need more practice...

gipper · 04-10-2004, 09:16 PM

shot the new ruger p89 today, damn do I suck!

If I really sat there and slowly shot i could get a good grouping of 3 or 4 out of 5, but man I was all over the rest of the time.
shootin at 15 yds, guess it takes time and practice.. and did i mention practice. used to shooting my friends beretta 92 at like 7-10 yds. I'll keep at it though, at first I was thinkin like some others I've read that shot the p89, but when I concentrated and sat there for a minite, it was dead on.
I had fun anyway...

Remington597 · 04-10-2004, 09:21 PM

The great thing is that you had fun. You should come down to Clearwater. See my thread below about my day at the range. The P89 is a great gun, I used to have one, traded it in for a P95, almost the same gun, just a higher model number.
Try 10 yds first, then graduate to 15, and subsequently to 25.
Did you do it standing or did you use a sandbag ; sitting down.
Try doing it sitting first and then go to standing. It works great for me.

gipper · 04-10-2004, 10:13 PM

ya, for sure, might head down there sometime this summer after classes are over. The range I went to today has target stands 15 yards and out, so I'll have to go to a pistol range and start at 7,then 10, 15 like you said. I shot standing, once I got a nice little grouping I realized it wasn't the gun that was messing up

armedandsafe · 04-11-2004, 01:37 AM

It seldom is the gun, unfortunately (there goes another excuse.

) The trigger on the Ps is usually a little rough, but not so bad you can't achieve good results with it, with practice. Dry firing will help with that, a lot. Mine has smoothed out over the last 50K rounds or so, but I should have stoned it a little to begin with. I got where I could shoot as well with it as with the 32-20 revolver. Not target accuracy, but well enough to give a perp second thoughts about continuing to stand up.

Pops

04-10-2004, 09:16 PM	#1
gipper V.I.P. Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: FLORIDA Posts: 122	need more practice... shot the new ruger p89 today, damn do I suck! If I really sat there and slowly shot i could get a good grouping of 3 or 4 out of 5, but man I was all over the rest of the time. shootin at 15 yds, guess it takes time and practice.. and did i mention practice. used to shooting my friends beretta 92 at like 7-10 yds. I'll keep at it though, at first I was thinkin like some others I've read that shot the p89, but when I concentrated and sat there for a minite, it was dead on. I had fun anyway... -->

04-10-2004, 09:21 PM	#2
Remington597 Former Guest Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 3,201	The great thing is that you had fun. You should come down to Clearwater. See my thread below about my day at the range. The P89 is a great gun, I used to have one, traded it in for a P95, almost the same gun, just a higher model number. Try 10 yds first, then graduate to 15, and subsequently to 25. Did you do it standing or did you use a sandbag ; sitting down. Try doing it sitting first and then go to standing. It works great for me.

04-10-2004, 10:13 PM	#3
gipper V.I.P. Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: FLORIDA Posts: 122	ya, for sure, might head down there sometime this summer after classes are over. The range I went to today has target stands 15 yards and out, so I'll have to go to a pistol range and start at 7,then 10, 15 like you said. I shot standing, once I got a nice little grouping I realized it wasn't the gun that was messing up

04-11-2004, 01:37 AM	#4
armedandsafe Former Guest Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Moses Lake, WA Posts: 10,344	It seldom is the gun, unfortunately (there goes another excuse. ) The trigger on the Ps is usually a little rough, but not so bad you can't achieve good results with it, with practice. Dry firing will help with that, a lot. Mine has smoothed out over the last 50K rounds or so, but I should have stoned it a little to begin with. I got where I could shoot as well with it as with the 32-20 revolver. Not target accuracy, but well enough to give a perp second thoughts about continuing to stand up. Pops