stinkeypete
New member
In my opinion, if you can hit what you're shooting at with the first shot you don't need to shoot fast.
Long time ago, I started shooting air pistol in my basement as I got back into shooting handguns. It was a nice competition air pistol.
It was like throwing darts. I was relaxing, sending pellets one at a time diagonally across my basement... 9 meters was the farthest I could get. I was shooting at 10m NRA air pistol targets and keeping score.
After a while, I wondered "hey, am I doing good at this?" I talked to some guys online.. I was shooting in the mid 90s. "Even at 9 instead of 10 meters, you should go to a competition! You won't be the worst guy there!"
Well, I could not find an air pistol league near me, but there was a .22 league. I did not embarrass myself. But it did end up costing me a target .22 and soon a target grade .45acp. Then a hunting handgun, then.. ah, you know how it goes.
I don't know who sponsors these combat style, shoot really fast competitions. But I can see the fellows use a lot of ammo and throw perfectly good magazines by the fistful into the gravel at their feet like they are trash. That's stuff people can sell to shooters.
The guns don't need to be tuned to be highly accurate, these guns are just good enough and only a rare few cost as much as a bullseye .45.
But if you want to know how you're doing.. you can't tell your pals on the internet your speed.. unless you went to a competition first to get times. There are no postal idpa matches.
Long time ago, I started shooting air pistol in my basement as I got back into shooting handguns. It was a nice competition air pistol.
It was like throwing darts. I was relaxing, sending pellets one at a time diagonally across my basement... 9 meters was the farthest I could get. I was shooting at 10m NRA air pistol targets and keeping score.
After a while, I wondered "hey, am I doing good at this?" I talked to some guys online.. I was shooting in the mid 90s. "Even at 9 instead of 10 meters, you should go to a competition! You won't be the worst guy there!"
Well, I could not find an air pistol league near me, but there was a .22 league. I did not embarrass myself. But it did end up costing me a target .22 and soon a target grade .45acp. Then a hunting handgun, then.. ah, you know how it goes.
I don't know who sponsors these combat style, shoot really fast competitions. But I can see the fellows use a lot of ammo and throw perfectly good magazines by the fistful into the gravel at their feet like they are trash. That's stuff people can sell to shooters.
The guns don't need to be tuned to be highly accurate, these guns are just good enough and only a rare few cost as much as a bullseye .45.
But if you want to know how you're doing.. you can't tell your pals on the internet your speed.. unless you went to a competition first to get times. There are no postal idpa matches.