MattYvip

Remeber what I'm about to tell you is only my humble opinion... I've been shooting USPSA for about 15 years (minus a couple year hiatus for college and being the new guy at work). I started with a Glock 17. I put almost literally a ton of ammo through it. I worked my way up from D to B with it. Once I had my B card (I know it's not a GM card or an M card but for as little as I get to shoot I'm pretty happy with it). Once I had my B card I started branching out. I picked up a 1911 for SS and a 2011 for limited and L10. I'm not saying you have to stick with just one gun, I guess what I'm saying is once you're proficient with one the skills translate with relative ease. I'm glad I had the longer trigger pull of the Glock before I started running 1911's. For one it was safer to start with and two it made me really really appreciate a good trigger a whole lot more. But thats my 2 cents, not telling you what to do just telling you what worked for me! Happy shooting

I had the good fortune to shoot with Jerry Miculek a few years ago at a junior camp (when I was a junior). He covered this in great detail. According to him, depending on target distance and separation, your split time should be about the same as your transition time. If you have .10 splits but your transition is .25 slow your splits and really snap the gun. With slightly slower splits but faster transitions, you're not losing time and you're moving through targets faster than you would if you were just "double tapping". Hope this helps.

Think of it like this... 1) you can't miss fast enough to win; however, you can't get 100% of the stage points and expect to win if it took you half an hour to shoot the stage. the 90% rule is a good rule to follow. Think of it in terms of points lost and what kind of time you'd have to have to make up for it. If you have a Mike thats 3-5 seconds you have to be faster in order to break even. So why not take that extra tenth of a second to follow through? If you shoot a C you need to be about .5-1.5 seconds faster to make up for it... Make sense? If you're flying through stages and you're still about half the pack, try taking that extra tenth of a second (I know it'll seem longer while you're shooting but it's really not) to make a good hit and follow through. You should see you climbing up the ladder pretty quick by shooting a few extra points per stage as long as it's not taking you all day to do it.