How I shoot depends on what I am shooting at, with what and why.
When shooting my Ruger Elsiepea its all rapid fire from 7 yards trying to keep them all on center mass.
My other 9mm handguns basically the same deal except 15 yards, sometimes 25 yards (I'm useless farther out than that).
If I'm shooting one of my military long guns I'm mostly just trying to see how much damage I can do to gallon water jugs. Precision isn't much of a factor.
Only if I'm shooting with a scope rather than iron sights (rare) do I go for much in the way of precision. But minutes between shots,....no way.
My usual routine at the range is to start with about 100 rounds through the Ruger Mk II to warm up, then some pistol shooting with whatever is in the bag, then some rifle shooting with whatever I carted along - typically a .22 and a few others. I once brought about half my collection to the range and fired all of them at least a little. Didn't enjoy the hours of cleaning afterward so now I only bring a few with each outing.
I mostly shoot either by myself or with my boss and/or friends. My boss is very pedantic when it comes to shooting and wants absolute precision with every shot. He spends ridiculous amounts of money on custom target guns that seem little more accurate than what I can shoot with nothing fancy off-the-shelf models. I'm much more of a plinker, a
practical rather than a precision shooter. I just enjoy the experience really. My wife has never fired a gun even though she grew up around them and her dad was an avid hunter (hunting/shooting was a man thing apparently). I keep telling her she should come to the range with me but I like to go before the church crowd on Sunday's and she can't motivate that early. I keep threatening to buy her a gun of her own - purple with sparkles on it (EAA Witness Pavona) - as enticement. She seems un-amused.
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I don't use any of my firearms for self or home defense although the Elsiepea will eventually become a carry weapon when I can be bothered to get the permit, so other than target practice I do not do any self defense training with firearms.
