This important point may not have been mentioned.
NEVER SETTLE FOR GOOD ENOUGH. Keep trying. Keep improving. When you are good enough to achieve the goals, say hitting a two inch bullseye, move it farther out, or shoot a smaller one.
The concealed carry permit here requires that the shooter be able to place 20 or so rounds into a human silhouette at 30 feet.
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Not good enough. That isn't going to be a lifesaving level of skill if that's the end of the road for training. When a person is capable of bullseyes at 50, hitting 5 or 6 inch targets, and doing it well, there is still the matter of being capable under stress, but scattering twenty rounds around a torso target at slow fire isn't the same as trained and capable.
So, more to the point, challenge yourself. When you are comfortably laying rounds in at 50 feet, move to 100, then 50 yards, even 100 yards and two hundred.
Practice off of a bench or bags, then when you feel comfortable, add another handicap. See how you do standing, kneeling, sitting, prone, work on your field positions. Always, always, find a way to make your next range session more successful. Well, Unless you just want to fart around shooting at nerf balls once in a while. Fun is important too, because you don't want this to be a tedious workout, no more fun than an hour on a treadmill.
I've been trying to get my daubhter involved in this but she's a difficult person to get together with. The last time I took her out, she was nailing the 3 inch targets quite well, so I moved them from 50 feet to 90. as she gets still better, well, the targets are made half sized.
BTW, don't waste your training time on junk ammunition. It's hard to know what brand to buy, as it's all so variable, but think about this. If you are trying to make 2 inch shots at 50 feet and your ammunition isn't even capable of that amount of accuracy, and your firearm isn't particularly accurate either, you're going to wind up with groups the size of a coffee can lid. There is nothing more discouraging than pulling the trigger, knowing that it was a good shot, firing a group and knowing in your heart that the ghost of oliver winchester was at your side guiding you, and going to the paper and finding out that you could have done better with buckshot or a slingshot.