Just thinking...jimyata's post got it started. Am I the only one that prefers to progress during a shooting session?

Will start with the light loads first, then move on to heavier loads...shooting the .22RF's or moderate cast bullet loads before shooting the fire-breathers.

Tend to shoot the rifles with iron before the ones with low power scopes, saving the higher power scoped rifles to last; if I do it the other way arround, usually find myself thinking how small things look rather than getting full consentration on the target...or shooting the light recoilers worse than I should becasue my best effort has alreay been spent controling the thumpers.

Guess i spend too much time shooting alone and if\gnoring the others at the range...don't really know if everyone does this, or if I'm just "crotchety" and set in my ways.

I only shoot moderate to high power Scopes, but do the progression shooting in the way of calibers. It has cured a flkinch I developed when I first got my 300 win mag. I like to finish with a set of Accuracy shots with my 22lr, and 22-250

Shoot the .458 first. Everything else is pretty mild in the recoil department after that !!!!

Seriously, I almost never go to the range without a .22 to verify whether I'm flinching.

If I am going by myself I usually bring alike calibers to keep the ammo needed easier to sort. Like with the .223, I'll drag out an AR-15, SL8, and Remington700, or if .308 is the caliber of the day, then the AR10-T, Remington700 and BLR, just to make sure I'm comparing apples to apples.
Usually always shoot the .45ACP pistols as a break between rifles.
If it's a group outing with friends or family, then I take a few differnt flavors and start out small and save the big stuff for kind of a "grande finale". Here we're not trying to determine how new loads are working, but more of a competive plinking session.

Shoot the .458 first. Everything else is pretty mild in the recoil department after that !!!!


Thats always been my theory....shoot a much more brutal recoiling gun to make whatever you do shoot seem more reasonable....

mike
GN

I do rotate when I'm shooting, but I have no particular progression. I usually take the 22 or handgun to give me a break from the centerfires. I don't worry about ffffflinching, though. I never fffffflinch. :p

There's usually a pretty good spread of longuns on the bench when I go. Mostly centerfire hunting rifles, but the occassional .22 crops up now and then.

Since I wear both ear plugs and electronic muffs, a lot of times the only way I know the .22 fires is to feel the sear release! It would definetely be a good idea, as MikeG says, to use the small caliber as a fffffflinch :p control tool.

I shoot the heavier recoiling ones first and then work down.

Ribbonstone
My usual proceedure is to start with handguns first. I start with the 357s, then 45 Auto Rim, then the 45 Colts. I'll start at 7 yards, then 15 then 25 then 50, with each of the calibers. Since I have more 45 Colt revolvers I spend more time with them.
After shooting the handguns I move over to the rifle range. Most of my rifle shooting has been with the 45-70 this caliber will get almost all of the afternoon. Now that I have purchased a 405 Winchester I'm getting the loads worked up for that rifle so this caliber will get the most of my time.
After I have the best loads for the two big lever actions, I'll spend a lot of time at the range shooting off hand at 100 to 300 yards.
Jim

Does seem that most of us have a "plan"..not the same plan, but a plan none the less. I'll usually do the handgunning after teh rifle work...usually do the off hand work after the bench work...and usually will do the iron sight shooting before the scope shooting.