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[nighterfighter]

Thanks! I've seen those before, just haven't actually shot at one.

I think I'm tightening my fingers. When I practice at home with dry fire + laser cartridge, I always hit exactly what I'm aiming for, at various distances. I guess I'm subconsciously anticipating the recoil and tightening up.

[Irving]

I always heard about being able to feel the trigger reset, but just kind of ignored it. Once I started paying attention, my shooting went up a level. Generally, I would lift my finger all the way off the trigger between shots. This upsets your consistency. I don't want to over explain, so try this:

Take a shot, and keep the trigger depressed. While the trigger is still depressed, maintain your grip and stance, and all the important things and get your sight picture back. Line up on your target again. Now slowly let the trigger out until you feel/sense, or even heard it reset then STOP. You don't need to let the trigger out any further. You don't need to be on a razor thin edge of firing the next shot, just don't let the trigger out anymore than you need to. Now take the next shot. Do a few strings of slow fire where you are paying attention to the reset.

This will help you get your body set up, and reduce error because you don't have to pull the trigger through all the slack. You might think to yourself, "How are you supposed to shoot fast while doing this?" And the answer is that you don't necessarily shoot fast the same way, but this helps train you to be able to get there. Try it out and see what happens.

[ray1970]

The best thing I ever did was shoot with people who were better than me. Yes they were helpful and supportive, but I've noticed that if there is no one around that's better than me at something, I don't tend to try any harder at what I'm doing.

Funny, but I?m sort of the opposite. When I?m out by myself I?m not too bad. Throw in a little pressure from trying to keep up with others and my game kind of tanks. Still fun though and ultimately the only person I really try to compete with is myself. I don?t really feel the pressure from performing for an audience or in front of others but it?s obviously there somewhere in the back of my mind I guess.

For me, finishing in the top half of the field was always sort of my goal as I felt it meant I was a better shooter than half the people competing that day. Plus, there are always going to be a handful of guys that are just better than me so I get that a #1 finish likely isn?t in the cards for me anyways.