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NICE! Thanks!!

Hopefully this will work .....

SEV is so full of it, he'll create his own bubbles to play with

Thanks! The VA-MD Sectional match just may do that bump, it will be close. LOL

Thanks Kyle. I see what you mean about shifting. I was trying to stay off the platform for whatever reason but what you said makes a lot more sense. The jam was one of my 140 mags and it was a nose dive. I had not used that mag all day but for that stage I put it in the #1 position on my belt. My mistake ... I put it in the bag for the rest of our trip and the gun ran perfectly at the VA-MD match. It will get a thorough testing before going back into rotation.

VA-MD Sectional: Overall a solid match, nothing special, just a steady. Only had 1 Mike for the entire match. Consistent shooting is key in these major matches. Ended up 1st C in Open and 27th overall in Open. 66% of Todd Jarrett. Stage 1: A memory type stage, not as confusing as the stage in the OH match but it took a little figuring out and I had to go first on this stage. Over ran 2 targets and had to slam on the brakes. That definitely cost me some time but overall I ended up 27th on the stage. Stage 2: My first stage of the day. Very deliberate through this stage and it shows. I remember looking for holes in the target a couple of times. Ended up 25th on the stage. Stage 3: Felt like a pretty decent stage for me. Just need to be more consistent in gun presentation so the dot is "there" every time. Finished 30th on the stage Stage 4: Over ran another position and had to back up to take the first piece of steel. Also I didn't need the extra shot at the end. These two mistakes definitely cost me some time. Ended up 37th on the stage. Stage 5: This stage wasn't pretty and kinda went sideways right after the buzzer went off. You can see the misstep after the first 2 targets, that caused me to have to get my balance for the next set of targets .. definitely wasted time. I over ran yet another position after my reload and had to back up to take a target. Ended up 35th on the stage. Stage 6: A short course but had some long shots on steel poppers. You can't see the 2 on the far right but I'm guessing they were 35-40 yards. I had to take an extra shot on one of them and that threw off my timing and I had a miss on the swinger. The swinger was too slow to wait for it so I just went to the next position to shoot the paper and texas star. Ended up 37th on the stage. Stage 7: Another OK run. Looking back I probably would shoot it different if given the opportunity. I just didn't hit my marks like I needed to and therefore had quite a few shuffle steps to get into a couple of the positions. Ended up 28th on the stage. Stage 8: A decent run here. I decided to hold the door with my foot due to watching others barely get the shots off before the door closed or even have the door hit them in the arms. Ended up 23rd on the stage. Stage 9: A retreat stage. I lost my balance standing up trying to shoot the swinger on the right. Felt I made a good recovery on the remaining targets in the stage and ended up 23rd. And now the video .... Comments welcome if you see something you want to share:

OH Sectional: I was very pleased with the way I shot at the OH match last weekend and to end up 1st C in Open. I shot with a great group of guys which helped me stay relaxed the entire day. It was a long day due to the late start but that's OK, it happens. Stage 1: Got off to a little rocky start. The battery on my C-More really needed to be replaced so it was very hard to see the dot with the angle of the sun. I am surprised that I hit the poppers on this stage actually. I had my only miss for the match on this stage ... the swinger on the right. Finished 24th on this stage. Stage 2: A decent run. I got too close to the port on the far left of the stage to take the three targets. Also on the video I seem to pause for a second before heading to my next position. Definitely need to work on getting in and out of positions quicker. Finished 16th on this stage. Stage 3: A good stage for me. I had a miss on one of the poppers on the right which kinda messed up my timing but I still got through the stage with a good time. Shooting on the move is something I will need to work on going forward. Finished 11th on this stage Stage 4: The memory stage. This was a 'survival' stage for me ... I just wanted to get through it without any misses. I have to give a ton of thanks to Chris for pointing out how to shoot the stage. Thank to him, I finished 10th on the stage. Stage 5: Another solid run with a 12th place finish on the stage. Again, I have to get in and out of position better. Stage 6: The short little hosefest. Again, not moving and shooting hurt me on this stage Finished 21st on this stage. Stage 7: The classifier stage that ended up not being a classifier. My run would have been about 67%. 13th place finish on this stage. Stage 8: The stage with all the movers activated by one stomp plate. Had a very good run going until I got a failure to feed after my 2 shots on the swinger. The jam caused me to not to be able to get any shots off at the drop turner. Lucky those were NPM's. Even with the jam, still ended up 13th on the stage. Stage 9: A quick speed stage. I decided to draw and take the 3 targets in the middle before moving to the end. In hindsight I think it might of been faster to go to the end and then engage the targets. 17th on the stage. And now the video .... Comments welcome if you see something you want to share:

Personally I would like to think that next years cover will have Bob Vogel on it, since he was BOTH the HOA and the Ohio Section Champ from this years match. That's what I was last year, so it seems fitting. Plus Bob is a lot more photogenic than myself. Chris, Will the combined results be posted? Just curious. Thanks. Aaron Yes of course, just give me a little time to get back to the real world, chores & bills & other things take priority right now. sorry! LOL No problem, I completely understand.

Personally I would like to think that next years cover will have Bob Vogel on it, since he was BOTH the HOA and the Ohio Section Champ from this years match. That's what I was last year, so it seems fitting. Plus Bob is a lot more photogenic than myself. Chris, Will the combined results be posted? Just curious. Thanks. Aaron

Sam, The pleasure was all ours. We had a great time on Friday and a good group of guys to shoot with. A lot of fun for sure. Aaron

Someone else set it up ... 3 of us had rifle barrels, frames and slides done so I'm not sure how much it would have been had I tried to do it myself, I only know my portion of the bill for the slide and frame. I know, not much help huh?

I had my Open gun finished in Melonite early in the spring. Turned out great!!

Shot 2 majors this past weekend ... the OH Sectional and the VA-MD Sectional. Placed 1st C in Open at both matches. First class win ever at a major match. More thoughts to come later along with the videos.

Thanks to all the staff!! A very well run, efficient match. 9 stages in under 5 hours today. Great set of stages. Will definitely be back for this one.

Will the match be a classifier for open since there are now three GM's?

Shot a local indoor match on Saturday night. Used it to knock the rust off and test my ammo that I will be using at the OH Sectional match and the VA-MD Sectional matches. First stage felt really choppy but the remaining two stages were decent. Most important, ammo ran good and dot tracking wasn't different from the VV 3N38 loads that I had been shooting Shot a local match at Rayners on Sunday. Third overall and 1st C in Open. 5th overall in the combined results. I had two stage wins so I was pleased with that. Shot a classifier that I hadn't see before 99-51 which required the first string to be shot prone. First time for that! LOL Lessond learned: Don't leave the big stick in the range bag when you go to Make Ready. I should have had someone get it for me or backed off. I ended up running the gun dry and had to do a standing reload on stage 2. Cost me a couple of seconds easily. Glad I did it at a local match instead of a major. Still need to have the visual patience to go 1 for 1 on steel. That will be key this coming weekend.

Diagrams of all the classifiers can be found here: http://www.uspsa.org/uspsa-classifier-list.php

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I'm on the computer all day as well so I check it quite often starting after the 10th.

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I made the switch back in the February timeframe. The number one tip I have is to practice finding the dot ... in all sort of shooting positions. It is fine to do draws in dry fire practice but you only do 4-8 of those per match. Practice moving, leaning, squatting, etc etc and indexing the gun so you find the dot. This has been my biggest issue so far. Just because you have a ton of extra rounds (vs Productions) doesn't mean you can just hose away. You still have to be accurate and fast. You'll like reloading less I'm sure and just focus on shooting. Find a major load that you like and makes PF and then shoot it. That's all I have for now

Well I figure I will give this a shot as I don't have a place currently to keep track of my progress, only have what's in my head and sometimes things get lost and forgotten. And if I don't use it very ofter, at least you have a place to look at my avatar I started in USPSA seriously last year in Limited. Never really felt totally comfortable with that gun and the results showed that. You can see it big time in the videos posted in my signature. Fast forward to this past winter .... sold my Limited guns in favor of an Open gun. I feel a lot more comfortable with the Open gun, and it seems easier than the Limited game. The speed is so much faster, it just brings a smile to my face I never shot a Limited classifier over 60% but have shot a few in Open. Saturday -- shot the local match at Circleville. Always a good match with challenging stages. I ended up 4th in Open out of 7 and 5th in the combined results. I feel like I had a solid match with good stage plans. I had 1 Mike on the day ... stage 1 on one of the swingers. I had trigger freeze one of the targets so that messed me all up. I did have 2 NS on the classifier and only ended up with a 38%. Lessons learned: relax the grip so I don't get trigger freeze. Sunday -- shot the local match at McDonald, PA. I ended up first C and 6th out of 14 in Open. Stage 3: 18 round stage with three shooting positions, three targets in each position. You can see from the video below, I need to get in and out of positions better. In addition you can hear the change in cadence in my shots in each position. Ended up 6th on this stage. Stage 4: 26 round stage. Again 3 shooting positions. The stage had mini poppers so I felt like I should reload going to the center shooting position. Maybe I shouldn't have and just made sure I went 1 for 1 on the steel. Stage 5: 28 round stage. Had a very good stage plan on this one. I saw something during the walk through that the rest of the squad didn't. Once they saw it, they all copied it LOL Six steel (two rows of 3). Was a little deliberate on the steel to make sure I went 1 for 1. Moved before the buzzer and was expecting the RO to stop me but he didn't so that cost me some time. Trigger freeze on the first target .. trying to press to hard to make up the false start. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WIDtb6XZtU&feature=player_detailpage"]Stage 5 Stage 1: 32 round stage. Felt comfortable with my stage plan but obviously got a little out of sorts in the last position. Took too many shots on the steel that cost me some time. Also had a NS, call it and made up the shot. Ended up 6th on this stage as well. Stage 2: Classifier 09-03 Oh-No. Shot this is 59%. Any and all comments are welcome. I've learned from other peoples topics, hopefully someone will learn something from mine.

How much powder are you using? I just started using the same bullets and powder and I'm curious what you ended up with? 4.0g of N320 at 1.130" I will probably run 10 over the chrono this weekend. I'm very interested on see your chrono results. Are you shooting fmj, cmj or jhp? Look above about 3 posts I was at 135.6 PF with 180g MG JHP's

You can also use these for dry fire, best of all they are free http://www.predatortactical.com/cart.php?m=knowledgebase_detail&id=5

You can print your own targets for dry fire. Here is just one link with a USPSA target and a popper. They are 1/3 scale but for small places work great. http://www.glockfaq.com/content.aspx?ckey=Glock_FAQ_Targets There are other targets on the internet if you just do a quick search.