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[Vic Z]

I picked up the Beretta 92FS a while back.
Awesome gun.
Also shooting a 22 bearcat revolver by Ruger.
I'm pretty new to shooting.
With both guns, at 20' I can pretty much keep 80% of my rounds in a 2.5" group (decent?). The other ones fly out to 4 or 5 inches, usually down and a little off to a side.
I know that it's me, and I am pretty sure that it has to be in the trigger press.
Will this go away with experience or am I just doing something wrong.
I've only been out shooting 7 or 8 times, and only 3 with the Baretta .
The group gets better each outing.
Thanks fir the help in advance.

 

[indykid]

Gets better as you get used to the pistol. The Beretta (note spelling) is a very reliable and very accurate firearm. When new shooters go to a class to better themselves, usually the first thing they are told (after safety lecture) is that accuracy is usually 95% the person doing the shooting.

As always, practice practice practice.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Indykid has two valid points.
A: training never hurts.
B: there is no substitute for experience. Keep shooting!

 

[DadSmith]

When you have 3-4,000 rds through it of quality shooting time I'm sure you will be much improved.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

This may help. It indicates the source of your error when your shots go astray...

 

[Hatin Since 87]

I picked up the Baretta 92FS a while back.
Awesome gun.
Also shooting a 22 bearcat revolver by Ruger.
I'm pretty new to shooting.
With both guns, at 20' I can pretty much keep 80% of my rounds in a 2.5" group (decent?). The other ones fly out to 4 or 5 inches, usually down and a little off to a side.
I know that it's me, and I am pretty sure that it has to be in the trigger press.
Will this go away with experience or am I just doing something wrong.
I've only been out shooting 7 or 8 times, and only 3 with the Baretta .
The group gets better each outing.
Thanks fir the help in advance.

Honestly I think you answered your own question. Keep shooting. It’ll continue to improve and you won’t see the occasional erratic shot after a while. Then after you tighten up groups and consistently hit them, you can begin working on things like double taps. Everybody has their own way of training and progressing, but as long as you’re training you’re gaining experience. Keep shootin’

 

[JStang314]

I agree. Sounds like you’re on the right track. If you’re right handed I’m guessing a lot of your low flyers are low and left. A lot of newer shooters have that issue with shot anticipation (I know I did, and bad). Just keep shooting and maybe look up some dry fire drills for when you can’t actually go shooting.

 

[Spike Jones 5 2002]

NO, NO, No to all above.
Grip you are not gripping correctly.
Then trigger squeeze.
Where do you live for gun shop to get correct lessons.

Shooting 10,000 badly just reinforced a bad habit.

 

[63PGP]

Check out some of TPC's videos on grip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i0NGDTiehE

 

[DadSmith]

NO, NO, No to all above.
Grip you are not gripping correctly.
Then trigger squeeze.
Where do you live for gun shop to get correct lessons.

Shooting 10,000 badly just reinforced a bad habit.

You should not repeat if it was bad you should have adjusted or tried something different before thec10k rd mark.

 

[Vic Z]

Thank you for all of the responses.
I'm not denying it (I have very little experience), but I'm not sure how bad grip makes sense. 8 of 10 shots are decent, and my grip doesn't change between them. But again, I'm certainly no pro.
I would guess that it is anticipation flinch.
I try to really focus on a good grip, front sight focus, and steady trigger pull.
I will watch the grip video (have seen several already but more never hurts) and focus on on that, as well as trigger squeeze

 

[BR8818]

If you think your flinching have a buddy load your mag for you with a couple dummy rounds mixed in. Then you can see if your flinching or jerking the trigger.

 

[Vic Z]

I agree. Sounds like you’re on the right track. If you’re right handed I’m guessing a lot of your low flyers are low and left. A lot of newer shooters have that issue with shot anticipation (I know I did, and bad). Just keep shooting and maybe look up some dry fire drills for when you can’t actually go shooting.

Exactly.
And at the range today I noticed that I don't do it with the 22. Just the 9mm.