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"Directly up range"
Does that imply a straight shot?
Maybe we should rattle Vince's cage...
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It's probly just like shooting minor in open or limited.
You'll feel good if you win or beat some local top dogs, but someone with equal or even a little less skill will beat you.
Flex probly got it right on these "disadvantaged" eqipment scenarios...
If you're goal is fun with the gun, shoot whatever you want. If you want the match, shoot the competitive gear.
(TGO could smoke most of the world with an 8 rd 9mm in limited, BUT he'd be easier to catch for the other big dogs)
Having said all that, I fully intend to shoot a match or two with a 9mm double action Beretta race gun, just BECAUSE...but it won't be a big match.
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Burkett's tapes say if you can't wiggle your toes, you're too tense.
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What's a 45 day gun ban?
BTW, if you create a tangible pause just below the mag cavity, you'll never miss a reload.
Thank Matt Burkett for that one, by way of the video set.
(warning, off color joke ahead)
You can always skip the pause after you're nailin' em like interns.
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Federal american eagle is good stuff in the cheap aisle and the 147 is soft. Price per 1000 should be 120-ish, save the brass.
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I always hated Dave Mustaine because on humid days in the 80's, my hair looked just like his and my bandmates wouldn't let it go...Took 3 hours to air dry.
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I did a fun drill tonite.
Start at 20 ft. at the buzzer, draw and fire an A as fast as you know you got the A.
Move it back 5ft and repeat.
Keep moving back 5 ft after every shot til you're at 75 ft.
Take as much time as you need to shoot an A, but KNOW you got the A without looking.
Now do it again with two shots at each distance.
Then do it Strong hand only, then weak hand only.
Voila...You're calling your shots!
If you are a stickler for details, you'll record your times at each distance and compare week to week...
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Same here, Bill.
I was also reminded NOT to shoot poppers at an angle, as they are not required to fall to an angled minor hit. This one turned out OK, but I'll shoot 'em straight next time.
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Detlef - in a match, wouldn't that at least be scored minor or disqualified as sub-minor?
Of course, we don't know what the velocity was, so the benefit goes to the shooter?
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Bill - I swear this is NOT why that popper didn't fall Sunday!
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And a horrendous stock DA trigger on the HK.
Great gun if it fits your hand, but that DA trigger is rough. It's almost like it's intended as a cocked and locked, and the DA is offered as a last ditch operating mode.
I've never tried a tuned one, but there's plenty of room for improvement.
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Cool, isn't it?
I passed that sign about a month ago during dry fire. I was trying to be aggressive and got tense instead. Now I go for a relaxed body and an agressive attitude.
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Never saw it, too many on the floor...There was a lot of unburned powder in the barrel, action, etc.
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From Burkett's tapes:
Slow down on the way in so you land ready to shoot WITHOUT having to adjust your stance once in the box.
He makes the car brake analogy, you don't hit the brakes and leave 'em mashed...you let up on the brakes at the end for a smooth stop.
On Hearing the steel...
What We all should do:
Call the shot and move on without waiting for audiovisual confirmation. You pull the trigger when you KNOW you're gonna hit the steel, you accept (trust) that you did everything right and DID hit the steel.
What I do:
Call about 65% of them, wait on the rest.
I have noticed that lately I have been on the next target while "waiting" to hear the steel. This may mean that I'm beginning to trust my shot calls, and then letting the sound confirm it while I'm on the next target.
Either way, I'm getting faster and missing less, so I'm happy and still practicing hard.
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Just like o'l Dale Gribble on King of the Hill...
He goes to Bounty Hunter training and says something to the effect of:
You mean there's a force of poorly trained citizens who take the law into their own hands with little or no government regulations? It's about time!
Am I the only one who watches King of the hill?
Way better than the Simpsons...
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Could this be the infamous "chickensh#t DQ?"
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Every time the X-wing fighter dips into the swamp, yoda tells Luke to quit trying and just get the damn thing out of the muck.
I think I'm entering my over-analyze everything phase.
I'm taking what has never been a problem and trying to get an extra tenth of a second out of it.
Intuitively I know that over-analyzing is bad, but don't we have to analyze to improve?
In Brian's book, he and Rob analyzed everything and then decided they didn't care so much about the minutia of it all, and just shot the course of fire.
Looking backward from their experience, we can see the results of their deconstruction of it all and how they decided to just let go...BUT...can we skip the process ourselves and realize our full potential?
Thanks guys,
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Wow. As I read the other posts on this topic I was thinking, "sure would be great if our ONE production GM would show up and chime in on this."
And lo and behold...Very Cool.
For a guy like me who only shoots production and spends hours with the one model, 1, 3, and 4 should be less of an issue than for someone who goes back and forth a lot between guns.
So we're left with slowing down for accuracy, which is what my own strategy has been lately.
(My D class lim 10 buddy told me at the last match, " I'm shootin' major so I'm happy if they're on the paper." He may be beyond help....)
BTW David, what is your production gun?
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That's what I've always done, but last night I started THINKING about it and TRYING to do it, and it all fell apart...It's never been a problem in a match, but I think I can do it better.
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So I should start to move before starting to load, or start both at the same time?
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I think Brian's book says to reload before moving so you can RUN to the next one.
I played with it last night and the times were similar but the reload was clumsier when moving, plus I was moving slower for sure.
Does anybody reload on the move?
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Well, actually it's sub minor, but nice and soft.
Load a 115 grain 9mm bullet in a 9mm case over 3.8 grains of Clays, then shoot it out of a .40 pistol.
Chronographs at 296 fps.
Oops.
That's what you get for having Beretta elite II's in 2 calibers, taking both to the range, and chronogrphing 9 and .40 in the same session with the same magazines...
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Two more thoughts about weak hand shooting:
1. A big obstacle is how "weird" the gun feels when it fires. This likely tells the brain that something unusual is happening, which causes the brain to NOT have a conditioned response to the feeling. This may account for your poor live fire performance.
2. The speed of weak hand shots will always be much slower, even for master and GM shooters. In Avery's tapes, his weak hand shots are at least twice as slow as his strong hand shots, plus the gun can be seen in a much more violent recoil arc. This means that even big dogs slow down and shoot the pace the gun works best.
It's always fun to shoot the NRA action stage that requires (I think) 6 shots strong, a reload and six shots weak and gives somthing like 15 SECONDS to shoot those 12 shots. Nobody even comes close to taking that much time...even when consciously trying to.
I would suggest starting at 5 yards weka hand onlyt, resist the temptation to point shoot, and shoot A's at a nice slow pace, then gradually work the target out.
When that goes well, shoot tighter groups at close range, then move those out.
Your buddies will be calling ya "lefty" in no time!
The most important thing for me was to get used to that weird feeling, then get back to basics.
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I asked Ernest about this when it came up the first time, and he was practicing it pretty regularly before the match.
He said it was tough for sure, and he really hated the hard cover.
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Not to be a smartass...
But you're basically saying that you're not good at something that you never do!?!?!
I had the same problem, now I actually hope for weak hand classifiers!
Somebody wise who wrote a book said something to the effect of, "if you want to be great you must practice what you don't like to do"
I really took that to heart.
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I'm confused.
So do you believe the rule means that it is required to be calibrated to fall from a minor power hit from any where it can be engaged? Regardless of angle?
The one in question was a forward faller, too.
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