how far away form target for handguns
 

How far away form your target do you guys practice with your handguns. seems lately I have been staying between 10 feet to 15 yards, figure since everyone says 10 or less is where a gun fight happens I would hang around there for some time, I have never gone beyound 20 yards though

ohh what would you say the max range both for accuracy and power is for a 45 and 9mm handguns

I practice anywhere from 25-50 yards with my Ruger SuperBlackHawk, and 50-100 yards with my scoped Ruger Super RedHawk. 100-300 yards with my scoped Remington XP100R 260 Rem. But I am not worried about a gun fight, I hunt with my guns.

Target distance?
 

Since I don't shoot competition any longer and I don't hunt with a handgun, most of my handgun practice is at 7yds. Once in a while I will shoot out to 15yds. The largest room in my house is 26'. Most
outdoor confrontations are within that 7yd range.
GOOD LUCK and GOOD SHOOTING!!!

Fritz doesn't believe in crime. For your purposes You're doing fine. If you shoot someone you better have good proof that they were threatening your life. SOmeone running away from you at 25 yards isn't a threat. Most Self defense situations are close, often times just a few feet not even yards. So I'd say your practicing the right way.
-Jake

For defense puposes I'd say you're ok. But most accuracy tests in the magazines are done at 25 yds. But this I guess is to keep all else equal. Now, me, I practice with my 8 3/8" barrel S&W 29 at 50 yds and my scoped Magnum Research BFR .45-70 at 100 yds. But with my Steyr M40 & Taurus 605 - usually about 10 - 15 yds & my 1911 usually 15 - 25 yds. When I shoot with the Judge, 10 yds is plenty. (I don't say practice with the Judge because you don't need to exactly have pinpoint accuracy shooting #6 and Winchester PD1 ammo.)

5, 7, and 10 yards. But hitting the target is the easy part, practice un-holstering while imagining someone coming at you with a gun or knife!

+1

Just like practical hunting positions aren't from the bench, you need to practice real life self defense situations.

Believe it or not there is not a whole lot of crime here in Pierce Idaho (population about 400). I pray for the day I have a home invasion, I lived in Orlando Fl. for 15 years with no such luck. If someone was to break in my house, I have a 113lb Pit Bull that will be more than happy to handle it for me, the cops can interogate and arrest the dog for exsessive force if they want.

Just messing with ya Fritz, I don't have much crime where I'm from either. But it doesn't hurt to be ready! That's a huge pit, my biggest was only about 75lbs.
-Jake

not really preparing for the day, just the handgun is for defense, no reason to sit on a bench and shoot at 50 yards when I will have no bench to sit on when I need to use the gun. I have done a good amount of holstering, firing, reholstering and just, even some dropping the mag out putting a new on in and firing, though with the glock 17 17 rounds should do it, though with the small bullet that is like 8 1/2 45s lol.

Yeah, he is the biggest I have ever owned. Alot of people ask me if he has mastiff in him, but he dosent. He is just a monster. I got him from my cousin in Florida, he breeds them. I named him Nitro, he sure has lived up to his name.

Jeepkid is right the excitement alone will cause all sorts of things to happen. That's why most statistic's of use of handguns in self defense is under 25ft. Because that's point blank range for most people and pistols. After 25ft. the odds of someone getting shot in a typical fast situation is a lot less.

Don't get me wrong there's plenty of shooters out there but there's those that are born of steel and those that think they are. I'll be bluntly honest when it comes to being excited while in a tense situation I've already found out that i'm more like molten lead I'll run away to live another day if I can. Had a instance with a black bear that I'd shot at 5 yards with a handgun. While the initial shot floored him, he rolled down hill right at my feet. As he's rolling down hill I fired a second shot, shooting over him as he fell. Before I could even take a step backwards to get some distance from the bear he was up on his feet and I was in the process of back peddling. The bear was up and off into the brush in a flash. The only thing that saved me from one hell of a fight in my thinking is when the bear was shot and rolled down hill he became disorientated when he came up. The bear weighed about 350lbs and all this happened in less than 2 seconds. I found out that day I wasn't the guy saying well I would of done this or I would of done that. I had a split second to finish off the bear right there but my mind went right into the lets get the hell out of this mess mode. Most of us are not going to stand there if we think we can get to safety. That's called self preservation.

When it does happen your not going to have time to plan it out it's just going to happen. After a little instance with an animal I couldn't imagine the craziness of someone coming in my home in the dark armed with bad intentions. I'd hope to think my protective nature for my family would have more salt than my protective mode for myself. It better.........

I shoot any where from 10 ft to 100 yds depending on the gun & what I feel like doing that day.

at the most 25 yards

..... I think I remember someone telling me that the Cowboy Shooters handgun shoots are at 7 yds. Could be wrong...

7 yards should be fine. Practice drawing from concealment and pulling that trigger until it is automatic. Also practice clearing a misfire or stovepipe. As stated above, when you hear the muzzle blast of your opponent, you don't think real clearly. My Department makes us qualify out to 25 yards, but the most practical, in my experience, is 5 shots, from the holster, in 4 seconds at 3 yards.

Inside 21 ft. It's awfully difficult for an amature, to unholster and fire a handgun at someone. Most self defense classes will tell you that.You have to be very very fast and a skilled shooter to be able to draw and hit a skilled person who has amature fighting skills, or martial arts or military training.So if your find yourself in trouble, and you have a handgun, and you are forced to use it, use at a distance greater than 21ft.And use the 21 ft rule as your defence. LOL .
Just helping.

We do draw and live fire drills from touch to 25yds. Most confrontation distances are at 7ft or less. We do do most of our shooting from holster to fire in under 2 seconds with 2 rounds. Alibys result in laps to top of berm and back in gear!!!!! Once you can handle the weapon without question at distances of 15-25yds, anythng else is a chip shot!!!!!!

cleet has us shoot from 3 feet out to 25 yds

There is what they call the "21 ft. rule " for handgun practice for personal protection, so that would make it 7yds. and then 15 and 10 ft. Drawing from a concealed carry with 2 well placed shots in 1.5 seconds or under is standard .
For hunting and bullseye 50 ft indoors and 25 and 50 yards. If only for hunting with a gun like a Contender for most 150yard would be about max.