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Um...welcome?

Do they come in purple?

The Tanfoglio is really comfortable to grip. It looks pretty sweet, too.

Very cool.

Yeah, I bought it over the winter. It's nice that you can position it however you like, I just couldn't get it to stay there. I'm glad other people are having better luck!

I dig ugly but useful. Where is it?

Nothing really jumped out at me, except that the hot pink one may have slightly blinded me.

I had a Ghost Stinger for production, but it kept moving out of its legal position despite tightening it as far as it would go without breaking. If you get it into a good position that is legal, I would strongly recommend using loctite to keep it that way.

Cheers from Wisconsin!

Where is a good place to find a range bag? I've seen people with a separate carrier for their magazines that fits right into their range bag and thought that was pretty cool. I like a lot of small pockets for miscellaneous items, but don't want anything too big. Recommendations? Plastic Walmart bags just don't cut it anymore.

+1 to this. Still pretty new to this but I started improving when I remembered this is all supposed to be fun and the only person I am competing against is myself. I have no aspirations to be a M or GM shooter. I do what I can to support the sport, recently took over a club to keep it going, and just try to make every match fun. Learning as I go and doing the best I can. Right now my focus is shooting clean. Once you are sponsored, in the limelight, on the supersquad, etc., it seems impossible to not be concerned with how you are doing. It's much easier at the lower levels where you can say you're still learning or you're just there to have fun. When it becomes an expectation for you to win, and you have a team, a paycheck, or fans counting on it, then it becomes important and adds pressure to the mental game, which may take away from the fun. There are some shooters who seem equipped with the ability to block it out as a distraction during the match and stay focused, but I think it's much more fun to be a new shooter making major gains in progress and shooting just for yourself. It's important to remember, even if you're a great shooter, that the limelight is mostly in your head. I consider myself lucky not to be sponsored or in the limelight!

Isn't it bad to use a tootbrush on your gun?

+1 to this. Still pretty new to this but I started improving when I remembered this is all supposed to be fun and the only person I am competing against is myself. I have no aspirations to be a M or GM shooter. I do what I can to support the sport, recently took over a club to keep it going, and just try to make every match fun. Learning as I go and doing the best I can. Right now my focus is shooting clean. Once you are sponsored, in the limelight, on the supersquad, etc., it seems impossible to not be concerned with how you are doing. It's much easier at the lower levels where you can say you're still learning or you're just there to have fun. When it becomes an expectation for you to win, and you have a team, a paycheck, or fans counting on it, then it becomes important and adds pressure to the mental game, which may take away from the fun. There are some shooters who seem equipped with the ability to block it out as a distraction during the match and stay focused, but I think it's much more fun to be a new shooter making major gains in progress and shooting just for yourself.

Lanny Bassham's book is a quick easy read (an hour or less) that translates over to having a positive out look on life as well as helping with the mental game when it comes to shooting.

Tradition, mostly. With the ammunition and component shortage that is currently going on we have lowered the round count on our local matches. Our "normal" indoor match was usually in the neighborhood of 100 rounds. This weekend it's 67, down 33%. In larger matches such as this sectional, another reason is match management. If you have a speed shoot followed by a big field course, that stage is guaranteed to be the bottleneck of the match. Expect a squad to be shooting and up to two more squads waiting. If all the stages have a similar round count, the match flows better. Just my .02. BC I've seen this done where the speed shoot stage actually had two stages in one to help reduce the bottleneck effect.

What is the big deal about high round count matches?

If everyone thinks a match bump is better than a class bump, then why have a classification system at all? If you take 130th place at a match, then your goal would be to do better the next time rather than making it to the next class. The classification would be match placement. I'm not saying I agree with this, just curious about the thinking behind it.

Wow, I really would be $broke$. Lol. I use par times on drill when i am working on speed. It is hard to equal match stress. I feel i need to add some stress. Steve Anderson had his ex-wife flash him at the timer beep. Does that add a "match stress" factor or does it just teach you to keep doing what you need to do despite distractions?

I read Steve Anderson's first book and I loved it. My husband lost the second book in a move and I never got to read it. If I don't find it during spring cleaning, I'm most definitely ordering another one! What an inspiring story.

I certainly hope there is not a dress code added after that article in Front Sight on short shorts.

Yay!

You may find this link interesting. This is how it starts out: "It seems to me that many people have the idea that shooting accurately and “calling your shots” are one and the same. These concepts are related, but they are NOT the same thing." ~Ben Stoeger https://www.facebook...581420898536014 Yeah...I agree with that...shot calling is a good habit, but as I said 'accuracy' is the most important thing to focus on. While shot calling and accuracy are not the same thing...when you learn to call your shots regularly, you should notice what you're doing differently when you get an Alpha vs a Charlie. When you refine that, you become more accurate. I've known instructors whose only advice is "be more aggressive". That doesn't help. Seeing where your sights are on ignition and being able to correct it is what "can" make a difference on accuracy. BTW, who is this Ben Stoeger guy...you sure seam to think highly of him. Some might even say you're his biggest fan. :-) I hear he's some A-class shooter or something. Seriously? I thought you had to be at least a Master to have groupies. I mean, who'd sleep with someone that shoots below 85%, or even load their mags and still respect themselves in the morning. I don't know, ask Ben.

That's great! So you're winning matches now, huh?

The older you are, the more difficult it is to train your eyes to focus in this way. Accomodation takes longer, and there is less of it to be had.