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I'd be happy with good PDF management also. Just the document itself being improved in it's formatting and inclusion of new material. But yeah, flat foot reloads have got to go. I know I often design stages where you start with 6 in the gun and shoot 6 while on the move so that you can do a reload in the open on the move just to be able to do it. rather than standing in one place fiddling around with an empty gun when I was behind cover good enough for shooting, but not good enough to move and reload.

What recoil spring are you running in a G41 if shooting minor loads? I've converted my G41 to run the gen3 style guide rod and single spring as well.

Seems to have grown at our local clubs here in San Diego. Went from about 22 shooters when I started two years ago to 40 shooters and we have a IDPA match every weekend.

Oh yeah, Austin and his dad have already teased me on fb about being in the "45 squad" hahaha. I've shot with them at matches before and enjoyed it. Ernie is chasing me in the AA contingency program, so I don't want to see him hahaha. Drives me crazy to have direct competitors in my squad hahaha. I want a squad full of esp ex and ma for nationals. oh well......

Ok, I'll use and exampe where the numbers aren't so neat. But as a reminder for the OP on the same spread sheet I also: -record time, points down, time from points down, finish in class, finish in division and finish overall. all of these things are something i can track over time and see if I'm going up or down. Let's use my data from the 2014 Missouri State IDPA Championships. My total time was 197.19 and I was 38 points down for the match. Having 38 points down equals 19.0 seconds of my total time came from points down. (I don't care where the points down come from in the formula. I DO care where they came from in looking at individual stages and where I need skills practice. for the formula, points down is points down, no matter the source) So then we figure out what percentage 19.0 is of my total time, 197.19. I do this by 19 divided by 197.19. This gives me an answer of 0.09635. To get the percentage I multiply this number (0.096...) by 100. This gives me the result of essentially 9.6% of my score in this match having came from points down. What this tells me is I did pretty good (second esp expert) but that I could have probably gone just the tiiiiiiniest bit faster. The dude who beat me had a total time of 195.5 and 42 points down. So 10.7% of his match score came from points down. More than me, but he won still the same as he was faster. It has been my experience that at <11% of your score coming from points down means you were very accurate but you could have gone just a tiny bit faster probably and still won. I find the sweet spot to be 12-13%. At 14% and above I'm normally just hosing things and not seeing the sights how I need to. Going back to your example you did the math right and you did indeed have about 17% of your match score coming from points down. This validates the observation many have that if they just click it back a notch, they do better. How often have you heard, "shoot 85% of your all out and things will be great"? Or something similar. But then the other side is when you start seeing numbers like 8%, then you shot too conservatively. Your in a comfortable groove. Growth doesn't happen in the comfort zone. Touching back again on the idea of "take it back a few notches to improve" here is something I do along those lines in practice. I shoot a drill, almost any standard drill and when I start to see really fast times for me but maybe fading accuracy I stop and say for example; "I just shot a 2.20 second bill drill but I was down 2 points. Hmm, the one before that was 2.24 and I was down a point there. Let me see if I can shoot a bill drill in exactly 2.80 then. See how that feels." So then I try and shoot a bill drill in a perscribed, mental par time. Boom, look at the timer and it will say normally about half way to my goal from the previous runs, in this case around 2.50 and most likely zero down. Just one way to find my personal balance in evaluating my shooting performance.

I'm on a squad of like 9 cdp shooters, so i'm gonna hear all sorts of 'wrong' reload stuff the whole time. hahaha

The only prizes given out Sat night are the trophies won. If you think you're going to be in the top 1/5th of your classification then I think it is worth staying.

I used 3.0 of titegroup when shooting that bullet.

i made one myself that i used at the beginning time, points down, % of score from points down, class overall, match overall. i found the greatest benefit was from knowing how much of my score came from points down. that has been the most useful match metric for me in idpa. the other stuff was fun to see over time, but didn't have a direct effect like this did. as an example, let's say you shot a match in 100.00 and you were 40 points down. so of that 100.00 then 20.00 came from your points down. in this case the math is easy, 20% of your score came from points down. that's way tooo much. from what others told me and my own findings less than 10% of your score from points down and you were shooting too slowly or conservatively. 11-13% seemed to be the sweet spot. at 15% of your score from points down and greater you are shooting too many points down, usually as a beginner from shooting too fast for what you're seeing. it's a pretty simple excel forumula to write and i say go for it.

flying is simple. hard case, locked, in checked luggage. declare it when checking in with the agent. fill out forms, wait for tsa and then go. in the past people have shipped ammo to the range yes. there are cheaper hotesl in tulsa but nothing is really close to the range. if you are reasonably fit and good at keeping your focus, i think shooting in one day is fine. have clothes for different weather. eat snacks and drink more than enough fluids. your brain runs on sugar, do not bonk.

part of my dry fire routine is set ups to a barricade in the garage. when you are doing your walk through pick all of your spots on the ground and find/make a reference point for them. visualize hitting those points while doing your mental run through before you shoot. i also occasionally do cone drills like are used in speed and agility training.

hand fit barsto barrel, brand new locking lug. where the barrel hits the hood and the block is going to determine your potential mechanical accuracy more than slide to frame. and sights for sure, beacuse even with the best potential accuracy the gun is almost worthless (hyperbole but how i feel) with those stock sights.

I had fitment issues with the HL impact sports and sold them immediately. cheap foamies under passive muffs is all i do now.

Squad 45!

Very first IDPA match (well any match of any sort) was August 25th 2012. I shot 4 matches before I shot the classifier for the first time on October 13, 2012. I shot a Glock 34, twice, to classify for ESP and SSP. I classified Sharpshooter in both divisions my first time.

airforceblue, the waiting list actually came down to that level. up the the 87th person off the list was offered a spot to the indoor nationals. the regular outdoor nationals is something different. (as you know)

Thanks! And yeah, I must be ocd as I like things symmetrical. Guess I will learn to accept it.

Even the cheapest safety glasses have saved me from frag and such. But the fit is what I look for most now as I had a piece of brass bounce off a barricade to my right and fly magically past my hat, past my glasses frame and land behind the lens on my check. Burning my flesh and held there by the glasses, unable to be dislodged with the most vigorous of head shaking.

When I shot Blue Bullets through my G34, 125 round nose, 3.4grains Titegroup was my load that got me at like 1010fps all day. I noticed no smoke outdoors and in the sun. Looking at the video though, there was definitely smoke. Indoors I would have to pause after every couple mags to let the smoke be cleared by the ventilation (shooting quickly, not just plinking). Some no/low light matches with a handheld light made seeing my sights impossible. That's been my experience with EVERY moly coated bullet I've shot with titegroup, out of any of my pistols.

So I was filing the notch on my CZC rear sight for my SP01 Shadow to get it to .140 and when putting it back on and re-zeroing I noticed it is offset to the right. Pulled out the 75b SAO I have and have never touched the rear sight on and it is even more offset to the right. Again, an aftermarket sight put on by my builder. Is this a "thing" I just noticed and has been around or what? Normally I would think software, i.e trigger control, but I don't because I don't shoot other people's guns to the left and the 75b whose sight I've never messed with shoots straight. And I shoot my other pistols straight as well. Using the micrometer it looks like I filed my sight evenly as well, so the offset isn't correcting me taking the notch off center.... What gives? Are your aftermarket sights all offset? And when I say off set, I mean the width of the edge rib, looking down at the top of the slide. Or maybe I'm being crazy.....

indoor nationals is almost impossible to get into if you haven't shot it before..... or at least that was my experience. i tried to enter the indoor nationals 2 minutes after the chance became available for someone who hadn't been in before and that had me 86th on the waiting list.

17 points and in. i'm sure i heard someone with only 3 points say they got in....

Last year I got in with 4 off the first cut. With the change in point systems I bet your 6 is a good number. I know people who applied with two this year. I also know people who made the mistake of sending their app in early, thus going in the reject pile and still got in.

i took a regular 75b, had a magwell added, sights, trigger and converted to SA only. it is a great esp gun!

my gen3 g34 belt holster from comp-tac is what my gen4 g41 fits in just great.