How does a person become a marksman with a gun?

[Anonymous]

You see people like john wick who shoots people with deadly precision in movies. What makes a good marksman?

[BCA6010]

Keanu Reeves and Halle Berry practiced with 3-gun competition shooters to prepare for that movie. This is good for movies because it's inherently set up for rapid action at short range with a variety of firearms, while actual military training and shooting is very different and focuses on marksmanship mostly between 50 and 800 meters depending on the weapon system, and pistol training is often skipped or extremely watered down compared to rifle and machine gun training. In any case however, skill comes with learning and practicing the fundamentals of marksmanship to the point of muscle memory before moving on to more advanced techniques.

Realistically however, even the best pistol shooters in the world are somewhat limited by the fact pistols are inherently not precision weapons.

Now for a rant: 3-gun tactics look good on camera, but they are developed to rapidly shoot paper targets for time; not engaging actual threats that shoot back. Actual tactical teams would have relatively little difficulty stopping John Wick. Additionally, his choice of weapons particularly in the third movie were awful - a pistol caliber carbine (although popular among competition shooters) would be one of the WORST things to use against threats wearing body armor, and there's no way someone with his background and experience wouldn't have known that.

[Redstang88]

Well movies are wildly exaggerated, but like anything else you become good through training and practice

[SaoirseS]

This 👆

[Sour-rose]

Focus, practice, paitence and usually know where they wanna shoot and what

[WellGreetingsISay]

Practice a lot
But don't think you'll be as good as a movie character since it's all edited

[OlderAndWiser]

Very good aim.

[Hellraiser1984]

Practice.

[In_Trance]

Practice