Steve Anderson
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Is there a particular reason to stick with the 92d? You'll be making things harder than they need to be...
Just noticed that I made a rhmye
Even recommended a new gun this time
Good grief, now I can't quit
Didn't know I was a rapper, but this is hot sh#t
It would sound even better with auto-tune
Or it could be so bad it would clear the room
Sorry OP I didn't mean to hijack
Your serious post with rhymes so whack
If it's your Beretta that's giving you trouble
A different gun might make your fun double
But if that's the gun that you want to use
There's no need to be so confused
You'll just need to practice more
With a double action trigger that'll be a chore!
SA
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That's always going to be a challenging gun to shoot well, but it's interesting that the revolver isn't causing similar problems. The Beretta probably has more over travel which allows the trigger to continue moving after the hammer falls.
If you're committed to that gun you'll just need to keep at it. Sorry.
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According to the recipient, this is the best advice I've EVER given:
"If you find a girl that will call your hits in dry fire, you marry her!"
He's probably right.
SA
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He's probably mellowed out but when Tilley drove us to dinner after the class, I thought we were both gonna die in his truck. And I don't drive slow.
Take lots and lots of notes and have a list of questions prepared, otherwise it'll be like a first date: Over before you know it with no major accomplishments.
SA
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Good question.
While watching Stoeger's National vid I was struck by how short his steps were and that got me thinking.
A shorter step is less disruptive than a long one, therefore we should be able to recover sooner and shoot sooner...
Something to think about.
Those national stages are traditionally fairly small with 10 feet or so between arrays, and locally we stretch out a lot more than that, so that's something else to think about.
Set up a drill and put a timer on it. That's always the right thing to do.
SA
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Get a timer.
Immediately if not sooner.
Must have a par time function.
Everything feels slow and looks slow necause there's no sense of urgency.
I must also point out that dryfiring in dress clothes guarantees one of two things:
Wimpy practice
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Ruined dress clothes
Sorry, I'm on a bit of a rant today...
SA
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The sub-title of Brian's Book says it all: Beyond Fundamentals
When you got a grasp of the basics, it's helpful in putting it all together.
SA
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F#ck the patch.
You have decided to be a non-smoker.
Non-smokers don't smoke.
I went through a pack and a half of regular sugarfree gum in the beginning, primarily while driving to combat habit triggers, but replacing nicotine with nicotine is silly to me. It's like telling a sex addict to use a rubber. Doesn't really solve the problem.
PM me in a bout a week when you think you're going insane, that's a fun time.
And remember this when it's the worst: If you smoke, you either go through all the withdrawal AGAIN or you die a smoker.
Good luck.
SA
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You need instruction when you are training and not seeing gains.
Many of the people I've coached have been looking at the forest and not seeing the trees.
I've also seen people latch onto well-intentioned (albeit miguided)advice and ride it around like a magic unicorn, waiting for it to fart out some magic.
(That may have been a little over the top, but that's my specialty)
Sometimes a fresh set of eyes does a world of good... Also, everybody learns differently and every processes information differently.
I've had students redard everything I say with obvious skepticism, and I've had guys treat me like Moses.
When I took the all day class from Tilley, I learned that there aren't any real secrets to this stuff, and that allowed me to stop looking for them and get back to work.
SA
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Your timer isn't supposed to pick up dry fire. You use the par time feature to set goals for each action.
SA
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+1 Tilley
I took a one day one on one and shot over 1000 rds. I had to beg him to let me stop shooting.
SA
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Try to get the head moving ahead of the body. If you snap the eyes to the first target, the body has no choice but to follow and will sort a lot of the other stuff out.
Let's see the feet...
SA
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Here's a rough outline of what we'll be discussing:
Self analysis
Dry fire tune up
Calling shots
Basic skill analysis and tune up
Principles of efficient movement
Stage analysis and visualization
Mental game
You'll learn how to practice, how to self-analyze, how to get better.
Please don't come if you're easily offended, and/or don't intend to practice. I'll just piss you off.
SA
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I learned that I can fire earlier in my draw than I have "trained" myself to fire, but it takes a lot of mental effort.
I had to go off of autopilot and assume conscious control to get the gains (This is the very definition of good practice)and then burn in the "new" with repetitions.
You gotta make the Myelin around the new circuit! (Thanks again for the book! It's been fun reading about me and my parents.
)SA
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All very good points, indeed.
I've tried to warn everyone, and it's good that some have listened!
SA
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I gave up a long time ago and just read the board phonetically, but they all drive me nuts.
Loose and lose is are the two that really irk me, 'cause I'm not trained to phoneticize them...
SA
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Make the targets harder with the .22. That helps compensate for the lack of recoil.
And yes, the Beretta 87T is one sweet-ass double deuce. I own two, and I have years of unused alibis at the monthly steel match.
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One way to overcome this is to do some draws to a very close (3ft) target and just pull and shoot as soon as possible. (within reason obviously)
Once you get used to that feeling you can refine the accuracy.
It's almost impossible to train speed and accuracy at the same time, and that's part of the problem here.
SA
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The best way I have found to enter this zone is to DECIDE to call every shot. You really gotta be honest with yourself about what that means.
And, you have to be willing to FORGET you are on the clock because it will feel very SLOW. This feeling is what keeps us out of the zone. It's scary.
SA
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Let me know if you have any questions once you get the book, either pm or email through my site. I started on a Beretta and did just fine... I think maybe they can even win Nationals.
SA
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Yep, get the +2 that don't hold +2. And then wrap them on with electrical tape.
Small price to pay for Caspian awesomeness.
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Jar is right.
I noticed very early in my own dry fire experiments (when the book was a list of drills on one piece of paper in my own shorthand) that it was easy to "make the time" my pulling the trigger earlier.
Very bad idea.
I want to speed up the first sight picture and burn that in, not necessarily the first shot.
A quick miss is not awesome.
Another great drill that I have been doing lately is slow motion draws to a first "shot", really studying how early in the draw I can fire an accurate shot. I designed that drill for another shooter and then curiously applied it to myself. (I want to reiterate that I was looking to fire earlier as opposed to simply faster.)
It's a great example of Brian's notion of "getting interested in your shooting" which is one of the more profound notions in his book.
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I get asked by non-gunners all the time why I don't apply for top shot... I always tell them that I'm a very specialized shooter doing very specialized things with very specialized guns. (particularly in the case of the open gun)
Not only that, but I have very little use for reality show politics and no desire to do harm to another competitor.
Now, about accuracy and speed: Take a very fast shooter and a very slow shooter and yes, the faster shooter can win sloppily.
Take 2 (or 16) very fast shooters and points become very very important.
The conversation I heard on super squads was always about points down.
More to the point, take 2 very slow shooters and once again accuracy gets real important...
I guess my point is, accuracy determines the winner when everybody is as good as everybody else.
It's one of the reasons that local hot dogs sometimes struggle a bigger matches. Everybody's as fast as they are, and some are more accurate.
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After sleeping on it, I think my question is, "How do I keep from twisting the gun right/left while pulling a long and heavy double action?"
Now that you've isolated the problem, just design a drill for it. How about a slow draw to a small target with a perfect trigger pull on an acceptable sight picture?
I bet a hundred thousand of those would do the trick.
Are any of you running 92D or 96D models?
in Beretta
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I doubt you'll find anyone using those in competition, it's my understanding that they were made for police departments who thought they would be safer... There are many far better choices for competition.
SA