Marksmanship/precision shooting General

Bump. anyone shoot their guns?

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>>32611707
I just realized that pic related is the only picture I have of my groups. It's the best I've shot my sks at 100 yards.

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I don't have picture readily available but I was shooting my Makarov at a target about 10 yards away and hit center most of my shots.

However, some just seem to go stray to the right or left - is this more likely to do with random flinching or position of my finger on the trigger?

I know that it is hard to say without being there with me, but any tips on how to practice not flinching? Should I get some 9x18 snap caps (if they make em) and just constantly practice dry firing?

I also have an issue with closing my eyes in reaction to the bang, when I can keep them open I seem to shoot better but I am constantly switching between having both eyes and my right eye open and not sure which is best and where to go from there.

>>32612738
OP here. Most likely flinching and jerking the trigger. And hell yes get yourself some snap caps. They are a godsend. Not only are they great for practice but for function tests when cleaning your gun. When I clean my glock I load all 5 of them into a mag and cycle the action as fast as I can like i'm in a Hood Life video. It lets me know if I've overlubed my glock.

The most common snap cap drill is to have a friend load a mag with some snap caps and some live bullets, so you'll literally see yourself flinch when you hit the snap cap. Then you unload the mag, do about 3 or 4 dry fires until the flinch goes away, eject the snap cap and load the mag again.

Since I don't have any friends what I do is just load one mag with the snap cap and one with live ammo. I take the one with the dummy round in it, load it and charge the gun real fast just like i'm about to start shooting, then pretend that the gun is going to go off when I pull the trigger. That's the most important thing about flinch drills, tricking your mind into thinking the gun is going to go bang, then dry firing until the flinch is gone, then load real bullets and do the exact same thing you were doing when you were not flinching

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I've been on hiatus with shooting for a bit, weather, economy and what not.

Here's my current best day.

FNS-9 7 Yards

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I've got some of my old small bore targets, nothing too nice.

I've been wanting to get better with my pistol marksmanship, any place to start?

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>>32615984

>>32615984
>>32615998

Pretty precise dude, unsupported with a Ruger MK II or something? Optics?

I mean if you are shooting that smallbore then the only obstacle left is flinch, so dryfire every night, and ball & dummy on the range, seems like your at the level where you need 1 on 1 instruction to find the issues.

>>32616109
Vostok cm-2
Bench, unsupported. 5 second delay. Peeps

I've been wanting to get into small bore pistol, been looking at a ruger sr22 or something of that ilk, but the mk2 would be nice.

>>32616164
>Vostok cm-2

Ok so yes, pistols will be a whole new challenge then.

With pistols, flinching and moving the trigger laterally translates exponentially down range. If you stay with small bore you will probably be very strong right off the bat, I'd say your real obstacle is beating the flinch or trigger jerk when you start messing with larger calibres.

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I like this one because I like to imagine perforating 5 individual quarters, I'm aware it's a facile comparison.