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Yeah, the shooting when getting into position thing will really help me out I think. It is really evident on the activated swingers. The better shooters were shooting the swingers at their first stationary position, but I didn't have my sights yet, so I had to wait for them to swing back again. There are other examples, but that one really illustrates it I think. I will have to work on the reloads too. Some are good, some not so good. The one from the table screwed me up, I reached for my belt first, then had to grab off the table. I am glad I took all my mags off my belt, or I would have gotten a procedural from loading from my belt instead of the table. I am pretty happy with my shooting times on stages where I don't have to move. On the stages with no movement, I was in the top 3 times, and the hits weren't bad either. It is when I have to move that screws me up. On stages that require a lot of movement, I can take up to twice the time as the fast guys, but I don't feel like I am moving slow. I don't know how to explain it, but hopefully I can figure it out. Thanks for all your help!

I bought a HD808 Keychain camera from Ebay. It only cost about $45 to get all set up with the camera and SD card. Search ebay for "HD 808 #16" and look for the one with the 120* lens. That is what I am using. It records in 720P. I attached it to my glasses with a little mount I made from some hobby plywood glued and screwed together, painted black, then attached to the camera via a small binder clip, so it is removable. Then the camera just sits on the mount with some velcro. I attached a couple of pictures of my setup.

Hey everyone, I just shot my 6th match this morning and tried out a new video setup. Check it out and let me know what you think. Thanks!

My 5'4" wife drives a Ford Fusion daily with no problems. She can also drive my XLT F150, no power seats, no power pedals. She just scoots the seat forward to reach the pedals, and she is good to go. The Focus is a little short on headroom for me at 6'2", but it is her car, her choice. I can deal with my hat rubbing the roof of the car for the limited times I am in it. And there is no shortage of headroom in my truck!

That makes sense, didn't notice that. Thanks!

Out of curiosity, on those classifiers listed above where you start prone. How do you draw without breaking the 180? Wouldn't you gun be pointed to the rear in your holster, then once it clears be breaking the 180? How do they get around this?

I had an interesting experience at a star yesterday in a local match. The star is called, the Death Star. It is a set of 2 stars, with the front one covering the rear one. The front is all no-shoots, and the rear one is activated spinning with a popper. It was at the end of kind of a long stage, so I shot the 20 rounds I had left on me on the star, and only cleared 2 plates. You had to shoot through a port, and I had to akwardly crouch down a little because I am taller than most, which I think affected my shooting. I did not hit any of the no-shoots, but it was really disappointing to not clear the stage. It forced me to trap the plates, which I guess I am not very good at. I have shot regular stars before and can track them good and clear them pretty fast when doing that, but with the no-shoots in front, it was a pain to clear the rear rack.

Wow, this is just what I needed to read. I have stock 3-dot white sights on my pistol that I have been using in USPSA, and I was having trouble tracking the sights during the last competition. I have been trying to figure out what kind of a sight to move to, but I had no idea where to start. This really has me thinking about it and gives me a good knowledge base to work off of. Thank you very much for your insight Cha-Lee! I have also been looking at different shooting glasses. I just ordered a cheap set with a bunch of interchangeable lenses. My goal with it is to find out if different colors will work better for my sight picture or not. Hopefully I will learn something from all of this. Cheers Cha-Lee!

Thanks for your input, I appreciate all the pointers.

You are right, that would help a lot more. I will keep that in mind for next time, thanks. I think I am going to set up a head-cam for next time as well. I have a cheap one that I bought a couple years ago when I worked for a company that made them and I got a smoking deal. That should help as well seeing the specifics of my gun handling up close. One question, on the reload thing. Right now, I am kind of split my attention between reloading and getting to the next station. Are you suggesting to focus on the reload first, then run to the next station? The movement tip makes sense to me, as well as engaging targets low to high. I was starting to think about that as I went because when I was aiming at the top target, I could not see the bottom one. But if I aimed at the lower target, then I could see the top one in my peripheral which allowed me to pick it up much faster. Thanks for the tips Mike, I appreciate your input, and it all makes sense.

Yeah, I think you are right. I was the first shooter on the first stage of the day, and I was not really in it mentally when I got going. I was having trouble picking up the sights also because the sun was in front of me and I think it was putting a shadow on the dots of my sights. Thanks for the tip!

Hey guys, below is my 3rd match that I have competed in. Let me know how I did! Thanks in advance for all your input!

Hey everyone, I just wanted to check in here and tell my short story. I started with my first match last month, shot limited because I only had a few magazines and there were a couple of long courses. I shot last on each stage, and I ended up placing 3rd in Unclassified Limited, and 31/59 overall. I felt I did really good, but for my next match I wanted to try production to have some reload practice and stage planning, so I bought a couple more magazines for my next match. My second match was just last weekend, and I shot production with 5 magazines. I did really well. I won Unclassified Production class, was 27/62 overall, and was 5th on the classifier shooting a HF that would put me into B class according to the classification calculator. I felt really good about this performance. There was a stage there called "Evil Star Returns." It had a texas star that was activated spinning by a popper, and behind it has counter rotating paper targets on it, 2 standard targets and 2 no-shoots. It was 30 rounds overall for the stage, and I finished it shooting 31 rounds, only missing one shot on the star. The only targets I did not hit 2-A on were the ones behind the star and I hit a A-C on one and a A-D on the other, but did not hit either of the no-shoots. It was really exciting and fun to do that well on such an intimidating course for a newbie. I am looking forward to getting a classification to see where I land, but man, this stuff is just too much fun. I am heading out to shoot again at another local match tomorrow, wish me luck!

Haha, yeah, I thought that may happen. I don't know yet though. I had a ton of fun in the safety class where we got to shoot a couple small example stages. I even won the "competition" we had with the other 7 newbies and me. We had two paper targets, one was half covered with a miss zone, and 2 steel poppers. We had to shoot from 2 different boxes. I got 4 Alphas and the steels, with no misses, in 10.66 seconds. I thought I did pretty good, it sure felt good, and it was fun!

That is kind of what I thought, thanks for the fast answers guys, I appreciate it and look forward to competing this weekend!

Thanks for the tips. I attached a couple of pictures of my holster. I made it myself, but it is modeled after the popular Crossbreed style of holster.

Hello everyone, I am new here. I searched but could not find answers to my question. A couple of days ago I took a USPSA safety class at a range that has a match this coming weekend. I really enjoyed the class and an looking forward to competing on Saturday. Anyways, during the class, I was using my CC gun, a Ruger SR9c. I had it in my normal carry rig, which is a hybrid leather/kydex holster IWB with 2 clips to hold it to my belt. I also had a paddle magazine carrier. The instructor mentioned to me that my holster was not legal in competition, and he said that was because it was clipped to the belt, not threaded through it. I looked at the USPSA rulebook and cannot find any rules pertaining to that at all. I sent the instructor an email for clarification, but haven't heard back yet. Does anyone here have any input on the subject? My dilemma is that the competition is in 5 days. Many holster makers have lead times of at least 3 weeks, which means I would have to buy something off the shelf, which may not be exactly what I want in the long term. If I can utilize my carry setup, I would much prefer to do that because the competition would get me more proficient with drawing and holstering from what I use day to day. If he is correct, does anyone know of a place with a good holster for USPSA that would have one in stock that could ship out very soon? Let me know your thoughts, thank you!