As I mentioned in Episode 3, shooting is a perishable skill. If you do not practice you will loose it to a certain degree. In the gallery below you will see an example of that. Well you will notice two things. First I’m a terrible shot with a pistol (because I don’t practice often enough) and the second thing you will notice is that with only 96 rounds fired there is a noticeable improvement by the end of my day of shooting.

The other thing I would like to point out as well is, when sighting in any firearm move the target in close!! At 20m I know I was shooting low but I did not know if I was low left or low right or low center. Today I moved the target up to 8m’s and shot 10 rounds. All were on paper and I was low left. I moved the target out to 10m where it stayed for the remainder of the day. My goal for the rest of the rounds I had loaded was to work on my sight picture. In a previous post I shared an image of different sight pictures (see below). This was part of my day today was to determine what my sight picture was for my pistols. Since the sights are not adjustable I have to find where they hit when lined up. My sights are hitting center target when the sights are on center (Sight Image 3). I was aiming like Sight Image 1 and that is why I was shooting low each time.

Keep your barrels pointed down range and smoking!!