Jake Di Vita

People shouldn't drink while posting.

It may not be in a week or in a month or even in a year. But if you consistently outwork your competition, day after day and week after week than it is only a matter of time until you beat them. If you never do beat them...guess what. You never outworked them. You never committed. Committing means you do it without fail. Whether you are strung out, hung over, eyes bulging out of your head, too tired, it's too cold, too hot, or too hard. Here is the secret of the pros. The pros train. They train consistently and they train indefinetely. The ones who are at the top of their field...the elite...trained harder and longer than anyone else. (Jane, sorry if you consider this hijacking....let me know and I'll pull it)

I dunno. I guess the way I looked at it was that being a winner was a foregone conclusion if I outworked everyone else. Not saying that's the right way of going about it, that's just what I stumbled into.

You and me both man. If I see a spider bigger than a quarter, out comes the shotgun + hydrashok slugs.

Ask Chris Tilley how his 21st birthday went down there.

With me, I never even thought about those things. I focused everything on training and the process of getting to that point. I did that for so long that when things like that finally did happen, I wasn't really surprised. After all...that's what I was training for.

6 weeks should be good. I would think 8 to 10 if you end up needing surgery though. Depending of course on the severity of the break and surgery.

Extra shots.

I wouldn't go as far as to call it cheating, because it isn't. But it is definetely bad form and should not be done.

I also plan on being here.

I totally agree with Dale and Merlin. Free speech is free speech. Full stop. End of story.

That's not the issue....the issue is that this is a USPSA match. With this RO carrying, I know that if someone went to the line for the LAMR, and a round happened to pop out when they racked the slide, what would happen. How are you going to DQ him for having a loaded gun, when the RO 5 feet away does too.

Now I'm really scared.

When I was in school they tried to expel me for something similar. It was a Spanish class and we were assigned to write a children's picture book. So I wrote one about a cat and a dog. And as a joke on the final page the dog ate the cat (the tail was hanging out of the dog's mouth). I thought it was hilarious (given the context of the rest of the book), and they tried to expel me for it. This of course is the same school who literally had posters in the hall promoting communism. No, I'm not kidding.

It actually isn't very sharp recoiling at all. I do like the cyclic speed of it as well. I think my favorite was the sight tracker though. Don't know why, but I could shoot that thing great.

I've been doing a lot of thinking on this lately, so this post is likely to come out in a mess of thoughts in no coherant order. Whenever I watch the pros (in video or in person) there is one really important thing about their shooting that mostly goes un-noticed. The fact that they are always low to the ground. Another big thing is they don't stand up when coming into position. Look at the person who is the best at shooting on the move...Chris Tilley. While shooting on the move, he is way lower to the ground than anyone else gets. Almost to the point where he is walking in a squatted position. It almost seems that your proficiency while shooting on the move is directly related to how low you get to the ground. (Taking nothing away from CT of course). Then you can also look at Sevigny. While he is shooting, his elevation just about never changes through the entire course of the stage. I always thought I stayed decently close to the ground. Then I actually watch videos of myself shooting and I'm really not down and behind the gun very much at all. That is something that I will be continually working on this season. Staying low to the ground at all times and keeping my body more compacted during shooting....(no short jokes ). It almost seems like the more upright you are shooting, the less control over the gun you have. Regardless of whether you are moving or static. It also seems that if you think you are low enough....chances are you aren't. Video can really help diagnose this. What I do know is that everything we do in this sport, even in the .01's of a second, add up. Thoughts?

Stand up and turn around. Now do it with your knees bent, faster, with a gun on your hip.

That's why I became an RO this year.

Sandoz... Are you off your medication again?

With a dot I see the dot lifting off the A zone for every shot. With a limited gun, I look through the sights probably more than I should. I'll see the sights kind of blurry (I'm almost looking over the sights and sighting with the slide in this particular case) and see the holes open up on the target. I'm not necessarily reccomending this...this is just what I do. Do whatever allows you to shoot 6 A's at the quickest pace every time.

I find for me that 7625 is the least temperature variant powder I've used.

I wouldn't go as far as saying nothing else matters....but hitting the target is definetely a pre requisite.

Kyle = Flexmoney

Stick with your load. The effect of altitude on your velocity won't be enough to screw with your power factor much.

Hey Ralph. It was good shooting with you too bud. I don't have hosting anymore...but I'll be able to get videos up sometime. I'll be working Indiana, so I'll see you there.