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The Tanfoglio is really comfortable to grip. It looks pretty sweet, too.
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Very cool.
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Kita, as I mentioned on Doodie, I am surprised you had such bad luck with your unit.
Mine has been rock solid. That sucks that you got a crappy one. Was it of recent manufacture?
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!
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This is ugly, but the price and all the little pockets are hard to beat.
I dig ugly but useful. Where is it?
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Nothing really jumped out at me, except that the hot pink one may have slightly blinded me.
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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.
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Cheers from Wisconsin!
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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.
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I consider myself lucky not to be sponsored or in the limelight!I noticed a dramatic improvement in my match scores when I stopped caring what other people thought, or if I wasn't doing something the way I was expected to. I just shot and had fun, not really paying any attention to anyone else's times or results. When you are having fun, you are much more relaxed, and the movements, such as reloading are more smooth.
+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.
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Brush with a toothbrush and alcohol when I need a good clean. Then wipe down, then hit with a little FP10 and shooters choice grease in areas of metal to metal contact. Couple drops of FP 10 every 300-500 rounds after a quick wipe down of the big gunky crap. Repeat from deep clean every 2500-3000 rounds.
Isn't it bad to use a tootbrush on your gun?
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I noticed a dramatic improvement in my match scores when I stopped caring what other people thought, or if I wasn't doing something the way I was expected to. I just shot and had fun, not really paying any attention to anyone else's times or results. When you are having fun, you are much more relaxed, and the movements, such as reloading are more smooth.
+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.
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Best two books on the market, Lanny Bassham book and Brian Enos's book. I used Brians book years ago when I was shooting rifle and pistol silhouette. If you look closely you can pick up little things from every sport. I even found something useful in a golf magazine while sitting in a Doctor's waiting room. Just because it is a different sport doesn't mean you can't glean little bits of mental wisdom from them. 95% of any sport is mental once you have mastered the basics.
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.
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What is the big deal about high round count matches?
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.
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The stages look fun and the round count is 264 plus chrono!!!!
BC
What is the big deal about high round count matches?
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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.
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Some years ago, Massad Ayoob wrote "Stress Fire". One point he made was that, if you practice under stress then when you have to shoot under stress basically the stress is reduced or gone. His point was to never "practice" but always shoot for something. Every hit outside the "A" zone costs you $0.50 or $1.00...Shoot with a friend and loser buys lunch...make practice cost..You will find it de-stresses that nasty starting buzzer.
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?
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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.
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USPSA recently hired a new, in-house web guy. I met him this weekend, and he's really on the ball. There is a lot to fix on the web page, as many here have commented, and it's all on the list, believe me. He's working every day to bring USPSA to the electronic fore, so keep watching the web page for updates.
Yay!
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Long post...see the last line for the synopsis.
I'm thinking, if speed was the most important thing we wouldn't use targets at all, and Open class would be select fire (full auto).
This sport is about being accurate as fast as you can, NOT about being as fast as you can and hoping for accuracy. I'm only a B shooter, but I know that as your accuracy improves (calling your shots) your speed naturally improves with it. As shot calling improves, it becomes natural and automatic, then speed comes naturally. I've seen a LOT of newbies come out and try to shoot as fast as they can. I know we've all seen guys taking 3 fast shots on a target, hoping one or two of them will land 'somewhere'. They're surprised when a "slow guy" comes to the line and shoots two well aimed shots on paper and one well aimed shot at each steel target, and beats them by a great margin. Forcing yourself to be fast or accurate will not gain you either. Practicing and calling your shots is imperative. To sum it up...
When shooting accurately becomes natural, speed will as well.
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
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.
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That's great! So you're winning matches now, huh?
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JohnH556 I have the same Issue.
Right Handed, Left eye dominant. Struggle to keep both eyes open, I have issues with not being able to focus on the sights, get double vision, and I revert back to ol' one eye.
Think I might start some practice with some scotch tape over one of my eyes, but which one? Should I attempt to switch eye dominance and tape my left eye, or stick with the left eye dominance and tape the right?
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.
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Long post...see the last line for the synopsis.
I'm thinking, if speed was the most important thing we wouldn't use targets at all, and Open class would be select fire (full auto).
This sport is about being accurate as fast as you can, NOT about being as fast as you can and hoping for accuracy. I'm only a B shooter, but I know that as your accuracy improves (calling your shots) your speed naturally improves with it. As shot calling improves, it becomes natural and automatic, then speed comes naturally. I've seen a LOT of newbies come out and try to shoot as fast as they can. I know we've all seen guys taking 3 fast shots on a target, hoping one or two of them will land 'somewhere'. They're surprised when a "slow guy" comes to the line and shoots two well aimed shots on paper and one well aimed shot at each steel target, and beats them by a great margin. Forcing yourself to be fast or accurate will not gain you either. Practicing and calling your shots is imperative. To sum it up...
When shooting accurately becomes natural, speed will as well.
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
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.
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Better to light a small candle than to curse the darkness
I can appreciate that since during a 6 hour power outage last night, I cursed at the darkness as I stubbed my toe on my way to lighting a candle....
That just made me do that laugh where you're blowing air through pursed lips with puffed out cheeks and it sounds like a fart.
If I don't find it during spring cleaning, I'm most definitely ordering another one! What an inspiring story.
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