BBoyle

Another 6 to 7 for the 2 biggest clubs in the area.

A word of advice. Do not shoot the 9mm barrel in a major match. If they notice you will be shooting open minor. Good choice on the 35!!!!!!! There is nothing wrong with a 35 for limited! There is nothing like kicking the but of 2,000 to 3,000 guns with a gun that costs less than $800 all set up! Brian

Keep working on dryfiring but do not ask to see the time in matches to see what you are doing. If you worry what your draws, splits, transitions, and reloads are during a match then you are not focused on what you are actually there to do. Know what they are in practice and just perform in the match. Brian

Browning High Power or one of the cheaper copies. It has the smallest grip I ever felt before on a full size pistol.

Sorry double post. I could use the post count anyway

The 35 is a true all around, as has been said. If you only want to shoot production get the 34. If you want to take the same platform and compete in Production, Limited and Limited 10 then get the 35. I have a 35 as my production gun and it is pretty cheap to shoot if you reload and I do not feel that any other gun out there is really much better. JD.........this is the beginner forum, where questions are expected to be asked and answered. Brian

Why don't they just specify "the frame" and let any part of the frame be whatever surrounds the cylinder or envelops or is enveloped by the slide.

I can understand that being on the SS could help you or add stress to your shooting. Most at that level already have a good grip on the mental game, if they didn't they would not be as consistant as they are. The advantage I think that they do have is for stage breakdown on some of the more complicated stages. I have seen a few top shooters figure out more efficient ways to shoot a stage and then most of the rest of the SS follow suit when they see what the others saw or how it worked for them when they shot it. Brian

Undo the shell plate and there are a few hex bolts that you can loosen/tighted and slightly adjust. I did this 2 years ago and no more problems.

Nothing but great results from Precision Delta here as well.

I love hearing stories like this, doesn't matter what branch. But when it is another Airman I take pride in it! I have known quite a few Combat Controllers and Para Rescue personnel and have nothing but the utmost respect for them. The 2 former seals that I know that have worked with controllers before have also had nothing but good things to say about their performance in theater, even thought they said they had great reservations about AF members being attached and not having trained with them for more than a few weeks before deployment.

Looks like you are swinging the gun out there like a golf club. Break the draw down into 3 movements and then 2 movements. Get your grip, clear holster and get support hand grip (about one foot out from chest), then presentation to the target. You should be seeing the sight and lining it up as you extend to the target and fixing any grip issue. Then break it into 2,... Get to the gun and then present. You will start short cutting the movements and exaggerating them less as you build the repetition. Practice in front of a mirror but do not totally rely on it. You will see any exaggerated movements with your body. Pay attention to your head position and try to be as aggressive in your stance as the position allows. You are dramatically dropping your head and bringing it to where you want it when it should almost be there before the beep anyway. If you are at OB I will show you some cheats to build repetition with a surrender start for more consistency. Brian

If that is the case, I would have engaged the left side first, then upper middle, then finished on the right. Brian

Proper presentation and grip is just as important in dryfire as it is in live fire. A big mistake that a lot of people make with dryfire is that they are not honest with what they actually see while they do it. Brian

Anytime you feel that you want to say something just put it out there. I am mostly a lurker, and have been for a long time (look at my post count and time in). I will occasionally throw my 2 cents in or give opinion/advise. A lot of that happens late at night when I shouldn't even be on the forums for various reasons.

I have shot my 19 in matches before and shot it just as well as I do my 35. In reality the extra sight radius is easier for more accurate/tighter shots but the 19 will shoot groups just as good as almost any other production gun out there. If you were, or she were, to stick with it I would just change the sights and then maybe some trigger work when there is more confidence with the gun.

In the second video I would have shot ran around the steps instead of negotiating them again. In the first video you have to pay a little more attention to your sight picture and call the shots. The plate rack and the distant target tell me that you are maybe only seeing your front sight. I would bet that the right distant was an A and a D or mike by the ricochets visible. Work on empty starts and you will get smoother and faster. Not too much else stood out but I only watched them once. Overall very good for someone with less than a year in the business! Brian

Ghost!!!! I loved my old Bianchi Hemisphere and the Ghost is the fastest and smoothest that I have handled. I have played around with the Limcat and recently a RM and I still think the ghost is just as good as them and maybe smoother. Either way just pick pne and work the CrXp out of it! Brian

I am surprised that no one has designed a stage design app for an I Pad/I Phone. I would imagine it would not be that hard and it could also send an email of the completed stage along with a score sheet for same. My daughter has apps that she will place different objects on a scene and she can place multiples of the same on a single scene. Seems like it may work for stage design by putting different wall designs, barricades, targets, boxes, fault lines, steel, etc. Brian

Hey Brian, It was nice meeting and shooting with you. I am sure that you will not be a C for too much longer. You have a good foundation already. I use this page as a sort of journal. I like to put in here anything that I think I need to remember so that when I do get a chance to practice or dryfire I will have the reminder. Hope to see you at the range again. Brian

Shot another match today with my G35 in production. I need to start practicing and dryfiring! We had a classifier type stage that was three strings with weak, strong and freestyle. I zeroed the stage with 7 misses and 2 no shoots. I have to start working on my weak and strong hand shooting. I had a few misses during the match and was disappointed with those runs. I also shot a few good solid stages. I know what I have to work on and what I have to do, now I just have to join a range and actually practice. My goals for this season will not be to try and get a M or GM card but to work on consistency and accuracy. Weak and strong hand were easily identified as a weakness. My other misses were generally as I was moving so I will have to work on shooting on the move. The screwed up thing is I knew that there was a possibility that I had those misses because the shot broke right as I was stepping and I saw the sights dip. I am the idiot for not putting an extra shot there but there is the challenge of production, a lot of breakdowns I may not have the extra shot available without an extra reload being needed. I may bump my load down a little. Right now it is 140 plus pf but I did notice that it recoiled more than I would have liked with my weak hand (almost distractingly so). I will try it at 132-135 and see how it feels but I do like the slight snappiness that it has right now for freestyle. I did not really notice it as a problem with my strong hand. I have another match in 2 more weeks. I will try and start a dry fire regiment again and see about joining a club in the next month or 2. Brian

Nice review! In late 2010 I picked up a Brazos HP Edge and have been extremely happy with it. I had a few failures to fire in the first couple of months and traced it to hammer follow. My fault because I took the trigger down to less than 2 lbs. bumped it up to a 2.7 and have no more issues. It also feeds any ammo i have put through it but all my .40s go through a GRX die. I always like the look of the nice customs but all I care about in a match gun is reliability. Someday I might treat myself to another custom build but my Edge is all i need for now. Brian

Micah, how many rounds until you started getting light strikes? I know I have over 1,000 rounds, but less than 2,000, on my challenger kit and it still lights off my CCI small pistols without an issue. I have the original spring ready to go if I do start getting light strikes. Brian

It has been a long time since I posted here. I just shot my first match of the year this past Sunday since September or October. I did have 2 misses during the match but shot everything else pretty well focusing on accuracy and not really pushing anything. I am still a lowly A Class shooter in Production and shot 95% of the Production winner who is a pretty solid Master. I know that a nice dryfire regiment and some solid live fire are going to be needed. The 2 misses I had were a called miss on an A Zone only target but I decided to move and not make a stand still reload in front of the target. The other one was a wall that was partially blocking the A Zone and I barely skipped the wall but the round did not appear on the target (or maybe there was a perfect double:) ). I did get a little happy with the classifier, forget it's name, and decided to go for it and shoot the 6 rounds and reload and shoot the 6 again from the 25 in 6 seconds. I flubbed the reload but still got 5 off before the buzzer. Points paid dearly though. I ended up with a lot of Cs and Ds which really killed me in Production. Looking forward to a good season and hope to compete in in more matches this year. I plan on doing the Area 8 and the Mid Atlantic Sectional. I just have to pick what division I will be in for both or if I will change divisions. I still do not belong to a club yet and will have to join if I am ever going to get any live fire practice in. Brian

In practice I do not clean them. During a match I do!