Loves2Shoot

RANT Yea, 'cause their ain't no defensive shooting. Shooting is an agressive action, you can't block nothing with your shooting. It is a validation that the best defense is a good offense, 'cause their isn't such a thing of defensive shooting If you are shooting for real you'de better be able to put your bullets where you want them faster than the other guy, and if IPSC style shooting doesn't teach you that, nothing can. Sorry Rhino, you can practice hiding and shooting, but that doesn't make it tactical or defensive just PC in my book. Shooting for real has the intent of stopping a bad dude, thus by it's nature offensive.

It depends on the range and the dirt factor for me. With my open gun I always bag .

Circus props should be kept out of USPSA in my opinion. Those who have them to practice with have a distinct advantage. You don't need trick to make a good course of fire, and just because you can do something doesn't make it a good idea.

Those who can do, those who can't complain about those who can, just the way it is. I just don't care to waste my time debating them. If they want to make a point they have to prove it on the range, and I've never met a tacabily who can. The last one who thought he was da' shiet couldn't even get his gun out of the holster before I had shot both our targets and reholstered my gun.I never heard for that guy again. Oh well.

I have thousands of acres of desert to practice in, so I can practice wherever I want. If you think of each shot as it's own instance in time you will not use the term "rapid fire" and your shooting wil become better faster naturally. Try to capure a snapshot (picture in your mind) of every shot you take. The rapid comes from being able to use less time to capture the information need to make each shot count. Those who try to go "fast" waste so much time and money it makes me sad If you can't "rapid fire" at your range focus on shooting groups at 15-25 yards, once you can shoot your splits in the .6-.8 range at distance your shooting will be great at the shorter distances and the times will be what they need to be, so don't get discouraged about not being able to "rapid fire" it isn't that important.

CR Speed, I like having something over the end of the barrel and it fits all my guns.

The split and transition can be the same at the distance you mentioned.

ideal splits for me would be .2 in the A zone every time. M class limited shooter. No need to really shoot faster than that for me. Sometimes I shoot faster, but seldom by intention.

If you can do it it is worth every dime.

Practice , and making sure I have no tense muscles a the buzzer.

Sight balck works fine to black it out if you don't like it. Some ranges I've shot at you are toast if you don't have one because of the lighting.

It isn't very coarse at all. A super fine grit. You can grind of the grip and start again if you use a do it yourself method, I ground mine down 3 times until I got one that workd for me.

it is the right way and it is a 100 times stronger of a grip.

Not the main ingrediant, but maybe the last one for me There is a point you just can't do it any faster (isn't there?) Funny thing is my main goal is to stay at .95 with A zone hits at 15 yards everytime. I just figure the quicker you get your gun stopped in front of your face the more time you have for the aiming part That's why the seeing is the most important ingreidient for me to work on

Congrats! I can post the vid if you want to show it off

If you are shooting all A's, you are going too slow. Not at all. Some courses require you to get all A's (ie 60 point stages) if you want a good score. Now does that mean that if you don't get all A's you are going to fast, nope. Some course require you sacrifice a A or two because of target presentation, distance, and many other factors. Just because the statement is in fact false doesn't mean a statement to the contrary is true. Course of fire are so varied the stategies in shooting each stage varies, thus some stages you need to shoot all A's and some stages you need to take the most points you can (ie partial targets at distance) and call it good. my 2 cents

ditto

The gun starts with the safety on. You flick it off as the gun comes on target. The grip safety is usually deactivated. You can rest your tumb on the safety just don't push down with it, most people over grip with their strong hand.

1. El prez at 3, 7, 10, 15 and 20 yards vary the start position and engage the targets in different orders. 2. 6 shoots 6 second par times starting @ 10 yards and moving back as you can get 6 hits in the upper A/B zone 3 times in a row. 3. Group shooting at varying distances ( I like 25 yards) 4. The Devils triangle (do a search) Have fun

I don't know. How do you figure that out?

A normal draw hands truely relaxed at sides, all the other gimicks seems to eat up time because you have to think about them. I've found it much simpler just to stand there and focus on the target and listening for the beep. I think having my GF there did help as it amped up my awareness, and having her run the timer (a truley random start ) made it feel more like a match start. THE KEY FOR ME It all about reacting to what you see. My fasest draws used (3 yards) used to be in the .77's not even hitting anything, just grip and rip. But by learning to relax and fous on seeing at that speed now I can draw with less hesistation and get a really great sight picture much faster than I would have thought possible. Just gripping and ripping is a waste of time if you aren't focused on seeing at that speed IMO. It not about the time, but the experience.

Went shooting with the new girlfriend to see if she could shoot my open gun (114 lbs and small hands, good news is she can if she gets used to the mondo blast ) and I did some 3 meter draws. The first 5 were in the .65 .69 range, just grip and rip, all C's, then I stopped and said to myself take your dang advice and shoot when you see green (fiber optic color of my preference) in the center of the A zone. I focused on the A zone and proceded to crank a dead center a zone in .52 and then with my new sense of focus 3 more draws cranked 3 more A's. Stepped back to 10 yards and shooting a .85-.9 Alpha felt like I was taking all day. Vision is where it's at. Crank it up and self imposed limits fly away. OK now to crank that first .49 draw LOL

If you don't want it let me know.

A great example. You go faster when you don't waste time, not when you try to go fast, that is why "going fast" is the killer of going fast.

Anyone who still has the word fast is his mind hasn't "got it" yet in my opinion.