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    Never ever, ever, ever do this.

    in Match Screw-ups

    Posted

    After 8+ years of shooting this sport you'ld think I would have learned and the truth is I haven't done it in probably 5 years but there I was shooting heads up in the Florida Open Shoot Off for all the marbles, I draw and shoot the front big popper, stick a perfect reload and as the mag is inserting into the magwell I see that grey M&P mag follower. "CRAP that mag is empty" as it clicks into place so I stick another perfect reload but that ain't going to cut it when you are shooting against someone as good as Kevin. Second run I had no excuse I just missed my first shot at the stop popper and Kevin didn't but I'ld sure like to know what would have happened if I hadn't caught such a bad case of sphincter-noggin.

    Florida Open 2008 recap & opinions

    in Match Announcements - Pistol Only - USPSA, IPSC & Misc.

    Posted

    I really enjoyed this match. I thought that the 100+ gun thing was cool even though I don't shoot this sport for the prizes. The format was the best I've seen out of all the matches I've shot but one way to avoid some of the late entries complaining (Which you'll always get some) may be to have Sat.AM/Sun.AM and Sat.PM/Sun.PM instead of Sat.AM/Sun.PM and Sat.PM/Sun.AM. It spreads the down time evenly.

    Stages were good. Very challenging and enjoyable. I'ld shoot the exact same match again.

    Mythical M&P 5"

    in 1911-style Pistols

    Posted

    Ledge,

    You say that, like it's a bad thing.

    I don't mean it as a bad thing, but I would rather play in limited than open. It seems to me that an almost out of the box limited gun would get adopted more quickly than one that needs a couple grand thrown in to it to make it useable in a division, that's all. I'm all for it as an open gun platform, just not for me.....yet.

    Well, Production shooters love the idea of the 9mm M&P 5".

    Work or fun?

    in Humor

    Posted

    The Commanding Officer of a Regiment in the U. S. Marine Corps was about

    to start the morning briefing to his Staff and Battalion and

    Company Commanders. While waiting for the coffee machine to finish its

    brewing, he decided to pose a question to all assembled. He explained

    that his

    wife had been a bit frisky the night before and he failed to get his

    usual amount of sound sleep. He posed the question of just how much of

    sex was

    'work' and how much of it was 'pleasure?'

    The X.O. chimed in with 75-25% in favor of work.

    A Captain said it was 50-50%.

    The Colonel's Aide, a Lt., responded with 25-75% in favor of pleasure,

    depending on his state of inebriation at the time.

    There being no consensus, the Colonel turned to the PFC who was in

    charge of making the coffee. What was HIS opinion?

    With no hesitation, the young PFC responded, "Sir, it has to be 100%

    pleasure."

    The Colonel was surprised and, as you might guess, asked why?

    "Well, Sir, began the PFC, "if there was any work involved, the officers

    would have me doing it for them."

    The Kingdom

    in Books, Movies, TV & Music

    Posted

    The statements at the end of the movie:

    Spoiler alert:

    The Terrorists stated "We'll kill them all" with the intent of murder to get what they wanted.

    The FBI agent stated "We'll kill them all" with the intent of stopping them from murdering innocent people to get what they wanted due to the fact that these brainwashed psycos can't be reasoned with.

    Same thing different purpose/intent. Sometimes in life you have to fight fire with fire.

    Still 'B'

    in What I Hate

    Posted

    Checking the classiification update today I fully expected my 'A' card at a 76% (Production) but NOOOOOOOO! Due too some I.T. issues an 87.****% didn't get posted.

    Could be worse though; My shooting buddy missed his GM card due to this same issue.

    This sucks!! I wanted to shoot the Fl. Open as an 'A' class.

    What targets to shoot first?

    in Handgun Techniques

    Posted

    Which ever I feel gives me the best economy of motion for the stage in its' entirety. If the most difficult shot will allow me to exit my position faster by taking it first then that's what I do and visa/versa.

    Also; I never understood the whole "exit on steel" debate. Deductive reasoning tells me that I would rather begin an exit missing steel and realize it, return/stop/pause or whatever and re-engage it than exit missing paper and not know it and get a miss. The pause/hesitation usually doesn't cost as much as a miss.

    Where can i improve?

    in Video Training Tips

    Posted

    Stage prep until you don't have to think about where you need to go. I see points of hesitation where it looks like you are thinking of where you need to go next (Rounding the wall in the stage 1 video for example). A lot of stage prep will smooth you out quite a bit. Gun handling looked good but you could have broken out and began your reload and movement alot sooner in the stage two video. I practice this quite a bit in dry-fire. Stage one you could have swept the targets left to right and backed yourself out of your position which tends to be smoother than shooting towards an advancing vision barrier (Engadge the target you'll lose sight of first).

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