4 Bad Habits to Avoid While Shooting

Whether you are training for a competition or just learning to shoot, bad habits can be ingrained early, making them harder to break. You can fix most of these bad habits through range trips, but it is far easier to learn how to do things the right way first, getting the proper muscle memory, so that when you draw your Taurus 1911, it is smooth and fast, you acquire your target quickly, and you shoot accurately. Here are some bad habits to avoid.

Not Training for How You Will Shoot

Whether you are going to be hunting or in a competition, if you are training standing in a perfect posture, slowly plinking away at a target, you are not training how you will actually be shooting. At competition, you will be under stress from the time limit, you will be running around with adrenaline pumping, and there may be limits to how much ammo you can have. For hunting, you need to train as if you are in a blind or a marsh. A duck will not wait for you to be in the perfect posture before flying away. Train for how you will be shooting.

Not Training with a Purpose

On a similar note, going to the range, taking out your Knights Armament AR 15, and just plinking at a target will not make you a better shooter. Go to the range and train with purpose. Print out targets meant for specific drills, write down the drill instructions, get a shot timer, and run the drills. Try to be more accurate or faster, but never stop trying to improve. Just shooting at a target does not do much to improve your shooting skills.

Not Training with Your Gear

Like training how you will shoot, you should also train in the gear you are shooting in. If you have a holster for your Staccato (formerly STI guns) 2011 XC, use the holster you are planning to use in competition to practice drawing. It does you no good to practice shooting from sitting down at a bench with no gear. That will not help when you are crouched down with hunting gear, and you are trying to get a shot on the deer you have been tracking.

Flinching in Anticipation

Many new shooters unconsciously flinch in anticipation of the gun going bang. It is a loud noise, so this makes sense. However, it is an easy bad habit to break by simply practicing dry firing with the gun. It teaches good muscle memory while training the brain not to associate pulling the trigger with a loud noise, suppressing the flinch, and keeping the gun on target.

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