Today I discovered the secret ingredient for accurate pistol shooting, and that's the insatiable need to mog. Earlier I was shooting some of my handguns and doing pretty terrible, something like 8" groups at 15yd that I couldn't tighten up for the life of me. Then when I was all frustrated and getting ready to wrap up, two guys showed up to the range with their PSA ARs equipped with what appeared to be cheap ass Sig Romeo red dots. One of them couldn't figure out if his sight was dead or turned off, and the other suggested looking for a charging port. Eventually they managed to get their sights working and started blasting. At this range there's a 16"x16" steel plate at 300yd and what appears to be an approximately 3'x3' large steel plate at 100yd. They started trying to hit the 300yd plate and kept missing, so they switched to the substantially easier 100yd plate. They were still missing. At this point the spirit of Jeff Cooper overcame me and I grabbed my 10mm pistol and took aim at the 100yd plate. After a couple dry firing cycles, I loaded my gun up and fired. It hit. I then continued to empty the rest of my 15 rounds at the plate and hit it 8 more times. Then after reloading, I decided to see what would happen if I shot at the 300yd plate. The bullet hit about 10 feet low into the dirt so I aimed at the horizon and heard a *ding*. By this point the other guys had refilled their magazines and started blasting at the 100yd plate, and after about 10 more rounds from one of them he found where to aim and started rapidly unloading (from a supported position) into the 100yd plate. When they were done with that, I took some more somewhat rapidly paced shots (2-3 seconds per) at the 100yd plate and was getting about 60-75% hits. This back and forth went on for a little while until some other guys showed up and the original two dudes left. At that point I completely lost my newfound pistol shooting abilities and was right back to where I was at the start of the range trip.
