• Truscape@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    18 minutes ago

    Living in Cali, best thing I got for this is VR simulations…

    Hopefully that’ll work for some aspects.

  • ITGuyLevi@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    49 minutes ago

    Great work and keep at it, shooting can be a really fun way to relax and clear your head!

    Some unsolicited advice though (if you want it). If you have a rod for cleaning your barrel, an old trick from basic was to get into a prone position with the rifle unloaded and insert the rod into the end of the barrel. Practice balancing a small coin on the rod while you aim and dry fire. Focus on pulling the trigger with the pad of your finger and pulling solidly enough to fire, but controlled enough to not shift the end of your barrel. It really helps with your left-right spread.

  • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    8 hours ago

    That’s really good for only the second time of shooting!

    Another poster suggested dry firing, which is good practice that can be done away from the range and helps handling the gun become second nature (better with a snap cap so you also practice handling bullets and mags too, IMO). I’d also suggest checking out Tacticool Girlfriend’s YouTube video about countering flinching, which is a natural reaction and can cause grouping to drop (it happens to me really badly with full load 45ACP)

  • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
    92·
    12 hours ago

    Looking good! Try practicing dry firing and see if you can catch where you’re canting downward. I’d bet you’re squeezing down with your ring and pinky finger on your trigger hand. I also want to suggest that most common body armor can defeat handgun rounds. The wearer isn’t going to be happy about it, mind you, but it probably won’t mean shit if your bad guy has invested in some plates. Have you perhaps considered a shotgun with double ought or triple ought buck? There’s several meaningful advantages over a handgun to think about there.

    • morphballganon@mtgzone.comEnglish
      49·
      17 hours ago

      It’s not a “trend.” It’s a small subset of the population that can VERY EASILY be blocked.

      • festnt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        71·
        15 hours ago

        oh no someone accidentally put an apostrophe where there shouldn’t be one

        they must not be seen again, ever

        • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          13 hours ago

          Eh, as someone with hyperlexia, it’s just a bit frustrating trying to read non-standard English. It sometimes takes me a while to figure out what the user actually meant when using the wrong written form of a homophone.

          I think it’s partially because I don’t really hear speech in my head, so the jump from “it’s” to “its”, for example, is not obvious to me unless I slowly read it out loud.

          I know English is a silly language with even sillier rules, but my brain expects it to be written out a certain way and stops parsing if that doesn’t happen.

          I’ve definitely blocked at least one person who had extremely poor English on here before, but not out of spite, simply because they brought me no value beyond just wasting my reading time until my brain eventually goes “I can’t read this 🙃” and gets frustrated. IIRC they were writing in very abbreviated English with a ton of typos and homophone mistakes.

        • morphballganon@mtgzone.comEnglish
          13·
          14 hours ago

          If a person’s post isn’t good enough to proofread, it isn’t good enough to read.

          And if they proofread it and don’t catch the error, they’re either a bot or a moron, and I’m better off seeing neither.

      • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        13 hours ago

        It’s definitely more than it was 10 years ago. Even so, I don’t wanna block people. I just want them to know more about the stuff they use every day. Everyone deserves to have the ability to convey their ideas effectively.

    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
      311·
      14 hours ago

      My rule is contractions only. I don’t even use use it for possession (eg Jake’s car) because you can always pick that up just fine from context (Jakes car).

      edit: Everybody hated that 🤷

      • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        14·
        15 hours ago

        You kinda have to use the apostrophe for possession though. It reads terribly without it.

      • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        13 hours ago

        If the name ends in an S, you leave a floating apostrophe.

        James’

        If the name does not end with an S, you place an S after an apostrophe.

        Carl’s

        The only time an S without an apostrophe is valid is when indicating plural. If the noun ends with an S, you do not have to change anything.

        Many James

        Many Carls