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Navy Joe

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  1. Thanks Bill. Afraid of plastic? God I hope not, trying this round gun thing to get away from Glock shooting for awhile.
  2. Help! I need to get a Lefty holster and a crapload of moonclip carriers for a 625 by next weekend so I can go show my ass at a 4 classifier match. Where to look? I can order the carriers and de-mooner from Dillon via Brian, how about the holster?
  3. Black Hole, last stage, hated it. Well that and Stage 6. They were the two highest Hf hoser stages and my go slow and get the points approach really killed me on those two. By and large I got my points, 1 miss, 8 or 9 Ds. I survived Restricted Area with one D on a stationary target. The world's fastest swinger was 2A, of course I unloaded into that thing. Bio-Lab was a lot of fun. One of the few people to walk off of Stage 4 with 24A. My goals were top 10 Production (19th) High Military Prod. Missed by less than 1% and to win B production (4th) Arrgh! Amazing how the class grew, 50 shooters and tough competition. Lots of IPSC M/USPSA U shooters in the class coming in from around the world to whip up on me. Great experience, look forward to next year. Really neat to see all the IPSC shooters from elsewhere come in.
  4. Well Ron, hope you feel better. If you are getting the MRI hopefully they are looking at the spine right? My dad has some old injuries where bone mass builds up and puts pressure on the spinal cord just before the nerves split off to the arms. I guess if it comes up in a match you should transition to weak hand and shoot it all. If anyone snickers remind them that freestyle means just that and you were just trying to give them a sporting chance. As for results, nobody cares how you finish except you.
  5. I can't figure out if the racing is helping my shooting or the shooting is helping my racing. I do know in racing I achieve a level of total awareness and sensitivity to visual and other inputs that I have never come close to in shooting. Since good shooting is like good anything there are a lot of parallels to ponder such as the meaning of fast, smoothness, time compression, etc.
  6. Right now I love "easy" stages. Probably because I didn't blow the last one up. Shot one last week that was pure simplicity. 7 yds., 3 paper. T1 had T2's edge laid to the right edge of the A zone. T2 and T3 were A to A covered by one lonely no shoot. Start with fingers interlaced under either leg. Draw and put two on each weak hand only. I heard the stage described as "cheesy" several times. Well, when it was all done eight shooters zeroed the thing and 11 more had Hfs of less than 1. I shot it clean which was the only highlight of an abysmal match. Don't let easy fool your brain into not engaging. 1 Deel, Paul 3 A Limited 27 0 4.31 6.2645 2 Gaskill, Kert 49 GM Limited 23 0 4.64 4.9569 3 McDonald, David 36 B Limited 10 26 0 6.20 4.1935 4 Thompson, Chad 4 A Limited 10 27 0 6.55 4.1221 5 Jarrett, Todd 14 GM Limited 28 10 4.42 4.0724 6 Swartout, Henry 40 A Limited 10 27 0 7.07 3.8190 7 Rudder, Bill 10 A Limited 29 0 8.14 3.5627 8 Grimes, French 37 B Production 30 0 9.01 3.3296 9 Bradshaw, Council 12 GM Open 29 10 5.97 3.1826 10 Hughes, Mike 32 C Open 28 0 9.41 2.9756 11 Burns, John 2 B Limited 22 0 7.47 2.9451 12 Cecil, Randy 8 C Production 22 0 7.63 2.8834 13 Hopping, Dan 21 C Limited 23 0 8.00 2.8750 14 Craig, Jack 48 C Open 28 0 9.83 2.8484 15 Low, Byron 7 C Revolver 28 0 10.35 2.7053 16 Giambattista, Pete 29 B Open 30 0 11.22 2.6738 17 Tilley, Chris 46 GM Open 29 10 7.57 2.5099 18 Link, John 17 C Production 20 0 8.00 2.5000 19 Webb, Jimmy 15 B Limited 27 10 6.98 2.4355 20 Cates, Kevin 11 U Production 26 10 6.69 2.3916 21 Crowell, Mike 9 B Limited 26 10 6.96 2.2989 22 Roupe, Tom 50 B Limited 10 29 10 8.62 2.2042 23 Chemelli, Ben 51 U Open 27 0 13.00 2.0769 24 Schwartz, Jason 23 D Limited 10 18 0 9.70 1.8557 25 DiMattina, Valentino 31 M Open 27 10 10.09 1.6848 26 Barfield, Travis 30 M Limited 20 10 6.28 1.5924 27 Jones, Dean 44 U Limited 20 10 6.95 1.4388 28 Sadler, Bill 35 C Limited 23 10 9.19 1.4146 29 Scarlata, Paul 42 C Limited 10 24 10 10.27 1.3632 30 Gammons, Eddie 47 M Limited 17 10 5.82 1.2027 31 Fritz, Peter 19 D Revolver 22 0 18.67 1.1784 32 DenBleyker, Bob 18 C Revolver 30 0 26.90 1.1152 33 Burke, Tim 53 U Limited 10 29 10 17.28 1.0995 34 Denney, Lee 38 B Limited 19 10 11.12 0.8094 35 Little, Martin 45 B Open 28 20 11.07 0.7227 36 Hendrix, Paul 6 M Production 15 10 7.11 0.7032 37 Ramsey, David 52 U Limited 25 20 8.18 0.6112 38 Rosenfeld, Jarred 27 U Production 15 10 10.94 0.4570 39 Fritz, Matthew 20 U Production 12 0 29.08 0.4127 40 Earles, Irvin 28 B Limited 23 20 12.31 0.2437 41 Hughes, Mary 33 D Open 18 0 100.40 0.1793 42 Guseman, Jason 5 U Limited 10 22 20 18.62 0.1074 43 Hopping, Albert 22 C Limited 10 21 20 11.20 0.0893 44 Pulley, Paul 24 U Limited 10 21 20 20.04 0.0499 45 Silva, Mark 16 A Limited 17 20 6.65 0.0000 Tie Benton, John 13 M Limited 24 30 6.55 0.0000 Tie Kanas, Tom 25 D Limited 19 30 12.74 0.0000 Tie Pawlak, Steve 26 C Production 17 30 9.39 0.0000 Tie Stivers, Ben 34 D Limited 18 30 8.19 0.0000 Tie Crafton, Don 39 A Limited 18 40 8.70 0.0000 Tie Webb, Lin 41 U Revolver 14 30 7.60 0.0000 Tie Jones, Lew 43 U Production 7 50 8.79 0.0000
  7. Hmm, good job. I've won IDPA stages with Masters present, more commonly I have the fastest raw time and lose on hoser points. Don't think I've ever won an USPSA stage. Counted 4 GMs and 5 Ms at my last club match, I think I see the problem.
  8. 9.23 56 points(10A 2C) Production B class. 6.067Hf, ought to be in the 65% area I'm guessing. Stood up.
  9. B class production loser. I have shot 6500 9mm in match and practice since I started loading 9 on 9/21 of this year. Once I get my private range membership straight I'd like to put in a min. of 500 practice rounds a week and see where that gets me, maybe crank it to 1K per week for a couple weeks, then taper off and go to a big match. We'll see.
  10. I think it is well agreed upon here that money spent on a quality gun and allied equipment is money well spent. My personal preference to help keep new shooters from buying "starter equipment" is to loan them a gun, mags, and pouches for a few matches. After that they can decide if the interest is sufficient to buy long term gear or not. Now, what of other "gear"? I think you can buy skill, it's just a question of when to invest the cash for max. skill gain. For instance, reloading. At a certain point factory ammo holds you back. Not because it is crappy, hard recoiling, inconsistent stuff(it is), but because you can never buy enough to get good. For me I feel like I made a 10% or more performance jump by reloading. Why? because in 3 months I've been able to shoot 6K+ rounds, have 2K more components sitting on the bench and still have more money than when I was shooting maybe 600 rounds a month. Reloading money makes sense now, maybe it did not for the first year of my game. Timers, chronos and training aids? Soon I will have access to a 24hr indoor private club to practice. At this point I need these things. This is gear to help skill, as it is right now i am only under a timer at matches. Can you really make M or better without all these trinkets? What's more, there's books, DVDs, classes, and such. I entered the 90's yesterday and finally bought a DVD player so I can buy PS vol 1-5. Soon I need to buy the book, maybe take a course. Is this buying skill? I think the key is not buying a bunch of stuff, but to have enough experience so you can accurately and honestly declare when you gear is not good enough.
  11. Congrats Ron, certainly would warrant a FS write-up. To follow that up, I made B Production which is an accomplishment for me. i've been shooting for almost two years now, maybe it's time to buy the book, watch the DVDs and actually start practicing more than once a week. This small accomplishment does however blow my shot at being the first five division C card.
  12. I heard someone on here say to shoot like the NS wasn't there. Anybody try this? I haven't worked up the nerve to do this yet, last match in a couple of situations my "conservative solution" was to just take head shots. It worked okay there, but elsewhere I'm scared of the white guy. Actually last match was kinda conservative. More As, first match in a long while with no Mikes or NS. Strange.
  13. Yep, I hate 'em for puting the best pic on the cover, it's been on my wall for 3 months and I really don't want to have to flip to January. I hate their stupid machine too, it hasn't broke so I can call them and be forced to buy another claender.
  14. The one kendo scene was great. Algren's guard gave him a bitching for getting beat, something to the effect of: "You have too many minds. Mind the opponent, mind the next move, mind the people watching. No Mind!" Something I personally need to work on at times.
  15. I'd say the Wilsons are worth a shot, I have had several and still like them very much, but they are not trouble free. Had one 8 round that liked to lock the gun open while flipping the last round backwards in the chamber. 10 rounders I have had more of a problem with, had several weird malfunctions with two different 1911s that I just couldn't figure out. The slide stop would come partially out and lock the gun up on the disassembly notch. Very amusing for the peanut gallery as I beat my gun open on the edge of a prop, but annoying nonetheless. I was plinking along at the range one day with a different gun when it started happening, realized it only happened last round with a Wilson 10 rd. Swapped out with the shop's el cheapo Norinco mag and the gun went to slidelock normally. My guess is the follower is a little rounded where it engages the slide stop and was pushing out as well as up. So now my two plans are to put some split lip metal followers in Wilson mags or weld real overtravel stops onto some Chip mags. Seeing someone over-insert a CMC with a worn plastic base is just too painful. Edit: If you do buy Wilsons, lose the cheesy basepad and put a steel one on. They survive much better and drop free much nicer. I had one plastic one break, it was enough for me.
  16. 9mm minor, not a chance. I have had no problems thus far in the 3 months and 6K rounds I've loaded. I did do a test by sorting out two loaded batches of prevalent headstamps in my loaded rounds and at 25yards there was a POI difference and one grouped nicer, but both fell into minute of steel plate. I plan on sorting if I ever start stuffing .38Super or .45 for bullseye.
  17. Shot this last weekend in Production. First string 4.33 5A 1C with a make-up shot on T1. Being lefty I shot T2, front steel, T1, back steel. Second string was 4.02 4A 2C. Total 54 points 8.35. I missed it where stats transposed numbers and gave me a 8.53, but that is a miniscule difference. As submitted that is a 6.33Hf which should be in the 69-70% range. I was impressed at the consistency of the string times considering my make-up shot, which incidentally was a miss made up with an A. This forum really helped as I remembered folks talking about feeling the pressure and trying to GM the second string. Even helped tune out the "Betcha can't do it again" heckling from the RO/peanut gallery.
  18. TRN, Amazing story. The way that BJ and Kyle shoot coupled with the excellent matches you run I figured you were in IPSC before there was a USPSA and had brought your sons along. I didn't get into guns until 1999. I had always owned a couple, but being married to someone left of Stalin made shooting infrequent. Got divorced, bought lots of guns, burned lots of ammo, thought I was good. Read lots of gunrags ,believed them and decided that IDPA was the truth and the light. Changed jobs and happened to fall in with a couple of shooters who took about a year to talk me out of it(Thank GOD!). My first match was March of 2002 and it was a USPSA style 3 gun of all things. I found out that no, I couldn't shoot a pistol, but that I was generally competent with SG and rifle, they balanced out my second to last pistol performance and placed me mid pack. Most fun I had ever had with my clothes on. The next week I was at another match, shot my first classifier Bang & Clang at a smokin' 42%, thought I was good, but being squadded w/ TJ will kill that notion in a hurry. Two things kept me away for the two years I was aware of competition and wanted to try it. One, I knew nobody that did it. Second is that I was left handed and nobody had gear to loan me. Learning from this I talk up USPSA whenever somebody starts talking about guns at the range. I have the pertinent websites memorized and give them out. I answer any questions. I also bought some right handed gear, both for my practice and to loan. I have gotten two folks into this, both juniors, one kinda casually plinkin' around with a G34, the other fell in with the right crowd and is now sponsored, beating me and all that. I now also enjoy IDPA, I just know what the real sport is. (Sent in my application, no more UC sandbagging for me)
  19. No fishing story, but I'm the sucker. Posted to USPSA, 75.525% which of course was too high for my current C class. Not wanting to be a bagger I'll call them up and ask them to use my 2 disallowed ones which will bump me from 52% to 62% in Production.
  20. I think it all comes down to practice. I am trying to make weak hand something I look forward to so I gain strength from everyone else whining and crying when they hear the stage description. It's true, we want to practice what we're good at. I've forced myself into several majority weakhand practice sessions and dryfire. Worse yet, I got bored and decided to shoot an IDPA match from a right handed holster. Wow, lemme tell ya, that sucked, will do again soon. Not so much weakhand practice as weakhand coordination training since drawing and shooting freestyle, doing reloads, etc. is so much different from what we do for USPSA weakhand. I learned a lot. First, I learned how to double my score, shot the match in 90 sumptin' as compared to a 46 shooting with the correct hand. I did not ever grab for my gun with my left hand, but I did find it mysteriously there after a reload, if only I could do weak-strong transitions so effortlessly in a classifier. I learned something about ingrained repetitive tasks(muscle mem.) my left hand kept ending up in a cup and saucer because it was so habituated to being the first one on the gun. Everytime I racked the slide I did some goofy pinch rack grabbing it overhand forward of the ejection port, never seen anything like it...hey wait a minute, I'll call it Israeli and get rich! Slide lock reloads were a small bright point I think because they involved the same thing, making the two hands meet at the gun. Tac load was a nightmare, could get a Barnum & Bailey gig with that.
  21. Nah, I'll take the 50 bucks. I got lots of time, limited money due to gov't pay and corresponding unpredictable schedule that precludes a second job. Besides, I like the reloads better and I learn something other than how much I hate Wal-Mart. Speaking of the saved time arguement, by the time I go to Wally land, wait for someone to find the keys, waste time telling them what their ammo sales policy really is, stand in line to check out and then drive home I could have loaded 400 rounds.
  22. It is no great feat to make 9mm reloads that are accurate and consistent for less than $60/1000. Why spend $110/1000 on White Box? Yes I found it to be inconsistent based on felt recoil and report. 25yd accuracy was hideous. I saw somebody shooting a G19 and they were making 138Pf so it's a little hot too. When I was using factory I found Magtech and Dynamit-Nobel(Geco) to be two much better alternatives.
  23. So for minor, considering that you are going home if you miss it, what is a good safety margin. I got chronoed for the first time at Sectionals and I was making 129.9 with a bullet that was just a shade light. I did the math so to speak and figured that gives me about a 50fps safety net with the lightest bullet I've weighed so far. I guess that 1 grain lighter would be a nice way to do it too.
  24. 7 Grimes, French 15 C Production 80 0 11.15 7.1749 I dunno if this is one of the easier classifiers. It sucks folks in by looking easy and they forget how to reload and the weakhand transition. Saw lots of misses and fumbled reloads, people thinking fast, faster than they could shoot. So, easy as heck if it goes right. Three middle targets were 3A, towards the end there was some junk.
  25. Yes, I've noticed that, like shooting you have to have a pre-plan as to how you want to shoot but the plan becomes adaptable when the buzzer goes. Same with racing, you might have talked yourself into driving to a certain percentage of your ability level, or who you want to watch out for or where you want to run on the track, but it's all open to interpretation once the green is out. Other common things for me: Slow is smooth is fast. Between skiing, racing, and shooting you'd think I'd learn this. Easiest way to go fast in a race car is to slow down. Total awareness, I don't get the adrenaline zip that I do from racing, but shooting is very similar. For however long the motor is making noise nothing else exists. The time to work on your junk is at home. At the race track I want to si around and eat track burgers, not mount tires. At the match I want to BS with other shooters, not fix my gun. Bring stuff that works, bring spare stuff that works. What works for the world champ means diddly squat to you. You should study their techniques and equipment, but if you can't relate it to what you are trying to do and your skills/ability level then you are just wasting money. Success builds confidence and leads to greater ability. Do it the same way every time. I do things the same when I load and make ready, same with the race car. Belts get latched and tightened the same every time. The ritual helps tune out distractions. It's all in your head. I try not to think about much waiting to get pushed off, since it's usually hot I will focus my thoughts on my one ungloved hand and visualize its coolness as the rest of me sits strapped into three layers of nomex, helmet, etc. If you can make yourself cold on a 95 deg. day you must be doing something right. Me taking the car out for it's last spin before I build a new one. Won the heat, rain came. Good way to close the year as far as I'm concerned. http://www.dirt-trackin.com/vss/action_pho...ages/035vss.htm
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