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  1. What prompted this originally was a miss I thought was a hit on the first stage. Psychologically this played on my mind and I started taking extra shots hitting the plates more than required to make sure I didn’t miss again. Since I shoot single-stack, the extra shots effected my planned magazines changes which in the end cost me a whole bunch of extra time with extra shots and extra magazine changes because I couldn’t “Call My Shots”. So it wasn’t necessarily the miss that was the problem, it was not knowing when I hit. This started me thinking about the segments in my Practical Shooting DVDs about “Calling the Shot” which point back to group shooting as the best way to get there. BTW, I was at the indoor range (25 yard max) this weekend and I was shooting some pretty amazing groups at 25 yards, (for me anyway) standing freestyle that I could never, never shoot before. I actually knew how I shot them and not that I got lucky. Donato.
  2. Kind of the point I was trying to make was that you wouldn’t see the value unless you actually tried it. The idea of moving the target out to 50 yards is it forces you to concentrate on your sight alignment and trigger control, and removes the distraction of seeing the holes in the target. The fact that you can’t see the holes makes you think about that last thing you remember right before the sights lifted and write it down on paper. Then you look at the hole downrange with your spotting scope or binoculars and see if you actually called the shot correctly, if you didn’t then you need to figure out why? I would say if you’re 100% correct on this exercise then it’s time to move on to something else. Like I said, I glossed over this exercise for about 2 years but I got frustrated to the point where I would try anything and you know I learned something. Now I can now see (somewhat) what I’ve been missing but I’m sure there’s more.
  3. Yes I will try a smaller target next time, it’s things like this I wouldn’t know otherwise and waist a lot of time and bullets trying to figure out. The target was the standard NRA rapid fire pistol target where the black is 5 ½ inches across. Do you still think it’s too big or small? I’m shooting a Wilson Classic with standard adjustable black sights. I’ve fired about 1,000 rounds now group shooting off a sand bag with this pistol so I know exactly where this guns shoots at 10, 25, and 50 yards. When I was calling my shots to the center of the target, my front post had equal lighting on left and right sides and the front post was level with the rear notch and the front post covered the bottom half of the black circle. I would remember the still-frame in my mind after the hammer dropped and before my sights started to lift. When I called my shots left or right, I could definitely see so slightly unequal lighting on one side of the post or the other at the moment the gun fired. I was equally accurate on calling directly up or down. The thing that still has me stumped is the combinations of up or down one side or the other. I thought I saw left-low and it really was left-high, or vice-versa. Ultimately I think it’s the Pistol Masters that get the credit for everything. Lenny seems a little hokey, (in a good way) but he does have a way of dummying the information down almost like a “Practical Shooting for Dummies”; I think I learned a lot in a short amount of time with this approach. I’m not giving credit to Lenny for the whole concept of “Calling the Shot”, he just gave me the idea of writing it down on a small-scale target. I’ve probably seen that idea in other places but his DVD is where I remember it. It’s one of those things you easily overlook, (for me 2 years) until you actually try it and see the value. Donato.
  4. I’ll definitely try the “burn-the-hole” trick. Tuesday Night Steel by the time I get there it’s dark already and it’s difficult to see my sights sometimes. Anyway, I decided to work on my group shooting and calling my shots again last weekend and as you can see I still need some work. I was actually able to call many the shots that were off center. At 50 yards even the slightest deviation in the sight alignment translates to several inches downrange. It seems like a lot of work at first but in one of my Practical Shooting DVD by Lenny Magill, he recommends the following for speeding up the process of calling your shots; Putting your target out to 50 yards. Taking the shot and calling the shot. Penciling in on a scaled down target where you think the shot went. Then looking down range at where the shot actually went. If I didn’t call my shot correctly then I needed to figure out why? I have the fundamentals I learned from this site, books, and videos in my head but I think this exercise kind of helped them materialize. It forces me to go beyond if it’s a hit or a miss but actually get to the point where I try to can call left-high, 2 inches off center, or right-low etc. I still think it will take years for me to become really proficient at this. The target above was 50 yards from a sandbag, standing was just bit more challenging, but like I said I know what to look for now, I just need to find it faster and more consistently, it’s really a lot of fun. Donato.
  5. I shot last week’s Tuesday Night Steel out at Rio Salado. I had a miss I thought was a hit on the first CoF that cost 5 seconds and then I started taking extra shots on the remaining CoFs that cost me a bunch of extra time. So I decided to go back to the basics, group shooting. For the 100th time I reviewed; Calling the Shot segments by Brian on my Matt Burkett and Lenny Magill DVDs. So many times I left the house saying (for 2 years now); “today is the day I’m going to figure it out”, only to leave the range disappointed. I heading out again, optimistic but wasn’t expecting a miracle. Although my groups weren’t bad out at 25 yards, for the first 100 rounds I didn’t see anything. Then I started to see… it was like a snap-shot, a still-frame in my mind of the sight alignment and sight picture at the moment of ignition, before the sights even lift. I moved the target out to 50 yards so I couldn’t be distracted by the holes. I took the shot and reviewed the still-frame in my mind. I then penciled in on a small scale target where I think the shot went. Then I looked through my binoculars and there it was. Sometimes I called left of center low and it was really left-high, sometimes I was dead on, and sometimes I don’t know what happened but I’m on my way, I know what to look for. Like Brian says, “it’s all happening right there in front of you, you just haven’t trained yourself to see it”. Now I can see how valuable this skill is, knowing exactly where your bullet went before it even leaves the barrel, nice… Donato.
  6. Supposedly there was a meeting going on at the time, I had to wait about 50 minutes before they brought the pistol out and started filling out the paperwork, it was only about 10 minutes after that, I’m just ecstatic that it’s over and very happy with my purchase.
  7. Well I didn’t call in advance and just went down there. I got more of the same, “mountains of paperwork required for a FFL transfer”, “don’t assume the process starts when we sign for the package” and “don’t call us, we’ll call you” mentality. I stated that “it’s a federal requirement that an FFL records the transfer of a firearm within 24 hours upon receipt and the pistol was signed for on Saturday”, I didn’t get into any of the “business day” details. Anyway he didn’t have a canned response for that one so he said “I’ll let so-and-so know you are here”. Next thing you know an hour later, I was walking out with my new Wilson Supergrade. BTW, it's my first Wilson and the Supergrade is Super sweet! Thanks for all the advice.
  8. Well I found in the FFL Reference Guide that; [27 CFR 478.22 and 478.125(h)] (E5) How much time does a dealer have to record acquisitions and dispositions of firearms in his or her "bound book?" Generally, licensees have to enter the acquisition or purchase of a firearm by the close of the next business Day (Business day means a 24-hour day (beginning at 12:01 a.m.) on which state offices are open in the state in which the proposed firearm transaction is to take place. means a person licensed by the ATF as a manufacturer, dealer, or importer of firearms.) after the acquisition or purchase and shall record sales or other dispositions within 7 days. However, if commercial records containing the required information are available for inspection and are separate from other commercial documents, dealers have 7 days from the time of receipt to record the receipt in the "bound book." If a disposition is made before the acquisition has been entered in the "bound book," the acquisition entry must be made at the same time as the disposition entry. My interpretation is that to be in compliance with federal regulation they would have to record it by now. They can’t use the excuse that they’re "too busy" to process my request. Since I already paid-in-full to the originating FFL there should be no sales type documentation so there is no reason that I shouldn’t get my pistol tomorrow. I don’t want to name names but I hope this post can help someone going to a gun club in “Scottsdale” from making the same mistake I did. I’ll keep you posted on the outcome.
  9. I haven’t got as far as the 4473 form yet; I have my CCW so no worries there. I was at the gun club Saturday morning when my pistol arrived USPS and I verified the tracking number with the driver. I went to the counter and they said I couldn’t even view the content of the package until they enter it in their books, which my experience has been with other FFLs takes about 5 minutes. Even though they are open on Sunday too, they told me to check back on Monday so I called about 10 times today and left messages for their FFL guy to call me back but he’s never at his desk, no one can seem to find him, and he didn’t respond to any of my voice mails. I’m a regular shooter at the club so I don’t want to make a seen unless I have some legal backing; I’m reviewing the FEDERAL FIREARMS REGULATIONS REFERENCE GUIDE right now.
  10. I purchased a firearm from an out-of-state FFL and had it overnighted to my local FFL. The firearm was signed for on Saturday morning by my local FFL. It’s now Monday night and I and still don’t have my firearm and the FFL isn’t returning my calls. It was a $4,600 NIB Wilson Supergrade so I’m very frustrated at this point. I’ve dealt with other FFLs in the past and my experience has been same day transfer. Can the FFL keep the firearm indefinitely because they are “too busy” to process the transfer? Do I have any legal recourse? Who is the legal owner of the firearm, (not funny but ATF didn’t know the answer to this question)? Help!!!
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