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    best strategy to be competitive in production

    in Introduce Yourself

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    Your shooting Prod and keeping up with A Open? If so your speed is M Prod, in general, assuming the A Open shooters have both legs and so forth. So don't worry about it. Personally I would gauge myself off of a M Prod shooter.

    In Prod shooting 90% is all A's except for 6 C's on a 24 rd course. 95+% where match winner usually falls is only 3 C's in 24rds.

    If you are shooting that level then just get better not faster. That's transistions, target acq, setups, leaving positions and so forth.

    Loading to capacity in Production

    in USPSA/IPSC Rules

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    Not common at any USPSA match. Rules allow for divisions. You can run any match(except a USPSA one) any way you want cause its a free country but when you affliate and run classifers its a USPSA match.

    Another possible issue, are they scoring Prod as Major since they are "shooting Limited" ?

    I see a big issue with confused people traveling to shoot at other clubs cause when you load your Prod Glock to 18 at the other clubs, welcome to Open, Period.

    Its more than high cap to competetion but I understand. I personally hate reloading.

    Can't get my Open gun to run

    in Open Pistols

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    I would never take it back to that smith.

    Benny Hill would fix it fast, at a reasonable rate. You have multiple problems and I would not rule out ammo. In fact (assuming the gun is made right in the first place, which yours isn't) ammo is almost always the issue. Taper crimp, OAL and bullet type are the frequent issues.

    Your extracter is not set up correctly and I would only use one brand of brass to make your life and Benny's easier.

    I never have had Benny do anything for me since I have a smith that does me right(he has no desire for more business) but can recommend him and frankly there are like around 10 people in the US that I could recommend besides him but most of them are backlogged months.

    George Smith of EGW is another one that might take it quick.

    Winning before you show up

    in Range Diary

    Posted

    2009 was kind of a write off. Surgery then recovery and no money/ammo.

    Shot club match Sat and it was very satisfying. I haven't shot a match in like five+ months and usually don't dryfire or practice in the winter. I also laid off of physicial workouts cause I am pretty sure I was interfearing with my healing after surgery, by stressing it with lifting/biking/etc.

    Highlights were shooting one big stage with only one C and pretty much shooting without any major problems or "stiffness" I was drawing sub 1.2's with the same type reloads.Splits were a little slower than normal but transistions were right on. Position set-up was pretty good and I was calling my shots. I had a no shoot but it was also a scoring A, I feel it was not too much of an issue. I also experimented with a almost full running shot at a target and hit it fine. Got a little tired at the end but that's expected.

    Had to fend off a charge by another M but I usually like that kind of stuff.

    Its great to be 85-90% healed and looking forward to wins in 2010.

    Why is my accuracy decreasing so quickly during a range session?

    in Miscellaneous BEginners

    Posted

    It is fatigue. I see so many new shooters fail at their first Area because of this. They aren't used to a all day ten stage match and may be winning their class in the morning to later have a six Mike afternoon. Work on the stuff mentioned and I have actually broken up my practice into two sessions with a hour break to work on attention span and concerns like that.

    Go watch the rifle shooters, ok boring, well go watch the paint dry or even better a "hike" across the range simulates being tired and keeps ya from getting there later in season.

    How do we catch the GM's?

    in Tips for Improvement

    Posted

    So the last few weeks I have been on the forums trying to find different ways to practice and make myself a better all around shooter. I read through posts on dry fire, live fire, the mental side of the game, and anything in between. My goal was to try to develop a system for myself that would help me catch the guys who are leading in my division. I am a B class shooter. I have worked for my B and am damn proud of it. Some higher ranked shooters probably think thats not a big deal. To some of us it is.

    Ok, so on to the point. My question is, what do the GM's do that make them so much better? A lot of people can pull the trigger fast and get average hits. Some are better at strong/weak hand shooting. Others are blessed with speed. The GM's, have it all. Every single aspect of the game is polished. For an average shooter like me, I strive to meet the same standards. I put in as much time into practice as possible. I want to make it into the M to GM class someday. So what is holding me back?

    Its the basics. Working on the stuff that I am not great at. Sure I'm ok strong/weak handed, but I'm not great. I lack confidence in that area. I don't pick up my sights like I should every time.

    It is amazing how many people on here, me included at times, have a reason that some thing didn't go the way we wanted it to. It was the gun, the ammo, the buzzer, ect. Its never us.

    So I guess the whole reason I am writing this post is to say one thing.....shut up!!!! To myself, and to everyone who blames why they are shooting poorly on everything but themselves. I understand stuff happens, but it almost always comes back to the shooter.

    So I am going to strive to push myself to work on the most boring, weakest area's off my shooting until I get my M. Might take 6 months, might take 6 years. But I am not gonna blame it on anything but me.

    Not personal.

    Your right its pretty much YOU that determines success or failure. I have only been screwed over a very few times in twenty years and could blame another for a failure.

    Your title says a lot. Its not "we" its "I". You have made a decision to improve but I challenge you to REALLY decide. Making the letters GM is a by product of a decision to reach a goal. Why not say, I will be a M in Limited by Sept 1 and I will get there by dryfiring 6 times a week for 30 minutes,I will go to the range twice a week shootiing at least 300 rds per session, I will shoot 4 club matches and 2 steel matches a month with increasing higher placements with a HOA by June 1. I will start squading with Mr Speed at the club match. I will shoot 5 majors with a goal to place at 75% or higher. I will read Sal's/Steve's/Matt's book/DVD by April 1 and apply their drills and techniques with s specific plan of action. In fact I will track a specific set of skills like draw/reload/Elprez/Movement with standard drills to see improvement.

    Here is a very important attitude. I will not be able to say phrases like "my weak hand shooting is ok" by Aug 1.

    This is large part of what it takes to make M/GM and I'll give you another hard cruel fact. Winning M/GM is another demanding improvement process.

    As to being a natural? Well once you learn how to get good at something you can apply a lot of skills to another sport. Some Masters in say, dirt bike riding or golf, start shooting with us and advance faster than average and some people see them as gifted or worse that you need to be gifted to become a M. Those Masters already did their 10,000 hours and you do get some credit for that. Some "transfers" think you get full credit for it and I get a little tired of their intenseness but only thing that counts is the final results.

    Its Blood, Sweat and Tears to become a M/GM. Period.

    Good luck but you really don't need it.

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