Loves2Shoot

That is what snipers recommend doing (ala Hathcock.) It is has helped my shooting emensely, trying to see absolutely everything I can. I hope I get the chance to meet you next week. Thanks to your wisdom and the generosity of this forum my shooting has reached levels I had only once dreamed of. I am jacked-up to see how the leasons I've learned over the last 11 months stack up against the best. Only 5 days to go ~ Scott

Flex is that where those "guns" came from?

You can draw without looking, because your holster is always is the exact same place. I personally draw by braile, that is follow the holster from the end of my barrel to the grip. Yes, I can draw just by grabbing it, but I get a more consistant draw if I feel the holster on the way to the handle. If I am in a wierd position, I look at the gun. If you can reload 100% of the time with your eyes closed as fast as if you use your eyes, then you have found another way. From my experience I am FASTER if I look at it all, sight rise, mag on belt, mag well, and sight. At 3 yards for an 85% A hits this I can see all this in .8-.9 cold with the fastest being in the mid .75. The thing is G34 that if your eyes tell your body what to do then it just does it, and the eyes are so fast that it makes it faster and more consistant. If you go by guessing where everything is, then when you guess wrong then you WILL blow a reload. Try this, can you reload to any of your mags on your belt with your eyes closed with all of them on the belt? Say reload 3rd mag then 1st mag then 2nd mag, or any combination. You should be able to and the times should be about the same. If you can then you have found a way that works for you and you can ignore the advise to the contrary. If you can't, then don't feel bad, because looking at everything you do is just as fast.

G34, I think there is more than one way to solve that problem. Though I think most people can reload eyes closed if they have a minimal amount of training. If I knew I had a stage in the dark I would break out the glow in the dark stickers and put them on the bottom of my mags and inside the lip of my magwell (I have a piece of white tape there now), just in case they I tripped and they all fell out of their pouches If you are going to shoot in the dark, bring the right tools That is why I have a light rail on my limited blaster

Yep. I do them blind sometimes also, just to focus on the feeling of my muscles when I am doing a reload, not so that I can do one without looking. I have done a zillion reloads, and I would rather watch every one since it takes absolutely no more time to do so.

Lynn, Olympic Arms http://www.olyarms.com/arret.html the OA-98 Pistol. Is that what you meant?

Hmm, if I shoot with I don't care attitude, I shoot recklessly and way too fast. If I worry about the outcome of a stage I shoot too slow. If I just focus on shooting good shots I seem to do pretty well. BE has shown me the light, now all I have to do is execute. Shooting for me is about making each shot count, if I give up on a shot I miss or get a lucky hit. I am so pumped for Nats because the light really came on two weeks ago. I shot one day worrying about the outcome, and the next day telling myself just go shoot and get all the points you can. I know I can shoot accurately so for me I worry about the speed. After a whole day of just shooting for points I realized my time where a tad off the top guys, but with all those extra points I was in the mix. Last night was the perfect illustration of this, I watch BE's interview with Matt I wanted to go shoot a good group freestyle at 25 yards. I lifted the gun and shot 10 shots in the upper a/b just watching the sights align on the target. It was fairly rapid fire and I got a bit mad at myself because I thought I wasn't seeing exactly what I needed to see to get good hits. I didn't recall seeing any bad shots, but it just seemed way too fast. When I got to the target thier was a 2.5" group with 10 shots. I am learning that for me performing well has more to do with channeling my focus to execute the fundamentals, and KNOWING that if I do that on every shot, I will shoot as well as I can. I can shoot with emotion, I just have to channel it into being aware.

Visual patience

Like this? This one is legal.

That was a nasty swinger, got 4 hits waiting for it to pass twice, but I shot at it 6 times (2 sets of triple taps). I just figure the HF and figure if it is worth a miss or wait for it to come again. I HATE swingers. But I figure it is better to be patient with them, since everybody else has to also.

TT is da man when it comes to fast and smooth movement

What would the locals do to you? Don't they know you play with guns I have seen a pict of you and it would take more than a few of them to even budge you

Flex, I can't keep calm if I am pumping my arms to try to gain some speed, so staying mounted helps me stay focused. If it is a looonnnngggg way of course I un-mount, but otherwise I prefer staying mounted so I can stay in the "get to the next target and shoot it in the A-zone" mode.

Well said Jon. Pay it forward.

Man all we get for setting up and tearing down and RO'ing the the chance to shoot. It is sad having to bribe people to lend a hand

That may be true for you, but for me the calmer I can stay, the better I shoot. If I "try" to hard, ie, dismounting and pumping my arms like hell, it is hard to relax and start shooting, and I shoot the fastest/best when I am relaxed. There are so many benefits I get from moving smooth versus running that I don't have the time to explain them all. If you shoot better all wound up then do that. It does not work for me. My times are so much faster not trying to run, just trying to get there smoothly that it is hard to even comprehend for me. My last match shooting with Yong Lee (10th overall at 2002 limited nats) and his crew, they all run around looking fast and shooting blazing fast, I tried to shoot like that on the first day and screwed myself. The second day I shot relaxed and accurately (no trying to run around fast) and my scores jumped back to where they usually are. As a percent of Yong score (he won the match handily) on the 4 stages we shot the second day they were as follows 1. 99.9914% 2. 91.9537% 3. 80.8717% 1 miss in the black tape 4. 92.7817% So trying to keep your heart rate down might not make sense to you yet, but for me it works awesome.

If you get your heart rate up too hard it is much harder to shoot. Swinging your arms gets your heart rate up fast. This game is about shooting, not running, and like Matt I would rather be ready to shoot as soon as I can. At short distances pumping your arms won't get you there faster, take out your timer and try it.

about #2 if you follow #1, then #2 isn't a big deal, you NEED to check your scores, scorekeepers are overworked and underpaid. Mistakes happen. There is no need to be afraid of the score board.

Let me see, there are several CA based companies selling replacement parts. Have they knocked down their door? Nope, because it isn't illegal to have parts. You can order all the parts from Brownells and they can and will ship them to CA. I know of a guy that has 6 sets of replacement tubes, springs, basepads, and followers for his one pre-ban STI mag. Nothing like having extra parts just in case that wimpy S_I mag breaks

SigLady, It would be worth coming out of the closet for a beast like that wouldn't it?

If you see the sight lift, you know almost exactly where that bullet went. If you don't, how do you know where it went for sure? You don't. I want to know where my shots are when I break them. If I focus on that I shoot faster, very accurately, and I make up bad shots instantly. Why anyone wouldn't want to know where each shot is beyond me. I can miss targets @ 3 feet if I don't watch both shots, and in reality, I miss more targets at 1-5 yards than any other targets.

Comparing yourself to others is not the best thing to do. Just focus on learning how to shoot and you will be better off in the long run. Just watch the good guys and see what they do and why, then do your thang.

Quality products from quality folks, enough said, thanks!

When you are old and crusty you can go with fixed sights (or no sights) Until then, Bomars work well unless you are known as "the breaker of sights." The Garcia front sight is good as well as the Dawson, I think the .09 is the way to go.

You can grab the gun fast enough, but the most important parts of the draw aren't capture on the clip. How you present it on target seperates the men from the boys. I think most can hit a target well under a second at 3 yards, in reality it is hard to miss a target at 3 meters. But hitting an A zone at 15-25 yards off the draw will be a better test of skill than 3 meter draw. I think you need to send a clip of the whole draw and not just the grasp before you can get real good feedback.