vluc

Steve, you aren't the only one! My cost to reload 9mm is $3.70 a box (of 50). Dowter, you may want to look into reloading it.

I ran a young shooter (12 yo) at a stage that had one of those 180 traps...target to your right as you enter a doorway. (Was subbing for the RO as he had just shot and was reloading.) I did mention it to him as he was new, but did not make the same comment to the other experienced shooters when they came through. Virtually all of us saw it on the walk through. When I get told that, i just say "thanks" and move on! I can share the annoyance of DougC. The one I like is being told my finger was almost on the trigger during a reload. Nice since i have my pistol inverted so he had to be under the gun and laying on the ground....

C'mon now, you guys in the big leagues need to leave us little folk alone. Tough enough to be competitive! Stay where you are at...at least until i make it up a notch!

..."reshoot" he said with a grin...

Where i shoot, IDPA and USPSA both have a good following, with many of us shooting both. Different rules, different games. JFD, where are you shooting (state, area)?

I do find my SIG 225 to be an excellent choice, occsionally run with the 226, but shoot what you carry!

...safariland belt and new limcat launch platform (LOL!)...

Well I'll....

...which I begin to shoot at, igniting...

Brian and Eric tagged it...when something you do because you sincerely enjoy it becomes your "job", the thrill is gone. I enjoyed the "thrill" of being an independent consultant years ago, but when what i did for fun on the side became my livelihood, it wasn't that much fun anymore. After several years of that, I went back to being employed! (Edited by vluc at 6:29 pm on July 2, 2002)

Quote: from THS on 11:30 am on June 24, 2002 I've been reading a lot about AD's and DQ's on the USPSA members board, Sorry for thread dreift, but is this different from the USPSA web page? i don't recall seeing a message board...

I had an "oops"...really made me re-think and I saw that I go into "auto" mode when a stage is done. "Gun clear, hammer down, holster" trying to do it as fast as the RO talked. Now I take the stance...My Run, My Gun, My Fun..and take those extra seconds. Darned if I don't learn something - positive and/or negative - on every stage I run. This one will make me a better RO.

Duane, I have fired them at night...went out with a local PD during an evening qualifier. The rounds were flash suppressed (something in the powder I guess) and i was able to see the sights clearly after firing - if memory serves as that was a year or so ago when the Meps were on my 226.

Hmm...not a Grand Master C Class Shooter? I get a lot of tips from them....LOL!

Now if it's just in my class (production) where I am sometimes the only production shooter....

Listened to an interesting tape on visualization and why it does not work. While people can visualize the end result, they usually don't visualize how to get there - when something goes wrong or not according to plan. The best visualizers can be those who have failed before because they develop a database of alternatives to turn to. if you are too successful too soon, your repetoire is not as complete as those who have more to draw on. For what its worth....

Big Vince...had I only known! Have to get your own web site now!

I just ordered a kt-1 from Kytac. It's my third Kytac holster. When I was using my SIG in production, I found the sooperhooper by kytac to be very fast...improved my draw time. Basically, the kt-1 is the sooperhooper with a speed cut...okay for USPSA but not IDPA...but then, I don't shoot my 34 in that. http://www.kytac.com/page11.html I was considering the Hellwig but chose not too. Something about the whole setup was not appealing. (Edited by vluc at 5:48 am on June 13, 2002)

Has anyone played around with switching the target types between the two games...using IDPA targets in a USPSA cof and vice versa? I would be very curious to see how a cof would run with them switched...just seems the IDPA target would be better suited for the run and gun...could even eliminate major/minor and have one scoring system for all.

Steve, why so far away? I mean no flame, but if you have not shot for years, why not start with the target closer...re-work the basics of stance, grip, sight aquisition, trigger control. When I practice, I start at 15 feet and work out, unless i have a specific thing I want to practice. As I picked up from Brian's book (a good first step would be to get it), i also just shoot and watch the front sight...no target...get the pressure of having to hit that away from you for now. The rest of these folks far outstrip me in experience, but it still all comes down to thsoe fundamentals.

Brian, sometimes I scare myself as I don't always listen to the voices in my head

Thanks to you both. Intererestingly enough while driving to work this morning, coming over the mountains, one of the mountain tops was highlighted through a pass...just like a sight. The two side ones were a little shrouded in fog, and I thought...wait! Black out the two rear sights...just like I painted over the white bar on the rear of my 226 and let the front sight stand out!. Black pasters work just fine! Inspiration comes from bizarre places...if the two of you had not mentioned it, i was going to try that!

I shot our local club's IDPA classifier yesterday and noticed that the Meprolight sights I have on my SIG 225, while excelletn at night, do not give me the sight acquisition I have with the fiber optic on my Glock or even the front painted sight on my SIG 226. I tried using "Brigh Sight" paint on the metal areas of the front sight available to be painted, but it just would not adhere the way it did when I painted the front sight on my 226. There it was the dot itself, here, bare metal. It's not that I cannot use the Meps. I can, at the range for slow fire or practice they are excellent. For IDPA, it just takes a fraction longer to get the alignment I want...yet I do like it when I shoot it in low light condiditions...those puppies light up like alien eyes at night! So, is there a recommended other paint or am I weakening myself as a shooter with the reliance on having that bit of green to see when the front sight comes up?

I plan to jump into Limited 10 as well as the Production I run in now. Not only have I started shooting more local matches as well as IDPA and Steel, but I think that anything that gives me additional range time gives me more time to practice and work on improving my skills. Now L-10 may wait until next season or later this one, but it will happen.

Quote: from Dowter on 5:21 pm on May 30, 2002 Hey there "other Vince"! I just wanted to pipe in and say that I loved your stage. It was the only stage that I didn't have any goof ups on so I'm of course partial to it. I can't wait to get the results back since I think that I have an outside chance of having won that stage. (Of course now that I've shot my mouth off, my score will probably be about 20th place and about 10 seconds longer than I remember) Big Vince, you are too kind! I had fun with that and thank Bill Warble for giving some guidance and development on it. As a production shooter, i thought the weak/strong shooting levels the field as I have watched a bunch of limited and Open folks not do so well at one handed shooting. They can rock and roll on the open courses freestyle, but one handed slows then down. Did not do as well as I wanted, but it was my first chance to shoot it as well! LOL...design it, but don't win it! The reason I did so well on that stage is that I used to really hate shooting weak hand so I decided to practice it. The first time I shot weak hand it felt like I was gripping the gun with one of my feet. I decided that if I didn't have this skill it's far better to learn it than to bitch and moan about having to use it. Unfortunately there are too many shooters who have a mindset of what skills they should or shouldn't need and complain when they don't have some skill which is needed. Let's just say that this last match gave me a short list of skills that I need to work on. As I was taught for this, if you don't learn something each time you shoot you've wasted your time! Learned a great deal on Sunday as well. I don't get the mindset of people who only want challenges that are easy to accomplish. I goofed up the two no shoot poppers in front of four poppers array ( twice ) but I enjoyed the challenge. Shooting at wide open arrays gets old. Then you'll like what I'm working on! Little bit of moving, high and low stuff...oops, forgot that you are taller than me!