Michael Fletcher

Hard Core...Movies...Good ones...The ones with family values. What I am looking forward to id he release of "Tomb Raider" Theres something about a girl with two 45.

Thank Ross...Nice to see you on the site. finally. Why don't you pick on someone your own size.

I forgot to mention try to do it when there no one else around. It can be quite embracing spilling that Hot coffee all over yourself. And people will probably laugh at you until you get good at it.

I think Pat and I have pretty much the same routine, but I don't do quite as much. The last little will my dry firing time has been limited, so I will practice movement drill as work, home or where ever I may be. I work on the day to day thinks you mit see in a stage. Going through doors, moving from one place to another. Try to move quickly but smooth. Pat taught me a good drill to work on this. Take the lid off of your coffee (or what ever your drinking). Hold it in front of you in a similar stance as you hold your gun on target. Now move quickly without spilling it. It's harder then it sounds.

So did you give him your dog?

Ofcourse you wouldn't shoot his snake if it was roaming around the house! You would lead it outside first, then turn him into clothing.

I try to ask question every time I finish a stage. If it wasn't for all the time I sat around talking to Pat about how to get better I'd still be stuck trying to run a field course like I was a chicken without a head. I still have a long was to go, but with a lot of help both on and of the range, my times have moved up 15-20% and rising. As my momma always says "There's no stupid questions, only stupid people"

I also agree with Pat, but I have a funny story about a GM showing a B class shooter how to improve. I have been looking for an excuse to write in this story for quite some time. Last fall Todd Jarrett came up here to put on a course. Six of are local shooters signed up for the course. One of them was a struggling Canadian Master shooter and a B Class USPSA shooter. After a day of going through drills on all of the mentions improvement areas, TJ put them through a drill that involved them all. The Devils Triangle if memory serves me correctly. This un-named shooter rips through the drill. Once TJ stopped laughing, he told the shooter that he was trying to hard. He had a lot of wasted movement; he was shooter without tracking the dot. In general he was just flopping around the range. So, for a demonstration TJ said we was going to walk the course and still be able to do it faster. Well he was right! He walked and still managed to do it in a faster time. The first thing I noticed was that his feet. He walks so smoothly. His shooting was faster, both his splits on the target and from target to target. There was no wasted movement, as so as he called his shot he moved to the next position. I will never let the un-named shooter live it down. All I have to say when he screw up is "How 'bout I walk this one partner."

This make me mad...I go away for a couple of days and a topic opens itself up for hundreds of knotty comments. And Chriss, I have always wanted a good pair of rattle snake boots. I don't have a problem with reptiles, especially lizards. It those dame spider. Not the little ones. When it big enough it see if its smiling at me, it's TOO big.

And women complain about men being to fast!

Can anyone else see the pink elephants climbing the wall? And theres four guys in a submarine floating around.

If we are All NUTS, dosen't that make us normal? Hay Bird, did you put any mushrooms on that salad?

O.K. Mine is the day one the owners of the club I once worked at put a large balloon with a happy face on it, put it down at the back stop, about 25 yard. Pulled out his 9 mm and fired 5 quick shots at it. The balloon just sat there laughing at him. Well I just happened to have my new Para. Just brought it down from the gunsmiths shop and was charger the first mag well he was taking his shots. I step in to the booth beside him, Fired one shot, And then there was no more balloon. My life at the club after that was nothing but down hill.

Well, if I'm riding your coat tail, I can atleast help you with the navigator. That is if you will let me.

I'm going to see if I can steer this back to the original topic. Mainly for selfish reasons. I hit a goal on Wednesday night at are local match. Pat set up a cool course of fire. Three stages, two of them being speed shots (or for you people up on the 14th addition rule, two short course) One was a bill drill and the other was one shot at a popper at 15 yards. Pat shot first I was third. His 1.00sec to my 1.37sec. Not world records or any thing but when I got the score the next day I had beaten on of a masters by 3.55%. Again no world records set but it help to bust the ego.

Pat right. If the people that setup and run the matches had a little more knowledge of How to play the game and not just how to apply the rules, matches would run faster because you wouldn't have to stop after every shooter and read out rules. I have heard roomers that there was going to be a handbook made up on "How to be a Match Director". This could solve a lot of the problems.

Hey Pat, Next time you think of doing any uninstalling or cleaning...Call me first! We can schedule it so that we don't miss anything.

The day after Pat switch back to the Bianchi, I switch to the Safariland 011. Funny how that worked. I have cut of at least .15 of a second off of my draw. I just eased it in a match tonight. My draw feel smoother. I also like the adjustment I have with the 011 over the CR. What is the difference with the 012? Is there more adjustments? Help me, What makes it the SHIT!!

I'll give you a shinny new penny if you can do it under 4sec all A's.

For me it's been movement drills. You don't even need a gun to do some of the drills. I run around with my dog in my back yard. (The reason the dog there is so my neighbors don't think I'm insane.) Work on leaving and entering a box. Short sprints, and just being able to move smoothly and quickly. I have fond this is where I have picked up the most time. I dry-fire working on draws, mag changes, and trigger control like in Pat's post. But if you saw me when I started, I definitely needed to work on the way I moved.

You don't have to do anything...Your the Star!! You just sit back and let everyone else to the real work.

Maybe we should make a based on Pat. What do you think about it Mr. Pat? We know enough people to do one. A day in the life sort of thing.

No Nik she's not in the mob. Even they get screamish over her ways too motivate.

It's not so much and attitude as it is a state of mind. Your mind is no longer cluttered with the thought of what could be and what should I do. You have relaxed your self into focusing on what is. I had that same problem when I started. If you relax and watch what is happening you will shoot better.

I'm sorry to hear you didn't make it. And as for being a "Enosverse junkie". I thing we all fall into that area. Are nickname should reflect this. "Brian Ensos web forum is now consider to be a VICE".