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Well crap, I guess I'm shooting Friday

As the only major I ever go to, I can't wait

I have the .215 on my 34 and 35 and I like the POI with this setup way better than .245.

So if I have a steel guide rod, lightened recoil spring, and lightened (barely, 5#) striker spring giving me about one light strike per match, does this mean I need the Jäger striker too?

The latter

Yup, that's what makes red dots so fast -- one less thing to line up

Sights tell you where the gun is pointing. I'm still not getting what the zen lesson is in all this.

It sounds like you stopped respecting the targets.

Only way I finally got my weak hand into the action was to make dryfire so hard I couldn't get by without it.

I have the same goal. I can click the 2.5 closed with my strong hand and the 2 with my left. Mine have always been uneven that way, dunno why.

It is absolutely terrifying. I've only managed to 'leap' twice, both times on classifier stages. What's scarier is afterward I don't really remember seeing sights or pulling the trigger or anything about the run -- at Unload and Show Clear I felt like I just woke up or something.

Completely true.

Good post.

I would actually say it is a habit you should be maintaining in dry-fire.

I haven't started shooting it yet myself but that's exactly the allure of it to me -- that no one can practice enough to be perfect at everything so you have to prioritize your training. Those who can practice better can beat those who practice more (though obviously we'd like to do both). I don't even know if that's true but that's my thought. The expense is really off-putting though.

I close the #2 for four sets of 5 reps each hand, twice a week. The #2.5 and #3 arrive Monday and I'll be moving up to them as soon as I'm able. I never used the T or the #1.5. I started with the #1 and went straight to the #2.

There are no naturals. There is only work ethic.

Maybe a poor choice of wisdom for this particular thread?

I'll be there again.

I can't answer all your questions but I will get the ones I can. - How easy is it to charge or does it take batteries? Is the life short enough that I should travel with spares? It takes a CR123 battery. You would only really need to ever take one spare because for me a battery lasts about a month, and I dry-fire a lot. - Will it fit in most Glock holsters? It fits mine just fine, and even clicks in just like the real thing. - Any problems with yours? None. - Does the slide cycle? Nope. - Is it tough enough to endure a fall? I have dropped mine (on carpet) several times so yes... - Does it need to be cleaned occasionally and if so what cleaning products are safe to use with it? I have never cleaned mine. Like at all. - Are additional weighted mags available for it and will it accept any empty mags? Yes, you can order them from NLT with the SIRT or separately. For training purposes, they are almost as worthwhile as the whole SIRT. I also use them with my regular Glock for dry-fire with it. I would recommend you get 4-5 to emulate a full match beltload. - Is it usable as a warm up tool in the safe area or elsewhere at matches? I'm sure it would be fine in a safe area, but at that point I'd just warm up with your real gun. - Does it fall under the normal safety rules at a match I don't know but when in doubt I'd treat it like a real gun just to prevent heart attacks.

I would kill for an ammo sponsor. That's really the only part of the sport that's expensive to me. Who cares about match fees and shirts? I can blow a $100 match fee's worth of ammo in a single range trip without breaking a sweat. If I owned a shooting-related company of COURSE I'd give shooters a discount and shirt to billboard my brand of neon shoelaces or whatever at every match they went to.

I've been using R&R for over a year now but never for 5 minutes on each drill. After reading this, I have started to, and wow what a difference. Before I would do 10-15 reps of something and turn the page to the next one, but now spending a full 5 minutes on each one makes me push beyond that. I made a lot of progress in just the 3 days of practicing this way and I'm going to keep doing it this way from now on, budgeting my time accordingly. With not much time to practice, I thought it was more important to hit a lot of drills quickly than to do a lot of reps on any particular one -- with the 5-minute method I prefer to do only 2-3 drills to the full five minutes instead of fitting in 10 drills in that same span. Great post, Steve.

Ok now where did you find a 90274?

I wasn't able to make this one, unfortunately, any youtubes of the festivities up yet?

What if I just want a logo printed on an Under Armour shirt I already have? Is that possible anywhere?