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.. intelligent, disciplined practice both live and dry fire will help.. pretty soon you will be able to trust what your sights tell you.. (it is not only about calling your shots but you have to trust so that you do not waste time trying to verify what your sights 'told you' by looking at the target and/or analysing what the sight picture said!!)..

Oxygen: Good or Bad?

life (and shooting is therefore included) is all about expectations.. the challenge is what are your expectations as this will determine whether you close yourself to valuable inputs or not, so as to allow you to adjust your expectations...what you don't want is anticipation because this brings anxiety, stress and distractions.. I keep seing this results-oriented vs. process-oriented but rather they are all part of a performance cycle..if your sub-conscious is not aware of progress (from results- you programme into your sub-c what is an appropriate result) you will not shoot efficiently or effectively..

whatever gives us the outcome we desire..

..everything moves together.. the target challenge determines what you base your reliance on - your target, index or sights..

sig and beretta with the sig having a better da to sa transition. the s&w (3rd gen?) pretty good too with a fast reset..

I rem sometime ago talking to TGO about me being accurate and slow or fast but missing but rarely fast and accurate.. his suggestion was not to think in terms of hard or easy shots but rather fast or faster shots. In so doing the subconscious stays on top of the conscious as speed is something the sub-c is programmed to handle (also why you shouldn't force speed but let it happen- it is already there)... the sub-c doesn't know what hard or easy means, those are conscious human manifestations...when properly trained in the fundamentals (read Brian's book..again!) the eyes will tell the sub-c 'fast shot' or 'faster shot' and the body will do the necessary including changing your visual plane to make the shot.. my shooting moved several levels up the rung thereafter. For eg when shooting say 6 plate racks which I have classified as hard, I would usually miss the 4th or 5th one as the success of hitting the first 3 or 4 begin to tire my conscious and my eyes (the hard focus) (yes, success can be tiring esp. when you are tentative about achieving it). Now I just look at a rack and say this is a fast rack, forget about it and at the sound of the buzzer pull and clean the rack.. if a miss occurs it is usually made up back so fast... (..feels like deja vu..may have posted this already in another time, in another area for another question..) for short: when training a new skill, the conscious sits on top of the subconscious; when just testing/executing the subconscious sits on top of the conscious.. how do you flip? ..change your perceptions..

still a neutral grip.. he just gets to it another way..

practice and more practice along with experimentations.. find out WHAT WORKS FOR YOU!!

the 6 incher gives u more time on the sights so for those eyes that are not so fit or fast it helps tremendously.. i always try to tweak as much sight radius as possible out of any gun i have by changing sights..

DonT, I appreciate your openness about this 'sticking point'. Years, ago I subscribed to the 'light trigger' concept and it worked well for me in practice. In a match though I would miss the A zones of targets that I was not supposed to miss..especially on the 2nd shot.. i tried everything including slowing down, changing the guns, making the trigger lighter etc. still i had the occassional blooper.. then it dawned on me that I was not feeling the trigger on the second shot.. sure I was seeing sights lift etc. but I was not feeling the trigger. Then i came across a statement from Ron Avery that the pressing of the trigger must be an involved feeling. I started experiencing with heavier triggers and that solved the problem.. I started having a relationship with my trigger.. With the light trigger I was just not getting needed feedback.. it is not only about the sights and feedback from the sights but from the trigger as well.. tailor your trigger to suit your strength and temperament!! At 6 feet and 240 lbs. and an aggressive personality, i just did not have the finesse to caress a 2 lb trigger under duress in a match (practice was fine) and I ended up slamming the trigger into the frame thereby jerking the gun.. I turned up the poundage a bit and 'we were more in sync..

real pow pow stuff. this will have me thinking about shooting all weekend!!

..just do it!!

..great question!!.. exactly as Interceptor said!!

#1: Pay attention to what you are doing as you are doing it!!..

with open guns you have to do a lot less work as the guns practically shoot themselves (after you press the trigger, of course).. dial down your intensity and raise your awareness..

Demetrio, I give Ron the nod over Matt as a first DVD.. thereafter progress to Matt..

Ron Avery covers this topic beautifully in his tape series, Secrets of a Professional Shooter.. understand it is now on DVD.. Brian has it in his store..check it out..

yup, i second that Houngan.. gets u quickly over the hump...

..did the same with hogues on a G19 using krazy glue.. it really meshed up the grip..smoothed it out.. i went to work on it with a small point screwdriver (the kind used to service cell phones) to dig out the glue and over 2 weekends it came to about 60% of what it was originally..

great gun.. i think the extensive cottage industry that grew up around the glock and then the XD, giving you the opportunity to make any imaginable conversion/customisation, are what accounts for their greater prevalence in competition shooting..

Please see quote attributed to Rob Leatham on American Handgunner Nov-Dec 2004. READ THOROUGHLY!! "I have found trigger manipulation and fire control are, by far, more important. Mistakes I've made in training or in tournaments are around poorly-fired shots, not poorly aimed shots. The trigger finger goes squarely across the face of the trigger so it can press the trigger straight back. I don't agree with a lot of other instructors on the forward movement of the trigger finger after the sear breaks. Many instructors say you should keep the finger on the trigger at all times, letting the trigger move forward under control just to the point where the trigger resets. I don't do it that way. The instant the sear breaks my trigger finger moves forward, off the trigger. Sometimes it will move so far forward I'll hit the inside front of the trigger guard with the finger. "I've experimented with both ways. Keeping the finger constantly on the trigger, letting it move ahead just enough to reset and then pressing again, is slightly faster, I agree. But the margin of speed is very small. The bad side of this method is you might not let the trigger move ahead far enough to reset. If the trigger doesn't reset, obviously the gun won't fire when you press the trigger. You have to release it again to reset. By then you may be swinging to another target or even starting to move to another position. Then you've really lost time. Releasing the trigger completely as I do may be marginally slower, but it is more reliable and consistent. I never have to worry about those trigger stumbles which really eat up time. And I can use the same technique on any gun, whether it's a 1911, Springfield XD, or revolver."

as i progressed in shooting calling the shot for me moved from the mechanical 'see sight lift' and the awareness of 'how it lifted' to this almost 'feel' of an effective shot. I am sure it is a coming together of all the relevant areas for a good shot but it all just transcended into a 'feel' - the grip, stance, picture, trigger control etc.. ..more food for thought!!

.. be aware..with target focus you do call the shoots but with less precision..since the sight lift is captured in your peripheral vision.. you can also close one eye (usually the non-dominant one) and then the sights and target are in the same visual plane so no need for sight focus change..