My goal, which lately I've been managing to meet fairly well, mostly due to the nice weather is one full practice session at the range once per month and in between, some air rifle shooting which I can do safely in the backyard - I do that once per week for about an hour, sometime two. The air rifle off hand helps keep the breath and trigger control work going and it's fun too. I do need more hand-gun practice and have been thinking of an air pistol for ease and expense control. Driving to the range and then shooting well..... its a toss up between whats more expensive, the ammo or the gas.