If youre a beginner to intermediate, and still need help on your pistol shooting, particularly the relationship between trigger control and sight alignment/calling your shots, youre best off perfecting and working on your pistol skills and taking pistol classes from a reputable school. 1. ammos cheap, 2. theres typically more concentration on fundamentals, 3. theyre easier to find in your area, and 4. Having a solid pistol background transfers over to the long guns. The pros dont win matches just because they know how to load shotgun shells quickly; they are masters of shooting fundamentals.

Dont try to run before you walk; figuratively.

Amen! The pistol is the most difficult of the 3 platforms to shoot and all of the skills translate to the long guns (not the other way around).

Rich

Thanks for the advice.

I've only shot 2, 3 gun matches and in both I have skipped targets and did not even realize I hadn't shot them until after the stage was over. I did the same when starting USPSA, and I think that helped my pistol game since they have matches 2/month vs 1/month 3 gun. But a 10-30 sec pistol course isn't comparable to a 100+ 3 gun stage with swingers, flyers ect. So much going on I get so amped up I will tunnel out some targets that are right in front of me.