munchie

All of my pistol shooting experience has just been shooting groups at the range and recently 3 gun. I was content being a mediocre shot while shooting groups (poorly) at the range up until this year. Once I participated in my first 3 gun in February I realized that my pistol shooting was in need of some attention. I had never shot a pistol match so this past weekend I decided to go out and shoot a uspsa match that would allow me to really focus on pistol. I only had a handful of scores other than a zones which tells me that I must be doing something right when it comes to accuracy but my time placed me in the middle of the pack. While paying attention to trigger squeeze to shoot accurately it seems to take me longer than most to break the shot. I don't have a shot timer so I have no idea how long it takes me but is there any specific drill that could help improve the speed of a controlled trigger pull? Thanks

I started shooting matches this year and immediately found out that I am not as good of a shot with a pistol as I once thought. I was battling with your typical low and left trigger control issues initially. After brushing up on some fundamentals and working on some drills I have vastly improved my accuracy with a good trigger squeeze. My shooting has vastly improved on static targets however I have found that moving targets cause some old habits to resurface. At a local 3 gun match 2 stages that included pistol both started out with pistol on a moving target, one spinner, one texas star with 2 swinging no shoots obstructing it. On a moving target such as these (especially the star with no shoots) it required that the shot be broken at a specific time to be successful. Under these circumstances the trigger squeeze went out the window and I was back to slapping the trigger and pulling shots low and left which amounted to an excessive amount of ammo to be expended and on both occasions led to a shortage and an inability to complete the stage. There were large penalties for failing to complete the moving targets so I could not bring myself to give up on them considering the amount of time I had already spent plus the 60 second penalty. How can I improve my ability to break the shot at a specific time without slapping the trigger. It is a bone stock xd 40 so I considered upgrading the trigger which may help but I think that is just a crutch to get me through and I hope I am able to fix this issue with some drills and perhaps with some good advice. How can I improve my trigger control under these circumstances? Thanks for reading and I look forward to any and all suggestions.

I am in California, south of fresno. I installed the carrier latch last night and this thing loads like butter now and i banged the stock around a little bit to see if it would spit shells out and it seems to be fine. I could probably relieve a little more on it but right now I don't think it is slowing me down. If anyone knows where I may be able to get a carrier welded in my area or purchase one I would appreciate it.

I did some searching and found a few threads about this issue and did all of the above, I straightened out the bend in the latch a little bit, deepened the relief cuts in the sides, and radiused/polished all contact surfaces so hopefully that does it. I still need to get my hands on a welded carrier but I can at least run the gun as long as I can load it without too much effort

I emailed him as well as called a couple of times and left a message, I am sure he is busy or perhaps on vacation but I am kind of in a rush to get the parts because there is a match on the 20th and I would like to run this shotgun. I thought if you spent over $1000 on a shotgun it would at least be as good as my $350 nova, I thought wrong. I did some polishing on the carrier latch as well as radiused the contact surface a little bit to hopefully lessen the amount of deflection necessary but we will see. I tried to post a picture but I do not have enough posts yet so that is apparently out of the question. I will try and put this thing back together tomorrow and see if the adjustments make a difference.

I just picked up an M2 and like many others, this thing is difficult to load. I have removed the latch (and ordered a replacement just in case) and am getting ready to do some tweaks. Is the latch just some spring steel that is suposed to flex at the u notches to allow a shell past? If that is the case then I could understand how lengthening the notches reduced the cross sectional area and should reduce the amount of force neccessary but that seems kind of primative and impossible to have any consistency. Also, I am trying to track down a welded lifter but I have had no luck getting a hold of anyone at c-rums, does anyone know of vendors that carry his lifters for retail or perhaps someone else that is offering this service? Thanks