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Actual shooting advice:
-Watch Paul Harrel videos. Seriously, no essay i could write would cover as much as elegantly as the Micheal Parenti of shooting (rip to both). Any question you could think of has probably been answered with demonstrations, caveats, anecdotes and sober analysis.
-The Flinch is your eternal enemy. Once you begin to feel recoil, you will begin to flinch in anticipation of it, throwing off your shots. If you notice you're consistently hitting low when you weren't before, you have been visited by The Flinch. The solution is to practice a kind of mindful mindlessness in your shooting: do everything about the shot perfectly, but do not think about the shot. Empty your lungs and pull the trigger slowly and smoothly, but do not think about the shot, or you'll flinch. Hold the sight picture, pull the trigger, and if the exact moment of the shot comes as a surprise to you then you're doing it right. This is more applicable to long range shooting, but it can be applied to all shooting. "I'm just relaxing, I'm just breathing out and slowly pulling this lever with my finger for no reason"-my marksmanship ethos.
-Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Build confidence and accuracy first, and speed will follow