With your carry handgun,
At 55 feet ,
hit it 7 times out of ten rounds?
in under 2 minutes
just curious

12 inchs in diameter ?
15 ?
24 inches ?
bigger?

Depends on the gun and good day vs bad day. With my Xcarry larely I’m keeping thing in a 6 inch circle at 55 ft. That’s shooting controlled but not slowly. On a good day it’s 3 inches, but that’s not typical. I shoot by myself most of the time and it’s nice to shoot with others on occasion. Gives me a reality check vs comparing what I read online or in magazines. I always start at 75 ft and work my way in. Speeding up as I get closer. Big difference between 40 and 50 ft for me. Red dots seem to help all around.

Well, 5 To Go in Steel Challenge has one of the 10" plates at 54'. That would be possible with my current P229 carry gun, but might be pretty tough with the P365 that I want to start carrying. However, I can hold the 365 inside a USPSA head box (roughly 6"x6") at ~8 yards. So if you double the distance and keep the size relative, I guess that would be a 12"x12" target.

With it being 7 of 10, the 10" target might be possible. 12 seconds per shot is a long time. Most people probably wouldn't use it all.

I’m going to try that next time. Based on groups on larger targets, I’d say 9-12.

I carry a variety of guns but I'd say I'd be pretty confident to keep it in the head at the range. I'd be a bit more confident with some over others.

<12"

On a good day, a paper plate, every other day the side of a barn.

Best pistol shot I ever had was approximately 100 yards, gallon jug, 1 out of 3 from an S&W 906.

So, I think I could hit your 7" mark at least seven times at 55 feet.

Two minutes is a long time for 10 shots; 12 seconds per trigger pull. I may be able to hit 7/10 in 4-5 inches.

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With your carry handgun, At 55 feet, hit it 7 times out of ten rounds? In under 2 minutes, just curious

8" circle

55 feet and with two minutes? That means zero stress, and no adrenaline to deal with. 9 out of 10 in a 3-5 inch circle. Plenty of time to line up each shot. Basically bulls-eye range shooting. Now if you add a stress condition, things would be very different.

The diameter of the bull on a 50 foot bullseye pistol target would be my standard, I think that is about 4-5”, so for a fudge factor with a small carry gun I would say 6”

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Originally posted by GaryBF:
Two minutes is a long time for 10 shots; 12 seconds per trigger pull. I may be able to hit 7/10 in 4-5 inches.

That was my first thought....Two minutes???

1.21 gw

2 minutes? Plenty of time to lay down and shoot prone.

On my best day, with my best gun, with my best load, I once hit 70 out of 70 rounds on a paper plate. I can probably never do it again and, as luck would have it, there were no witnesses. I also once hit nearly every silhouette target at a shoot in Texas, without knocking them over so I was disqualified. That was with an AMT Hardballer and cheap Phillipine ammo. These days I concentrate hard out to 15 yards and can usually hit a 5 inch bright yellow target most of the time. My wife says if I get much worse I'm going to be restricted to a 5 shot 45 colt and contact ranges. She calls it the "blind man's gun."

4" for your parameters and I could probably beat 7/10 most of the time. To go faster I'd need bigger. For calibration I can shoot 10" steel plates at 20 yards (part of our normal steel plate shoot) with a general score of 40-45 seconds hitting 20/24 plates with 3 reloads included per the rules. I'm old and my intrinsic accuracy is near 3-4", younger people or shooting .22lr for example could probably live on smaller plates. I never miss the long plate on 5 to go and its 10", and most other people don't as well and that's running at speed.

Easy at 12’ with good trigger control. Take a OsSpec class. They had us shoot a man sized plate ( think uspsa a and c zones) at 100 yards! Didn’t think I could with a p320 but darn if I could if I did as I was taught. Bill drills on an 8’plate at 50 yards was doable, and at 25 yards felt pretty reasonable.
Take some classes and you will be surprised what you do !

2 min. That’s plenty of time for me to walk 40 feet and shoot 10 rounds.

Depends on the Gun but I’d say 11x16 inches realistically. The indoor range where I have shot most as of late used roughly 11x17 targets and on the rare occasion that I would shoot at max range 50-55 feet I could generally stay on target. Easier with all steel/metal pistols harder with Tupperware. I am not really a great shot.

Chris.

13.65" x 12.77"

I can usually hit 8" plates at 15-20 yards 70% or better at speed. Sadly I don't shoot much better if I took the whole two minutes. This is why I do steel challenge and USPSA, I'd be really bad at bulls eye