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JAustin

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  1. One or or two. Simple doesn’t matter. shooting very fast and accurate requires clean clear sharp focus on the front site through the entire recoil cycle, at which point your brain will recognize that the shot is complete and the front site is still in focus and lined up ready for another shot. do what ever it takes to see the cycle clearly. seeing the recoil cycle from beginning to end will propel you to higher classes even the highest.
  2. Now focus on the front site, clear and sharp like your read print. second don’t shoot at a target just shoot and concentrate on watching the front site go up and down. Dont let your self blink, keep your eyes open. and finally start adjusting wrist tensions to get your front site to go straight up and straight back down and stop exactly were it started. This drill is the root for all others. It has become very clear to me over the years without mastering the above first all I’m doing with my ammo is making just making noise James
  3. I would like to know what custom barrel you have and the rifle twist? This is some great research Thanks. You probably know this but I think it should be said. Kernels of unburnt powder are the death of keeping a good trigger during a match. The kernels lodge under the extractor and creat a stif trigger. Powders that seem sooty type of dirty don't cause this problem over the course of a day at a match. JA
  4. I'll give you $875 and pay for shipping up here. oh and pay for the moonclips you just bought. This help you decided what side you on???
  5. I've have never really named this exercise anything. From now on I shall call it The ATE. Austins Tuning Exercise.
  6. Ok I see my mistake. You want a remedy, what I see is regardless. Here is how I broke it down and the exercise to go with. Next time you go to the range do some shooting without any target of any kind just you and your front sight. Step #1 Focus on the front sight just like you read print. Step #2 Firing without blinking or loosing focus on the front sight. Step #3 Adjust grip and tension so that your front sight goes straight up and straight back down. Step #4 Adjust grip and tension so that you front sight stops lined up with the rear sight. Now shoot this exercise until this is habit. Now your ready for targets. I actually start every practice session with this exercise. I like to call it tuning. All other practice is pointless until I'm tuned. Sometimes one shot and yep I'm in tune, other times might take 25 or more to settle in. This tuning concept really helped the match jitters as well because the first few shots I take I really pay attention to tuning and can settle in pretty quickly. There you have it, I just didn't say don't do it any more???? JA
  7. Properly gripped and tensioned your gun will cycle right back to were it left from. If you broke a shot with bad trigger control but didn't see the front sight move or you thought you had a good sight picture when the shot broke, but now your gun comes down out of recoil with the front sight way outside the rear notch or completely off the target. You just confirmed to your self that not only did you NOT call your shot but that the shot was completely lost to you and most likely a miss and you want be able to remember anything about that particular shot. This is why I call it confirming your call. And this is the essence of what is causing the last shot miss. I know a long way of simple saying FOLLOW THROUGH. I know that you just described the gun return to point of aim but honestly that doesn't happpen to me anymore when I'm on my game gripped and tensioned properly.
  8. I consider myself match ready when I can clear a five plate plate rack in +- 2 from low ready. .90 low ready+- to first plate, and splits about .28. And 9 out of 10 times multiple times. I watch my sight go up and come back down same spot with plate still standing, that's right the gun is back in line ready for next shot before the plate visible starts to move, them move the gun to next plate. Sometimes if I get low hits on first two plates I will be on plate three before I notice first two falling. Makes you think you missed first two shots, except that there was white behind front sight at start and finish so you know they are good hits. This is the information I'm seeing during the cycle of a shot not just splits. The point is every single shot needs to have this kind of follow through even your last shot. A good tight grip and wrist tension as Carmoney pointed out and watching front sight just like I read print for the entire cycle is how I over came bad last shot syndrome. Watching the front sight start to finish, you will see a bad trigger pull before the shot breaks. The front sight doing figure eights during recoil is a weak grip. And the front sight not stopping exactly were it left is a tension problem. And it all happens way faster then you think. I see the above said information during a shot at splits as fast as I can shoot roughly .2 second. You have got to wait for and make sure the front sight is settled before you move on. Funny thing is it doesn't seem slow to me, my perseption is the sight come down just as fast as it went up. JA
  9. Calling your shot is seeing the front sight lift at the moment recoil starts. Confirming you made a good call, is watching the front sight settle back down were it left.
  10. It's true all Moonclip Servers now fit all calibers, and all round count. Thanks for your interest. James
  11. The supers I've been around have been more accurate then any other caliber including the 9mm and more trouble free. They weigh just about the same so only real difference little longer barrel and sight radius. I've never felt handy capped with a five over a six and half in barrel. My vote the super. James
  12. The Moonclips do ride on or straddle the rail. The 9mm case is tempered enough to cause binding on the stock rail. To counter this I have had to grind a taper in the rail sort like the cross section of a knife blade. This is done by hand and is somewhat time consuming. Once done the Server will work with all Moonclips in all calipers and round count without changing anything. The regular rail will take all Moonclips except the 7 and 8 shot 9mm. So to help me for now I have added the check this box if your using 9 mm. Thanks James
  13. If you don't watch your sight picture all the way through recoil the only reference your going to have is simply how the gun feels to you with various barrel lengths. When I spend time shooting 4 in guns them switch back to my 6.5 skinny I'm always amazed at how haywire the sight picture can be with the 6.5 and still be a good hit. Often enough I have made up an A hit with an A hit because my front sight drifted just before the gun recoiled and I knew the shoot was out in the D, but wasn't. After recoil with nose heavy guns I just can't tighten my wrist enough to keep the barrel bounce to a minimum witch bothers me and I find myself waiting for the the sight picture to settle down before comfortable with next shot. I saw this with my 25-2 6.5 and when I shoot skinny barrel 8 3/8. I really like my super 5 inch. No expierance yet with the 929 but worry that the extra inch may put the barrel into the bounce category. Just my thought process in the barrel length debate.
  14. Oops said to much. Not trying to rekindle. Just wanted some multi angle/personal observations of the six eight debate in the major matches so far this year. Sorry James
  15. OK let's have a good debrief of the major minor debate now that nationals is over. My biggest beef has been that every major match I've shot in has severly lacked in 3 target, close in, wide open arrays. This is the only time 6 major will trump 8 minor, just as soon as you have to slow down for hard cover, no shoots, long shots or just tough shots your going to shoot As anyway and its easier and quicker shooting minor. Curios what the kings people have to say now. James
  16. The nature of our sport being defensive and short term offensive, such as clearing a house. The idea of starting a stage with your gun belt on and empty but usable once you get to your gun and ammo is apauling to me. The pickup stage should be simulating that you are wearing nothing more than PJs. The stage round count limit and shots per position are proof of this. We are not hunting zombies and shot our gun so hot we can not reload it any more and out of ammo, nor are we shooting our way down an Iraqy street at witch point were hot and empty. Might sound a bit bias come from me but still simple the way I feel about pickup stages during regular matches. Rogue matches anything goes. James
  17. Interesting that you comment on Lee's widget but not Snertly's device to hold a post out.Word to the wise Agreed. This actually is a great discussion to have before one of us has a bad day.So if you carry a widget in a pouch on your gun belt or hung by a lanyard the entire match is it employable on a Server or post holder during a specific stage? I think Snert's suggestion of using a moonclip (or one of the plastic spacers that are available for the North Mountain product) would probably be illegal too, if it were added and removed at various times during the match. The solution many of us have settled upon is to simply leave a moonclip (or plastic spacer) in place on each post all the time. If Lee's widget can be rigged to be in place on the moonclip server all the time, and simply engaged or not engaged depending on the requirements of the stage, I think it would be perfectly legal as well. If the current version of the server allows for the follower to be locked out, that would seem to be an excellent solution. This is not something most ROs would ever catch. And certainly not something most revolver shooters would ever make an issue out of. But I would hate to see somebody get dinged by a nazi RO, which is why I made the comment. Word to the wise, right?
  18. Interesting that you comment on Lee's widget but not Snertly's device to hold a post out.Word to the wise Agreed. This actually is a great discussion to have before one of us has a bad day.So if you carry a widget in a pouch on your gun belt or hung by a lanyard the entire match is it employable on a Server or post holder during a specific stage? I think Snert's suggestion of using a moonclip (or one of the plastic spacers that are available for the North Mountain product) would probably be illegal too, if it were added and removed at various times during the match. The solution many of us have settled upon is to simply leave a moonclip (or plastic spacer) in place on each post all the time. If Lee's widget can be rigged to be in place on the moonclip server all the time, and simply engaged or not engaged depending on the requirements of the stage, I think it would be perfectly legal as well. If the current version of the server allows for the follower to be locked out, that would seem to be an excellent solution. This is not something most ROs would ever catch. And certainly not something most revolver shooters would ever make an issue out of. But I would hate to see somebody get dinged by a nazi RO, which is why I made the comment. Word to the wise, right?
  19. Interesting that it is commented on Lee's widget but not Snertly's device to hold a post out.
  20. About seeing your sights try this. Next practice session shoot at nothing, no target, just you and the front sight. Step #1 Learn to shoot without blinking. With a focus on the front sight as sharp as reading print. Step #2 Adjust wrist tension to get your sights to go straight up and straight back down. Step#3 Adjust wrist tension to get your front to stop lined up with your rear sight, the same position that the sights started at the beginning of recoil. Step #4 Goose bumps, caused by your realizing that you just saw the whole process happen and your still looking and have in sharp focus the front sight and the fact that the gun is waiting for you to give it another shot. Step #4 Is probably the most important because if you do not experience this phase of making a shot theres a real good chance that your next shot is going somewhere else. IE how many times have you seen guys shoot an A and a C on several targets in a row. There simply short circuiting the process and totally loosing the second shot. Now when you have mastered this apply some of the mental points others have made hear to solidify this ideal in your brain. As a Grand Master ICORE shooter I can tell you that this is all I do for every shot I make no matter how close the target is. When I start getting ahead of myself and stop seeing these four steps I stop refocus on the front sight and get going again on track. At the beginning of every practice I shoot without a target to retune these four step. Took me a long time to learn that this is what I need to be seeing and now is seems so simple. Front Sight. James
  21. Step #1 Shoot at nothing no target just you and the front sight. Fire the gun and learn not to blink. Focusing on the front sight like you read print in the news paper. Step #2 Now that you see the front sigth going up in recoil adjust your wrist tension to get the sight to go straight up and straight back down. Step #3 Adjust wrist tension to get the front sight to stop lined up with the rear sight. Step #4 Goose bumps. You realize that you just fired the gun and saw the front sight go straight up and back down and stop lined up ready for the next shot, in the exact position that it left. The gun is waiting for you, line up and ready to go again. This is a drill I perform at the start of every practice session. I call it tuning. Once I'm retune now I can get to practicing. Those four step are all I do for every single shot I fire in every discipline I shoot in. They form the ground work for calling your shots, staying ahead of the gun and smoothness shot to shot, even double taps are shot this way.
  22. This is a must have for someone reloading moon clips during a match. You won,t put every moon clip through a straightener after every stage but you would certainly drop them through a Gage and them straighten the ones that need, or set aside for later work. Preparation is one of the major differences between novice and experienced shooters. Great idea and simple.
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