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I used to say that too Now I just plead the 5th and recite the Vickers count rule. But nobody really cares at my club because the rules contradict each other and we are not mind readers. I do think in most cases it doesn't give the average shooter that much of an advantage. And if your splits and reloads are good enough where it does give you an advantage you have to do it because everyone you compete with will do it. If you want to stop it at your club put a nice and tight non threat on the round dumping target. I won't throw a third one at it if there is any chance to hit a non threat. Or make the last two shots of a magazine two pieces of steel. There are lots of things you can do stage design wise to limit round dumping.

I have a Pact Club III. I like the simple interface and ease of use. But it doesn't work all that well in cold weather. It will pick up the sound of the beep as a fired shot. Others at my club have reported similar problems. And the clip doesn't really clip it's more like a hook. It doesn't stay put well when you run around during practice. If I bought one now it would be the Pocket Pro.

That's a great attitude. I think sometimes I lose focus of what my priorities are when I shoot 1. Have Fun 2. Get Better 3. Win Number 3 takes over a lot of times at the expense of 1 and 2.

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I didn't say good shooters, I said competitive shooters. This is not a "will it help my shooting question". This is a "does anyone have any experience with this product question".

Great shooting, great video. If you don't mind me asking MM, you implied that you thought you could do better, what's your best time on the classifier? Or how fast do you think you could shoot it if you were firing on all cylinders?

My only reason is out of the box reliability and the trigger itself. 1911 styles can be picky with mags and ammo, which I can handle if it has a great single action trigger. But if I'm going to by a 1911 with a trigger pull similar to a Glock or M&P, why not just buy the polymer pistol that will run with virtually any mag and any ammo?

I did a search on Phiten necklaces or bracelets and it came up empty. I was surprised since it claims to keep muscles relaxed and fight muscle fatigue. Knowing that competitive shooters will try anything that might give them an edge I was sure someone would have posted something here. So has anyone tried one?

Dan might take a while to get to you. He's a busy man. But once you send him your gun the turnaround is fast. And his work is excellent.

Why not? With decent technique the gun is going to be down out of recoil before you could possibly pull the trigger again anyway. Your right I've never realistically tried to go as fast as I physically can, calling my shots along the way. I've pulled the trigger as fast as I can pull it, but put no effort into calling both shots (just wanted to see my fastest split). I've always valued accuracy more than speed in practice. Once I start getting bad hits I start slowing down. But I understand in practice you need to push it or you'll never get faster. It's kind of like when someones says "You don't know what you don't know". If you never get up to that speed, you won't know what you need to work on to shoot that fast accurately. Am I making any sense?? I like this idea and I'm going to try it, but does it affect your live fire? Do you ever notice inadvertently getting a third sight picture in live fire? Dry fire to me feels risky at times. I'm a firm believer in "Perfect practices makes perfect", since there are no holes in the target afterwards, it can be hard to validate your performance. I usually try to balance my dry fire with live fire, to validate my dry fire practice. But during these short winter days its been hard to get to the range and practice. So I've done a lot more dry fire than live fire lately. As I'm sure everyone has. Any more tricks, besides the third sight picture, to keep yourself honest in dry fire practice?

One thing I've always wondered about is split speed as it relates to dry firing. For example, when I do 6 reload 6 from Steve Anderson's book I find that I'm reducing my time by simply pulling the trigger faster, not from having faster transitions, reload, or draw. I know that in live fire there is no way I can reproduce the splits I get in dry fire. To me the lack of recoil lets me achieve faster splits than I would in live fire. But in dry fire as I'm pressing the trigger the sights are aligned and I'm seeing what I need to produce good hits. But the point of the drill seems to be to increase your transition speed not reduce your splits. The question is do you slow down your splits to a more realistic level when dry firing? Or is the fact the trigger finger is moving fast a good exercise as long as you see what you need to see with the sights? The thought I'm having now is that I'm training my brain to recognize a good sight picture on a target and the response to that sight picture is to press the trigger. Since the gun doesn't lift in recoil I'm able to immediately start pressing the trigger again (assuming the sights are still aligned). What say you??

I wouldn't worry about it because of this. In a weeks time more than likely you will have a different IP Address. One thing I would would worry about a trick like that is with spam email. A lot of times spammers will include things like that to see if the address they sent the email to is being checked. Once they get a hit, they'll then flood that email address with more and more spam. That's why GMail (and I'm sure other web mail providers) give you the option to block all image files in emails.

Brock's Gap IDPA (formerly Steel City IDPA) in Birmingham, AL will be hosting The Masters Championship November the 14th. Shooters meeting is at 0830, shooting starts at 0900 Don't let the name fool you every stage will be designed so that a Marksman can solve the problem. However,there will be options available for the more advanced shooters. To win the Expert and Master classifications, you will have to exercise some advanced skills. Match Director’s tip: know your limits. Here is last year's course of fire to give you an idea of the concept. More Info And Application Here

Thanks, I had no idea S&W were selling them - for $60 its definately worth a look Dave did you ever pick one up? If so what do you think?