stu007,
Are you practicing with a timer? They help quite a bit.

I've heard it said that if you aren't dropping a point now and then you aren't shooting fast enough. There just might be something to that. Maybe speed up until you do start dropping point when wick it back just a bit and you should be at your speed. As you get better you will shoot faster, will that be fast enough is the question
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