Practice Makes Perfect.

In many instances in life, you hear about how practice makes perfect, and in shooting, it’s the same. If you never pick up a gun and go shoot paper, you’ll never hit where you want to hit. If you go out and practice, you’re probably going to be better. But in reality, you can practice all you want, and if you never practice the right things, you’ll never get any better. It was instilled into me from a young age to take your time, let the gunshot surprise you, don’t jerk the trigger, but I was never taught the correct way to hold a handgun to be more accurate, or even how to properly gauge where you were going to hit at a long distance with a rifle. It took a lot of time, and a lot of instruction from people much better at shooting than I am to get me where I am today. It takes patience, and a realization that you are going to fail 10x the amount you will succeed before you finally figure things out. Shooting great is an art form, and to make great art, you have to practice, and make some really crappy art. If you want to get into shooting, or just get better at it, find someone who is good at it and get them to teach you. They will likely have good pointers that you could never figure out on your own.