstrate shooting. Just before the students shoot their qualification, I and the rest of the teaching staff will demonstrate the course of fire for them. The instructor is expected to shoot a perfect score, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, I usually do, but there are exceptions. Last week in Texas, teaching for Eric Lamberson in greater San Antonio, I got sloppy and let one .45 bullet stray out of the center zone, finishing with a 299 out of 300 possible points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I certainly can\u2019t blame the gun. I was testing a new 1911 variation, the Springfield Armory RO-Target, for the online gun magazine thearmory-life.com. Now, my lovely bride shoots with me a lot and will tell you the single pistol I shoot the best is the fore-runner of the RO-Target, the original Springfield Range Officer .45 that I\u2019ve owned for a decade. I\u2019ve been shooting 1911 .45s since 1960. That didn\u2019t keep a lapse of concentration from letting a bullet escape the \u201cdown-zero\u201d zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of my favorite pistols is the double action Beretta 92 9mm, and my shootin\u2019 buddy John Strayer insists that I shoot it better than anything else. Yet a few months ago in the same type of demonstration, I dropped a point with one of those.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve won a bunch of prizes and guns with Glocks. In 2018 I came in High Lawman at the Polite Society shoot run every year at the Rangemaster Tactical Conference. Yet this year, I got careless with my pace of fire and lost two <\/em>points with the same Glock 19 9mm in the photo above that had given me perfect scores there a couple of years in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bottom line is something I\u2019ve told my students for decades: \u201cIt\u2019s not about the gun so much as it\u2019s about the shooter, and it\u2019s not even as much about the shooter as it\u2019s about consistent application of proven technique.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n But, hey, all this is about a sample of one. I\u2019d like to hear from you readers. What firearm do YOU consistently shoot your best with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My work involves handguns, rifles, shotguns and occasionally fully automatic weapons, but most of my teaching and just about all my competition revolves around the former. In classes, I demonstrate shooting. Just before the students shoot their qualification, I and the rest of the teaching staff will demonstrate the course of fire for them. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6791,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions\/6791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}