CrashDodson

They are going to start shipping to individuals next month. If you already have a working 1050 i see no reason to just buy one. If you were in the market for a new press or wanted to automate but not ready to spend 10k then the evolution is what I would do.

Minus her name on the gun, I think it looks pretty cool.

On this episode of "One Handed Billy"... On the 3rd PA I found someone that agreed there is something wrong with my wrist. She thinks there is ligament damage between the scaphoid and lunate bone. She also told me that my scaphoid bone is slowly dying as a result of my old dirtbike injury and will be a problem in my later years. Ordered an MRI. Had to get up at 4:30 this morning and drive 2 hours to another town to get it done, but at least its done. Now the DR i was going to see is out and not available for 3 weeks....I refuse to wait 3 more weeks so 15 phone calls later I have a new DR, but again they are 2 hours away. Appointment on Monday, at least maybe after Monday I will have a plan for repair and healing. Really frustrating just wearing a cast and not having any direction for getting healed up and really just wanting to get back to training. Been trying to figure out how to load mags with this cast on but its not easy. Going to drag my step son to the range to help load mags so I can at least do some shooting. My gunsmith, Greg Peine, is hand delivering my new limited gun this weekend which is only going to make this wait that much more agonizing.

Thanks for the video too. Though I've never talked to you outside of the forum, I can imagine thats exactly what you would say if I was complaining to you about my wrist haha.

I agree on the injury. The xrays did not show any new fracture, just the old fracture. There is a bone below/next to the scaphoid and the xray showed not as much space between those two bones as you would expect. A little arthritis also I assume because of the previous fracture and years of abuse. Its really frustrating, two dr's didnt really see a problem, but the pain is exactly the same as when I fractured it. Holding the hand out straight and rotating the wrist side to side is very painful, and the pain is coming from the scaphoid area. I really dont want to pony up 3k for a MRI and I am unsure what decisions could be made from the MRI data.

the crimp should remove the bell. But as long as it gauges it should be gtg.

Learned a few things the last few days. Dry firing with only one hand is pretty dull. Anyone have any good single hand drills? last night I worked draws, draw/shoot 3 targets and table starts. Ill be honest that I rarely dry fire table starts but I was getting bored and needed to add some variety. I found that after drilling for a while I can draw strong hand only from a table start pretty fast. I would focus on the beaver tail and visualize slamming the web of my thumb/index finger into that spot. My consistency and speed increased drastically in a short amount of time.

When I run out of ramshot comp I will try prima SV. If its a no go for some reason I will start going with 320

So this is my life for the next two weeks. Then a recheck and maybe an MRI required to find out whats wrong.

Has anyone used both 9.5 and SV in .40 and can tell me which one they prefer?

Congrats Charlie!

Had our local USPSA match this Sunday, which I am also the MD. Everyone comments on the quality of our stages so I continue to try to produce good matches but the amount of work is draining. You are always the first there and the last to leave. Never expected it to be this much work. I ended up 2nd overall out of 50 shooters shooting my limdot gun. I used medium strength thread locker saturday and the bomar mount held thorough the match. There was an incident were I was ROing a stage with a tight shooting area. All my shooters up to this point had gone one direction, but this shooter went another direction. We turned a corner around a wall and I knew I had made a mistake and ended up diving under a wall to keep from having a gun pointed at me. I landed pretty hard on my left hand and I think I may have fractured my wrist. I fractured this same wrist 4 years ago on a dirtbike, did the same thing to the other wrist 2 years ago on a dirtbike and had to have a screw put in to hold the scaphoid bone together. Its a small bone behind the thumb that doesnt get much blood flow and is really slow to heal. When I broke the one in my left wrist 4 years ago i didn't have insurance and they just kept it in a cast for over 3 months. The pain feels the same as before. I went to a local family dr this morning, who did x-rays but said all they could see was what they called the previous fracture. With that being 4 years ago that doesn't sound right so I have an appointment with an ortho dr next week. With the major season just about to get started this really sucks. Hopefully its nothing serious but Im afraid it is. I guess i will get a lot of strong hand only dryfire in lol.

some have commented on the sun being an issue but I have heard you can get screwed either way at that range

My draw to first shot at close range is about .8-.9. I asked JJ about that and he said that would be normal if my draw to sight picture, with no trigger pull in dry fire was .6. I dont have a range where I can practice live fire to 50 yards so I am not sure about that. With a proper trigger press its probably 1.5. I was doing El prez live in the mid to low 4's last year. I was doing 4 aces around 1.9-2 seconds. Other than the JJ class I have not practiced live fire since early November. My splits and transitions on something like el prez are in the .15-.2 range, I fubar the reload a lot of times trying to push the times down. I rarely ever practice sho/who live so I have no data for that.

I have a hype list thats a mix of heavy rock and a few rap songs. Ill listen on head phones in the truck right up to the point of the first shooter.

Been dry firing regularly with a morning and evening session. I have moved my dry fire into the living room because its just too damn cold in the garage and due to house renovations the garage is full of stuff. Currently using 1/3 scale targets at 7ish big steps (Simulated 15-20ish feet) and 20ish big steps (simulated 50ish feet). This is just how it works out practicing from behind my couch and in my kitchen. One thing I have noticed with the dot is there is a lot of dot movement with single handed drills, something I did not see with iron sights. This has raised my par times on single handed drills. Since moving into the house im just using andersons first 12 drills from refinement and repetition because I dont have a lot of room. My reloads have been surprisingly on point from my winter break. Since JJ's class I am also paying more attention to the trigger and making sure I get a good prep and feel the trigger on the sight picture only drills. Still have the occasional AD prepping the trigger. I might consider having my smith make my trigger a little heavier. 1.5lbs is a little too sketchy for me I think. Some of my current par times: Long Distance draw to sight picture. .9-1 sec. Closer draw hands at sides to sight picture .6 which is as low as my timer goes. closer draw surrender to sight picture .6 Closer turn and draw to sight picture .6 Burket Reload/Just the tip .6 Reload from sights on target .9-1 6 reload 6 - 3.6-3.9 El Prez 3.9ish 6 reload 6 strong - 4.4 6 reload 6 weak 4.9ish It has taken a while to get my times back to this point from my break and the increased target distance difference between being inside my house and in the garage. The dot has really shown me how unsteady my hands are, especially sho/who. Not sure if that is a physical weakness or if the gun just moves around that much normally single handed. I keep the wobble inside the A at my closer distance one handed but it is all over the A.

I like the name of the book

I brought him to our range in Midland texas last year and again this year. I know of one coming up in Dallas texas if you are interested. He doesnt really advertise them, its up to the person hosting the class to get the word out and fill up the class

Im in squad 332 for the limited match

Read this: http://www.grantcunningham.com/2006/05/lubrication-101/ I have been running lubriplate from Lubrikit.com. 1500 rounds at a class this last weekend. Greese still visible in my 2011 lugs and not one malfunction from 80 degrees to down in the 30s over the two days.

I guess i just need to figure out which loctite to use and exactly the best way to apply it. I really liked JJ's "level 2" class. It was almost all shooting on the move and entering/exiting positions, which I find myself needing to work on. His first class was heavy on accuracy and trigger manipulation. I thought a lot of the level 1 class didnt really improve my shooting that much but did make me think about the trigger differently. Though in a match I still grip and rip. Im trying to work on working the trigger differently for varying shot difficulty. But gripping the shit out of the gun and working the trigger hard has gotten me this far. I never knew so much could be discussed and worked on regarding just the trigger. Where Ben is more of a just grip the piss out of the gun and pull the trigger straight back (which works)...JJ has a love of trigger control that is next level. I was having trouble on steel and I recall him asking me if I knew what the left side of my trigger feels like (SV flat trigger), I told him I didn't know my trigger had a left side. He is very big on "prepping" the trigger for any shot over 7 yards. Before his class I thought trigger prep was just something you did when shooting bullseye and not a 1.5 lb 2011 trigger. Ben has talked about using more or less finger or whatever on the trigger also, they just explain it differently. At this point I have enough to work on that I dont think more group training will do much for me. Perhaps if I make GM or start getting close but cant get to that next level some private training might be beneficial.

JJ's class was really good. This was his "level 2" class and really focused on movement and changing gears. We worked a lot on shooting on the move, entering and exiting positions, shooting sooner and leaving sooner. He setup drills for us that him and Eric used in preparation for world shoot. I am walking away from the training with several good drills to work on. I had trouble coming into a position and shooting small steel, which has always been a problem. During the class it was a mix of trigger control, tumbling bullets and my dot moving. I had to re-tighten my bomar mount for the rts2 multiple times during the class, even though it was loctited when I originally installed it. I guess I didn't use the correct loctite or its just going to be an issue. On the second day I might have also consumed a little too much monster and gotten a little of the shakes. . I feel like I really learned a lot about how to properly come into positions and turn static positions into shooting on the move opportunities. I learned that I can shoot relatively accurately while moving faster then I ever thought possible. Shot calling is becoming more of a reality with the dot. There were many times were I saw the dot dip low and made it up quick. Or fired a quick makeup and JJ asked what I saw or felt and sometimes all I could say was I dont know where the shot went so I shot again. JJ talked about shot calling like more of a feeling than knowing exactly where the bad shot went, for him just feeling that it was a bad shot was enough. Either feeling a bad trigger pull or seeing something in the sights that made you feel the shot was bad. This is similar to how Ben has talked about shot calling in his classes. I will say its a lot easier to call shots bad with the dot, I dont know if this will carry over to irons or not but hopefully I will be getting something out of it.

Good one. Something I still have to remind myself of when walking stages at times. As RO I see shooters do this all the time and its a generally a time sync.

Wouldn't motivation without discipline be the guy that talks a lot but never actually does anything?

Glad you have had a better experience than most. I have had to tune feed lips on several buddies new MBX mags.