Gluemanz28
Grandmaster
Everything is on a sliding scale. Stinging after 50 rounds would not, to me, be considered painful. That said, 25-50 rounds with my carry gun and then switching to something else is also not enough to build proficiency to the level I want to be at unless you are doing it daily and putting in a lot of time dry firing. I shoot about triple that when I live fire. "Proficient" is also a range, some folks will be happy at different levels of skill. No one is going to put 150-300 rounds down range with a gun that hurts to shoot, and every round properly practiced is cumulative. Someone who's shot 10k well practiced rounds is way ahead on the curve of someone who's shot 3300, all else being equal.
Very well said BBI
I have started to only take my EDC gun to the range for self defense practice. If I am just going to have some fun shooting some of the guns from the stable then I don't shoot my EDC while I am there. I have to have two separate mindsets when it comes to range trips.
This has helped me improve on my skills. Others might do just fine mixing the two types of range trips but for me it didn't work. I average about 200 rounds per week through my EDC (Shield in 40)