Shooting Goals for 2010

I did a lot of shooting this past year, and a lot of different types of shooting.

I went to several USPSA and IPSC style matches and some regulation steel matches. I made a few larger competitions and almost all of our local club competitions. I started participating in Three Gun (which I hope to continue next year) and also went to several Defense Tactics classes, both taught by Sabumnim and by outside instructors.

I didn’t make any goals last year, but this year, I would like to have a few, both related to USPSA competition and related to Defensive Tactics style shooting.

Goals:

Write commentary/reviews of at least the larger matches I attend and any shooting classes I participate in. Include stage times, scores, and anything that went exceedingly well or exceedingly poorly and why.

Gain knowledge of guns other than Glocks. Handle 15 different types of hand guns over the year—either in a store or out on the range. For each, work the safety, magazine release, wrack the slide, lock the slide open (where possible).

Look up (via the internet) and research the following “major” handgun manufactures and their various models: Smith and Wesson, Ruger, CZ, Beretta, Colt, Sig, Springfeild, Glock, Browning, and HK. Ultimate goal is to be able to recognize the maker of a specific handgun on sight.

Learn to manipulate my Glock 19 in limited vision. This could be when it’s dark, when I don’t have my contacts in, or for some other reason I can’t see.

Work on being able to shoot with combat accuracy and not competition accuracy.

Read 10 books on Defensive Tactics or self defense over the next year. For each, write a short summary and thoughts in my DT blog.

Be able to manipulate a shotgun and a rifle as well as I can manipulate my pistol. Practice loading, unloading, locking it open, and making safe etc.

Make C Class in USPSA.

Work on transitioning from one target to the next. Take out the pauses where I tend to try and find my hits on the target.