Just offering some advice Nuf sed?
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TRAIN, Train, and then train some more. I am always trying to achieve a new "personal best", and today's Range exercise was close to a new "best". My eyes were working well, changing hands, and eyes, with each shot, first right hand, then left hand throughout the 26 round exercise. Each of us has a predominate "hand", either left or right. Can you shoot as accurately with your "off hand", as with your commonly used hand? If not, what would you do if something prevented you from using your common hand? Could you switch to the other hand and continue to defend yourself? I feel that I can. Try it with your next range exercise. It has become quite natural for me to use either hand now as I shoot both my Henry lever action carbine, and my Bear Creek 5.56MM AR-15 Carbine. Only you are responsible for your safety. In this image and link, Polk County Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd expresses this to the citizens: https://www.clickorlando.com/n
AIRBORNE Always In Readiness By Overt Retraining Never Ending As a Paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division, 1960-64, this phrase was drilled into us. I think I took "Basic First Aid" like 8 times in the 4 years I was in. These days, the phrase best describes my range training, as I do tactical training on my home range: How many of you could switch from right hand to left hand with your rifle, as you do a tactical range exercise? When I started, it took a long time between each shot before I could bring the “new eye” to bear on the target. Now, it is just 2nd nature. Why be able to shoot with the left hand/eye when I am shooting alright with my right hand/eye? There is no guarantee that I would be able to see with my right in a firefight. A friend who is an Army Ranger once described having dirt thrown in his right eye by a richochet round in Iraq, and he had a hell of a time bringing his rifle to bear as a leftie.
Some days are diamonds Doing my nearly daily range exercise on the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, I did pretty well. The first shot out hit dead center in the bull. The rest stayed within a 3 1/2 inch diameter. All of my range shooting is done as a tactical type exercise. I don't sit at a bench with the weapon steadied by sand bags, and such, but am continually moving around. This particular exercise was done as if I were shooting through a window; using a step ladder, and shooting between the steps. After each shot, I withdrew, then moved back to the shooting position, firing as soon as I could "return to target". To me this simulates how I might have to react to an attack, and holds more value, to me, than just pointing the weapon, locking it down and pulling the trigger over and over. A "tight" shot group like this is more than satisfactory for me, being that I am 81 years old, and shooting in a tactical setting. TRAIN, Train, and then