I don’t know why this thought crossed my mind today. The only example I’m remembering at the moment is in The Wire where some of the gang members were in a ravine by a creek shooting bottles. May have been Chris and Snoop training Mike. There was an episode of Sons Of Anarchy where they were shooting machine pistols in the lot of the clubhouse. I think they were just testing them, not so much skill sharpening.
Shooting well, especially handguns, takes practice!
Well, it’s not so much practicing to keep up his skills as to test out and calibrate his new rifle, but there’s a wonderful sequence showing The Jackal trying out his custom-accessorized assassin’s rifle in Fred Zinneman’s film The Day of the Jackal
Which was utterly perverted in the remake.
There’s a similar scene of someone dialing in a sniper rifle - I can visualize it but can’t bring the scene or film to mind.
The American shows George Clooney building and testing a sniper rifle.
First one that popped into my brain-pan: Marone, my ears!
Officer Lewis has to help Murphy aim and calibrate his sights / gun towards the end of Robocop before the steelworks finale.
There’s a scene in the 1994 remake of “The Getaway” where Baldwin, Basinger, and Madsen are practicing shooting out in the desert.
But it’s got Jack Black getting murdered by Bruce Willis’ mustache! What could be better than that?
Would John Wayne showing Ron Howard how to use a gun in “The Shootist” count?
Clint Eastwood in “The Unforgiven”, practicing against bottles on fenceposts.
In Knockaround Guys, the gangsters (one real gangster, one who wants to be, and two idiots along for the ride) wind up in a remote town with a gunfight looming. They go to a gun shop and get a few guns, then go out to a range to practice, mostly for the benefit of the two idiots. It’s a good scene. You can see it dawning on the two non-idiots that things are about to go completely to hell.
This is not a bad movie. Vin Diesel is good as the disaffected legbreaker stuck in a life he doesn’t have a way out of. And it has Seth Green. The world needs more Seth Green roles.
Unforgiven is what immediately came to mind. Also El Dorado with John Wayne and James Caan has a pretty good scene where James Caan can’t hit the side of a barn so they go and get a sawed off shotgun pistol from The Swede.
I’m pretty sure the movie is “The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond”. The title character does poorly in a shootout, so he finds his former Army D.I., gets private lessons in the effective use of a military style .45 semiautomatic pistol, and practices same.
In the series “Justified,” Boyd evaluates the shooting skills of some of the new recruits for his gang in an episode.