Remember last month’s challenge? Did you make it 1000 rounds of logged and tracked centerfire ammo in the month of August? I did, but I barely scraped by. Here are my log entries for the month of August:
8/7/2010 46 Ruger SR9c – 00
8/10/2010 17 Ruger SR9c -00
8/10/2010 207 Ruger SR9c – 00
8/11/2010 250 Ruger SR9c – 00
8/17/2010 45 Ruger SR9c – 00
8/19/2010 150 Ruger SR9c – 00
8/19/2010 105 Ruger SR9c – 00
8/22/2010 90 Ruger SR9c – 00
8/24/2010 45 Gun Blog 9mm
8/26/2010 150 Ruger SR9c – 00
8/26/2010 50 Ruger SR9c – 00
8/29/2010 124 Gun Blog 9mm
That works out to 1279 rounds in August. Sadly, I’m not going to come anywhere near my 2009 round count numbers in 2010; between work and Top Shot I just haven’t been shooting nearly as much as I’d like to. I am on a good pace in September though, over 500 rounds fired in the course of just over a week.
Now for September, we’re going to have a slightly different challenge. Instead of shooting over 1000 rounds that you log, I want you to pick a standard drill. El Presidente, a USPSA classifier, FAST Drill, whatever you like. Shoot it once cold, then through the month continue to revisit the drill. The goal should be to improve your score by 5-20% depending on the drill and your skill level. If you’re a C-class USPSA shooter, practice the drill until you can shoot it fast enough for B-class, that sort of thing. The important thing to do is pick a metric that you can use to objectively measure your performance, and then pick a goal for improvement.
Also, if you did the 1000 round challenge, post your logs and results to the comments!
8,214 rounds over twelve range sessions.
Cheater.
My .22 kit and reloading makes it easy!!
The good news is that I’m out of Remmy Golden Bullet.
The bad news is that Cabela’s is now out of Federal Automatch.
:)
I put about 250-ish rounds through the LTC9 at Louis’s class.
About another 100 rounds through it at other range sessions.
I am made of fail.
As an unemployed bum, I just flat can’t afford to shoot that much. Literally 5% of my gross income goes to .22LR alone…
Combine http://www.classifiercalc.com with the USPSA classifiers. They are a great tool. Using only 6 target stands I can set up 26 different practice sessions and compare my results to the USPSA class scales. Set one up and shoot it about a dozen times. Then work your way through each of them throughout the year. Most don’t have enough movement. Compliment this will movement drills and lots of dry fire.