Do do not buy this device. it will allow you to do effective dry fire practice to the point of making you a superb marksman. That, in turn, will remove all the competition at IDPA and steel challenge matches. it will mess up the economy by allowing you to avoid spending money on practice ammunition. You will not be spending money at the range punching paper targets. You will not be spending money on shooting lessons. Especially, do not go to pistol-training.com and download their dry fire drills and practice them with this laser target. You will mess up the whole sport of target shooting and destroy the economy. Ok, OK, you may have fun, it may be really easy to get in 30 minutes of practice a day and get instant feedback on your improvement but is that really important? What about the idea of doing things the hard way with expesive ammunition, range travel time, etc. Oh, and by the way, you really need to buy one of those little laser pointer devices to 'paint' the switch windows to display and reset the target. However, after a while, your accuracy will be sufficient to hit those little windows from 30 feet with you gun and then you'll be stuck with a laser pointer. Don't forget, you also need to have the laser 'bullet' which is purchased separately.
I've used this thing now for about 2 months. It is, without doubt, the best addition to dry fire that you will ever see. It will improve your accuracy be providing almost instant feedback. You do need to purchase the laser 'bullet' of the appropriate calibe and it will help immensely if you have one of those little ubiquitous laser pointers to push the display and reset windows. One very small problem developed. As your accuracy gets better, you may notice that only 2 or 3 lights will record when you know you had 6 shots that were spot on. What is happening is that the level of resolution of the target is too coarse to discriminate the separate shots. That is, you are putting the 'bullet' thru the same 'hole' as one of your previous shots and the target is only recording the first one.
Seriously, irony aside, (the opposite of irony is wrinklery) buy this thing. It is an amazing trainging device and if you use it regularly it will make a profound improvement in your accuracy.
Pros: A huge help with accuracy
Cons: a bitr expensive
This review was written in the old system and had content requirements that are different than reviews written today.