Went out yesterday to run a couple of drills for diagnostic purposes---and found that while my dryfire routine gets me solid sight pictures with good trigger work, live fire causes my brain to stop working.
The entire time was filled with instances of target-focused trigger-yanking, which is a combination of terms you never actually want to have as a descriptive of your shooting.
[sigh]
I was fast, all right---had two shots from concealment consistently off (when aiming at an index card at 7 yards) in 1.73 seconds. Too bad that my chances of HITTING the card with both shots were almost non-existent. Matter of fact, I often pulled both shots. (Inconsistently---both high, both low, one high/one low---all of the above happened. The hits were normally within a half inch of the card---but misses are still misses.)
Not good. Need to keep dryfire practice going (in which I really do make sure the sights/trigger work is solid) but add some live five doing one and two-shot drills starting from a timer, but with a par time of 3 seconds or so, with all hits necessary. That gives me a tremendous amount of time for good, aimed shots, and hopefully will reinforce the dryfire concepts of sights/trigger as opposed to draw!/shoot! which is currently happening.
I can do it---Steel Challenge match showed that. I just need to do it consistently.
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