Smitty79

Get an electric car. Much cheaper to fuel and only costs on Infinity Open gun more than an equivalent gas car. I have a Tesla. When we car pool to matches, I drive.

My home club uses AMG timers and it's very interesting to use Practiscore Competitor to compare the details of my runs to other peoples. I like to look at the best run of the day vs my performance and how my times compare to other people of same class. With these timers becoming commonly used, there are lots of data out there on how people shoot classifiers. Is this data available for download anywhere?

First: As long as you are safe and know what you are doing, you don't slow things down enough for people to care. If you have shot over 5 matches and don't need anyone's help to get through a match, you won't hold things up at a big match. Don't worry about that. That said, major marches usually have more difficult shots than routine club matches. If you struggle to make all of the shots at a level 1 match, you aren't ready for a major. They have lots more partials and usually have faster swingers.

I find it really hard to get a good grip on decocker metal CZs. I have >100,000 rounds through safety versions. Their ergonomics are great. P-09 and P-07 decocker ergonomics are pretty good.

You need to practice one hand shooting enough to keep from "cratering" a stage. As a newbie, being able to transfer the gun safely to your weak hand and being able to shoot all As weak hand, with no time limit at 10yds, and 15 yards strong hand, with no time limit, is just fine. Your division is also a factor. If you are shooting open or carry optics, you should probable do more one hand dry fire until you can reliably see your dot come on target, without having to look for it. Personally, I was terrible at weak hand. I put a little time into it and now I look forward to it.

t doesn't change the mass of the bullet. It does change the mass of the combustion gasses that follow the bullet out of the barrel.

This isn't quite true, to achieve the same power factor with a lighter bullet, you need to add more powder. That means that there is more mass going out the muzzle that doesn't count towards power factor. While the total recoil impulse is higher, the snappiness of the impulse being applied faster, is probably a much bigger factor in perceived recoil.

Can't tell from the picture. It was clear that the bullet broke the edge of the barrel as indicated in the diagram. If it was black hard cover, it would have been an easy hit call.

Many of the older classifiers start position state hands relaxed at sides. The rules don't have that as a default anymore. I believe this was partially because it's hard to interpret and enforce consistently. Is there some move to change this to something else, like wrists below belt?

I was shooting a level 1 stage last weekend. I was shooting a target past a barrel. I hit the edge of a barrel and the bullet went on to hit the A zone. The bullet went through the barrel and obviously didn't have the full diameter of the bullet break the edge of the barrel. It did push out some of the plastic of the barrel so that the bullet did go completely through plastic. Here's the diagram and picture. Not a great picture. RO (A well respected Nationals experienced CRO) called it a full diameter hit, because the bullet was surrounded by plastic, and called the target A M. The MD/RM (Also a well respected Nationals experienced CRO) said that the edge of the barrel was the limit and this was not a full diameter hit on the barrel and scored the target 2 A. I think I could also call it a REF since the edge moved during the course of fire. As the competitor and reader of the rules, I like the MD/RM interpretation. What do you all think?

Thanks all. I listened to Ben Berry. It was very helpful. I definitely use the less detail method and pantomime methods to get through things. The place where I get in trouble is on memory stages, where, the plan is more individual targets than arrays. I've been "dry firing" walk-throughs. It seems to help me get more effective.

I think I'm mind blind. I've been shooting for 9 years and I've always tried to "visualize" stages a bunch of times before shooting them. I really didn't see anything. What I was doing was more like talking to myself about each target and where I wanted my aim point. In general, I am better at simple stand and shoots than complex field courses. This is despite having had a career were a good memory was a strong plus. I recently retired and I'm now putting more time and money into shooting. I've been working with Steve Anderson, mainly on improving my practicing and mental game. Listening to his podcasts, I've heard him talk about visualizing being like watching a movie. On a recent call, I asked him for more of an explanation of what he was seeing. He sees vastly more than I do. I, reading up on this and taking an online test, almost everyone sees more than I do. I've had this for a long time. For the first half of my career, I was a submarine officer. When making periscope observations, the accepted way to call the range to the target, was to look quickly, get the scope back down and then process what you saw to estimate contact range. Everyone else was trying to look at the picture they saw. I was just thinking about it. I'm amazed I never realized what others were seeing. Does anyone else have this problem? What strategies are you using to try to make your "navigation" more subconscious? All I've been able to come up with is more actual walkthroughs and more visualization by thinking about the targets. https://memoryos.com/article/what-is-aphantasia-causes-symptoms-and-treatment

When I was shooting IDPA, I just put a USPSA outer belt through my belt loops to get something that was crazy stiff. Don't the CR Speed pouches have a finger cut out? I don't think those are IDPA legal.

This. The difference doesn't show up in hit factor. I'm a low B, almost super senior shooter, who shoots SP-01's in CO. My scores on classifier type drills don't change from 125 to 147. I only shoot 125s as they are cheaper and easier to load in short chamber CZs.

I use CZ Custom pads and springs with MecGar 17s with SP-01s.

I had a hip replacement 5 years ago. I was not shooting regularly at the time. But I did take a 10 mile walking tour, in Israel, 5 weeks later. I suspect I could have gotten through a match at the 4 week point if I didn't care a lot about my performance.

I have been shooting Shadows for Production/Carry Optics for 7 years. In my peak years, I've done 6 dry fire sessions a week. Each session was about 700 presses. This isn't a huge number. I do the 6 reload 6 drills from Steve Anderson't books every day 10 reps per drill. That's 600 presses. I do about 100 other presses a day for other drills. I have a practice gun and a match gun. The match gun is rarely used for dry fire and I shoot it about 2000 rounds a year. The practice gun is about 10k rounds a year. I use the CGW reduced power trigger return springs. Once I went to annual change out, I haven't had any failures.

I have no idea why I didn't think of this. Thanks.

When I was shooting production, I used glasses with my dominant eye focused on the front sight and my other eye focused on infinity. When I went to CO, I went to both eyes at infinity. This works great for shooting. But not so well for ROing and running the pad. I don't need a huge correction for distance vision and I can read a news paper and thread most needles without glasses on at all. I am tempted to get a set of shooting glasses that has my dominant eye on infinity and my other eye with some, but not complete close vision correction. I don't expect it impact my shooting. But will make me more functional in other functions. Has anyone tried this? How did it work? Any other ideas?

If you have very wide feet, there are New Balance golf and baseball shoes work well.

While I don't like to do this kind of thing with gun parts, I took the slide and the sight to the Ace hardware store. I was happy to have one of the clerks, not only help me but ask questions about my shooting sport and pull in a colleague to look at what I was doing. I found that a 16mm M4 bolt works and got it mounted.

I had to send my DeltaPoint Pro back to Leupold for a repair. I've misplaced the screws used to attach the sight to the CZ Custom mounting plate on my SP-01. This is a mounting plate in a slide cut, not a dove tail plate. What size to I need? What is the material and surface treatment?

I am looking for a company that can do an optic slide cut for a Shield +.

I was just reading through Down Range. It had an article, on training, by Ken Verderame. He's the person who developed the Steel Challenge training wall hangings. That made me wonder why I'm still hanging felt on the wall and attaching cardboard targets with Velcro. Has someone used a program, like Power Point, to make "stages" they can dry fire using a projector? There are projectors, out there, that cost less than I spend on reloading components (Pre-disaster) for a month of training. It would be easy to have every classifier set up. It would also be interesting to make up a bunch of "stages" where a random stage could pop up. The shooter would develop a plan, visualize, execute their pre-stage routine and then execute the stage to practice competing. Are people doing this?

I also live in Newberg. There are great matches in Dundee and Sherwood. PM me if you'd like to hook up for some local help. The Dundee match is tomorrow. It's full up. If you have the time, it's worth dropping by. Steve Anderson's first book is a good place start. One thing he's changed: he recommends doing a particular drill for a set amount of time. I do 3 or 5 minutes. Once you are happy with your basic draws, transitions and reloads, the other 2 Anderson books are good. I like the older Stoeger books. I need to read the new ones.