I went to Rex's Indoor Range in Hendersonville, NC yesterday afternoon. I shot better then that I ever have in my life. This practice stuff really works!
If only I could have shot that well in the Glock match.
I was using NRA 50' slow fire pistol targets. The entire scoring area on one of those targets is only a little bigger than the 10 ring on the Glock targets. If I had shot as well in the match as I did yesterday I would have shot at least 480.
This is why participating in competition is important. It teaches you to function under stress. You may think that there is no comparison between a shooting contest where the only thing on the line is a plastic trophy or a plaque and a life-or-death gunfight. You are correct. In the real world there is no comparison, but to the body stress is stress.
Your body doesn't know why you suddenly have enough adrenalin in your system to power a medium sized rural farm for a month. It just reacts to it. The same auditory exclusion, tunnel vision and "hot dog finger" phenomena that you get in a real gunfight also plague you in competition.
Learn to deal with one and you will have a leg up on the other.
Hello! I just found your site in the pirate's list over at AIR. I live just west of Hendersonville in Etowah, and some of the lead deposit in Rex's range trap is there courtesy of me. Nice to hear that there are some like-minded folks in Asheville. Lord knows there are plenty from the other side of the fence, so to speak.
ReplyDeleteEver go to Sir Tom's Tobacco Emporium in Hendersonville?
ReplyDeleteNah, I just smoke Camels and the occasional cigar. I did go to a specialty shop when my son was born to get some above-average stogies to give out (didn't want to give out the cardboard-tasting ones in the blue plastic wrapper), but I don't remember the name of the place.
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