[Field]

honestly i think im going to start just practicing shooting at pp's for a while to help my speed and accuracy, for me its just a mental thing where it keeps you from getting sloppy. if your not right on the money and your sights are not well set up your not going ding those things and knock them over.

[gfmun]

Steel targets hate me. Thats all there is to it. I ended up buying an 8" round steel on a tripod kinda mount for about $100 plus shipping. I don't have to set it back up and it is great for draw and fire. I need to take it to matches with me because it has not told the other steel targets how good I am. ????


thanks,
George

This post has been edited by gfmun: 09 November 2009 - 03:39 PM

[Field]

haaa

[benos]

Field, on Nov 9 2009, 03:19 PM, said:

honestly i think im going to start just practicing shooting at pp's for a while to help my speed and accuracy, for me its just a mental thing where it keeps you from getting sloppy. if your not right on the money and your sights are not well set up your not going ding those things and knock them over.

Yes. Feel the gun "stop" before you shoot.
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[DJM3808]

I'm thinking about getting a half dozen auto poppers for our club to practice on, they reset themselves, saves on the back and would be alot of fun with rimfire too.

[Graham Smith]

Newbold has hanging targets that are good for indoor practice. Nothing to reset because they just hang there and jump when you hit them. Great for .22 but will work with larger ammo, just not as long.

An interesting challenge is to take a paper plate and tape a piece of string at the 2 and 10 o'clock positions then hang that up. The closer to the center you hit it, the straighter back it will swing. If you try to get two shots in a row and you hit it on the edge, it'll twist and be difficult to hit on the second shot.

[kevin c]

I've always been told that, while shooting steel, you have to fight the tendency to rely on the ring of the hit rather than seeing the visual confirmation of the sight rising off the target. I imagine that it'd be even harder if you're training on steel extensively.

One fix suggested is using paper plates - the lack of a ring with a hit forces you to know visually (as the shot breaks, not looking for the holes after the fact) how the shot went.

[benos]

kevin c, on Nov 10 2009, 02:16 PM, said:

I've always been told that, while shooting steel, you have to fight the tendency to rely on the ring of the hit rather than seeing the visual confirmation of the sight rising off the target. I imagine that it'd be even harder if you're training on steel extensively.

One fix suggested is using paper plates - the lack of a ring with a hit forces you to know visually (as the shot breaks, not looking for the holes after the fact) how the shot went.

In the very early years of the Steel Challenge, I trained exclusively on paper plates. Because we couldn't afford steel targets, and there weren't any ranges with steel targets we could practice on. Definitely made me a better shooter.
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[dsmw5142]

I have been using paper plates for practice for a couple years now. I buy them 600 at a time at Sams Club for, I think, $12-13. I set them up in different ways. Often, stapled to a 1"x2" stick in the ground. Sometimes I set them in a semi-circle and see how fast I can clean them left>right and right>left etc...

[Flexmoney]

It is real easy to get sloppy on steel.

Aim small, hit small.

What works for me is the old "target spot."

[VegasOPM]

My suggestion is to use an 8" steel plate that doesn't fall over (the Evil Roy target works well, or just make your own). The problem with practicing with poppers is that either you have to set them after every run, paint them after ever run or you make them stay up and possibly reinforce bad habits. Any hit outside of the calibration zone needs to be called a miss and made up immediately. I have seen too many calibration challenges go against the shooter due to a low or an edge hit. With the 8# plate, you are replicating the calibration zone.

My normal practice targets are 2 steel targets that replicate the "A" and "C" zone of a USPSA target and several 6" and 8" plates that repicate the calibration zone of USP's and poppers. I tend to practice at longer distances and don't like to have to walk up and tape ever couple of mags. I try to use the ring as feedback that I called the hit, rather than verification that I made the hit. I know that it is a fine line, but I know the difference when I practice.

[bulamike]

anyone have good resources for good prices on steel, building up my range now.
Steel is my cryptonite and I need the work... once you've faced the steel and won you can then be called master.