kevinj308

Here's a link to some online dry fire training, beep included http://www.predatortactical.com/cart.php?m=knowledgebase_detail&id=5. As far as a timer I agree with the earlier post, get whatever your club uses or is most common in your area. Familiarity is a good thing. If you've got an Iphone Surefire makes a great timer app, only a few bucks I think. Kevin

3.9 of clays with a 230gr LRN is my favorite 1911 load, OAL at 1.25, mixed brass. It's a pretty popular load, I'd definitely check for something amiss in your reloading process or with the gun. Have you tried it in another gun? And chrono would be a good idea too, runs 765 fps in mine. Kevin ETA that load runs great in my Glock 30 as well and doesn't bulge the brass a bit.

Visualizing anything else would be to invite expecations into your mentality, effectively eroding all chances you might have had at maintaining a clear and observant mind. That's a keeper, thanks. Kevin

I have to run 3.4 of clays with a 158gr LRN. I don't have the OAL in front of me. This is in a 4" K frame model 10. There's some threads on this in the revo forum. Hope this helps, be careful. Kevin

1 1/4" and up are pretty common in the heavy equipment world. You could email the service manager's at your local Caterpillar, John Deere, Komatsu dealerships. He'd probably be happy to put it up on his shop bulletin board. There's always an apprentice who needs them or an old timer that wants some back ups. And like Aircooled racer said a community college or trade school would also appreciate them. Most have some sort of diesel technology program. I'd say you'd be doing well to get $25 to $50 per wrench. Used tools just don't have much value unfortunately. Good luck Kevin

I'm not making a comment on the AZ law, but the threat is most likely just that. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has partial ownership in the power plants that supply the power in question. Here's some response from LA officials. http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_15119206?source=rss

I think Blade Tech will do custom work. Might be worth a call. Kevin

Mine has never bothered me. Can't recall ever having it be a problem. The safety and mag release are pretty lefty friendly too Kevin

Bummer. Watching him on youtube now. Glad he lasted longer than most in his game. Definitely missed. RIP

That is quite possibly the best forum related tip I've ever read. I had no idea I could do that. Thank you very much. Kevin

+1 on the safariland 567. I got mine from opticsplanet.com. Good price and free shipping.

I agree that the physiological portion doesn't come up all the time. In the past I've enjoyed freediving. Diving in the ocean just holding your breath, a pair of fins, a mask and a snorkel. One of the major challenges is your urge to breath. It doesn't come from the lack of oxygen but rather from the build up of carbon dioxide in you lungs. Its the CO2 that stimulates the brain to breath while you still have plenty of O2. You have to suppress the urge to breath with force of will because intellectually you know that you have plenty of O2. Even while your brain wants to SCREAM at you to breath you must control it and remain calm. You gotta remain calm to conserve the O2 you do have. The top pros in that game hold their breath upwards of 4 minutes while diving to depths in excess of 100ft. That's some serious mind over physiology. I think the most successful shooters in this game are probably doing the same thing. Regardless of what their physiology is telling them to do, like hurry and get to the end because it's a race, their force of will allows them to perform as they intellectually know they should. While I'm here typing, and drinking beer , I'd like to throw something else out there. I agree that time, or like Mr. Smith said the clock, is the enemy. But I don't think speed is, that's kinda one of the good things. I tend to associate hurrying with speed. I'm thinking that's not a good way to look at it. Hurrying is bad, but speed with precision is good. When I'm shooting well, maybe not in the zone, but doing well for me. It feels good, the speed feels good. Like driving fast, or letting a wave carry you. But its speed with no concern for how long it takes. The enjoyment of the velocity without a concern for the outcome. Thats really the closest I've come to the zone. I'm absorbed in the moment without a concern for the duration of it. But it still seems to me I'm self aware and there's consciousness there. I think it was Ben Stoeger who posted somewhere on here that being mentally calm and physically aggressive was a good way to go. I think that relates to our force of will overcoming or taking advantage of our physiology. But also being calm enough to allow the precision that's required to happen while being physically aggressive enough to have speed. Somewhere in all that multitasking of be this and do that while not being this or doing that, I think we learn alot. Alot about awareness. Kevin

Have you ever had the rare experience that you "came out" of? Whether shooting a stage or doing any activity, you suddenly realized that for a short or a long period, there was no sense of self. The actor and action had merged into one activity. In that state there is no sense of passing time. And you only realized the sense of self when "you" "came back." The "there's no time in the Zone" state has to be experienced for the truth of it to be realized. Or to put it more directly, as Krishnamurti has said many times, "Time is thought." Time is like the illusion created by the magician's sleight of hand. The "magic" conceals the true, timeless reality. In each moment, everything is perfect as it is. Only when we think about the past or the future do things become good or bad. be I have had an experience that I "came out" of, but I don't remember what happened. It was in a match, and the best performance I've ever had. This thread reminds me of my all time favorite thread ever, http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=91236. There's alot of stuff in this thread and that one that I don't understand, but that doesn't mean its not true. I just need to work on my understanding Thanks Kevin

I think I followed where you were going in the OP, but you lost me with "the companion of self awareness is time". Why must it be so? Could you expand on that a little bit? Thanks Kevin

Thanks to you guys who brought this thread back up. After reading this for the first time it seems to me that practice should resemble a match. And just like in a match if you find that there's one area that needs work then pause and work on it. Now if I could just shoot a match every day that'd be great Thanks again to all the contributors, especially you Hugh. Kevin

How about playing a first person shooter video game? I just like video games but maybe it'll help too

What about one of these http://www.jagerproducts.com/opendiv.html? I don't have one but I keep drooling over them. Good luck Kevin

1911 5" .45 .38 Jframe .22 Buckmark No matter what I buy, what fad I follow. These are my favorites. I like the question. Reminds me I've spent alot of time and money looking for love in other places. I always come back to the above. Thanks Kevin

Could you just leave the ammo in the cab of a vehicle with the heater on? Wrap it in a heating pad maybe. Heat up a loaded mag to the ambient temp in question and shoot it over a chrono. I live in the sunny southwest so I've left my ammo in the icechest to see how it was gonna be somewhere colder. Just a thought Good luck Kevin

I bought a Talon Tactical kydex, can't say I'd do it again though. The fit and finish wasn't all that great. I've tried out my buddies Safariland 587 and really liked it. See alot of Blade Tech out there too. Just my .02 Good luck Kevin

It doesn't have a buttstock, but it does weigh almost 17 lbs. I don't know the gentlemen, just thought it was cool. He posted this pic of a group he shot, pretty good I think.

I never really thought about it honestly but I just miked some loaded rounds and some of mine are like that. I really don't think it's a problem. You gotta figure the shell holder is in the extractor groove right? So about .050 above that is not getting sized. That's really not much to worry about. I guess you could run the die down till it touches the shell holder if you haven't already, but that's all the case that's ever gonna get in there. There has to be some kind of lead in chamfer on your die so there's probably your .050. I've never used Redding for pistol ammo, but my Dillon die has quite a bit of lead in chamfer so I don't really expect that it goes all the way down to the groove. Sure helps the case find its way in during loading though. I guess what I'm saying is I wouldn't worry about it if it chambers easily, but that's just my .02. Be safe and if you're really concerned give Redding a call. I have dealt with them with Rifle dies and they've always been really friendly and helpful. Good luck Kevin

http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/03/radical-wide-benchrest-pistol/ Pretty cool pistol. Kevin

I worked at a ski resort teaching skiing/snowboarding for a month over the holidays and was amazed that completely sedentary, overweight people thought they could be taught how to ski/snowboard when it was apparent to me that they were physically incapable of whichever task they has chosen to attempt. It's almost comical how people would show up thinking that a somewhat physically demanding sport would be lots of fun right away, like they were going tobogganing or something. How about scuba students who don't know how to swim. Seriously, alot of them. Like that little detail should be taken care of by someone else LOL.

http://www.nps.gov/lame/historyculture/b29bomber.htm I've spent alot of time under Lake Mead, but it's never been 30 deg with a C or F.