MemphisMechanic

This is where someone slaps in the obligatory BEnos-isms: "Learn to see more." "See what you need to see." I find the most helpful thing is to mentally filter out the stage and targets. I try to focus only on the guy and the gun... Look how early he had his gun up... Look how he loaded up on his left leg to explode out of that position as soon as he fired his last shot... Etc. You won't learn to hit targets more quickly from watching YouTube. But you can learn to move in & out of positions and stay low and how fast you should be pushing yourself to get those reloads done. All of that can be applied to your own practice, and you can film yourself until you're "too fast to see on video" too.

YouTube channel names (all Ms or GMs) Ben Stoeger Alex Gutt Jorge Ballesteros Andrew Hong Super-tactical.com (Matt Olinchak) James Turnure Tim Herron Shooting Charlie Perez (CHA-LEE) ThumblessKorean (Hwansik Kim) gunrobot yleegm NilsJonasson W. Tyler Turner Wyatt John McNeill Nick Yanutola Kincaid Ross Casey Reed Rob Leatham Max Michel

Clays & WST come to mind. I'm trying Prima V next

Steel walls made of thinwall tubing or conduit welded and then fitted with snow fencing are about as light as walls get. I've never handled a wood wall that was lighter than what our range uses. The key to keeping steel walls light is to keep the feet/bases separate from the wall itself, as seen in this video when Ben taught a class here: Semi-transparent walls also assist in videotaping someone, and more importantly, making it easier to see if someone is still downrange taping targets.

Goes back to our point - the amazing new parts coming out are terrific and are worth the $$ (I'm about to purchase a full compliment of PD springs.) But they won't make you a GM and they aren't necessary to be fast & accurate.

Lies. The video of Alex Gutt. This was clearly heavily edited. It's impossible to win without a Stock 2. Everyone knows that.

Just don't kid yourself about how much the World's Best Trigger matters in the overalls when the match is over. There's not much difference going to be found between it and a "pretty damn good" trigger when the timer is ticking. Chasing it for fun is fine. As long as it's for fun, and not something you feel is mandatory to be able to compete well! Back in my Glock days, I got trigger-focused and tried a dozen variations on Vanek kits and ZEV components and found all kinds of way to make a Glock stop working. Then went back to the - connector and an aftermarket trigger spring and left it alone and practiced until I won those highly coveted 1st Place IDPA Master plaques at a few state matches.

I let my arms hang naturally - as mentioned I firmly believe a relaxed upper body will result in a more consistent draw and smoother/faster start than a tensed up "IPSC Gorilla" will. What happens when your trigger finger gets tensed during hosing? Trigger freeze. Being fast and smooth means being fluid, not tense. I rest the exact same spot on my forearms against the holster and against the first mag pouch every single time, though. So the gun is always in the exact same place relative to where my hands are.

There's not much difference between an EX and a SS in IDPA. Generally, your non-trigger-pulling time gets more efficient. Draws, reloads, target transitions, and moving from point to point. In the grand scheme of things (compared to top tier match winning shooters) an EX in IDPA still isn't an astonishingly accurate or high-speed shooter. Anyone determined to improve can hit Expert with a bit of consistent dryfire practice.

Those weights sound entirely within my expectations for after the high dollar parts, minus a super short crisp SA pull and reset. Hmm.

How do you feel like the pull weights are with factory internals, polishing, and the lighter springs? I'm considering going that route and upgrading to Titan/1 PC sear/ BOLO down the road if I want to.

I love how small the shooting community is. We're all rooting for her - the sport needs more young faces and definitely needs more active females. Thank her for her time in uniform for us, too! ...and by all means keep us posted either via an updated article, or here on BEnos.

Focusing on you weak hand with regard to what your body is doing is very helpful in speeding things up. Along with that, your eyes will be looking at... something. What do you look at? A tip I picked up from 'Not That Bryan' over on Doodie I believe it was, is to watch the mag fall out of the gun. If your eyes are there that early you miss the mag insertion MUCH less often.

Shoot then like they're simply stages that you want to win. That means As as fast as you can consistently manage. "I want to shoot this in a way that would be smooth and consistent if it were practice, 10 times in a row." Say that to yourself.

Ben Stoeger used this stuff when he was down here teaching a class in the wonderfully warm, humid South. http://www.midwestsports.com/prince-grip-plus-grip-enhancer/p/3132015/ It's cheap and it works as well for shooting as it does for the tennis players. I bought two bottles after the class, I'm still on the first one.

I guess you missed the part where the Pivothead camera is mounted right between the shooters eyes. Different approaches to similar POVs - almost directly down the sights. Yours is around $100 cheaper which is great, but the glasses do record better audio, I prefer the realistic lens angle, and I can see if the record light's blinking without removing them. (I posted a video shot using them, above)

Not identical. The XTreme pin comes with 77% more marketing.

Look how popular being The Unicorn wound up making the Stock 2... perhaps they're trying to emulate that success with USPSA shooters.

Or PD springs... or BOLO... Just tell the match staff that you lube your gun with Blue Magic or Flitz, and you do a lot of dryfire.

You mean I'm going to have to get married to my girlfriend in order to build my Tanfo? Man, I thought this was an expensive gun before I knew I needed a wife to put it together! Although I've learned directly that divorces are much more expensive than marriages...

What? The commands and the rules are nearly identical. It just takes 3 to 4 *minutes* for us to rehearse every movement a dozen times. And then speedunloadflipcatchroundhammerdownholster to compensate for the extra time at LAMR. (Although I see the "unloading race" take place in both of these sports about equally amongst those mid-level and higher.)

The problem I have with the Monius is the same I had with my ContourHD and GoPro before switching to the Pivothead glasses. Fisheye views are great for catching everything in the frame. But... They make everything appear slower that it is actually happening (sounds like BS but it's very true) and all the target unnaturally tiny and distant.

For production shooters, stop planning your reloads first. I was guilty of this before getting a talk about it with Ben in his class. Paraphrased: Figure out what you're going to shoot, and from where. By the time you're done it'll be obvious where your reloads need to go. Reloads take care of themselves.

The biggest deficit a Glock has in Limited is weighting half what the 2011's do. Bob wants weight and to keep his LEO/practical street cred.

I don't know about Grams procedure, but the two (non-Tanfo) barrels I've reamed myself? I made a few dummy rounds at various lengths (1.120" ... 1.130... on up to the 1.155 I desired) with the bullet I intended to use, and went slowly. Use the dummies to keep track of how much you've cut, and you can precisely throat a barrel. I wanted the aftermarket barrel in my M&P to eat 135gr BBI bullets at 1.150" so I reamed the barrel until a 1.155" just barely touched the rifling. It shoots lights out, and has not had a feeding malfunction in 5,000 rounds with case-gauged ammo. I'm a firm believer in only shooting ammo that passing the plunk/spin/flip/fall test in that gun. You'd be amazed how often people feed ammo to guns that don't quite have the chamber depth to accommodate it.