johnsons1480

You are correct about that. But they're both my USPSA number, and I only have one account here and one division, so the top one probably just needs to be deleted from the script.

You have me in the results twice, just a heads up

Thanks man. Last night and this morning I worked on the new grip technique and working on my draw with the new grip. I feel like it's my first day again. My draw is slower (still probably under 1.5 sec), but my grip is solid and my sights are showing up where I want them to. I can't do more than 15 minutes of dry fire in a session because I'm gripping so hard. It feels great to have that figured out; I just need to continue to burn it in. I also worked in reloads to make sure I'm getting my grip back on the gun correctly. Going to keep this up and hopefully the results will show up in live fire Monday.

Happy coincidence. When I ordered spare slide stops a while back, I accidentally ordered the CZ 75 standard slide stop that skippyaz suggested instead of the SP-01 slide stop. I popped it in, and it looks like it will work perfectly. Thanks guys.

Since my last post, I've been to the range twice. The first time, I brought a friend who wants to shoot his first match. I ended up shooting 76 rounds total, so it wasn't much of a practice at all. Yesterday, I took Weatherunderground at it's word and got burned. Drove down to the range expecting to set up distance changeup. It was pouring. There is a 10 yd plate rack under a tent, so I opted to do some plate rack drills. I'm glad I ended up doing this, because it pointed out some big issues with my grip and trigger control. I need to go back to the basics and retrain from the top down. Hopefully that will just take a few weeks of dry fire and live fire. Goal time for 6 straight was 2.5 seconds. My best was 3 flat. If I got my grip right I was hovering around 3.3. That leads me to ... My grip and trigger control are bad. I'm ducking shots low consistently. Through a little experimenting, if I tighten down my weak hand grip, everything goes fine. I am going to work to make that grip consistent in dry fire. I want to do some blank wall drills too for trigger control. I feel like that could use some improvement. Transitions could have been sped up, which is the story of my life. I think I need to start making the transitions in my normal live fire and dry fire wider. This would force me to stop watching my sights to the next target and transitions with my eyes (or at least I think I'll notice when I'm doing it wrong). I bought Foundations on Vimeo today. I watched it once through, but I'm going to watch it again and take some notes. I think there are a lot of things I just never learned properly. So again, it's back to the fundamentals for a little while. I've been dealing with a little bit of discouragement lately. I haven't been doing great in practice. Dry fire has been less and less. It seemed like I was regressing as a shooter. I think I figured out a lot of what was going on yesterday. I'm going to work on those areas until I feel like I have them down, and then move back to more complicated things. If the weather holds out next week, I'm going to practice on Monday and Friday, and shoot a match on Saturday.

It looks like the RAMI is the way for me to go. Can anyone confirm that it fits in the CZ 75 SP-01 and that it's production legal?

This one? http://shop.cz-usa.com/ProductDetail/0640008002_Slide-Stop-Rami-9mm40 That looks promising. Can anyone confirm that it fits; and if it fits, that it's production legal?

Thanks ... Anyone else?

My CZ rarely, if ever, locks back after firing the last round. This is not a magazine issue, I have tested that. The problem is, when I grip the gun and ride the safety, my thumb is over the safety and onto the slide stop. Is there a production legal slide stop that is thinner than the slide stop that comes on the standard SP-01? Would a bigger safety help keep my thumb off the slide stop? Am I riding the safety incorrectly by laying my thumb over it? Any help is appreciated.

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Do you write down everything, or just total time? For instance, in this drill, I had 4 targets and a specific engagement order I was going for. I wrote down my draw, split, transition from box A to first shot from the port, split, transition to 15 yd rear target, split, transition to headbox and split. I wrote down what my hits were specifically on each target. Now I have all of this info, and I can't figure out how all of this data is useful. I see my best run was right around the average of my times. 6.90 seconds, 38 points, 5.51 HF. My average time was 6.81 for all 24 runs. It took me between 1.89 and 2.56 seconds to get setup in the port and start shooting. That seemed to drop as the practice session went on. I can see that transitioning between distances is still a struggle for me, so I need to keep working specifically at that. What I'm wondering is, would shooting 100 or 200 more rounds down range been more beneficial than me writing this stuff down? At this point, I'm thinking the trigger time would be more beneficial than logging.

I am back! Went to the range today and ran about 200 rounds of "Port Setup." I learned a good bit about how to get set up in a port better, so I would call it a success. I wrote everything down, and I'll try to type that up tomorrow. Related question, is it relevant to write all of this down? Especially on drills that are essentially un-duplicatable. I feel like I could have shot at least another hundred rounds if I hadn't been writing everything down. I can see where it may be beneficial on repeatable drills, like the standard drills in Skills and Drills. Otherwise, I'm not sure what I'm gaining from recording this stuff. I feel like I'm limiting my time shooting and wasting my time writing. Input would be appreciated. I'm going to try to go to the range Thursday as well. If I can get the right bay open, I'll probably do "Fixed Time Standards A." If not, then I'll work on "Distance Transitions."

Updated, thanks for the input.

Thank you sir. When I say atrocious, I mean that they are at least half a second slower than I think they should be. I would love to be able to consistently hit a 1 second reload, but I would be happy with a consistent 1.5 second reload. That seems to be something I could do in the past but I suppose I've lapsed on my reload dry fire and it shows in the reloads. None of it goes bad, it's just slow. My problem is likely that I'm not getting to the magazine fast enough once the shot is fired. I think the act of putting the new magazine in the gun hasn't changed much since I started this. Match got canceled on Sunday. I was really looking forward to shooting that match, but it's been raining here for weeks so I wasn't very surprised. With that being said, it's time for my 2 week break to start. I'm going on a cruise next week and obviously won't be able to bring my gun. This has become a two week break instead of a one week break because I fell in a parking lot on Friday and tore up my hand. It was raining, and I was running to get to the movie theater. Took a turn too fast and ate it. Ruined my boots, jeans, scraped my knees and busted the heel of my hand up. Just scrapes, nothing too serious, but it's bruised and I don't want to delay the healing any. P.S. Get Hard was hilarious. See you guys in May.

14.58039 is what I'm calculating for the HHF. Let me know what you end up with when the April run happens. It should be about 92.4331% SINGLESTACK Classifiers Date Number Club F Percent Entered 3/22/15 06-03 ATA PRACTICAL SHOOTERS Y 92.4331 Updated and highlighted. I'll go through later and highlight all the ones I have changed so we can differentiate between my list and what classifier calc says.

Never ending rain here in the Houston area. It's in the 80s, but it's a wet heat.

Here's my practice session from yesterday. I think I need to spend some serious time shooting at 25 yards. I didn't write down the points for every target, but it worked out to mostly As at 7, about even split of As and Cs at 15, and a whole bunch of Cs, Ds, and misses at 25. Also, my reloads are still atrocious.

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New dry fire plan. Wake up at 5, get ready for work, get 20-30 minutes of dry fire in, then leave for work. I did it this morning, just have to continue to drag my butt out of bed every morning.

I don't know what time I have to leave work and get to the range to snag one of the bays with moveable targets that I can get 25 yards out of, but .... early, apparently. Couldn't do the accelerator as planned, so I did Hard Entry. I felt pretty good doing this drill. Started out at around 6.5 seconds with my setup, and moved down about a second through the drill. I felt like I wasn't pulling off the first target too early, and I felt like I was doing a decent job getting setup in the second shooting box. I noticed that, if I keep pretty low on entry and use my knees as shocks, I could get setup faster. I tried to stress that the rest of the practice. Shot 279 rounds (I keep grabbing those darn partial boxes!). I did an El Prez at the end, 5.85 seconds, 52 points. That's not so bad. Dry fire. I have not being doing it. I started a new workout routine 6 days a week, and by the time I'm done I'm too weak in my shoulders to effectively dry fire. I believe this will get better over time, but for right now I just don't have the energy or shoulder strength at the end of the workout to get it done. That's part of the reasoning behind the workout routine. I've had 3 shoulder surgeries over the years, and I feel like they're one of the weaker parts of my body. Hopefully I can get some strength back, which will help with my stamina on the range. We shall see.

I ordred my SP-01 holster from Amazon. It felt like a big bucket that my gun could wiggle in instead of a fitted holster. Used it until it broke down the side. Blade Tech replaced it for me, and when I got the holster from them, I knew that I had never had the correct holster for my gun. It looked and fit completely different than the previous holster. Lesson learned, don't buy holsters from Amazon.

I wouldn't even know how to quantify this. I have gotten a good deal better since I switched over to my CZ, but that was also the exact time I started practicing. There's no way I can say the gun made me better. I could switch back to the Glock to see how I do, but that would be an unfair comparison because I haven't even picked up my Glock since November.

Just for a frame of reference on this all As debate, if you can lay down the following points on an El Prez in the time provided, you can get a 95% score in Production 95%=9.7481 60 points = 6.16 seconds 58 points = 5.95 seconds 56 points = 5.74 seconds 54 points = 5.54 seconds 52 points = 5.33 seconds 50 points = 5.13 seconds 48 points = 4.92 seconds 46 points = 4.72 seconds 44 points = 4.51 seconds

Got rained out on Sunday. Going to try to go Thursday, but I'm on call this week. I may end up not able to make it, which is a bummer.