[jyl]

You’ll get lots of safety comments, so I’ll skip those.

My pet peeve is people who shoot a lot at targets that are way too large or way too close and are very bad at it. It’s not about volume of shooting, or speed of shooting, it’s about hitting the target and making that target smaller as you get better.

I basically think you should think about and learn from every round. Where it landed and why. Correct and learn again. I seldom fire more than 50 rounds a session. I can’t understand how most people can fire 100 or 200 rounds and not be just going through the motions, expensively. I know some people can, but I can’t concentrate that hard for that long.

If you’re shooting a handgun two-handed, I think you should work on a 8” diameter target at 25 feet (scale appropriately for other distances) until every shot falls in that circle, then work on 6”, then 4”. When every shot - okay, 9 of 10 - at 25’ falls in 4”, and you know where that 10th is going to miss (high and right, etc) before you see where it landed, then things like speed can get worked on. That’s getting the basics down before getting fancy.

Different standards if handgun one-handed, handgun with optic, mini-handgun, or long gun.