Bugman wrote:I take it your referring to the CZ you are acquiring. The one thing that puzzles me is that you have not been issued with a Provisional Pistol Licence and that when you do get it, you will have to wait 6 months before you can apply for a PTA for your first pistol(s). Once the 6 months is up and you apply for a PTA, being your first pistol(s) the permit will take possibly 6-8 weeks (unless this changes in the meantime), so all up it would be around another 8-9 months before you can take the gun home etc and practice at more regular intervals.
Have you tried making an arrangement with your club to allow more time to correct your concerns etc?
And please correct me if I am wrong about this current arrangement.
ob1 wrote:Stop concentrating on hitting a spot on the target. Focus entirely on the sights and try to have the sights aligned perfectly every time the gun fires as you slowly squeeze the trigger. Treat the target as just a background to your sights, ignore it, where the bullet hits on the target is irrelevant while you concentrate on trying for 50 shots of perfect sight alignment. Sight focus only, ignore the target.
jwai86 wrote:I'm more distressed that I've only found out about the flinching after more than a year shooting, and have no idea how much practice it will take to train it out given that I am still limited to doing so once a week.
bladeracer wrote:Is it actually affecting your shooting though?
jwai86 wrote:bladeracer wrote:Is it actually affecting your shooting though?
What do you mean? Of course it does.
bladeracer wrote:But you never noticed it before in a year of shooting?
jwai86 wrote:bladeracer wrote:But you never noticed it before in a year of shooting?
I didn't have the means to definitely confirm the presence of a flinch until I picked up some snap caps the other week and a very qualified club member (a retired Commando) got me to run the drill when he was showing me how to correctly position myself to shoot using one hand.
I think part of the flinching is from becoming wary of the ejecting brass. Getting hit by brass bouncing off the cubicle wall is usually a nuisance at most, but earlier this year, a hot cartridge got lodged in the space between my prescription glasses and my face, and caused a conspicuous burn close to my eye that took a couple of weeks to heal. I tried wearing safety glasses over my regular pair after that incident, but visibility through two pairs of glasses was poor, and the safety glasses were prone to fogging up inside the range, so I'm back to wearing just my usual glasses and hoping that nothing worse happens.
bladeracer wrote:Are you shooting IPSC or static target shooting? In IPSC a flinch might go missed but not matter anyway. In target shooting though it should be fairly obvious to the shooter, especially when you see where the bullet hole appears.
Bugman wrote:Just out of curiosity...can the rear sight be adjusted?
jwai86 wrote:Bugman wrote:Just out of curiosity...can the rear sight be adjusted?
Yes it can, although I haven't yet dared to change whatever it's been set to. In any case, I've got a new set of sights coming in the post, so it makes more sense to get those installed first before making any changes to windage and elevation.
Oldbloke wrote:Cast loads, lots of them, off hand.
dnedative wrote:If your shooting targets going for scores not hits you want a six o clock hold and you will generally tune it so you know where your at from 10-50 yards.
Center and combat holds are minute of man where you want a hit on a steel plate as easily as possible, little high or a little low, you dont care. Your never going to group as well with them.
I would just wait till you get your license, I wouldn't of bought a pistol without at-least a PPL though.
jwai86 wrote:
I think part of the flinching is from becoming wary of the ejecting brass. Getting hit by brass bouncing off the cubicle wall is usually a nuisance at most, but earlier this year, a hot cartridge got lodged in the space between my prescription glasses and my face, and caused a conspicuous burn close to my eye that took a couple of weeks to heal. I tried wearing safety glasses over my regular pair after that incident, but visibility through two pairs of glasses was poor, and the safety glasses were prone to fogging up inside the range, so I'm back to wearing just my usual glasses and hoping that nothing worse happens.
G-Swiss wrote:Hey mate, I found the investment in a pair of prescription safety glasses for shooting was minor for the peace of mind. I found I was favouring my prescription glasses over my safety glasses at the range due to vision and that didn’t sit right with me. Eyes are irreplaceable! I chose a pair of Eyres through my local specsavers and they ran to about $250. Peanuts in the big scheme of things. I asked to take a few of their better fitting sample frames home to check the cheek weld on my rifles in prone, and they were happy to accomodate. Helps that my optometrist is also a shooter
Now I don’t have to compromise safety for vision.
Cheers G