81 years old and been shooting Shotguns, rifles and pistols since a teenager. Seems I now can't keep 100 bullets in a pie plate at 10 yards.

Any suggestions? Web sites or YOUTUBE vidios to watch?

Thanks, Mike

Lots of dry fire would be my suggestion.
Phil

Thank you Phil. Doing that every day now.

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Originally posted by Michael Michalski:
81 years old and been shooting Shotguns, rifles and pistols since a teenager. Seems I now can't keep 100 bullets in a pie plate at 10 yards.

Any suggestions? Web sites or YOUTUBE vidios to watch?

Thanks, Mike

Come to Wis and I would gladly try to help.

But it just might be age.

How was your pistol shooting ten. years ago

How is it when firing your first shot and second shot.

Do you have any tremors in your hands.

Over the years with our retired troopers qualifying for HR218.
Some very excellent shots when they were younger.

Start having problems at various older ages.

Some went to laser's some try dot sights some just can't do it any more.

Not fun but age catches up to us.

I have a friend who was exposed to Agent Orange + now has really shaky hands when trying to shoot. There have been enough cases of type 2 diabetes from AO exposure that the VA can't dismiss it anymore. John is very involved in the VA + gave me that info.

Michael, you don't say what the problem is.
1. What gun are you using?
2. Stop shooting off hand (even 2 hands) and shoot a 5 shot group from a rest.
3. The aiming point (target) should be black, and subtend the same width as your front sight. At 25 yards the black is roughly 5 1/2 inches.
4. You should shoot a noticeable group. If not, then the problem is failure to maintain a consistent sight picture, or poor trigger pull.
5. Borrow a friends gun which has a red dot sight, and shoot it from a rest. Again, there should be a noticeable group, dooesn't matter where on the target it is.
6. Let me know.
Peter.
Added later: shoot a 22 semi auto as above if you have one.

Thank You! Good advice all. Sighted the 92X off the bench and the gun is not the problem; old man is. Seems to be that I'm relearning a lot of stuff. Was never a good student and age has not improved it.

Good to know. Shoot/practice with a decent 22lr semi auto. If your range has a plate rack, shoot the plates. Good practice and ammo is cheap(er).
Peter.

Took my Mark III to the range today; much better. Used some Norma TAC-22 and while I'm no Elmer Keith (never was,
never will) the heavy target gun, good trigger. and target sights helped a lot, but still a ways to go. THANKS AGAIN

Mike