Great Drills to Increase Your Shooting Skills

By Brad Fitzpatrick

Getting started in the shooting sports is an investment. For many new shooters, that investment is primarily financial. They need to buy a gun, ammunition, targets, and they may have to pay dues to a shooting club if there isn’t a state range nearby.

Perhaps the best investment that new shooters can make is time, specifically time spent improving skills with a firearm. The world’s top shooters, whether they are competing with a shotgun, rifle, pistol or airgun, spend hours at the range perfecting their game. New shooters need to follow their lead.

Shooting drills are a great way to improve with a firearm, and chances are that improvement will come quickly. Proper practice will not only help shooters become more accurate, it will make them more familiar with their guns and will reinforce the basic skill sets that are essential to becoming proficient.

These skills will help everyone from hunters to self-defense shooters, but the casual target shooter can also benefit from working on basic drills.

Here’s a look at five basic performance drills that will help build basic gun-handling skills. Some are specific to one type of shooting, but many of these will help shooters improve, regardless of the firearms they are …Read the Rest

Source:: Guns and Ammo