Things that have worked for me. Practice as much as you can afford. I do agree with practicing with good ammo, but I also agree with practicing with your sub par ammo. Like Todd said practice with flags. The main thing is to shoot enough to learn your ammo, gun, and the conditions in the area you are shooting. I am fortunate to be able to shoot at home, but my home range does not have an ideal layout. I have learned it helps to practice with ammo that is less than Ideal especially in tough conditions, seems tough conditions will sort of mask your looser ammo, as long as you mentally prepare yourself for it to not be perfect.
"don't expect ammo that will only score a 2000 to do any better than that", watch your flags watch what happens to your shots on all different conditions, you will find conditions that your setup prefers versus others.
FWIW.... Unless you are testing ammo.......If you look outside trying to cherry pick perfect conditions to practice in you are not doing yourself any favors. If you look outside and think....hmmm that's kind of junky I'm not going to mess around with that. Go setup the flags and burn a box or 2 and I bet you will learn a whole lot
thanks especially the part about the 2000 scoring ammo. flags still havent arrived yet but as soon as they do, I will have another excuse to hit the range lol.Things that have worked for me. Practice as much as you can afford. I do agree with practicing with good ammo, but I also agree with practicing with your sub par ammo. Like Todd said practice with flags. The main thing is to shoot enough to learn your ammo, gun, and the conditions in the area you are shooting. I am fortunate to be able to shoot at home, but my home range does not have an ideal layout. I have learned it helps to practice with ammo that is less than Ideal especially in tough conditions, seems tough conditions will sort of mask your looser ammo, as long as you mentally prepare yourself for it to not be perfect.
"don't expect ammo that will only score a 2000 to do any better than that", watch your flags watch what happens to your shots on all different conditions, you will find conditions that your setup prefers versus others.
FWIW.... Unless you are testing ammo.......If you look outside trying to cherry pick perfect conditions to practice in you are not doing yourself any favors. If you look outside and think....hmmm that's kind of junky I'm not going to mess around with that. Go setup the flags and burn a box or 2 and I bet you will learn a whole lot.