{"id":959,"date":"2015-04-03T05:15:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2015-04-03T05:15:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:15:38","slug":"practicing-at-close-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"Practicing At Close Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years &#8211; decades, actually &#8211; the vast majority of my practice has taken place at seven yards, the classic &#8220;maximum distance within which most gunfights occur.&#8221; As I continue to practice on the Venti drill (four reps in the past three range sessions), I find many things to like about it. One of them is the concept of practicing at three yards. I find that absolutely removes the possibility of wishful thinking and self-delusion re your skill level. If you&#8217;re firing a group at 25 yards and your shot lands entire inches away from where you were aiming, you might tell yourself, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s the gun.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s the ammo.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s not me.&#8221; And y&#8217;know, at 25 yards, that might well be true. But if you&#8217;re shooting a crappy group at three yards, where if your skill set is squared away you should be putting the bullets into one hole, there is no denying where the problem lays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years &#8211; decades, actually &#8211; the vast majority of my practice has taken place at seven yards, the classic &#8220;maximum distance within which most gunfights occur.&#8221; As I continue to practice on the Venti drill (four reps in the past three range sessions), I find many things to like about it. One of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}