I always assumed that a pistol is going to be accurate to 15-25-50 yards...
So, I'm wondering if my thoughts on pistol accuracy is just because it is only as accurate as the shooter...
Here is my background on my thought:
I shot a steel match the other day with my CZ52 Tokerev. The the targets were 10 yards away and large 1-2' diameter. I had a tough day at work and went in and was missing everything. Not really everything but 2 or 3 or 4 misses out of 6... That sucks...
I consider my CZ52 to be a very accurate gun...
So, couple days later I go to my favorate range and am shooting long range steel targets. While I am waiting on my rifle to cool down, I pull out the CZ52 and think let's just put a couple on the 100 yard targets...
Well, I put 7 out of 8 on a cowboy silhoute at 100 yards that is about 2' tall and 1' wide... The one I pulled... So the gun is accurate...
So, I try for a chicken (about the size of a real chicken) at 200 yards and after about 20 or so rounds I hit the sucker and knock him down.
That CZ52 has a 4" barrel and shoots a HOT round. But I'm thinking... Is a pistol really much more accurate than we think? I told my buddy this story and he said "wow, that is some serious marksmanship" - I thought, well I kind of played a little battle ship... Low, high, left, right, right high and most likely got really lucky on the hit... So not really good marksmanship, but just zeroing in. And the pistol happened to be consistent enough that I could zero in on the target.
Then I started thinking about my other pistols. I have some that I think are really accurate and others that I think that are well not so much. Now I am thinking, perhaps I am just not shooting them right.
Seems like a good way to start thinking about my varius guns and when I feel like there is an accuracy problem, perhaps I should just go to the long range and see if it really is a problem...
My thinking is that I am wrong to think that pistols are sub 50 yard guns and that I should think of them as guns that I need to figure out how far they are actually accurate out to... Basically, I think I need a new notebook...