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Wow, you range puts on a good match! You're rifle shooting looks good to me. On the pistol front, I'd suggest a couple of things. I like to keep my hands just barely about my shoulders and close together with my right hand just above my shoulder, and my left hand pretty much in front of my face. Then it's a strait shot down to the pistol. No need to have them up in the air so far from your gun. You might also try to get your gun up in front of your face during reloads.Really focus on keeping it at the sameish level as your shoot it. Then you can look the mag in, and there is much less wasted movement which is efficient/fast. The shooting looks pretty good otherwise. I did notice that you would run to a position, stop, then get your gun up and shoot. Try having the gun on target before enter the box so that the instant you step into the box you're breaking the shot. You'd be amazed at how much time you'll save just doing that, especially on the big field courses you guys have. You seem to already have the hustle down, just start decelerating a few steps before the box and get that gun up. Looking good!

1.9.2018 Dry fire Ever have one of those nights where things just aren't coming together? Well, that was tonight. After about 30 minutes I figured I was doing more damage than good and put the Q5 back in the safe. Instead, I pulled my Open gun out and did a little dry fire with it just to have a little fun. I haven't touched that thing in ages. If/when my eyes get too bad for Production I'll get back to that thing, although I've been considering shooting it a bit to see what I can learn from it. Ryan Goold, you're making me want to shoot Open again!

Haha, well if my scores increase then sign me up!!!

Any reason you moved from the DAA’s to the GR’s? I’ve been agonizing over which set to get, the RM’s or the GR’s.

Ahh, got it. Thank you guys! Just wanted to be sure I didn't violate any rules.

1.8.2018 Dry fire Tuning up session. After the last match I realized that my fundamentals have decayed from the lack of practice. So I ran through Anderson's dry fire book (R&R) and wound up having a really good session. I did have a great "realization" on my draw and transfer to weak hand drill. If I imagine a point, my right hand shoulder, and bring the gun and weak hand up together, almost to that point, in a smooth motion like when lifting a dumbell, it rocks. I also shaved 0.1-0.2 off of my turn and draw. For me, I snap my head and rip the gun out as fast as possible. I guess I had been gingerly pulling it out to get more turned around as to not violate the 180, but it really wasn't needed. I never realized that I was doing that until last night. Reloads still need work. It's so hit and miss with them. Also, trying to shoot more relaxed. Work in progress.

1.6.2018 First match of the year! I made it out to a local match and although it was fun, it was a bit of a $**t show. In my defense, it's been a while since my last match, I'm moving very slowly since I'm still having some issues from my surgery, very little dry fire, and I'm sure I can find even more excuses if I think about it. But honestly, I wasn't watching the sights rise and was yanking the trigger, so my accuracy was off. I hit two no shoots (boo!) and racked up a bunch of penalties on one stage where I was told that my support hand fingers were touching my arm during a SHO string. Whoops! I didn't realize I was doing that. I also was shooting the sights but driving the gun very slowly, so splits and transitions were very slow...for no good reason. In retrospect, I must not have been crushing the grip and it was taking forever for the sights to come back on to the target, hence the rushing and bad shot tracking. Just a timing issue from being rusty. I think (hope!) that I just need a good live fire session to get tuned back up. On the good side of things, even with all the errors I did still manage to take 3rd, which is a bit of a miracle. I guess I'm not the only one light on shooting from the holidays. In the end, shooting is like pizza. When it's good, it's good. When it's bad....it's still pretty good.

Thank you all for the info and recommendations! Just to clarify a couple of things (I'm slow), when I mentioned "canted" I should have explained better. Can I "yaw" them? What I mean by that is turning them on the same axis as setting them up "bullets out" but not that far. In between bullets forward and bullets out. I hope that makes sense, it's a little tough trying to describe what I mean. Thanks for bearing with me.

I was looking at getting new mag pouches and the Guga Ribas and DAA Racemasters allow you to cant them out so you don't have to flex your wrist so much, but I wasn't sure if that would be allowed in Production. I looked at the rulebook and only saw that mags can't be more than 2 inches from your body. So, can I cant and/or angle my mags? Thanks!

1.4.2018 Live fire. Very low impact practice today, just getting a chance to pull the trigger since it's been about 3 or 4 weeks since I've gotten any live fire. And as expected, I was a little off my game. I shot a Letham drills and a few "Six Reload Six"/"El Prez" drills. Shot about 88% scores even with the train wreck reloads. Not sure what was going on with my reloads, but will have to focus on them in dry fire a bit. I also put up a piece of steel and worked on moving around barrels in figure 8's to tune up my shooting on the move. Did pretty well, just watched the sights and let them dictate the pace. Not a bad practice for as long as it's been since I've shot live fire. Is it summer yet so I can get out more? Note to self: Don't let your grip pressure wain. Squeeze the gun like you're going to shoot a Bill Drill.

It's going alright I guess. I'm not supposed to do anything above a walk or lift more than 10 pounds for a few more weeks. The inactivity is driving me crazy to be honest. That being said I did get out to the range for a little low impact practice today. I doubt my doctor reads this. There is a match this weekend I'm considering since it's pretty compact due to it's bays, so short courses is about as much movement I'd likely see there. My wife may veto the idea, so we'll see. What about you, going to get your Q5 back out soon?

1.3.2018 Dry fire. Finally got back home and was able to dry fire a little, perhaps 30-45 minutes. Just getting the basics down to a decent par time. I’m glad that it didn’t take too long and I was getting back down to about where the times should be. Started to feel that relaxed feeling again and had a nice run until I started getting tired. Reloads started to get sloppy and I switched to shooting on the move before calling it a night. It’s good to be back and dry firing again!

12.31.2017 Dry fire. Once in a while you just have a bad day of practice, and this was one of those days. All of the travel, surgery, holidays, etc. are catching up with me. Looking forward to getting home and hitting it hard again.

Great to hear that they turned it around so quickly! Did the invoice mention what broke?

12.26.2017 Dry fire I wanted to confirm the draw/grip refinement from my last practice session, so I just focused on the sensation of getting the web of my strong hand on the proper spot on the beavertail and and notice a very strange sensation of shooting without any muscle tension. I think I finally know what it means to "shoot relaxed." More than just only moving the bare minimum to complete the draw, but focusing on only flexing the muscles in my hands as I crush the pistol. My drill times were faster while feeling effortless. My 10 yard 6 reload 6 went down to 4.10 and my reloads were really, really good for a change. I hope I can "recreate" that sensation, and hope that it stands up in live fire. Stay tuned.

12.21.2017 Dry fire First dry fire session since surgery. I had to take it easy and it was still bit uncomfortable but so happy to get to practice a little. I did come up with a little technique that seems to let me nail the grip at full speed. I am coming in from the side and my entire focus is to get my thumb up and over the beaver tail with the web of my hand pressed in the perfect position. Hard to describe, but in practice it is very very consistent, even at speed. Was easily getting .70 at 7 yards, and pretty much the same speed at 10 yards. I practiced the surrender draw using the same technique and it looks like it helps there, too. I worked on exploding into my reloads and put it all together with some six reload six drills. Very easily making my par time of 4.20 with very good hits. I began to hurt too much to continue so stopped right there. Ill try it again tomorrow and see how it goes. I want to work on my transitions since they were a bit slow, but we'll if I can do it without hurting myself. Just so happy to be practicing again!

Any updates on your Q5?

12.19.2017 No practice today. Still pretty sore from surgery and as much as I wanted to dry fire, I thought it would be prudent to hold off a little longer. I have been enjoying listening to the Shooter's Summit speakers and also thought I'd try to document my training program for anyone who wanted to follow along our use it as well. Instead of just pasting the program here, I thought I'd describe the background of it and how I arrived at the steps I'm using. It turned out to be a bit longer than I intended, and really too long to post here, so I put it on my blog so I don't take up too much space here. Here's the link: https://www.recoilsports.com/2017/12/building-your-training-program/ I'll get the program up there shortly, too.

Haha, indeed it does! But going to try and make the most of it. Lots of little micro drills will probably be in order. Also gives me a chance to inspect gear, fix/replace worn items, get the next year's reloading supplies inventoried and ordered, etc. Going to update my training program, too. I'll get it posted up here in case anyone wants to use it, too.

12.17.2017 No fire... Home from the hospital. My appendix failed and had to get it removed. Looks like I'll be out of commision for a little bit while I recover. I think in a day or two I'll pick up some dry fire of some sort. Light stuff like table pickup practice or trigger drills. Sigh. I signed up for the Shooter's Summit and started to listen to the speakers. Great stuff, totally worth the $37.

Thanks for the info!!!! I’ll ping them and see if they can help me. Very much appreciated!

Since this thread is massive at this point, may I ask you guys to start a new thread specificity discussing hi cap mag options for the Q5? It’ll be so much easier for people to find and update. /2cents.

Walther sent me a new rear sight so I'm up and running. I would like to find a replacement screw and get the old sight fixed in case it happens again, I'll have a spare. Just haven't had time to call around yet.

What's the difference between doing that and using they Springer or Taylor extended mags? Seems like extra steps to make the TT's work.

12.12.2017 Dry dire. Short session, 20 minuets perhaps. Worked on the fundamentals with an emphasis on the turn and draw. Funny how you can never neglect the basics, there is always some extra speed hidden in there.