Didn't Call the Shot....Now what?

[Tman33_99]

I have been working hard on calling my shots, and I am very pleased with how quickly it is coming. I know to immediately make up a "called miss", however there are times that I have let a shot go, where I was not sure where the shot went, all I know is the sights were close to what I wanted and let it rip, but at the point the shot broke, I have no idea for sure the exact spot to call.

What do others do in this case, do you move on and hope the shot was good enough, or do you immediately make an uncalled shot up? The match today, I had 4 shots I couldn't call, and immediately made a follow-up shot. On scoring, I found only one was a miss (glad I made that up), one was a charlie, one was bravo, and one was a alpha. Am I spending too much time, chasing my No-Calls?

Travis

[mpolans]

For me, it depends. If my gun only holds 10 rounds and and it's a 10 round stage with virtually no space to comfortably do a reload without losing time, I won't take the make-up shot and I'll just hope for the best.

If it's a stage with plenty of room to do a reload (field course with plenty of space between shooting areas), I'll go ahead and take the extra shot.

[ErikW]

Most of my misses come from Hopers.

[Nik Habicht]

I'm still having days where I can't (or possibly won't) focus enough to call my shots. I know I'm having a bad day, when I'm listening to the RO call out my hits and praying fervently that they're all there at the same time. On those rare days when I do focus, I take a makeup shot anytime I see an unacceptable sight picture.

[Flexmoney]

[cartman voice on]

Hopers suck assszzzzz!

[Jasonub]

afer a while if you did not see the shot break you automatically shoot at it again.

[shred]

afer a while if you did not see the shot break you automatically shoot at it again.

Yup.. at the East TX match this weekend, there were a couple targets shot strong-hand. After pointing and pulling the trigger twice on the first one, I realized I had no idea where the shots went, so I hit the brakes and shot that target again.

As it turned out, the first pair of hits were on the paper and the extra time I took probably cost me the match win. But, if either of them wasn't there, it would have cost me at least 3 or 4 places overall.

[Jasonub]

amen brother

[Tman33_99]

Well it sounds like I am on the right track, I definately don't want to be sucking assszzzzz, and praying for Hopers. But I was just wondering if I was wasting time, and it sounds like the answer is yes, but it is time well wasted. . On Saturday, my best stage was a strong hand only field course (I know, oxymoronic strong hand only and field course in the same sentence), where I was 2nd on the stage and only 4% behind one of our local GMs. But everything seemed to zone, The shots were there, and I sqweezed the trigger. Several were only head shots, full shots were available from another position, but I swung my sights, and the shots was there, and I made it. That was the one stage where I felt like I knew exactly where every shot was. It is an awesome feeling.