Interesting thoughts . I guess I never pretended that i would be the best shot in the world . I practice as often as time and money allows. As there probably not a professional hand gun hunting coach within a few hundred miles of me i concern myself with target practice .striving to be minute of squirrels head out to 25 yds minute of deer out too 75 yds. These are real hunting conditions in my world. I do plink out to 100 yds for fun. This plinking helps to make me more confident at hunting distances. I am not consistent enough to place every shot on target at 100 yds with my revolver and would not shoot deer that far. Never got into competitive shooting outside of dollar bets with shooting buddies .