Loves2Shoot

Rhino, No offense but the recoil of a 12 guage affecting you, even slugs? I don't get it. If your name was "twiggy" I would understand, but Rhino come on big guy, recoil shouldn't bother anyone with a name like that. I liked my Remington, I fell in love with my Benelli.

TDean, Nope I wasn't in his squad, but he stayed at my house and he got a raft for both his "fiascos" from me. Bill Jr, and a couple other guys that were there described both of the events in detail over dinner (between wipping up tears of laughter) If you know KJ then you know what I am talking about I believe their accounts more, thus my constant ripping of him for being a spaz

I agree, I know him well and I think there was something funny about the time. He is fast, but not that fast. I told that to his face too. He swears he nailed it, but I have my serious doubts that the timer got all the shots.

Renee, The limited match or the open match? Did he give you a failure on the drop turner? If he gave you a failure on the drop turner I would have faught it. On the static or swinger I wouldn't risk $100. I would agree with Erik about not knowing what you were shooting at except you could see through the walls.

I think a lot of people forget about transistions. I was fortunate enough to get to shoot a practice session with a top GM and his transitions were amazing, his splits were slower than what I shoot, but the transitions were amazingly fast. He had me by .1-1.2 on almost all my transitions and we were shooting a zone only at 7 yards with limited guns. He was just as fast to the head shots as to the body. If you can gain .1 on every transition over 24 rounds that is 2+ seconds. Shooting on the move we did about the same except when we went to A zone only, then he got the .1 per transition back and smoked me in the transistions. He said it is all in trigger prep, especially shooting on the move, if you are already on target and have to prep your trigger, you are wasting time. I'm sure some of the better M's already do this, but I didn't realize how much faster my shooting was once I focused on trigger prep. On the eyechart standards in practice I cut 4.5 seconds off my previous fast time and was only down 3. I know where I am going to go looking for that extra 15%

Did you bother to look at the stage? There are fault lines around the entire shooting area. If only common sense were common every RO wouldn't have to be an expert in language and law. I guess they should have put an electric fence around the shooting area topped with barbed wire to force you through the tunnel. They did read in the stage briefing that you had to pass through the tunnel or incur penalties in my squad.

I met with him and shot with him in practice. He was 5th at the world shoot and is a great shooter. He could have finished better had he been able to bring his ammo, as he had several malfunctions due to improperly sized ammo. We resized ALL of his open ammo on my 1050 for the open match. He is a heck of a nice guy also. I would reccomeend watching him shoot, getting to run drills with him was a treat. BTW his splits are no faster than .22 so all you fast split guys could learn a thing or two from a guy like this, his splits between targets were .22 also I learned a bunch in the couple hours we practice together.

Exactly! How do the ROs know what the "stage designer's intent" is? Who is to say the designer didn't write the procedure that way on purpose to see if anyone would pick up on it? I have designed stages before with a supposedly "obvious" way to do it, but with a gamer's way to shoot it. Sometimes people pick up on it, and sometimes they don't. The gamer's method isn't always faster/better. Sometimes it is. And if someone finds a legal way to do it, more power to him. If the designer doesn't like it, they should try and learn from it. The stage designer stated that you had to go through the tunnel so your argument holds no water in this case.

Kbear, It was covered CLEARLY in the shooters meeting. The question about going around the tunnel was asked, and they said you have to go through the tunnel, if you went around it you would get a penalty for each stick you could have knocked down. That is why I said obvious, because they made it quite clear that if you didn't go through it you would be severely penalized, and per the instructions Robbie went through the tunnel. Also, if you could go around and do all of the things (ie. putting sticks in buckets and the like) after you were done shootng, what would be the point in even having props? Isn't the course finished when you fire your last shot? If it isn't in the rulebook it should be. As for the CRO's actions, I believe he should have simply stated it was covered in the shooters meeting and penalties would be assesed acordingly. Let him run around it finish the stage and then run through it when he was done, then give him all the appropriate penalties, and let the arbitration committee handle it. I think he went out of his way to make sure Howard didn't lose his $100.

Howard, I have to totally disagree. I think the RO's on 16 were very curtious and if someone doesn't want to follow the OBVIOUS intent of the course they should be DQ'd for unsportman-like behavior after being warned. I think we should have a procedural for excessive whining. The "reason" the tunnel was there didn't matter anymore than all of the other props in the match. If you can't navigate part of the course, then you can always take the penalty, and from the sounds of it you COULD navigate the course just fine. A lot of people didn't like getting out of the bed either. Robbie is a big guy and I was there when he shot the stage, I didn't see him complain of try to gain an unfair advantage. He shot the stage per the instructions and he shot it well enough to win the match.

Aiming is not consicous , as Brian has so eloquently stated, it is a result of your intent to hit the target. The position of the thumb pointing has more to do with the strength of your wrist being totally locked out versus partially locked out. When the left wrist is fully locked out, the run returns to the same spot very quickly and consistantly.

TDean, if you shoot a master class percentage at a Nats, you are definately a sandbagging GM , it will usually put you in the top 16. I know that isn't what you would like to hear but it is the way it is It looks like you are a GM in M's clothing. So get on with it, get your GM card after you get your mags fixed. We all know Tony Hawknis SHOULD be a GM, Estuardo Gomez shot 5th this year at the World Shoot in standard, and is an M because he doesn't shoot in the US (Guatamela.) Personally I think they should give the top 5 M's their GM card after nats, because obviously they have GM skills, even if they can't shoot classifiers.

About stage 5 look at the stage and look at the time, it shouldn't be very hard to figure out what happend. The match is going good, very challenging stages so far, the hardest ones are over for me I hope the weather holds.

The weather is nice so far

If you want the most competetive pistol go with the .40.

Hmmm, flex try this, maybe it will make more sense (moving left to right) take one step right with your right foot. Mark how far you went. Now do the same thing crossing with your left foot. I can move about a foot farther if I step with the left than if I step with the right. So, one foot might not be much, but it is something. The second step for me is more natural also, but we are all different.

I would only do it for safety, not accuracy, sake, or to shoot lead bullets. I prefer a FULLY supported barrel. I've seen too many .40's blow up.

.38 super or .38 supercomp These are still the most widely shot open guns, and far easier to reload than 9mm major. I stick with the most tried and true equiptment and leave the experiments to those with too much time and $$$

Flex, There is an old football drill where you run sideways crossing your feet, left in front then right in front, then repeat. I'm sure with TT's background he has no fear doing this. I actually have found you get a better, more solid, push off if you do as TT suggests and you cover more distance. Economy of motion. I have no fear whatsoever in crossing my feet as I have done it a bazilion times over the years from football to martial arts.

My fav ~ Starting with one in the chamber and no mag in the gun

Do a search or browse the reloading section, This topic has been cover very thoroughly.

RELAX, it is much harder to shoot if you are TRYING to do anything. Just go shoot. See every shot and you will be shooting at your skill level. If you want to shoot faster, give it time and practice your ass off and you will learn to see faster, and thus shoot faster. If it were easy, we'd all be grand masters. Forcing youself to see every shot will feel slow, but it will end up being faster, and you will have more confidence, thus less nervousness. Now just go shoot A's as fast as your eyes let you.

That is what makes a really fast reload from my experiments, get the reload done then go do the next thing. Without having to do the follow-up shot, you can seat a new mag in .6 or less. You make up that time in getting to the next spot quicker, (at least that is what my timer tells me.) But I am not part of the super squad (yet) so their reasons for doing the same thing might be different.

Hit the mag button as soon as you see the sight lift. This helps me get it started (thus finished) faster.

IMO tight patterns of full auto .223 look great on drug dealers. WTG Benny!!!