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Incredible! I wonder what happens when you give that guy a real gun to train with

CR Speed all the way. There is no limit in how fast you can draw from a CR. And the big plus is that it is very very secure at the same time.

Mike, thanks for the kind words! Well, I think the stuff you still have to learn is the easy part. Reading your posts, I'd say you're a very good shooter (Hell, one of the very few to have beaten Jerry) that has to learn how to run with a gun. Be glad you're not like a lot of USPSA/IPSC shooter, who can only run and have to learn how to shoot

Robert, welcome to the forums. Here's some advice from someone who used to flinch and at one point was just as frustrated and desperate as you are now. I even used to flich dryfiring at home. First let me quote you: This is important. It cost me some time to quit flinching. About two years actually. Once I found out which excercises helped me, it happened fast. Be patient. And try different things. You will cure your flich. The question is when, not if. It tried dry fire. Dry fire is something you want to do anyways, because it helps you improve all skills with your gun. For overcoming your flinching you need live fire though. Live fire is expensive though, but....you do not neccessarily need your own live fire What helped me is to watch other shooters shoot. If you're shooting USPSA with friends, watch them at training. You're there anyways. You might as well cure your flinch. Watch how their gun moves up and down during recoil. See if you can catch a glimpse of the flame at the end of the barrel (all of this from a safe distance behind the shooter of course ) RO your buddies and watch the slide of their gun move back and forth. It is all about relaxed observation. Another thing I used to do is watch if my buddies flinch when they shoot or watch someone else is shooting. If you flich during shooting, chances are good that you will flich when something other than a gun goes bang. Eg. driving a nail into a piece of wood with a hammer. You can drive nails into wood for an hour. Every little thing helps. After a while you'll get used to the loud sounds. You will be able to observe in a relaxed manner.

Some people here are suggesting that some foreign shooters are consciously "cheating the system" What BS! I know for a fact that most of my (IPSC non-US) shooting friends don't even know their Classification in IPSC, let alone USPSA. Why? Because we don't care. All we want to do is shoot matches and win them....as in: "being number 1".......overall. I don't care for a first place in C-class and I have never shot a big match in Europe that had prices for people ending up lower than 10th place overall, unless they're Lady, Senior or something like that. I have been reading these forums since the beginning and Classification is a bigger deal to USPSA shooters than it is to IPSC shooters. I understand that it is not nice to see a shooter that should be GM according to USPSA standards win the top-C-class price. But don't think that the shooter is sandbagging, grandbragging or whatever you call it to get the price without some proper investigation. Most European shooters I know just don't care/know about any classification system at all. There's a difference between cheating the system and a faulty system. Don't blame shooters that are unaware. That's very unintelligent.

Thanks Sam. Well, actually it is what I was hoping for. Some people complain that IPSC/USPSA is becoming more of a athletic challenge than a shooting challenge. I have to agree that some stages are easy for athletic types and just plain hard for those with "lesser athletic skill". I am fortunate to be quite fast on my feet. So if I meet Jerry during a competition I would not have any non-shooting-advantages. That, to me, is what IPSC should be all about.

Kudos to Jerry for whooping ass in every revolvergame out there. Mike, that's a cool reminder. That is exactly what I'm planning to do whenever I have to shoot a match with him. Is there any way to get an advantage by being faster moving through stages and into positions? Or can Jerry also run as fast as he shoots?

Happy B-Day Henny!

I'm with Caspian on this one. I think the exact lyrics are: They fight, they bite. They fight, they bite, they fight. Fight fight fight, bite bite bite, It's the Itchy and Scratchy Shoooooow!!!!!

Van harte Kees!!!

Viggen, they will announce it after deciding in Ecuador next year.

Ah that's the formulation I was looking for

That sounds very true. OTOH, compared to me, everybody rocks with rifles

Thanks Brian. The hard part so far to me is dealing with the difference between the execution of the plan and the idea/visualisation of the plan. The difference between what happened and what you were expecting.

Patrick, I agree with you. Jerry is beatable. He is just fortunate that Revolvers now have their own division after he spent years and years working with them. I think it's cool OTOH that "we" as revolver shooters, have Jerry as our standard (at this moment). Imagine what revolver would be like without Jerry I doubt it would still exist... I can only speak for myself, but the one of the things that kept me shooting wheelies is the chance to face Jerry. Viggen, I'm doing my best at the moment to prepare myself for the World Shoot. My goal is not to get in the 90+% range of Jerry. My goal is to let Jerry get in the 90+% range of me

I hope y'all be seeing my goal being reached posted here soon

Way to go Bro!!! I asked him at the EC2004 how he became so good at rifle shooting. His response: "Oh, everyone can shoot a rifle well" Well appearently, you can

Hm, too bad. Sounds like a hoot.

Just because you made something happen once, doesn't mean you can make it happen again "just because you want it to". You'll have to put in the same work as you did in practice. I think if you'll slow down to your regular speed (you were 10%(!!!) faster on match day) you'll do fine.

Thanks for posting this Pat! It's a good read. Kudos for the way you handled stage 16 and beat Jerry by 4(!!!) seconds. Do you think that the flashlight will appear again at the Nationals next year, or at the Word Shoot?

Thanks for the answer Sam. BTW, I think (after seeing your Bang 'n Clang result) you'll be up there in no time

Doh! Thanks Sky!

Whoa! That's cool! How far are the targets? I think I'm going to set this one up at my range.