mrgoodwrench

good info

Thanns

Thanks

Thanks for the info i will look into it. Who are steve and jj?

I have not but will have to check them out i know Minnetonka also has a wed night uspsa league im going to try and make that one more this year. They have some GM shooters i could probably observe and shoot with.

Live in zimmerman MN work in coon rapaids MN

Well the stoeger books were reccamended and i already have them now so im going to give them a try but thanks all for the input.

Your spot in the flashey gun guys at the matches ive been to are rarley the best. You cant buy skill it si earned through time and practice.

Thanks for clarifying

Great feedback. Im going to start dry firing just ordered 2 ben stoger dry fire books and begin dry firing. Also i have the hornady lock n load ammo plant and plan to get it up and running soon. I know many prefer Dillon but i got the lock and load progressive free and added to it so thats what im going to run. Started reading the dry fire book last night and am excited to get practicing im going to start with 20-30 min a day and go from there as time permits. And i think i may still go check out the class in spring 2025 but we will see. Thanks all mike

Thanks for the info. Who is manny?

Good input thanks

Ill have to look into this steve anderson several recommendations for him now thanks

Good advise. I already own a hornady progressive press. But i will check out the books.

You are all correct for sure about the dry fire and practice at home and i plan to i just need to figure out how to do it correctly. Any reccamendations on dry fire routines? Books? Youtube vids? Thanks mike

Thanks

Thanks for the response to clarify the class is $1400 the total of $3000 would include ammo and travel food ect... but i do agree it is still spendy. I agree i need to practice at home but to be honest i feel like i dont really know how to practice effectively at home. My thinking is from my research i find billrodgers shooting school to be the top of the line so i was thinking take a class i feel is top of the line and if i dont see the benifit never bother with a class again and if i see improvement then i would take other classes aswell. I figured to give training a fair shake take a good class. I will look into what you reccamended though Thanks mike

I run and shoot a weekly uspsa style shoot from may through sept then shoot less during the winter months. Of the 20 shooters that show weekly im usually 1 or 2 place. Im a decent shooter but ive never had any training ive just learned what i can from youtube vids ect... my safety and basic gun handling i believe are sound.

So i am an above average shooter with a fair amount of experience but i feel i have plateaued and would like to improve. So here is the question i currently ahoot 50-100 rounds live fire at least 1 time a week. Other than that i dont practice i know i need to pick up dry fire ect... but here is my question im looking at taking a pistol training corse at bil rodgers shooting school but its out of state so ball park the training and trip and ammo will probably cost me aprox $3,000 am i better off with the class or am i better off staying home and spending $3,000 on ammo and practicing. Class is 5 days classroom and live fire aprox 2500 rnds. Thanks for any input. And feel free to call me a dummy for not having dry fire practiced enough i know its free to do and will help i just havent made it a priority yet but am planning to. Also anyone who has taken bill rodgers shooting class please give me your opinion. Thanks mike

Glad it went well for you im really enjoying mine aswell. I should have done it 9,000 rounds ago lol

I bought the ultimate match target trigger kit that you need to fit if you can dissassemble and reassemble your gun and use a file you can handle it. It was easy and gives great results. Im by no means an expert but if you have any questions feel free to ask.

I was a die hard all steel pistol fan and it was .45 or nothing. As ammo prices went up and my income went down shooting .45 as often as i wanted to shoot to get good was just not an option so i started looking for a 9mm pistol and was mostly looking cz. And stupid as it sounds had bad mouthed plastic pistols all my life (combat tuperware ect...) well i felt having never owned one and bad mouthing them i was a hipocrit so while i wanted a custom cz and could not get my hands on one at the time i decided to get an xdm 5.25 in 9mm to try out the plastic guns. So i could justify my calling them junk i figured i would test it hate it and sell it when i got a cz or another 1911 variant. I bought it cleaned the gun of all the factory crap and lubed it. Figured i would shoot it till it failed and then clean it. Well 1000 rounds in and it was still flawless so i cleaned it and repeated ...... so far 5550rnds throught it with only 2 failures and both were bad ammo 1light charge did not fully cycle the slide and one deformed bullet would not chamber. Well i was wrong about plastic guns and the xdm in perticular. Never did buy the cz and i love my xdm. It has been the most accurate reliable fun to shoot pistol i have ever tryed. Also most of my friends shoot it better then they can shoot their own guns it shoots easy and will make you look good. Sorry about the long story but thats my story and i would tell anyone to buy an xdm you wont be sorry.[emoji2]