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MONDAY 6/15/15
Dry fire
- Dry fired for about 90 minutes.
- Started off with the basic trigger control drill (delayed random start, on the beep, press the trigger as fast as possible without disturbing sights). FS, SHO, WHO.
- Burkett reloads, while quick stepping L/R/F/B. Practiced reloading from front three mag pouches.
- Practiced transitions on partials at10 yards. 2-2-2-2, L/R and R/L. Freestyle. Hardcover pattern similar to the one on Stage 1 of the 2015 AZ State IDPA Match that gave me some trouble (
). Started at 109bpm/.55s splits, worked down to 300bpm/.20s splits. - I'm playing around with running my mental program pretty frequently during dry fire practice. It seems to help a lot. It certainly helps get my focus back on track whenever my mind starts to wander off during practice.
Observations
- On reloads, the magazine goes straight in if I don't cant my weapon hand wrist at all. Any downward wrist cant will cause the mag to bind in the well.
- I need to grip the gun harder in dry fire. I've been dry firing so much and live firing so little that I think it's harming my recoil control.
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DRY FIRE PLAN, WEEK OF 6/14
Maintenance
- Trigger control at speed, FS, SHO, WHO
- Burkett reloads while moving
Priorities
- A Running mental program
- A Accuracy, far (20 yards)
- A Transitions, medium (10 yards), partials
- A Sight tracking on the move, close (6 yards)
- B Position entry / exit
- B Transitions, far (20 yards), using cover
- C Transitions, SHO / WHO, medium (10 yards)
- C Draws
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STRENGTHS
- TBD
WEAKNESSES
- 6/15/15: Shooting on the move
- 6/15/15: Accuracy at speed at 20+ yards
- 6/15/15: Speed when moving between positions
- 6/15/15: Inconsistent stage visualization and mental program usage
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DRY FIRE BENCHMARKS
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Draw to 1st shot, 20 yds
- 6/16/15: 1.60s w/concealment, 1.30s w/o concealment
LIVE FIRE BENCHMARKS
- TBD
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Draw to 1st shot, 20 yds
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This will be where I document all my practice sessions, match AARs and videos, etc.
A little background about myself: I've been shooting practical pistol for about four years. I started shooting IDPA in 2011, and started off shooting around 6 matches a year for the next three years. I started to get much more serious about shooting in late 2014, which is when I started shooting at least 2 IDPA matches a month and dry firing on a regular basis. I recently started shooting USPSA Production as well.
I'm fortunate enough to live with 45 minutes of four different ranges that hold IDPA or USPSA matches, and I'm able to shoot a match pretty much every day of every weekend.
I'm currently classified IDPA SSP Expert and USPSA Production B. Before the end of the year, I'd like to get match bumped to IDPA SSP MA and shoot a MA classifier score, and I'd like to make USPSA Production A.
Feedback is always welcome and appreciated!
GOALS FOR 2015
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Classifications
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IPDA SSP MA
- As of 6/15/15: SSP EX, 97.83s
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USPSA Prod A
- As of 6/15/15: Prod B, ~68.5%
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IPDA SSP MA
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Match Performance
- 75% of matches shot "cleanly": >85% -0's/A's. No -3's/D's, misses, non-threats. No blown stage plans. No standing reloads. Minimal make up shots.
- Use of mental program on 100% of stages
- Use of detailed visualization on 100% of stages
PRACTICE SCHEDULE
- Dry fire: 5 days/week, 1 hour/day
- Live fire: 2 days/mo (2nd Sun, 4th Sat)
MATCH SCHEDULE
- (4) IDPA matches per month (1st Sat, 2nd Sun, 3rd Sat, 4th Sat)
- (3) USPSA matches per month (1st Sun, 2nd Sat, 4th Sun)
TO DO
- 6/15/15: Join live fire range
- 6/15/15: Put together live fire practice kit
- 6/15/15: Make dry fire targets (USPSA metric, USPSA standard, poppers)
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Classifications
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Can I get in on this? A79153.
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I shot my fourth classifier this weekend. I tagged a no-shoot. If I hadn't hit it, I would have gotten 88% on the classifier, putting me at around 76-77% in Production. Alas.
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The 20 million dollar question now is.....Where did you find the newer version in stock and for sale at? Because I've been looking for one.
I found a place that had a set of three for sale. The set did cost $700, but it also included M&P CORE
I'll only use the CORE medium, so I'm trying to trade one of the sizes I won't use for another CORE medium that I can put on my old Pro.
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I have an older M&P Pro that came with the original, smoother backstrap texture.
Is it SSP-legal to replace the backstrap with the newer version of the backstrap that has the more aggressive stippling pattern?
I'm guessing it's legal per this rule:
8.2.1.3.2. Grips may be changed to another style or material that is similar to factory configuration and do not weigh more than 2.00 oz/56.7 grams more than the factory standard weight for that model.Thoughts?
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I use these for IDPA ESP http://www.speedshooterspecialties.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_278_292&products_id=1101
Can't remember if the TTI's are legal (don't shoot IDPA anymore but I'm thinking they weren't legal)
I was thinking about getting some of those, but from the pictures, they look like they fit so closely to the SSS magwell that they'd be hard to grab onto if you had to strip the mag to clear a double feed or someother malfunction. Is this correct, or is there room to get some fingers around the pad?
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Do you happen to have access to a 3D printer?
For my Lee Auto Disk, I designed a bushing that could be lightly press fit into the largest cavity of the 4 disk set. I can adjust the inner diameter of the bushing in steps of .0006" to basically drop any charge I want.
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At our club, if shooters aren't taping, they're given friendly reminders by the SOs. If they don't start helping, then in theory, the MD will send them home, although I haven't seen anyone refuse to help tape and reset after being reminded.
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My absolute personal best is 2.00 clean, on an IDPA target. Not very repeatable at this point.
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I'm 100% confident I could run a sub-1 second Bill Drill. It just takes a little bit of practice, and a Glock 18.
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I'm a IDPA SSP Expert / USPSA Production B class shooter, probably on the cusp of SSP Master / Production A.
I dry fire 4-5 times a week, usually for an hour, sometimes two one-hour sessions in a day. I live fire maybe once a week. Right now, I don't have access to a live fire range where I can draw, move, set up stages, etc., so all my live fire practice is at a square indoor range. I shoot at least a match every Saturday, with the occasional Sunday match as well.
I've only been practicing this much for about 6 months, and I think it has really helped. My goal is to become SSP Master / Production A by the end of the calendar year.
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ok, I guess I don't get the whole 'open squadding' thing no matter how it's defined .... at every local match I've been to here in Florida when you show up to register there is a paper squad list, which, after paying your fees you simply sign up on a squad that has spaces open and that's your squad for the day ... simple. not sure I see what open squadding buys you ....
It has its advantages. You don't have to show up at a fixed time, which is good for some people's schedules. At one match I shoot with open squadding, if I show up late enough in the day, I can sail through a 5-stage match in less than an hour.
With fixed squadding, if one squad is really slow, due to shooters not resetting or SOs not keeping things moving along, it causes every other squad to get backed up as well.
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Russell92 - what you are describing IS open squadding.
Thanks, yeah I figured it meant the same thing as what we do at Rio. And I wouldn't consider going up to a stage and sticking my scorecard in the middle of the stack ahead of other shooters just so I can shoot along with my friends. That's why you only get 1 scorecard, you can only be on one stage at a time...
That's not exactly what happened in my situation. All of squad was already in line. There were a ton of shooters ahead of our squad, so those guys in our squad left to pick up a stage that was empty. When they got back, there were still a ton of shooters ahead of us.
I agree though, it probably would have been more clear if they had asked the squad behind us first if they'd be okay with it. I think there was just a misunderstanding, and people thought these guys just showed up and tried to cut in. No big deal.
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At all the local clubs here, save one, use open squadding. I like to call it pseudo-open squadding where groups of folks drift from stage to stage. What you describe is just fine. But, one thing to consider, is let the folks waiting behind you know what you are doing. One of the most uncool things to do is add people to your squad when there are people behind you. Make sure it does not look like you are adding new shooters to your group. If a new group of shooters show up, be sure to explain what is going on. That way they can decide if they still want to wait there or go somewhere else. The only other thing I can think of is make sure the folks are back when you get on the stage. If they are not there for the start, they should forfeit their "slot" and move to the bottom of the pile. Causing extra waiting while your guys are "saving time" is a sure way to cause ill feelings...
What happened is that someone in Squad B looked a little irked that I was adding scoresheets into the middle of the pile. I don't think they knew the backstory, and they probably thought I was just adding my own scoresheets to the pile and cutting in line. So those three guys ended up having to go to the back.
Funny thing is, a few minutes after those three guys got put in the back of the pile, a member of Squad B who had left to pick up a stage came back and went ahead and put his scoresheet back with his squad (and ahead of A's three guys and maybe even another squad that had also gotten in line). So I guess doing that is kosher after all.
I probably should have explained what the situation was with the three shooters a little better and they might not have had to go to the back of the line after all.
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I know this isn't really a rules question, but I'm not sure where else to put this.
Say you're at a match with open squadding, and there are four of you in a squad. After you have shot one stage, you run into three guys who ask to join your squad because they don't have a timer, and you join up. Let's call your squad Squad A.
Later on in the day, your squad puts your score sheets in line to shoot a stage. There are about 15 shooters ahead of your squad for that stage. Another squad, Squad B, then gets in line behind your squad.
Since there's a huge wait for this stage, the three guys who later joined Squad A decide to pick up the stage they missed before they joined the squad, since there's no line at that stage. So they grab their sheets, borrow a timer, and run through the stage in like 10 minutes.
My question is this: once those three guys finish picking up that stage, can they get back in line along with the rest of Squad A, or do they have to go in the back of the line after Squad B? How does your club handle this? Should those three guys ask Squad B first before leaving to pick up that stage?
Apologies if this is a stupid question. Most of the matches I shoot have fixed squads, so open squadding is a little new to me.
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Does anyone else here do transition drills with a metronome? It seems to be helping my transitions a lot.
Interesting. What beats per minute do you use?
I have a piece of paper taped to the back of my metronome that shows the bpm equivalents for splits between 1.00 and .05 seconds, in .05 second increments.
My metronome is capped at 240 bpm, so once I get below .25 splits, I have to start pulling the trigger in double- or triple-time. In theory, at least. I haven't gotten that fast in dry fire (although for some reason I can get down to .20-.15 in live fire).
I'll usually start at .75 splits (80 bpm). Slow enough so that there's plenty of time to very deliberately call my last shot on a target, snap my eyes to the next target, align the sights on the next target, and call my first shot on the next target, all within one beat.
After I've warmed up on that for a while, I'll start decreasing the splits by .05 or .10 every ten reps or so. As the splits get faster and faster, all those above steps get smeared together, sort of like how a draw stroke will eventually turn from 4 (or whatever) distinct steps into one single action. I'll keep decreasing the splits until I can no longer make the transition within one beat.
Some people will say metronome drills are bad because it forces you to shoot in a cadence, but at least for me, it's less about making my transitions match my splits, and more about forcing myself to make the transition in a set amount of time. The metronome is basically just acting as a par timer with a really short beep duration.
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Yeah, like most have said--if you were shooting at the brown side of the target, it's legal to take it before activating it, in the absence of any directive requiring activation before shooting.
If the guy who designed the stage (and/or the RO) didn't want it done that way, they should have designed it differently. I have a bud who shot a stage at a L1 match and went around the end of the shooting area into another section without following the "path" the designer intended by the layout. The designer saw video of it and blew a gasket, saying he'd have called a forbidden action if he'd seen it. I objected, saying there was no direction saying competitors could not leave the bounded area, there was no safety issue that would deserve the forbidden action, and ended by telling him he should have designed it differently if he didn't want people to do that. He was unthrilled and still disagrees to this day, but also can't produce a rule saying what the guy did was illegal.
This is why I'm really liking USPSA. If I did anything remotely like that in IDPA, I'd probably be PNGed from the club.
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If you permanently block them while you're out of state then you can import them since they aren't "high capacity" anymore.
Hey! That's a good idea. You know something, JonSnow!
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I think I need to clarify. The squad watching yelled stop and explained to the RO what happened. The RO on the shooter's squad ultimately called the DQ.
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Local match, L1, with self-squadding, with a guy in each squad acting as RO.
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