shred

Yeah, mine have that. The ones I haven't shot enough. They're machining marks and nothing to worry about in a Glock.

Something I discovered with laptops that has transferred to shooting: your bag will want to fill to slightly over capacity, no matter what that capacity is. This is why I don't get a bigger bag than my Dillon. I have a spare gun, so I bring that-- spare parts all in one handy package. I don't usually carry it around with me though.

I don't usually notice the gas and blast unless I'm shooting next to a wall or something. My blasters have no hybrid or reverse-angled ports.. Something I noticed recently was the temples of my low-light shooting glasses don't seal well with my earmuffs-- It's about 50% louder shooting with those than my super thin&flat-templed sun-shades.

Here's another thought... "Noticing happens when seeing intrudes into the conscious mind".

I vote grey polo.. white gets too dirty from brassing and leftover slide-glide, and dark colors get way to hot out in the sun,

My thoughts is for me it's not that I'm seeing something, it's that what I'm seeing suddenly has a different meaning. Like my target example.. plunk, plunk, plunk, they were all going in the same place on the target. Wasn't until some other part of the brain said "Yeah, but look at _where_ that hole is", that I really 'noticed' anything.

IPSC will too get you killed. Happened to me just the other day. No, wait, it didn't.

While I have no direct knowledge, I'd guess that it's a combination of lack-of-cash and lack-of-sponsors-needing-a-big-name. After all, Robbie, Brian, Todd, Doug, Jerry are household (in shooting households anyway) names and will be for a long time, even if they quit shooting entirely. It'll take a _lot_ of wins or something spectacular to get new names up into the 'pantheon' of public awareness.

Well, it was http://www.marvelprod.com , but that seems to not be working now. (Edited by shred at 2:37 pm on July 15, 2002)

If you're wanting a rail-mounted light, the 29/30 don't come with rails. You could probably use one of those magazine-basepad-mounted lights if you wanted.

"Man of Knowledge". Now y'all quit laughing, it says so right over there. (uninspiring match today... nothing else to brag about..) (Edited by shred at 4:11 pm on July 13, 2002)

Sorry.. what I meant is that there are obvious differences (not necessarily advantages or disadvantages) between the two sighting systems if you flip back and forth-- The Aimpoint looks like it's blocking half your view, and the C-more is annoying to find the dot in and way, way up there above the slide. What I notice after shooting one or the other for a while is that it doesn't matter. Pretty soon the dot is on the target and that's all I'm seeing, whichever scope is on there. I even switched guns midway through Area 4 and didn't really notice the scope differences. (I'm beginning to think that at my level (mid-A), it doesn't matter what open gun you're shooting, so long as it goes bang every time and holds 27 rounds.) (Edited by shred at 3:56 pm on July 13, 2002)

Yeah.. in mass-production-mode, it's easy to count in 100's or 1000's. What I discovered was an unexpected side-effect of getting a RF-100-- I now do many more 'small batches' of this or that, only dumping in a few rows of primers, cause it's sooo easy..

Harbor Freight is pretty cool. So long as you don't want top-quality, American-made gear, they've got more low-priced chunks of imported metal stuff than you can shake a stick at. (and they have a store in town-- this almost goes into "What I like..")

I have blasters with both Aimpoints and C-More's on them, and while the difference is huge and obvious when switching between them, it goes away fast.

I just did some more thinking about this and came up with a different perspective: RO's (and match staff) should treat the shooter as a customer (the rest of the squad can be considered "chain-gang", until they get to the line ). Now how should the shooter treat the RO? I know what I think, but can't put the right word on it.. anybody else? (Edited by shred at 2:48 pm on July 11, 2002)

I think that's actually a bad road to go down as far as local, volunteer-run matches are concerned (for matches like Florida Open, where that's how it works, great). Why? Because it adds to the "us-vs-them" and the attitude of the cop's favorite line: "I pay your salary, you shouldn't give me a ticket". ('round these parts, we expect everybody to help and everybody to work)

Ok, here's another $5 special from the Midnight Engineering Labs.. an XL650 odometer (or as some might call it, a round counter) The counter is $4.99 from Harbor Freight. Rotating the arm about 45 degrees (upwards in this picture) causes the counter to increment by one. The bracket is a right-angle piece of sheet metal attached to the 1/4" bolt that holds the casefeeder support. In place of the as-delivered spring and screw on the end of the arm, I turned in a wooden matchstick and added a drop of superglue-- if it does jam up the works, it'll break easily before anything else does. How it works is I adjusted the angle of the actuator arm until the rising shellplate pushes the matchstick just enough to increment the counter as it gets to the top of it's travel. The downsides are (and I'm hoping one of you clever folks can think of a better solutions): - it counts every cycle of the shellplate. I'd prefer it counted loaded rounds, but I couldn't figure out a good simple way to do that (the old Dillon counter used a shaft running up through the crimp die-- Lee FCD's have a closed top, so that method won't work for me). - It cuts down on the finger room a bit. Due to a minor installation error, I have to loosen the mounting to get it out of the way when changing toolheads. Other than that, it works well and I'm pretty happy with it. Check it out if you have round-counting needs.

Well, I've now read the whole book and can safely say it has even less about the mechanics of shooting and equipment than Brian's book. It's all mental and barely even mentions a target or sights It's all about getting into the 'flow' (aka Zone) and shooting relaxed and "centered". Visualization plays a huge part (they roll out the basketball visualization story too). The first part covers how the mind works; conscious, subconscious and introduces "Centering", the "Flow", relaxation and visualization, as well as some interesting stuff on decisions and goal setting and why to do or not do it. In this part they give the "Mental Mechanics tools" which you use to work on your mind. The second part is about putting the stuff from part 1 into action-- getting into the flow, using positive thinking and patience, visualization, consistency, competition and what a competitive attitude can do to you, relaxed-concentration and getting the right sort of confidence. There's some good stuff in here about expectations and performance and why we do badly when we expect to do well. The third part is on trigger jerk-- mechanical and mental. They set out how to identify it and overcome the pesky mental issues. This section uses a lot of the stuff from the first two to get your head sorted out and behaving itself. The fourth part is a bit about self-defense shooting and how you should be mentally prepared for it (it's a bit out of place from the rest of the book, but short) The authors state pretty much everything can be done with proper visualization-- even some things that can't be fixed with live fire. Since I haven't done the exercises, I have no idea if it works or not, but it at least makes sense and is something I'm willing to try out. It's kinda BE-Lite from a somewhat different angle with more 'mental-programming'. If you're the visualizing type, check it out.

Sounds like a scope problem.. I sent a broken XD back a few weeks ago, and have heard nothing, but I'm still optimistic...

Good one Remy-- just don't do that with Gun Scrubber (been there, did that, had to run to the shower while almost completely blind to wash my eyes out) On the live-primer-ski-jump topic, I'm not completely happy with this, but it seems better than the alternative-- I unbolted and removed the ski-jump part, then took a plastic lid from a Pringles can, flipped it rim-side up, chopped it down so it covers underneath the exposed parts of the primer disc and bolted it on. The idea is to make a little catcher for the live primers (I get very few, due to the previously discussed techniques). When I get one, I can flip the plastic down a bit and retrieve it. I wanted the ski jump out of there so I can get to the primer punch easily. [Adding a picture of the contraption] (Edited by shred at 6:42 pm on July 10, 2002) (Edited by shred at 6:43 pm on July 10, 2002)

Well.. it is nice at local matches to help the new shooters out as in "did you know how close to the 180 you were there?", but at a big match, what's the point? I got threatened with an ex-post-facto 180 DQ at Area 4 years ago as in "If you demand a reshoot for that, I'll DQ you for breaking the 180 back there". I didn't know any better at the time.

Ok, so all that shooting-lead-in-a-glock has gone to my brain.. I don't remember that thread at all. But anyway, it's out and I have a copy. Iffen I get around to reading the rest of it (I have Matt's tapes on order), I'll post a review. What I do know so far is A) the cover art is identical. the phrase 'Trigger Jerk' is used a lot and C) there's quite a bit of "once you get the hang of this { relaxing / centering / visualizing } exercise, your life will be lots better"-- sort of zen-without-the-zen, I suppose.

You didn't put Zinc-Air batteries (pretty much all you can get for hearing aids) in there while you were dinking with the battery cap did you? Had a buddy do that-- his dot got dim about a minute after turning it on.. he'd pull it all apart to look at it (and let air in) and all would be fine.. until the air ran out in the battery compartment again... and again..

I don't know if this is news, but yesterday I picked up a copy of "Mental Mechanics of Shooting", which I'd never seen before. A little web searching confirmed my suspicion that this is an updated version of "Freedom from Trigger Jerk", with a more marketing-friendly title. I haven't read enough to write a review, but it seems they're big on getting into the flow (aka: zone), visualization, mental programming and getting the conscious mind out of the way when shooting. 145 pages, larger print, lots of all-caps words. What's the take on the older Trigger Jerk book?