50 per week... enough?

Is 50 rounds enough practice ammo for one week?

  • Yes

    Votes: 50 78.1%

  • No (then how many?)

    Votes: 14 21.9%
  • Total voters
    64
  • Poll closed .
I believe that it is not just the quantity of practice but the quality as well.
Spending time dry firing is also a good way to get in practice without having to go to the range.
 
Great point on the dry fire. When I was on the SRT I shot a little every week. However, I dry fired the equivalent of probably a thousand rounds. I would practice in front of mirror from draw to assume the same shooting position every time. Eventually I could hit COM at CQB range with my eyes shut just by assuming my stance and shooting position. I knew when I dropped into my shooting stance with my arms locked and head forward my point of aim was the same if I was looking or not. I am a big fan of dry fire to develop muscle memory.
 
It all depends on what youre doing and trying to accomplish. If youre shooting 50 rounds a week in slow fire bulls eye, it might be, although even there, I would probably say no. If your trying to keep up on multiple things, no, Id say not. 50 rounds in total really isnt much if you think about it.

Dry fire is a great help as well, and in all the different disciplines, but live fire is still necessary. I dry fire multiple guns every day. Some simple sight alignment and trigger break exercises, others, presentations from different positions and holsters. You can work on pretty much everything, but live fire provides confirmation, and also allows practice that dry fire simply cant.
 
Depends on what kind of proficiency you want to achieve and/or maintain and what else you're going to add.
With dry fire/unloaded gun drills added, 50 rounds a week will keep a good (not great) set of skills sharp.
 
If you're not real proficient to begin with - then 50-rounds a week of quality trigger time will keep your hand in the game, so you won't be embarrassing yourself when shooting with others possessing a higher shooting skill level.
 
A lotta folks got a CHL and don't shoot 50 a year. 50 a week is a good idea, keep track of your progress, check out an IDPA match if you have a chance, it's good practice and fun.
 
Fifty a week will put you ahead of most, but it will hardly make you a red hot handgunner. Shooting once in a while brings you down to earth. Otherwise, you just remember the best shots you ever made, and you tend to forget the embarrassing misses. If you actually improve much on fifty a week, your skills were modest to begin with. I agree with the concept that frequent short sessions offer more improvement than a few long sessions.
 
It depends on you.

It depends on your skill set. If you havent had training then you could be just reinforcing bad habits. I was fortunate to do competitive shooting when I was younger and just by luck happened into Bob Chow when I was living in California. Man that guy could shoot and sure knew his stuff.
 
Yes AND No

I think it's enough to more or less stay in practice, or to not let your basic skills atrophy.

Having said that, when I really get down to it, I can shoot 300-500 rounds weekly (shooting 2-3X a week). I haven't been able to really do that for a while due to ammo/component availability and prices.

I don't think 50 rounds a week is enough to really gain improved skill level, for example, it took quite a bit of practice to get my El Presidente drill down below 7 seconds with all good hits, if I go too fast, I start loosing hits.
 
Get more specific with the questions. If you can hit a playing card at 15 yards 4 shots out of 5, then stretch it out to 20 yards. Keep making it more difficult. Don't stop until you're hitting clay pidgeons out of the air.
 
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