CrashDodson

The garage is the only place I have. Never had trouble with my 1050/mk7 in the garage. Ya it sucks about 4 months out of the year.

I didnt have nerves as bad as usual. I also am trying some medicine to help with it. I talked to Ben a bit and he said part of the problem is as you train harder and improve you start expecting more of yourself. I think sometimes at matches I tend to "over try" if thats the right way to describe it. During my make ready I have started telling myself to relax. Ive tried to make it a point to focus on exactly where on the target I intend to shoot in the walk through vs just where the targets are and the order I will shoot them. I dont think that I get intimidated by the major match stages. Not in that I think there is a challenge I am not cable of. I am there to try and do well and I think pushing the speed is causing me to drop too many points and not see everything that I need to see. Sometimes I tend to push certain things like activator sequences and I am just shooting at the swinger rather than shooting at a specific spot on the target. I also think my brain is on the next thing too soon rather than watching the sight picture and making an assessment of the shot. There were times at the match where I had the thought/feeling that I had a bad shot, but by that time it was too late and would have been worse to take the makeup shot rather than just leave it.

Got it unboxed. There are a lot of parts. No parts list or documentation of any kind except for the bullet feeder. I registered on the site to get access to support. I assume that's where you get the manual.

Shot the high desert classic in Alburqueue this weekend. Ended up 3rd limited master and 7th overall in limited. I had 7 mikes. Hell I had 3 on the first stage of the match. It was a memory stage with poor morning lighting but still...Obvious lack of shot calling. There was one stage with two swingers activated by poppers. I had alpha mike on both. Perhaps something there that deserves some attention in practice. Going to just focus on accuracy and shot calling until nationals. I swear the more I practice the worse I perform. Makes me rethink some life choices. I dont have any video edited yet, just here to vent, there were a couple of stages were I shot really well and the rest I just gave up too many points. One stage had a roller coaster prop like last year. I felt crazy slow shooting the stage, and even look slow on video, but ended up 2nd place and 95% of the GM limited winner of that stage and overall match winner. There is something to take away from that in that I need to shoot more in control. I need to get this mental stuff figured out.

Giggity

Does the Evo pro not come with a chute? Do they make one? I had one on my M7 X/1050.

Well said Charlie

Not sure how much all of you shoot....but shooting 40k a year pulling a handle fing sucks

I reloaded 40 on my 1050 with mark 7 X in one pass on unprocessed brass. The only people loading in multiple stages are people loading rifle...and with 10 stages and the right setup you dont really have to do that.

I had 300 or so in upgrades to my 1050, not including auto drive, before I sold it.

Im not questioning if you bought one or not. I just dont think you should be able to call support for a product you dont have regardless if its a press or a toaster.

Ive got to wonder why would you need to talk to support if you dont yet have a machine? I work in IT and I cant call for support on a product I dont have...

I ordered in March and received a call on Tuesday from M7. Their online ordering system did not calculate shipping correctly. I paid my shipping difference and she said I should ship this week. I ordered a glass hopper from dramworx yesterday based on info in this thread. Got 15k pieces of brass awaiting the arrival.

There is also new wording that clarifies you can shoot an un-activated target if you can see it.

How do you read this? No more grabbing walls and leaning out? Added language defining that nothing but the very edge of the wall in contact with or inside the fault lines may be used for support while firing shots. Time to end the “electricity” game. It eliminates using wall feet, braces, other walls, etc., to game a stage. You have to be inside the fault lines to touch a wall or other structure, unless specifically called out as “outside”, as in the case with elevated platforms, etc. 10.2.1

About a month after you. Fingers crossed.

The only important question...when did you order yours? Direct or through shooters connection/daa?

Went to the range this morning, we already had some stages setup from a previous match. I forgot my gun and belt. So I did some dry runs and noticed that I will come into a position and tend to drag my trailing foot which then leads to the reaching tippy toe thing. It just happens. I guess its something that will have to be deprogrammed at this point.

I may already have it ? Need to re read. Thanks Charlie.

Think i was doing it here too and after I had already come in more flat footed. So I need to find a way to setup, maybe lower, so that I am not doing that? I made a video of where I think some of the bad movements are...not 100% how to correct them.

Like this?

Not sure why I cant keep my log updated. Ive been training at the range pretty hard. I have access to a range only a few miles from my house now and have been shooting 2-3 times a week. Have had a few issues with nerves the last few "major" matches and I have been working through that. Went to area 4 recently and did not do as well as I had hoped. Ended up 14/99 in limited and 6/12 Limited master. I had two malfunctions, one was a round that didnt chamber correctly and the other was im guessing a tall primer. That doesnt make up the time discrepancy between me and 1st place limited. My total time for the match was 197. while first limited was 169. 28 seconds over 12 stages is hard to swallow. I am not sure where I can gain that type of time. 2-3 seconds for the malfunctions and a few seconds for steel makeup shots. I had one near fall on a stage that cost me a second, and another stage where I lost my footing. There was a hole that had been created by the time we shot the stage and when I moved positions it felt almost like I had stepped out of bounds when instead i had put my foot in the hole. I had 3 mikes. One was on a swinger and by the time it processed in my head I was already too far ahead in my stage plan to make it up. Another was on another swinger in which there was a tricky activation sequence I tried to push to get an edge, and it didn't work out. I did not see that miss but know I pulled off the target early. I don't recall where miss #3 was. Here are a few videos from A4. My video guy has since been fired, but I wasn't paying him much so...

Didnt help me win...but I felt good lol