I do a lot of dry-fire at home with my handguns, drawing from the holster, target acquisition, fast mag-change practice, transitioning between targets, movement and so on and I also shoot at least once a week at the range with my handguns, 200-300 rounds usually so that's all under control.
It's getting behind the long guns that's been difficult from a time perspective lately. I shoot those on private property and due to the distances I shoot, past a mile often, the places I go are not found nearby so it's a full day thing when I go and I'll shoot a lot of rounds, gather data from cold bore shots, do load development and testing of new/supplied equipment. It all takes time.
There's things that can be done that don't require going somewhere to shoot but it's limiting and skills degrade...something I'm not happy with and it sounds like you're not either.
I'm glad you're able to get out and shoot pistols more often than me.
In my state there's lots of BLM land and it's probably about a 40 minute drive. Do you happen to have anything like that you can shoot on instead of private land?
Yeah, I don't get to shoot nearly as often as I'd like.
There's many ranges here, but no rifle ranges with the distance I need.
I cull on a cattle farm, (image below), and shoot there most weeks but because head shots are required I don't shoot at vast ranges, only out to about 350 metres. It's only about fifteen minutes from home and easily accessible so I go quite a lot. It helps with the skills, but as a long range shooter 350 metres isn't much of a stretch. It's good to work on positional shooting and locating targets though.
For long ranging I have to drive over an hour or more and sometimes up to two hours depending on where I'm going, and I tend to make it a whole day thing, sometimes overnight so I can do some cold bore testing very early in the morning or late at night. There's only one chance to do a cold bore shot really, once a round goes through it's not cold any longer obviously.
Legit right? 👇
I've done several posts on this property, all found in this community.
Wow, that is some gorgeous property!
That's much nicer than shooting in the desert. 😆
Yeah...desert or lush green rolling hills...desert or lush green rolling hills...desert or lush green rolling hills...let's go with lush green rolling hills!
I have sole access here, I'm on the property's culling register with the government. I'm very careful about it, who knows I go there and where it is, because great properties to shoot on are so difficult to find. I was referred to this farmer (by another farmer) which is the only way I was able to secure it; from there it's a matter of building trust and it becomes a property for life.
The photo in the post itself is one of my other locations and I have another where there's some 160 year old ruins I shoot from, not quite Fallujah of course, but adds a different element.