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Part II
1. Have you ever had any FORMAL marksmanship training? Critical question. If you haven't go get it NOW! Otherwise, you're wasting ammo and building bad habits. Do not let your ego get in the way of quality training. That's why I find it easier to teach women to shoot - they listen and (usually) do what they're told. That and they don't have a lot of baggage and bad habits that I have to get out of them.
2. Find a mentor, hopefully somebody who can coach you (they have to know what they're doing). Find a shooting buddy. Find somebody who will go to the range with you. When you go to the range - train with a goal in mind. Work with your partner; practice perfection. A disciplined approach with feedback and charted progress is the only way to improve. Look at some of the PT threads here - the same principles apply.
3. IIRC - the fundamentals are: Stance, Grip, Sight alignment, Sight Picture, Breath Control, Trigger Manipulation, Follow-through, and Recovery. Learn what those words mean (I'm not rewriting the book - Google the Army Marksmanship Manual or the NRA/CMP pubs if you want to know more) and apply them. They are the foundation that all pistol marksmanship (from NRA Bullseye to CQB and combat survival) is based on. You don't learn to shoot like the TS (I've seen him - he is that good) without mastering the fundamentals first. Your PM sounds like you don't have a clue; not trying to be cruel, just factual.
4. Solve one problem at a time. Every time you introduce multiple variables, you have no idea which one is the base problem. By changing multiple factors at the same time you are essentially "stacking tollerances" (Mr. Harsey or FS can explain in detail) and you cannot isolate the problem to fix it.
5. Going from an indoor range to an outdoor range is the same as going from the lab to the field. One is sterile and isolated, the other is the real world with all of the distractors included. Quit running back to the indoor range and concentrate on marksmanship fundamentals on the outdoor range. You don't defend yourself on an indoor range, quit using it to establish your baseline. What you describe is fairly common - it's also mostly between your ears. Concentrate on fundamentals, nothing else matters. Keep allowing inconsequential details to affect your concentration and one of these days we'll read about you in the obits.
6. Either one of your pistols is adequate (neither is on my favorite list but I wouldn't turn them down either). Decide which one you want to be good with and learn to shoot it well. Different pistols will shoot to different points of aim. Changing grip angle (Glock vs. HK - BIG CHANGE) will result in a different point of impact (POI). Changing ammo will change POI. Trigger pull, lighting changes - etc., etc., etc. Decide which gun you want to shoot. Learn to shoot it well. When you've mastered the fundamentals with your primary pistol then you can try applying them to different pistols. You will be surprised how easy that is when you have mastery with the first one.
7. FWIW I consider a good shot group to be 4" at 25m fired rapid fire - 10 rounds, 10 seconds w/magazine change. I've gotten lazy, my group right now has grown to about 6". It requires practice (remember the lazy part) and a strict concentration on the fundamentals of pistol marksmanship. Add moving, reloading, using cover, communicating, and the myriad of other tasks required to survive a gunfight and it's easy to see why average LEO hit rates are as low as 15-18%. The guys who treat it like a martial art and learn it like their life might depend on it have hit probabilities exceeding 85-90% (which is damn good in a running battle).
Hopefully this gives you something to work with. Peregrino
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