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What worked best for me was to focus my eyes on the front sight for target shooting. When I shifted my focus from the target to the front sight, my groups improved a lot.
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When talking about any sort of pistol shooting but especially precision ( such as NRA bullseye) this is very key. Your front sight needs to be sharply in focus always and your target always blurry.
I shot bullseye for decades ( still do) and some of the skills encouraged by the run and gun types do not necessarily transfer to precision shooting and vice versa.
Understand you will have a wobble zone you carefully squeeze the trigger during- most wide shots on a bullseye are the result of getting a perfect sight picture and mashing on the trigger instead of working through the wobble zone. Also never strain your eyes during a string of fire to look at where the bullets are landing! This creates two problems you tire your eyes plus this creates a subconscious desire to look over the sights to the target. For checking hits a spotting scope or binocular or walking to the target ( or at those ranges so equipped bringing the target back to you.
Doing each element of the shooting sequence "by the numbers" as a conscious act is also important:
1) get a stance and check natural point of aim then adjust your feet so you are not muscling the gun into alignment with the target with your arm
2) carefully grip the pistol as high up on the grip as possible
3) practice several rise to target and point pistol at target with eye closed - if the gun is not pointing at the target adjust your stance
4) shoot slow fire at a small target or at least 50 feet with 25 yards better it shows every little error and keep targets to review at home to figure out your mistakes
5) getting an experienced precision shooter for a mentor they can usually stand next to you and in about a minute or less tell you exactly what you are doing that may be hurting or helping performance.
6) keep practice sessions short- under 100 rounds but take your time. Any of us can pretty much quickly blast a one hole group at seven yards with 100 rounds in ten minutes- your goal is to make every one of those 100 trigger breaks perfect and with maximal focus on each shot this takes time and can be rather tiring