It occurred to me that it's been several years since I posted any evidence that I could hit anything with a revolver myself. Going on a decade, in fact, and it's a perishable skill. I definitely don't shoot as much as I used to way back when, and I'm not as good as I used to be as you can see by comparing this poker card with the one from 2017.
The comparison is imperfect in several respects, since I was using a Vaquero-style fixed-sight Ruger Single Six rather than whatever the Assistant Attorney General was using, but hers probably suffered under greater recoil; and I don't know quite what rules she was shooting under. Tom guessed it was two shot groups, so I fired those. All six on paper, only one really good group and it was a little high. Group two was the closest to dead center; the first of those two got pretty close. Group three drifted a bit.
Ah, well. Sic transit gloria mundi and all that. Not a total embarrassment, at least.
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I am tolerably sure that with me at 40 feet the card would have survived untouched. But your post inspired me to do a little research, and it turns out there are exercises to deal with a little incipient essential tremor. Something might work.
Mostly it’s just practice. I’ve done enough shooting that it’s not exciting anymore. That helps a lot.
I like the idea of making the card your first target for the day. Reminds me of Morgan's Shingle. The legend is that back at the beginning of the Revolution Daniel Morgan was tasked with raising a unit of expert marksmen. He recruited by putting a 7"x10" shingle on a tree and then having potential recruits fire one shot from a cold bore at 250 yards. Any who hit it were in.
Now, we don't actually know if that actually happened, but that's the story and a couple of rifle clubs I know of have adopted it, though they let you use modern rifles w/ modern optics.
The "cold bore" part was what your card practice reminded me of; no practice shots were allowed, no warm ups.
Yeah, I kept true to that. No warm up; first shots out of the barrel.
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