State of the Marksman: Q1 2025 (and Other Housekeeping)

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The Everyday Marksman

Matt Robertson

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The Everyday Marksman teaches regular people just like you how to live a more adventurous life through the study and practice of martial skills. We focus on marksmanship, survival, fitness, winning mindset, and equipment. Join us every other week as we talk to experts in the field and inspire success.

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State of the Marksman: Q1 2025 (and Other Housekeeping)

The Everyday Marksman

15 minutes 13 seconds

6 months ago

State of the Marksman: Q1 2025 (and Other Housekeeping)

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What does that mean?

At the end of 2024, I gave you an update on how I thought I did throughout the year across a few different areas. I also laid out a few goals for myself in 2025. You can can go back and read that update for yourself, but here were the main things I was looking to work on:

2025 Targets

* Compete in 4 to 6 competitions with pistol components

* 12% to 15% body fat percentage

* Earn radio general ticket and do three POTA activations

* Learn more gunsmithing skills

* Finish writing the book

So Let's Talk

First off, let's talk pistol shooting. My range sessions so far this year have all been pistol-focused. Be it testing different optics, as with the Shield AMS I reviewed a couple of months ago and the Shield RMSx I'm testing now (and quite enjoying). I've also participated in two of the Everyday Marksman postal matches. You can go back and look at the course of fire for the first one a few posts back, and the second one's write up will hit after the match concludes at the end of April.

In all, while my practice and shooting sessions aren't as frequent as I'd like, they are happening and I'm getting a good workout on my pistol shooting.

I've also been spending a good bit of time with my Beretta 92A1, recently back from Allegheny Arms after an extended stay in the hands of their gunsmiths. The end result is just beautiful, and easily makes it my favorite pistol in the safe. As for my latest purchase, the Springfield Armory 1911 Operator AOS, I've been experimenting with different grips to find a preference, and installing parts as they come in (like a Stan Chen SI mag well).

I'm not counting the postal matches towards my target matches this year, so it's about time to get on that goal and go sign up.

Body Composition & Fitness

The goal at the start of the year was to drive down body fat percentage from ~18% to ~13%. I thought I would start the year off strong with a cut and make relatively short work of that. Unfortunately, I've had an unusually busy travel schedule for work and many social events that kept derailing me.