Still shoots good!

I bought my dad's almost forty year old cop gun, used it for the shooting part of the MN conceal carry.
Holy cow shooting indoors is too loud!
Used ear plugs, not good enough for 9mm and ar-15, ordered a pair of walker ear muffs
I think I need glasses both front and rear sights seemed blurry

Nice shooting

Full choke?

9mm smith n wesson, five were real close up, first time I shot it

Great shooting. You have to know I was kidding about the full choke.

Oh lol, after some red wine at night I get dull lol
I'm getting a red dot for new Canik, the sights on smith and wesson seemed blurry

Great job...not a milk bottle in sight will get by you! Lol

Lol, yup it's official target for conceal carry,
I'm going to try stacking full water jugs to see how many a hollow point will go through
Indoor shooting is way too loud, for ear plugs, I'm going to shoot outdoors, and my ear muffs should be here soon

Good shoot. Putting them were you want them is the most important detail

nice shooting

Good job!


WS

My son has a red dot on his canik.i have to Do that also.

I'm going to install the holosun red dot, it has solar recharger on it

Thanks, I haven't shot a hand gun in 40+ years

That's great shooting, especially considering you don't even have to hit the paper to pass a MN CC shooting test..

One person two stalls down had a foot wide group, I figured maybe he never shot one before

Lol, I figured you had to do well

Nope, you don't even need to cut paper.. but you displayed some fine shooting!

I could probably do better with red dot, the front and back sights seemed blurry, it took a little time to make sure I had them lined up
Thanks, I was thinking the target would be further away, first five it was point blank range, then they moved it back further

plugs and muffs is the way to go indoors

a friend of mine who is about 10 years older told me the trick is go to the store and try on the readers put the test reading at arms length fingers extended and about 2 inches about front sight distance

then when you go shooting you put the nice crisp front sight in the middle of the blurry target you focus on the front sight and centering it in the burry bullseye.

my shooting glasses are prescription and my correction is nearly all stigmatism

it is ok for the rear sight to be a little out of focus your only looking at the front sight Equal Hight , Equal Light.

and yes it shoots very well.

Thanks, I need glasses, I just haven't ordered them, I need cheats, dr said I'll have clearer vision with prescription glasses,
I can't wait to see what my group looks like with new set up
What distance are most pistol targets shot at?

depends on the game

21 feet is common aka 7yards this was considered combat shooting distance for a long time

precision pistol as they now call it , used to call it bullseye is 50 feet

in indoor action pistol targets can bee from inches to the full length of the range but mostly fall in the 20-35 feet range as the steel must be shot form 25 feet or greater.

outdoor IDPA international defensive pistol the max target distance is 15 yards

in USPSA I don't think they have a max distance but most of the bays are about 25 -30 yards so not much more is possible.

So about 30-50 feet is a good practice distance,
I'll compare the two guns and different sights when the new one comes in

if your shooting is for self defense and not any particular game any distance you could encounter

there is value to drawing and shooting without using your sights at 6 feet

there is value to figuring out where to hold at 25 , 50 , 75 and 100

there is value to:
-shooting multiple targets , rapid target acquisition
- how fast you can shoot targets
- how precise you can shoot targets
- many drills to work on speed and accuracy and target transitions
- to learning to move and shoot (not allowed on many ranges)

if you think of some of the qualifications PDs use
they start with a target like you used for the qualification for MN
they call out threat and the officer has a limited amount of time to put a round on the target
in others they have to run 50 yards then engage a target
one of the local PDs nearby uses 2 barrels stacked and the target is about 7 yards in front of the barrels you have to draw shoot strong hand standing weak hand standing ,take a knee shoot strong hand kneeling then transition weak hand kneeling using the barrels as cover 2 rounds form each for 8 rounds time to beat 8 seconds if your knees are not working so well don't take a knee just crouch or switch sides twice

anything to get you moving and not in a stable position clearly you can hit well on aimed shots with a good stance from your qualification target

Sounds like good training, thanks