Considering that he later learns to pull that off from over a klick away, I'd say he got better.

Considering that after that he managed to shoot through a small window from in even greater distance on short notice I'd be inclined to agree with you.

Once we get to Enies Lobby, he will really surprise everyone.

So, sometime around 2023? I sure hope this strip manages to severely truncate the Crocodile arc.

Well, by Enies Lobby, he'll have that new magic weapon with the Distance enhancement, amongst others. That god-awful head thing will probably have a whammy too.

After the timeskip, of course, his *ammo* really takes off

Don't forget the goggles he gets coming up at Loguetown. Those things alone give him insane bonuses. Probably some minor relic item too, considering the solo mission he needed to get them.

What solo mission or was that one of the logue town fillers

Basically Usopp and another guy had a sharpshooter contest to determine who could take the goggles.

Why are there two copies of page 803? (One is stuck between pages 799 and 800, while the other is right here.)

I picked the wrong date when I uploaded it the first time around, so it ended up in the wrong place. I thought it simply didn't upload at all, so I uploaded it a second time, this time with the correct date.

So we're blaming a dimensional vortex then... well that's another one on Rick Sanchez's rap sheet.