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ChiefEthan

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  1. Psh they're like an orange color Here is a great place to start. You *think* you are high but you are not. Once you actually do get your left hand high on the gun you will see a big change, especially because you think you are already there. Your left hand is low and not locked to the gun. You can see this by how the moves relative to your hand in recoil. The gun and your hand should be locked together and move as one. Yeah, I wasn't thinking about my support hand in that reply. my right hand I do have as high as I can, but not the left. Since watching the video in one of the replies above I have started to follow that more with a higher, 'more angled' support grip that seemed to help a little bit in the last few comps. In three weeks time I'll play around with my grip a bit more over the summer and lock in what works well, I've also started to pay more attention to top shooter's grip in videos based on these suggestions, thanks.
  2. Thanks again for the further criticism -the 'triples' are pretty much just a bad habit I developed when I first started out. Went to an all steel match a week ago where the targets were, well, smaller which did make me focus much more on the front sights and just having that reinforced should help me slow down about when it comes to the metric targets as well. -I don't know how I've missed the whole, reload within the first 1-3 steps of driving out of a position since that should've been obvious. Knew to reload during transitions, but just kinda bobbled them from competition to competition since I didn't really practice the reload into moving. Now I know, and there will go some time from my scores once I'm able to practice. -Yep I'm shooting 9mm, I think the only thing for me to do to reduce muzzle flip is to just have a firmer grip and squeeze more out of my support hand, and making sure to reaffirm that grip after movement. -Just got the cool kid gamer belt and mag pouch set (double alpha/ghost pouches) so that'll be nice to get used to and get me more into production -Honestly, I know there's alot of things for me to work on based on the criticism but before my next match this month I'm really only going to have one evening of dry fire practice in a small apartment so I think I'm going to dedicate that session primarily to proper, clean transitioning reloads and shoot production. Of course sight picture, grip and all the other jazz (and above all safety especially since it'll be in an apartment) will be sure to be done correctly, or at least not any worse than what I do now. Hopefully I'll get a solid practice in and the work will be reflected in another match and I'll throw up a video here where some clean reloads can be seen in action. And, thanks for the kind words too. Will do, gotta go fast... safely.
  3. Makes sense, thanks. Will try to apply this. Riding it as high as I can, but I should be applying more pressure with my support hand
  4. Ah, yeah looks like you guys are right about the running dry and riding the slide stop, I've been working on keeping my right thumb off of it and hadn't done that in a quite a while which is why I thought it wasn't my doing, but alas. I do spend quite a bit of time stage planning beforehand, but on the second I should have gone left steel, right steel, left swinger, right swinger, right targets, left targets, reload-transition into the middle to finish there. -Just shot another match today (a unique kind of all steel match) and I noticed one of my biggest failures was clean, quick reloads on the move. I was dry-firing the night before and practicing standing reloads but when it came time for them to happen on the move it was all sloppy and cost some time.. I'll have to figure a way to practice those outside of competition but tricky where I'm at. -As for extra shots, yep, that is a problem I need to get back to addressing. It was worse when first started, worked to improve it a bit, but later on pushed that problem aside thinking it wasn't too big of a deal until you both made it apparent. Next match I'll work on this. Question: Is knowing you need to shoot a make-up shot on a target (either from knowing you mike'd or delta'd it) a result of calling your shots? And the other topics I, for the most part, know how to address (just a matter of doing it and practice), but how do I go about improving calling my shots? Your criticisms have been fantastic and greatly appreciated. Really showed me some key things to work on to get that next-level of competition closer. Thank you thank you.
  5. Here's a video of a couple stages during a zev speed gun match I did in January, exactly a year after starting to shoot competitively. (USPSA style match with all major power factor scoring) Was hoping to get some criticism on everything--what looked good, and especially what looked bad, footwork, transitions, stage strategy, recoil control, etc. Some info: -Running my sig p320, dawson fiber optic sights, apex flat faced trigger, 15lb spring, 124gr freedom munitions 9mm. Homemade kydex mag pouches,cheap plastic holster that comes with sigs -Stage 1: 127/140 points, 15.81 seconds, no penalties (top score was 12.31 seconds) -Stage 2: 149/160 points, 25.09 seconds, no penalties (top score was 19.97 seconds) -placed 6th/75 shooters Things I know I need to improve on: 1) getting rid of that 'lag time' between shooting a set of targets and moving to the next set of targets 2) my reloads are usually smoother, but last time with a gun before this match was a month before, so they were choppy (can't practice as I live on a college campus) 3) Clearing that malfunction, primer striked, but didn't fire. Wasted a couple seconds on that when I should have racked the slide to begin with. 4) Could use a haircut. Link to video: youtube.com/watch?v=3IxlQ-0VdnI&feature=youtu.be Thanks for the help!
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