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Pokemon cracked me up

I’m on fire! I’m on fire! (“You’re not on fire, Ricky Bobby…”) Heeeeelp me Jesus! Help me Jewish God! Help me Tom Cruise!

I thought you actually had 450 questions... +1 on gmiprod

Breaking the 180 is against the rules and results in a DQ. Breaking the 180 with an open cylinder is not dangerous, but IPSC/USPSA drew the line at 180 for all guns.

From another thread: When indexing, the only thing that should move independently of your upper body is your eyeball itself. In a perfect world... You call the shot as acceptable as it fires. Immediately your eye swivels in its socket in to find the next target. Once your eye finds the next target, from then on it doesn't physically move. But your focus does, as it moves back from the target toward the front sight. So you will be focused on the front sight by the time the sights land on the target. During that entire time, your complete upper body stayed in your index position. Only the eyes move. (Okay, your trigger finger moves too.) be Do you think it is neccessary to have a totally sharp focus on the target before the sights arrive? I'm talking about Type-3 focus shooting. I notice that, if I focus on the target, my focus will linger and it is hard to bring it back to the front sight by the time it arrives on the target. It then feels like there's too much going on. Or my focus shifting takes too much time. The gun moves faster than I can change focus. I noticed that the advantage of the sharp target focus is that the sights will stop exactly where I want them to. Thoughts?

5 wrong, including mispell LOL I'm just glad I got ignorant right I thought it was spelled "ignent" though...

Bring your focus back to the FS before every shot. Do it consciously and after while you will do it subconsciously. It appears to be slow at first, but just stick to it. If you find your focus wanders off to the target, just bring it back consciously. Cool that you're switching for a while. Any specific reason for that?

I doubt that. I think both USPSA and IPSC have learned that discrepancies between the rules work for no one. Might be wishful thinking though. IMO (as a European IPSC shooter) I think IPSC should look closely (equipment-wise) at the USPSA division.

Thanks for the replies guys. Sky, wow! That is exactly what I was looking for, but I was too lazy to do the math PS The reason I thought of this is that I shot an abysmal match last weekend. Definately the worst match I have ever shot in my life. My times were pretty fast (sometimes about 10/15% faster than the stage winner, but I shot 5 mikes in 6 stages, LOL. And many, many points down. The strange thing is that I saw my sights on every shot. I still think is has something to do with my press breaking and my ammo being messed up, but that a whole 'nother story. But it made me think about a lot of stuff like this. I missed easy shots, transitioning into the targets pretty fast. And the 4 most difficult shots in the match were all A's. When I read this I think it almost must have been me. But still, something else was wrong. So, I still have to find out if my crappy performance was ammo-related or not. But, God I hated myself saturday evening

Moving from shooting at the berm to shooting at the target is a big thing. When shooting at the berm, you can stay with the sights all the way. It doesnnot matter at which part of the berm you shoot. With the target, you want all the shots to be in the middle (or, slighly above the middle ) You say you have been unable to move form berm to target. In which way have you been unable? About expectations: can you tell us what you exactly mean by expectations?

Yes still 9 rounds. Both Single Stacks and 8-shot revolvers could play better @ 8 rounds per array. But that might be something Flex, IPSC going to 8 rounds. I'd like it.

So basically no? Good to know. Makes life less complicated (I tend to overcomplicate things).

We often talk about "Calling your shots". Most shooters here have a pretty good picture of what this means: knowing where your sights were, the moment the gun fires. The result is knowing where your bullet will hit before the bullet hits the target. I was wondering about something. I'm often correcting my sight picture/allignment, to what I want to see. Especially on difficult shots, I like to see my sights squared up perfectly and look the shot off. But my question is: does it matter if the sights move the instant the gun fires, even if they are in the perfect position at the moment the gun fires? Will this movement have any influence on the path of the bullet? I'd like to try for myself, but I would also like to hear some experiences from other shooters.

The only thing I can think of is that it has something to do with the scoring system to make SS's competitive. 1 shot per target? Highest score per target counts (AC=AA, CD=CC)? My guess is as good as anyone's, but I like to guess so I post it anyway

I had a 1988 model. It has the floating hand. I also had the 1989 model. It felt better, but the results were the same. FWIW. The trigger on the 1988 was a little more difficult to learn because of the floating hand. YMMV

More of a long term thing, but I wonder how the Aluminum comp will hold up.

At least, I like it Free to watch on Youtube Self taught to boot

Thanks Adrie, but I already received a message from Dillon that a nex crank is mailed tomorrow. Great service, as always. They are the best.

I ahve owned a 650 and it doesn't really make sense to buy one without the case feeder. It is more complicated than a 550 and all you get in return is auto indexing and a 5th station. You could put the cases in the plastic tube, but to manually put cases in the 1 station you would have to reach around the press. I would personally go with a 550, since you load many calibers and the changeovers on the 550 are faster. Also, the numbers you load are not really 650 territory. I'd start thinking about the 650 when you reload about 1500+ rounds of one caliber per month.

Looks cool! I wonder how the slide will hold up. How would you describe the differences between it and the stock configuration as far as recoil go?

Nobody is arguing with that. But, that has nothing to do with dry fire. That is like saying Astronaut training programs are useless because the real thing will be in outer space... Controlling recoil is the ONLY thing you cannot practice in dry fire. That deserves a thread of its own. Maybe I should go start one? Ron, please do

Great post. I love visualization. What I particularly like about it is how the visualization is a carbon copy of what you can do (it is your self image, for the Bassham readers). In my mind I will run into the same obstacles I run into at the range. And the cool thing is that I can overcome stuff in my mind and go to the range and the problem will be gone. Just by thinking about it! Great stuff!

Forgot to post a picture

Looks like you fell on your feet, as they say here in Italy ... ... or, "it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good", if this is the correct translation of another italian saying. I love the "blow nobody any good" part. That should get some laughs