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  1. Well, it was a weekend of hard lessons for me. More experimentation with the old thumb rest has led me to believe that I may be barking up the wrong tree. I went to a match at Aurora Gun Club on Saturday. It turned out to be a great day and my jacket was ditched by the time the shooting started. I found that I was very conscious of differing levels of pressure on the thumb rest. When I was shooting fast, the pressure would increase considerably on the rest and cause the dot to get really crazy. At one point, I was pretty sure that the dot was moving side to side and not up and down. This made for some pretty crappy shooting on steel. After a dismal day of shooting I went home and decided I better get this thumb rest thing figured out. The following day I headed out to the range with Cha-Lee. I experimented with both guns. One of them I had the rest on, and the other one had nothing. Basically, after trying several configuration of the rest, I figured out that any forward pressure was very inconsistent and didn't appear to help the dot track up and down. I found the best configuration to be upside down. The upside down mounted rest only extended the screw portion of the rest and this closely matches the thickness and location of the old C-More mount. I'll give it another go after severely modifying the thumb rest as pictured below. This is really now, an index point for almost all sideways pressure. After reviewing pics of myself shooting with the old C-More this way more closely matches how that mount affected my thumb pressure. However, after a bit if discussion with Cha-Lee, he showed me that I can make a better improvement through spring/FP stop tuning than with a thumb rest. With this in mind and considerable help from Cha-Lee we landed on a combo that I'll use as a baseline to do some additional testing. I can throw the thumb rest situation back in once I have the gun tuned exactly the way I want without it. I took the gun with the new springs. (small radius FP Stop, 20# hammer spring, 8lb recoil spring) to Centennial Gun Club on Sunday night. While it was a total disaster from a shooting perspective I got some good dot watching time in and feel that it was at least as consistent as I had seen at the range earlier that day. The dot, while still not tracking up and down was at least remaining in the glass and I don't feel like my grip was pushing it all over. This is another case of old "slow eyes" needing to put more rounds downrange to decide what I'm seeing so I can make a decision on what to do next. Meantime, I've ordered a bunch of different springs and will continue my experimentation to see if I can tune the gun for a dot track that I can be happy with. Thanks for the help Cha-Lee!
  2. Back in the day, when I ran C-mores (haha. Just got new DPP sight two weeks ago) I used 357 Batteries. 2 stacked was 3.1-3.2v (about 2.8v with the sight ON full) I checked voltage after every match. With the sight ON, I would change them when they hit 1.5v. I believe they'll last all the way down to 1v, but you never know for sure. I purchased them from cheapbatteries.com,
  3. Grip what seems like harder with your weak hand than your strong. That's about even which is what you are after. Also, I noticed in the video that you are allowing the recoil to set you back slightly and not returning to your starting stance after each shot. So basically at the end you are more upright than at the beginning. In order to say on target you are slightly changing the angle of your grip and therefor, it's not exactly the same. Lean in a tad more aggressively and don't allow the recoil to change your position no matter how fast you are shooting. And NO, don't bend your elbows more. You appear to be fully extended, but not hard locked. That's what you want.
  4. Maybe 2 years ago at Area 3. There was a stage that you started with a ball in your hand. You could use the ball to hit a stomp pad that would unlock a door. Or, you could skip the door altogether and run around. Then, at the end was another stomp pad that enlarged some ports from roughly 3" to 6". There may be something I'm forgetting but it was a lot of discussion and seemed like no two people shot it the same way. It was a lot of fun.
  5. The Colorado weather gave us a taste of summer and a full weekend of shooting... plus lots of learning. On Saturday I made it out to the Ben Lomond Gun Club for Cha-Lee's match. I made some colossal mistakes that led to some additional changes to my gun. I'm finally able to really see this dot and keep track of it's path. Maybe I just have like "slow eyes" or something but seems that many times the finer dot tracking it hard for me grasp. It has taken me 3 matches to be able to really see what's going on with this sight. I have no idea if other people have this issue or not, but I seem to take quite a while to notice any changes really, but especially things that affect my dot track. At any rate, this weekend was the clearest I've had to date figuring out the dot track and I now realize that this sight has affected the gun in all aspects. This reminds me of the time I was comparing the two different comps I had for a while. One of them I could easily see that the dot track was up and down, and the other one was giving it quite a bit of wobble. On the classifier, I was just flat unable to keep the dot tracking up and down and it was "down the middle." Wobbly side to side tracking and my attempt at hauling ass made for a 4 mike run. I ran it again for no score and still wound up with 3 mikes. But I did confirm that I was fighting to correct this side action. The next stage I dropped my magazine. This was the third inadvertent mag drop since getting the new sight setup. Clearly, I've also lost consistency in my grip with the change of structure on the left side of the gun. I realized that I had been using the C-More mount as a thumb rest. I knew I had been doing that but didn't think it was a anchor that I would miss. I was wrong. I went home and forgot all about it and started clearing off some shelves above my reloading bench for a home improvement project. (patching some sheetrock on the wall that my bench sits against.) As I pulled down a little bin with misc "match winnings" in it I found... a GoGun *thumb rest [generic]*! Engraved with "Area 1 2015" it was just what I needed. YAY! After a quick coat of mud on the wall, I installed the *thumb rest [generic]* and removed the magazine release extension. I basically don't use it, but for some reason have been leaving it on. So, Sunday I went to the Weld County Fish and Wildlife range for another match and to try out my new setup. It seems that my thumb does naturally fall onto the *thumb rest [generic]* and with a bit more consistency on the grip I didn't notice any difficulty keeping the dot on target. Again, old slow eyes here can't really say if the dot was tracking exactly up and down but it seemed to be much easier to control and with some practice I think the *thumb rest [generic]* is exactly what I need. I have it forward enough that I just touch it and don't put a lot of pressure on it but it also helps to guide my support hand pretty far forward on the gun. This creates a little "Bob Vogel" space between my palms that I like. I've tried to adopt in the past and have not been successful. Maybe this will be the ticket. Reviewing the video the two POV stages show that I still lack a bit of consistency but I am using the *thumb rest [generic]*. On the field course I can see that my support hand is farther back and the steel was missed several times along with some hesitation on a few paper targets while waiting for the dot. On the classifier I had some holster issues, but when the shooting is happening I can see that my support hand is quite a bit farther forward and I'm landing 100% on the *thumb rest [generic]*. This dot was much more controllable and I actually wound up with some very good hits on it. Three charlies and one delta during one handed shooting but believe I had all alphas during the freestyle portions. This reinforces my initial thoughts about the *thumb rest [generic]* having potential to add consistency and get my Bob Vogel grip working. While I had other things that were not tip-top performance I can say that the shooting seemed much better, and the reloads without the mag button were smooth and I didn't notice a thing from that perspective. I definitely need to get to the practice range and start to really work this in. Testing, tuning and adjustments like I've done the last 2 weeks are not supposed to be done at matches and I'm certainly paying the price by slow progress and a lack of understanding of exactly how each thing affects the shooting. Goals moving forward: Get some more practice time. (need to work the new grip and learn how it affects the dot) Drive yourself away and into the next transition. Be confident on the aggressive and wide transitions.
  6. Nice work. You are spot on with your rehearsal and live movements. This will certainly help your execution and therefor help your performance. I would agree with the others here, and say that walkthroughs should almost always be slower. Unless you are timing a specific set of segments to try to decide which is faster. A walkthrough is about proper rehearsal/movement and not timing. If you are doing it faster than you shoot it, either people like Nick Blasta are dodging out or way like crazy (haha!) or you're not concentrating on the correct aspects. Chic, make a very good point as well. Training is way less effective if you are messing up your intended drill because you failed to rehearse it. Saves ammo and it's still valid practice.
  7. Well, I was only able to get one match in this weekend. The weather crapped out on Saturday, but Sunday held out nicely for a match at Pueblo West Sportsman's club. During the week I had purchased a pair of Under Armor baseball cleats. I decided on baseball cleats because the "cleaty" parts look to me like they are designed for sideways stability rather than forward stability like the football ones. Soccer cleats were a no-go. The soccer cleats were super stiff on the sole and even the most rubbery "cleaty parts" were way harder than the baseball cleat causing them to get zero traction on the stores flooring. These baseball cleats appear to have decent traction on concrete/wood/flooring. They are also a high-top design which I like because low shoes wind up with a lot of sand and rocks in them by the end of the day. Not to mention the ankle support. So, I wore them all day Sunday and really liked the traction and comfort. With Solomon shoes me feet are sore by the end of the day, but these were comfortable all day without issue. I'm very happy with them so far. With respect to the shooting... well not so much. I pulled some serious stupid shit out of my hat for the match and I'm actually not going to analyze it too much and pretty much just take is as a bad day. I never really felt it, from the get-go. Evidence of this was on the classifier. I was like "since I'm not feeling too ballsy I'm going to take the conservative head shots and not risk shooting the stage like it's supposed be shot." I paid the price with 3, yes 3 mikes. I think the real issue is that the honeymoon is over with that new DPP sight and I reverted back to shooting it just like the C-More. It's not the same and although it can be better it requires a few changes and considerable more dot-time before I can really get a good handle on it. I can't quite call it for sure, but likely my grip loosened up and took that new track to mean I can just put the shaky dot somewhere on brown and pull the trigger. I need to get out to the practice range and really work on learning/watching the tracking. If I can't get to the point where I can easily stay on it, then maybe experiment with some new springs or a different mount. I need to re-gain confidence and understanding what I'm seeing in the sight so I can get back to work on my chief goal of getting the hell off the target once that last shot is called. Goals moving forward: Get some more practice time looking through that sight. Wait for the shot you want. Call it, and be done. (this is going to take MORE rework) Drive yourself away and into the next transition. Be confident on the aggressive and wide transitions. Optimize each position and movement in your stage plan.
  8. So, I personally feel it's imperative to shoot with both eyes open. Not everyone agrees, but I think any movements or unnatural facial expressions are to be avoided just like in all the other aspects of what we do. Like Hi-Power Jack said "I can't imagine running around with one eye closed." I hope that some people help you out by posting how long it took them and maybe some pointers. I don't really have any except to just, stick it on your goal list (at the very top) and work on it above any other goal. Keep those eyes open. If you are into some serious aiming don't worry if an eye closes, or partially closes. Just keep keeping both eyes open whenever you can. With respect to the M Class plateau you spoke about. Keep in mind that you are entering into a class where the separation between classes is smaller than any others. What I mean is, that to get where you want to go you only need to improve your game by a few seconds and a few points. Nothing you do from here on will be a major change. It's all little stuff.
  9. Your are doing great. Keep it up. When I don't feel like entering a journal entry... I do it anyways. Since starting my journal I really feel like it has made the progression more fun. I even did one for my professional life for a while. There were some things that weren't going to so well and I considered quitting. Instead I started a journal and worked on improving the things at work that I didn't like. Now I like my job, my coworkers and will be there for a while. Good luck. See you around.
  10. To expand a tad more... try leaving the video camera on during your final walk through, and then comparing that to your run. See how close they are. They should be the same if you are really doing a walk through.
  11. You are going good identifying areas for improvement and working on them. Don't forget to point out areas you did well in. Along those same lines I would advise that NOT is not a word that should be in a goal. Below is your list with a few comments from "glass half full" guy. Skills to work on: 1. Flip & catch in the sun - hopefully this is tongue in cheek as it's not point related, but brings up the point of practicing repeatable movements. 2. Swingers - what about them? You look like you are tracking them great. Continue practicing swingers and refine your point of aim. 3. Not panicking - ah, the NOT. Where are you "panicking?" Swingers, other instances. This should be some sort of focus or confidence related goal for a particular situation. 4. Not looking at foot or fault line after stepping over it - another NOT. How about we concentrate on "pick your spot" or "identify anchors" as I call it. 5. TRIGGER CONTROL.... I've backslid - You know what has to happen here. More practice, more shooting. To expand on the anchor thing. This is greatly improved by taking your walk through very seriously and obtaining your exact shooting positions during it. This will help cement in both the intended items and general view. That way, the position becomes more familiar when shooting and you subconsciously get into it during the run. This is expanded by looking around a bit while in that final position. You may identify something that tells you are there that you don't see if you are just standing near or otherwise not in your final position. This can happen subconsciously as well, but the only way that can happen is if you are in your exact position. As an example on a run I recently did, I decided I needed to enter a shooting position between a shotgun wad, and a stick on the ground. There was nothing on the fault line that I noticed so those items are what I picked for my "anchors." I made sure they were still there when it was my turn to shoot. When I was actually shooting it I have no recollection of looking for, or seeing the anchor items. I either used them subconsciously, or just did it based on general view. But either way, I entered in the exact spot I needed and executed the run exactly as rehearsed. The point is, I don't know if I used the conscious anchors or other subconscious anchors. What I do know is that I allowed that to happen from the exact position during walk through and spending the time to find a conscious anchor for it.
  12. Dude, welcome. Keep the journal, keep a list of goals and always find a positive (something that you did well) for everything you find that needs improvement. You'll have a ton of fun. My advice for now is, straighten out those arms to almost locked so you can control that muzzle flip better. Also, stand like you are expecting someone to try to knock you over and you don't want to get knocked over. Lower, aggressive, stable platform. From the feet, all the way to the gun. You'll find that you can watch your sights better, and move better. Have fun!
  13. Yeah, you are rockin' it. Keep up the good work. My only advice would be, pick up the pace, and get a touch more accurate. HAHAHA!
  14. That was sweet shooting buddy! Congrats on the placement.
  15. I shot my first outdoor match with the new DPP setup this Sunday at Aurora Gun Club. It was a pretty sweet day for the most part, but the wind picked up toward the end and that sucked. I started off pretty strong with a nice speed shoot that went very well. I "easily" held the dot in the alpha zone and went 1 for 1 on some mini poppers so my confidence was boosted in the new sight setup from the start. The next stage was the classifier. It was Front Sight, so wide transitions on open targets seemed very fitting since that's what I did the day before. I had to dot hunt for the first time with this sight setup to start with. Then, I was transitioning very aggressively on string 2 and let one fly just as brown target entered the glass. Clearly, the dot had been off the target and I fired a makeup shot. That's a Virginia count stage so although I made up the mike with an alpha, the damage was still significant. From an execution standpoint the day didn't get any better. I had some significant problems while moving. I slipped 3 times and one of the times when I recovered my grip was so poor on the gun that I dropped my magazine. Then, the gun malfunctioned with the makeup mag. This was a total hoser stage so I dropped 18 places on that screw up alone. The main concern I have with that train wreck is that the gun malfunctioned. This was the first match with a new slide as well as the new sight. I'll make sure this gun get's a lot of action in the next few weeks to see if that was a fluke or not. From the new sight perspective the match was a total success. I'm completely in love with the new setup and dropped a single delta all day. I also shot a total of maybe 3 makeup shots. These sights are tracking like a boss, and I really think there is something to my "smaller glass = more accurate" comment I made on my last post. Even if that's a bunch of horse shit it's making a difference to me. If I can continue to increase accuracy, and stop sliding all over hell I think I can increase my overall performance. Speaking of sliding all over hell, I'm thinking about trying a set of football cleats or other type of cleat with a much more aggressive tread. The current trail running shoe wears too quickly and just isn't that great when the dirt gets about 3-4" of soft depth.
  16. I picked up my other gun from the gunsmith, and he mounted my 2nd Deltapoint Pro sight on it. There was an issue, on both guns with the racker not clearing the Everglades mount so he machined off the side of the mount so it was flush with the side of the DPP rather than sticking out a bit. That, coupled with sliding the racker over just touch, makes the clearance enough that if I leave my pinky in there when manipulating the racker it won't get pinched. However, after one indoor match and today's practice, I'm pretty confident that the racker is reduced to just jewelry. After getting both guns really dialed in using a benchrest, I spent some time doing wide transition drills to see how the dot compared to the old C-More. First off, I was relieved to find that at outdoor intensity the dot was nice and clear. As clear as these eyes can make it anyways. I found that the dot track is very fast, but consistent. I can't quite tell if it's the same shape every time because it seemed to move too fast to really watch. Also, it's not just straight up and down, but it's clearly within the A-C zone. I also seem to benefit more dramatically from a stronger grip with this sight than with the C-More. What I mean is... the effect on grip intensity seems to have less of an affect on the C-More than with the DPP. As long as I was gripping it firmly it seems that I could get into the .18 split zone and maintain the dot track much better. If I loosened up too much it seemed that it started getting quite large and less consistent in the glass. I suppose that's just a general rule, but the C-More seemed to remain more "watchable" throughout the spectrum. The thing about that is, the dot track always stayed within the glass. So even though it's a smaller glass, if the dot stays within it throughout the shooting... well, that's got to be more accurate right? So, I'm not sure if it's the weight, mounting point, dot sharpness, or what but all I know is that this gun is quite different than it was before. Now that I said all that, it's really all of it together. This setup has been thrown for a loop and I'm confident, given my current ability that's it's just what I needed to really buckle down on my accuracy.
  17. I had terrible luck with the Vibraprime. The most frustrating money I've ever spent by FAR. You could probably get someone to kick you in the balls for twice the money and it would still feel better.
  18. This weekend I received my new Deltapoint Pro sight. Only one, since Everglades Ammo was out of stock like the rest of the world. I put the one that did come in on the green gun and used the Everglades mount. After dealing with the racker being in the way by sliding it slightly to the right I was ready to rumble. I headed out to the range to sight it in. With very little handling it was easy to see that the racker is likely going to get removed entirely from this setup and I'll just rack the slide like a normal person now. With the Everglades mount the current position of the racker is a pinch point. I pinched myself in dryfire so I imagine in ramped up Hulk rage mode I'm likely to lop off a pinky. So then I did something stupid. I'm like, how far off can this be? I'll chrono (unrelated to the sight... I just needed to chrono since switching primers.) and get the old 10 yard sight in done in one shot. Moments later, all I could do was hang my head like a freaking moron as shattered chrono parts hung from the tripod in front of me. Well, after a short review the damage wasn't that bad and with some packing tape I was able to get the chrono back in business. So, yeah, they can start off about 12" low/right at 10 yards, or exactly at the connecting point of your chrono rod at 10'. However you want to look at it, the sight required quite a bit of adjustment. It was very finicky and took about 75 rounds before it was zeroed exactly like I wanted. I'm shooting the bottom of a 1" square at 10 yards. The top portion at 15, and about 2.5" high at 25 yards. Hopefully this thing stays put. With all that sighting in, and about an hour of time on Saturday to do it, I hadn't had much time to really think about the tracking. That would have to wait for Sunday night. Sunday night was a match at Centennial Gun Club. It was a particularly good one with some nice aiming coupled with a good old fashioned hoser stage. The only vid I got was this one. The first run with my DPP setup. I was disappointed at how crappy the dot looked to me at low intensities. I actually believe this is my eyesight and not the dot. I just can't clearly see something that small and bright. With the giant C-More dot it was fuzzy too but had decided center point to it. The DPP was like that outdoors, but indoors it lost that hard center definition and is just a tightly packed asterisk. Once I started shooting I found it easy to put the asterisk on the alpha zone and watch it track in a consistent up and down path without leaving the glass. The gun just seems more sleek and centered as it's running. I really like this so far. I can't wait to get it outside in match conditions. From a shooting perspective it was definitely the usual 80% match. My transitions were decent but I felt like I lingered a bit while analyzing the new sight experience, and on some it was obvious, even to spectators. The movement was also hesitant from the crappy footing. I still had a couple of decent runs and only netted 3 deltas. 2 on some swingers that were running at Mach 2, and another one on that stage somewhere but can't remember where. I shot clean otherwise so not a bad showing for the first match with a new sight platform. Wait for the shot you want. Call it, and be done. (this is going to take some rework) Drive yourself away and into the next transition. Be confident on the aggressive and wide transitions. Optimize each position and movement in your stage plan.
  19. I've cracked many slides and broken just about every part of my guns over the years. It is just part of the game and why we need at least two. I hate figuring out that a slide lasted x amount of rounds... so I don't keep track very well. I use a gunsmith that's top notch, local, and doesn't charge me too much (sponsorship!) so I just keep breaking them, and he keeps fixing them. We get along great. I do believe, based on my very loose records and what the gunsmith says that CK Arms' slides last longer.
  20. Another suggestion might be Vibra tite VC-3. It's like Shoe-goo but I've never used Shoe-goo. I use Vibra Tite on all my mag pouch screws and any screw you don't want super tight... but don't want to move either.
  21. Another lucky weekend of nice weather resulted in me shooting two matches this weekend. The first was at Ben Lomond gun club with some wide spread stages with symmetry being the word of the day. While not exactly symmetrical all the stages had a personality of making left-right-left type of decisions with very close to the same number of shots each way. It was an awesome challenge for stage planning and caused many discussions throughout our squad on whether to go left or right. I didn't get any video because I've been lazy about it lately. I did, however feel very good about my goal progress. While I obviously made some mistakes they were small in nature. Previously they have felt more like relapses and now they are feeling more like mistakes. Most of them are accuracy related. Still too many deltas and I'm getting way better at being confident in my shot calling. However in several instances I called the shot "slowly." Meaning that I know darn well I saw that dot way off to the edge and went ahead and broke, then instantly transitioned away. While this is a successful "shot call" it's definitely NOT successful from a quality standpoint. (these are often deltas, and at best, charlies.) I'm not sure how to articulate this, but I'm trying to say... it's really not a shot call if you are already gone by the time you realize what you called. This is, I believe a by product of trying to be more confident with the call, and especially with the confidence in aggressive transitioning. Now, I just need to be confident and call the shot while the dot is in the darn A-Zone! Also, with all but one, my stage planning was solid. It was one of those things where I kept looking at a plan that was backwards from the way everyone else was doing it. But alas, in an effort to keep the squad moving I gave up and planned to run it like everyone else. Well, another shooter had figured out the backwards path and it was remarkably shorter. Once I saw it, I easily adapted to it and ran it successfully. I had the information and could see a couple of key arrays that I just knew could be optimized better. Too bad I was unable to get there and next time I need to ensure that I've really looked at those optimizations and eliminate positions when possible. The next match was at Weld County and the weather was even better than the day before. I remembered to take my camera and got vids of all the runs, only to delete them later by accident and not get to review them. I'm so pissed about it. That Gopro lost it's date setting a while back. When I went to start processing the videos there were a bunch from 1/28 and 3 videos from 2/19. Well, I was just going to clear the old ones out and then copy all from the card to my PC. After I hit OK I realized that the dates were 1/28/17 and 2/19/16. DAMN IT. Next time I'm going to set the date-time in the GoPro to avoid that shit... oh, or better yet don't delete a bunch of shit until AFTER you make the copy. *dumbass* Well, anyways, the match was a challenging one and I was very happy with slight improvement on my goals. My delta count was only 3 for this match. Unfortunately my mike count was 1... but again. A small mistake rather than a full on relapse is a net positive. The mike was on a stage where I went a tad too aggressively into a position and misjudged the fault line. I stumbled over it and had to get back in. That sent my shooting platform and concentration off enough to mike a head/shoulders array. The plan, for that stage was another point of much discussion. It was a "go forward" or "stay back" scenario. After reviewing both plans I decided that the time gained would be a wash and the risk for staying back was really high. Trading 2 awkward positions and far shots for 1 awkward position with a high probability for all alphas seemed like a logical choice for me. Of course that was providing I could haul ass and not give up extra time during the movement. It was a success from the planning perspective so despite the mike, I'm sticking this in the positive column. On another stage in the positive column was appropriately called "no rush." There was an obvious advantage to running a smooth, plan with all targets taken in exactly the way the were presented to you. This meant a 30 round run and most open shooters max out at 30. Talk about a risk vs reward decision from hell. Since I can run with 31 I had one whole spare bullet for 30 on the move shots. This was a really fun stage as I very carefully called my shots and moved as smoothly as possible knowing damn well that I really didn't have any room to spare. Without any other open GM's I can't really quantify that run, but it felt good and I feel like it was a successful run that was up to snuff against just about anyone. The remaining stages were fairly standard. Some decent shooting and moving interspersed with a healthy dose of screw-ups. Most of which are just more work needed on the same goal set I've been working on. for now, I'll leave the goal set the same. But try to emphasize shot quality. Wait for the shot you want. Call it, and be done. Drive yourself away and into the next transition. Be confident on the aggressive and wide transitions. Optimize each position and movement in your stage plan.
  22. I buy all my brass from Kenny's Brass. No more worries because he processes it so well it's just like shooting all new in whatever stamp you want. Before that, I ran some unsorted and some sorted. I saw some crimp variances as the different head stamps are of different lengths. If you are not using an undersized die and not too concerned about super crimp accuracy I don't see much benefit from sorting. If you are very concerned with consistency all the same head stamp will always give you the best consistency.
  23. One again, we had a great weekend here in Colorado and I was able to shoot a match in Boulder. Continuing work on my goals I shot a relatively clean match with only 4 deltas and felt like my transitions were aggressive. Every time I moved, I pushed hard and on most stages posted the fastest time. There was one marathon stage that I kind of got tangled up on getting into position and in 1 port felt like I got stuck. I still thought I posted a good time, but found out that some other shooters had beat my time by over 2 seconds. I'm not actually sure if that movement is responsible and I would like to know how they ran that to see if I missed something in the stage plan. I suspect I know where it was, but it would be nice to know. Well, from the standpoint of finding areas for improvement there were plenty. I zeroed the classifier with a 2-mike/no shoot routine that was downright embarrassing. While the time would have led to a GM score I was clearly not capable of maintaining shot quality at that speed. Definitely a lapse in my goal progress. I would rather have posted a much slower time with good hits given my goals are all about shooting more accurately and confidently right now. Another thing that I need to improve is my rhythm in the fast hosing. Several times recently I've been unable to get the crazy fast split times that I should be getting on some of the close point shooting. Targets in wide open ports that are a few feet away have no business getting a .19-.20 split time. I don't do it every time, but in a given stage that might have 10 opportunities for this, I may get held up on 1 or 2 of them. Albeit a small area to worry about I can't deny the fact that another shooter not experiencing this problem can take a stage win based on that. Not to mention the cascade effect. This causes a loss in rhythm and worse yet, can cause an uncalled miss or a "go back and get it" routine that can wreck the run. It's important to be able to make it through a hoser engagement without getting snagged on any of the targets. The last area for improvement? Stage planning. I missed a huge gamer opportunity on one of the stages. Luckily, someone went ahead of me that didn't. I was able to see my mistake and get it corrected before my run. This was simply a start position that I took to mean a much more restrictive body position than it did. This, along with the obvious miss for a better plan on the marathon stage makes me question my stage planning. I need to iron these out and reach a point where I'm confident that I've optimized every movement for my best run. I'm not so worried about doing the same plan as everyone else, but some things are just obvious time wasters and those are the kinds of things I'm still missing. Goals: CALL THE SHOT, and be done. Drive yourself away and into the next transition. Be confident on the aggressive and wide transitions. Optimize each position and movement in your stage plan.
  24. My advice is definitely have a cloned backup. It's not really a backup if it's any different. That said, it's almost impossible to get them the same. But that's part of the game... trying to get them the same. My two guns are as close as I can get and they still don't shoot exactly the same. One dot is slightly brighter than the other (yes I've been through all the things that may cause that) and one has a tad more rise in trajectory. At any rate, I started out with a used "similar" backup that I later sold and purchased another one from the same gunsmith. Any backup is better than none... but always be working toward cloning them. And spare parts don't cut it. When at Nationals why spend all your prep time in the safety area changing out parts and hoping you have it right? Swap - Shoot. Done.
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