No access to shooting range for next 6 months. What to do?

[amarinder]

Any advices to prevent that I dont lose the skill I have developed in last 2 years. My recent score was 370/400.

[shaky hands]

SCATT

Are you going to prison?

[john bickar]

Work out. Upper body and core, plus cardio. Strength and conditioning.

You'll be amazed.

[amarinder]

SCATT

Are you going to prison?

Going to different city for job. Timing is from 8:30 am to 7 pm. Thats the difficult part.

Would it be a good idea if I do practice making a 1cm dot on wall and practice from 2 metres away.

[shaky hands]

Would it be a good idea if I do practice making a 1cm dot on wall and practice from 2 metres away.

Yes, dry firing never hurts. Print a 12mm black circle using Word or something similar. It will be about the right angular size of the black on an air pistol target when viewed from 2 meters away.

[pgmlml]

Millimeter paper on the wall! Don't forget to measure the height of your front sigth at the range, so you can have an exact reference of the height you should be raising your pistol...

[Rover]

Dry fire. Drink beer.

[Pat McCoy]

Dry fire. Spend time reading about sports psychology. visualization. Start with Lanny Basham's "With Winning in Mind" book and/or tapes.

[renzo]

Dry fire. Drink beer.

A fine piece of advice from Rover, that I've put to test succesfully in the past.

Behold: you'll lose whatever shooting skill level you could've reached, BUT YOU WON'T CARE!!!!!!

[rmca]

Dry fire. Drink beer.

Behold: you'll lose whatever shooting skill level you could've reached, BUT YOU WON'T CARE!!!!!!

NO, No, no... FIRST dry fire, THEN drink beer!

It only works in that specific order! ;)

[renzo]

Dry fire. Drink beer.

Behold: you'll lose whatever shooting skill level you could've reached, BUT YOU WON'T CARE!!!!!!

NO, No, no... FIRST dry fire, THEN drink beer!

It only works in that specific order! ;)

And what if I dry fire, and THEN drink beer until it's time to dry fire again, eh??

What gives???

[rmca]

And what if I dry fire, and THEN drink beer until it's time to dry fire again, eh??

What gives???

In that case your next dry fire session will be much less productive, but you wouldn't care anyway!!!

[Rover]

Great advice from rmca and renzo and ME!

[shaky hands]

As they say in Russia, beer without vodka is money wasted.

[SamEEE]

Cover the mechanics by dryfiring as a lot of people have mentioned. Warren Potters guide is solid: http://www.pilkguns.com/c3.shtml

Brush up on your head by reading widely. Inner Game of Tennis I am reading at the mo; something different.

I also quite like The Economist, but that is unrelated.

[amarinder]

Cover the mechanics by dryfiring as a lot of people have mentioned. Warren Potters guide is solid: http://www.pilkguns.com/c3.shtml

Brush up on your head by reading widely. Inner Game of Tennis I am reading at the mo; something different.

I also quite like The Economist, but that is unrelated.

Thanks a lot. From the article you referred, these are the lines i could not understand. Would anyone explain them
"To do this, take a piece of cardboard and cut the lower part to fit snugly over your pistol roughly where the front sight is situated. Then, holding the pistol in the shooting position, get your friend to mark with a pen both sides of the apparent size of the black. You can then reproduce the corresponding size disc on your wall with the help of the template."
Regards

[SamEEE]

I am not quite sure what that means - I think what he meant was to make an equivalent size black for the distance you are shooting at.

This can be figured out by the below method:

Just add trig and/or pythagoras.

L = 10m
l = 6.5m
2D = .155m
2d = ?

This will work too:



Edit:

With Air Rifle black being 30.5mm vs Air Pistol being 59.5mm they are equivalent in size at 5.13m. Worth considering if you want to shoot at that range.

[Andre]

Here are some more distances for rifle targets.

USA/NRA 50: 5.61m

A-17: 6.33m

[Rover]

While it wasn't mentioned above, there is also the conditioning benefit of multiple 16 ounce curls while drinking the beer. You can also do it at the same time you're "dry" firing (tee hee).

Continue until you're doing push-ups off the wall with your nose.

[Misny]

Spend some time every day to an activity devoted to shooting. Grip and arm strength training, dry firing, working on the mental side and reading are all good suggestions. Mix it up.