21 replies to this topic

[jose_jimenez]

7 yards is a joke. On one of my gun forums (very large forums) people consistently talk about accuracy at 7 yards and post targets adnauseum. 7 yards is a joke man. If you can stay within a few inches (Say 6" for nubs) maybe you should find something else to do. 7 yards is right in front of you.

I spend most of my time at 15 and 25 as 7 is just boring as hell and a waste of expensive 357sig rounds to me. From 0-15 yards I can put rounds through paper almost but at 25 yards my groups move out to 4-6 inches and I need to work on that.

I'm just getting into shotgun and rifle shooting myself. Been pistols only for 15 years. I know damn well to stay away from clays, my shot shooting is just at the range for home defense.

[Gary]

If you are teaching home defense, 7 yards is what it is all about. If it's a live or die situation and the guy is 25 years from me, I can find a way out beyond a gunfight.

If you want to see how difficult 7 yards can be, find some competition dot targets, the ones that have 10 sets of 3 dots in a triangle, which are set to the caliber you are shooting. If you center it perfectly you will touch all 3 dots in the triangle for 3 points, a perfect score is 30. My best score was 22, most people never scored a 10 even with a LOT of trying. Actually most were doing great with a 5...

They used to have local dot competitions but almost everyone quit because I could win at will. I used to win every other week to keep people in it but when they realized that I was disqualifying myself every other week they gave up, lol.

I know it sounds like I am talking like I was something great but an Olympic quality shooter would have crushed me.

edit: oh, and 6" at 7 yards isn't a group - that's random shooting

Edited by Gary, 17 June 2011 - 08:22 PM.