MemphisMechanic

Absolutely. Everyone finds shooting while backing up to be the most stable on their first try going forward, back, and sideways. You naturally roll from toe-to-heel in reverse. You then have to learn to crouch low and roll smoothly from heel-to-toe going forward. It's impossible to do in sidestep without going ridiculously slowly. So you turn yourself at the waist and make that direction into "forward" for your feet.

Chrono'd through a 5" M&P With an Apex match barrel in it: 135gr coated bullet - Black Bullets Interational 3.66gr Ramshot Competition 1.079" OAL CCI primer 75 degrees (indoor range) 952,931,949,908,962,921,911,968,903,949 935.4 Feet Per Second 126.2 Power Factor 22.66 Standard Deviation It's smoky too, given the fact that the standard deviations keep staying damn high in all my tests... Ramshot is officially "practice and local matches only" ammunition.

The important takeaway from this is that mikes always hurt. A lot. Call your shots, make them up every time. Or don't sling them toward the targets in the first place - particularly because shots slapped in the direction of the target are really like to wind up as misses. And even more likely to magically wind up as noshoots.

You'll keep exercising for about 10-14 days after the pain goes away. Then it'll stop being a priority, and you'll stop. It will take about two weeks for it to come back once you do. Sooner, if you dryfire and shoot hard. You'll beat it again in another 10 days of lifting weights. This cycle will repeat... until you learn to make yourself lift 3 to 4 days as a longterm habit. Been there. Learned that.

Yeah but what they're asking is... is that a .22 bore brush you're using in the drill? How are you polishing the internal holes and passages?

Ahh!

I added 8 pounds of WST to my cart and it slapped a hazmat fee onto it...?

Let us know! There's no reason a MecGar large frame mag shouldn't fit and work 100%!

Have you broken down which stages hurt most? I sort things into three categories: Stand & shoot (classifiers), medium stages, and long stages. Do you go beyond the overall percentage to track progress? For instance, if you tank classifiers then working on draws, loads, and static speed shooting are going to pay the biggest dividened. If you shoot with the A's on classifiers but are well down in the pack on long courses, your ability to sprint and set up/exit rapidly is going to be the best thing to work on. Where are you weakest? Attack that.

As mentioned, you can flip the gun in your hand without using the tacticool Costa-style "rotate it with the weak hand" method, like so: and I'd say it can be done pretty fast...

Try obscuring the offhand lens on your glasses just slightly too. Scotch tape, chap stick, etc... Then go shoot a stage. I bet you'll like it a lot more than clamping one eye shut at speed.

I use a very small amount of chap stick or sunscreen to slightly smudge the view from the right eye. For myself, both eyes open isn't an option. I'm left handed, right eye dominant, with a slight astigmatism in the right eye. The left eye is ALWAYS clearer when I leave the optometrist. So I simply decided to train myself to shoot using it. Blurring the view from the dominant eye just slightly allows the other eye to do the job without squinting or other facial strain that might promote blinking.

I use a very small amount of chap stick or sunscreen to slightly smudge the view from the right eye. For myself, both eyes open isn't an option. I'm left handed, right eye dominant, with a slight astigmatism in the right eye. The left eye is ALWAYS clearer when I leave the optometrist. So I simply decided to train myself to shoot using it. Blurring the view from the dominant eye just slightly allows the other eye to do the job without squinting or other facial strain that might promote blinking.

You could try. The match officials might not notice...

Any burrs on the bottom of the breechface or on the feed ramp or in the front portion of the chamber? Take a VERY fine look at everything.

Weekly? Doing those four weightlifting exercises a minimum of 3-4 nights a week is recommended, just like if you were trying to build strength in your muscles anywhere else in the body. I took his recommendation to do them daily right away, and I now do them 3-4 days a week because that keeps the problem from coming back.

Annnnd here they are. Pretty sure he won't be shooting Production.

I do my own - cerakote is very easy to apply if you have access to a sandblaster and own a cheap airbrush. I'm kicking around a two-tone scheme in black (grips and slide) and blue (frame)

I transferred over to a desktop machine. Looks like his "posted" images are linked directly to email attachments in his outlook/hotmail account. Which would explain why we cannot see them. The beginning of the image link given is: https://attachment.outlook.office.net/owa/aloreman@hotmail.com ...and no one else is gonna be able to view that. Aloreman, I sent you a PM. If you can't get the images uploaded to BEnos directly, email them to me and I'll post them here.

Cerakote holds up pretty well for a competition gun, though. My G34 and M&P have both been in and out of kydex 1,000 times for years. They're missing the finish on the corners but I *like* that my guns look used. Duracoat was a joke, however. Marginally tougher than rattle-canning the gun. Worn done very quickly. My stock 3 will be getting cerakoted. By the end of the first full season it'll show some noticeable wear up close in good light. I'm okay with that.

Are you guys on an IPhone by any chance, too?

I see no photos either.

A mediocre plan executed perfectly always beats an excellent plan that's a total train wreck. I just keep telling myself that, and use the knowledge that he's shaving a full second or two off of my time as motivation to really sprint from position to position and get all the alphas I can.

Because boys will be boys, and draws and reloads are fun to do. How often do you hear someone post "I spent a week straight doing 30 min of weak-hand-only dryfire on distant mini poppers?" Well. You hear things like that. But they're posted by GMs. The B-class scrubs like to do the fun stuff.

Absolutept is the ticket - those four weightlifting exercises work WONDERS on your wrists and elbows. They also do great things for your grip strength... but the main benefit is being totally and completely pain free. I'm a heavy equipment mechanic, and my tendonitis was brought on by work then exacerbated by shooting and dry fire. It got to the point where it hurt my elbow to flush a toilet. I was back to 100% in three weeks.