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2021 Year In Review
I'm calling it a "Year in Review", but it's not really a year this time. I joined the club in September, and have been shooting at this point for 4 months.
Air Pistol
Back in September, I focused on the air pistol, shooting it both 1 handed and 2 handed. The correct manner of shooting the air pistol is 1 handed, but because my arm muscles were weak I shot around half 2 handed.
- My average score was 42.556
- My best score (left) was 63
For 1 hand:
- My average score was 61.625
- My best score (left) was 68
For 2 hand:
As we moved into October, and as I built up tolerance to holding the air pistol up, I switched to primarily shooting 1 handed.
- My average score was 61.2
- This is 18.6 better on average.
- My best score (right) was 72
For 1 hand:
- I shot only one card (right) with a score of 76
- This remains my best 2 hand AP card to date
For 2 hand:
In November I didn't plan to use the air pistol, but ended up doing so 1 handed over a month after my last time using it, because the club's air rifles were being used by other members.
- My overall average score was 61.4
- This is unchanged from October
- My best score (left) was 73
- This remains my best 1 hand AP card to date
For 1 hand:
In December I didn't use the air pistol.
Air Pistol Summary
- My average score for the year was 54.25
- I shot 240 pellets 1 handed, of which 13 were misses. Thus my raw inaccuracy was 5.42%
- My lowest score was in September, a 31
- My best was in November, a 73
- My best was 42 ahead of my worst
For 1 hand:
Chart (above): Air Pistol by-month averages, trend
Chart (below): Air pistol by-day scatter, trend
- My average score for the year was 63.2
- I shot 90 pellets 2 handed, of which 2 were misses, making my raw inaccuracy 2.22%
- My lowest score was in September, a 53
- My best was in October, a 76
- My best was 23 ahead of my worst
For 2 hand:
Air Rifle
In September, I didn't use the air rifle.
In October, I used the air rifle on one day at 10m, for both unsupported and bench-rest.
- I only shot one card (left) with a score of 26
For unsupported AR:
- I shot 2 cards with the same score of 68
- I picked one of them at random (left)
For bench-rest AR:
As we moved into November, I began to shoot air rifle regularly at 10m, and primarily unsupported.
- My average score was 48.588
- This is 22.6 better on average.
- My best score (right) was 62
For unsupported AR:
- I shot 2 cards with an average of 67.5
- This is 0.5 worse on average
- My best score (right) was 69 which is nice
- This remains my best bench-rest score to date
For bench-rest AR:
In December, I only shot once.
- My average score was 56.5
- This is 7.9 better on average.
- My best score (right) was 63
- This remains my best score to date
For unsupported AR:
- I shot 1 card with a score of 68
- This is 0.5 better than last month's average
For bench-rest AR:
Air Rifle Summary
- My average score for the year was 49
- I shot 220 pellets unsupported, of which 19 were misses. Thus my raw inaccuracy was 8.64%
- My lowest score was in November, a 25
- My best was in December, a 63
- My best was 38 ahead of my worst
For unsupported AR:
Chart (above): Air Rifle by-month averages, trend
Chart (below): Air Rifle by-day scatter, trend
- My average score for the year was 67.8
- I shot 50 pellets bench-rest, of which none were misses, making my raw inaccuracy 0%
- My lowest score was in November, a 66
- My best was also in November, a 69
- My best was 3 ahead of my worst
For bench-rest AR:
Overall Summary
- My average score overall was 54.8
- I shot 600 pellets, of which 34 were misses. Thus my raw inaccuracy was 5.67%
- My lowest score was in November, unsupported air rifle with a score of 25
- My best was in October, 2 handed air pistol with a score of 76
- My most improved air gun and stance was 1 handed air pistol, by 42, from 31 in September to 73 in November
- The best average was bench-rest AR, at 67.8. However, bench-rest was consistent from the start.
- The subjectively best average was 2 handed AP, which had a year average of 63.2, close behind bench-rest despite so many more data points.
Across all air guns and stances:
Chart (above): All airguns and stances, by-month averages, trend
All in all, I'm happy with my progress. I shall be focusing more heavily on unsupported air rifle in the coming months, because I enjoy it a lot.
The range is closed through January 2022, so we'll pick up in February 2022.