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JALLEN wrote:When I bought my Sig 226 Navy some years ago, one of those special runs Sig did, I had a hard time shooting accurately. This was one of the most admired pistols ever made, used by SEALS, SAS, law enforcement, etc. How could this be? I had no training since military days, no real experience, but how hard could it be?

I drove the guys at the LGS nuts, worried myself to a frazzle, fiddled with sight pushers, got advice from most of the other IDPA shooters in the group, etc. and somebody told me to talk to Bruce Gray, a Sig shooting team guy and gun smith par excellence then in Sacramento. Gray holds weekend schools among other things. I sent him my pistol to work on, trigger work, change sights, etc. When I showed up for one of his weekend schools, he was ringing the steel at 50 yards very consistently with it. It wasn't the pistol!

Over the next few years, I attended 3 or 4 weekend shooting schools of his. He preaches trigger control, lots of dry firing. "Shooting is dry firing with noise." I'm still not Lone Ranger accurate but my shooting improved enormously. It turns out that's what my SEAL buddies did and suggested. A couple of hundred dry fire a day, concentrating on trigger prep and control, does wonders.

Some have natural ability, talent. Like golfers, the rest of us benefit from training with a competent teacher, and retraining, too.