Practicing carefully..

Shoulder is better, though not back to 100%. As such, I can shoot, and move. However, any sudden abrupt motion is----contraindicated.

So of course I took my shotgun out and ran 100 shells through it a couple of days ago.

I know, not brilliant. However, it was necessary---the first multigun match of the year is this Sunday, and I hadn't shot it in about 5 months. (And a good thing, too, because it is having feeding issues that I need to fix. Otherwise I have a single-shot for Sunday's match...)

Back to pistol practice: I have done almost no dryfire shooting at all in the past two weeks, which is extremely bad. In my defense, with being hurt plus the fact that Hapkido started back up, it wasn't exactly easy to find time. That being said, it is still unacceptable---dryfire practice is necessary, because my main priority issue is lack of trigger control, and good dryfire practice will solve that. Matter of fact, good dryfire practice is probably more important than live fire practice in terms of volume of practice.

On the good side, I have managed to get to the range a number of times in the past two weeks---between 2 and 3 times a week. Spent around 200-300 rounds each time, with some decent practice. Primarily working on trigger reset and prep, with 3x5 cards as targets. Worked draw, transitions, also put two steel targets out at 15 and 50 (!) yards.

When I used proper trigger control, I could hit them all, and even managed consistent hits on the 50 yard steel popper. When I didn't---well, that went badly. The transition practice in particular seemed to be very useful in terms of working proper trigger control.

My draws---and still hit and miss. (With all too many unfortunate misses.) The good side is that when I say "miss" I mean "an inch or less from the 3x5 card." The bad side is it still means "missing the 3x5 card."

Just started spring break. Going shooting today, tomorrow, match on Sunday---and then it is going to be Range Week for me. I'm planning on spending Monday through Thursday at the range, from about 8:30 to 11:30 in the morning, and about 1:30 to 4:30 in the afternoon, shooting about 300-400 each session. Going to be a fun time!

And the entire point of it is trigger control. No, my movement isn't what it was, my reloads aren't, etc. However, by far the major problem I have is trigger control---and I can work in secondary practice at movement, reloads, etc, while I practice the trigger work.

Several thousand rounds of trigger work repetitions, done well with concentration, over several days SHOULD make a significant difference.

Plus, it'll be fun.

After that---Aim Fast, Hit Fast class next weekend. FAST drill---and a challenge coin.