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Found the list and forwarded to our state Senator who has introduced the CCW bill with my request to keep our new bill void of something like this. Thanks for the good info. Rick

I pulled up the article and I don't see this list or the link, have they removed it or I just didn't see it. This kind of thing especially interests me right now since we have a CCW law that has been introduced to the legislature and will be voted on within the next few weeks. Currently we don't have lists available, but the Police Chief's Association wants one so that they can tell when they pull you over who has a permit and who doesn't. They also want the information public. Lynn, your question: "whatever happened to the right to privacy?", if you haven't watched anything about the new supreme court nominees you might have missed it but that question has nothing to do with you as an individual it only applies to "Roe vs. Wade"

Ron, you can't do that on this board! You can't make a statement like: Matt McClearn told me, "It's all about the set up..." and then not explain how you do your set up in detail. Please elaborate. Ron, if you would prefer to put your answer in this thread that would be fine too: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?...topic=25527&hl= Thanks for the help. Rick

Nice link Mark, glad that things are working out for you. I still have a long way to go. Shot two matches this past weekend. One IDPA and one USPSA. Shot faster and more accurately than in a while, still have some work to do (one stage proved that), but I didn't dwell on the negative and moved past it and shot well on the next few stages. That for me was a nice victory in itself. I keep trying to replay the positives. Was talking with a guy at yesterday's shoot. Would love to hire Max and Travis for a training class next year. Rounds down range can move you ahead in the game if you are practicing the right things, but there is nothing like first hand training. Thanks again DP for bringing this topic up - wonderful topic.

Great discussion. I have studied the Matt B DVDs and started this thread: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?...topic=25498&hl= and it really helps to go over this stuff from time to time. Thanks for a nice recap. I'm just thinking out loud, but if I had to choose two of the things that people need to work on the most in their training it would probably be mental training and movement. So many times we focus on things like reloads and draws but training the mental / movement excercises will probably give better results on field courses for people that have shot for a little while. Just my opinion.

Depends more on law to me than spring wear. I shoot in the republic of IL once in a while and don't load those mags until I arrive at the match.

Gun Geek and all who responded, I originally posted "I believe I know the answer but wanted your input." Thanks for the input. No target was a super threat, all targets were visable in the open, all the same distance. When I shoot strong hand as a right handed shooter, I prefer to shoot right to left and when I shoot weak hand I prefer to shoot left to right. I believe it is the shooters choice, but wanted to bounce it off the crew here. Thanks again for your responses.

Mark, Page 53 under SO responsibilities: "Safety Officer (SO) Responsibilities. 1. Focus on the shooter’s firing hand and gun. 2. Remember that the shooter is always given the benefit of any doubt." The above was just cut and pasted from the rule book. Thanks for the comments everyone. Rick

Glad that things are going well and that you enjoyed yourself.

Thinking about this overnight, I think next time I will call the match director over if they say that they think it is a perfect double and let them make the final call after I tell them how I ruled. Rick

I should have originally posted a better discription of the COF. Sitting at a table, all three targets at 5 feet distance, 2 feet apart. Tactical sequence was specified. My question pertains more to: can you shoot an array left to right or right to left, if the COF says T1 through T3? Everything else being equal. Thanks for the response. Rick

I just finished reading Saul Kirsch's book: Thinking Practical Shooting. In his book he makes a point of bring up a nice discussion on the perfect double. The book is a great read so read it yourself, but a taste of what he says is that in all of the time he has shot, he has seen maybe 3 or 4 true perfect doubles. He goes on to say that score keepers need to really call them like they see them and quit this gift giving just because they like the person or that person is a well known shooter etc. Tonight at a match with 3 shots to the target I find one hole. I call it down 10. The guy pasting next to me says "looks like a perfect double to me", with a big smile. The shooter then says, "I think it's a double, but I am not going to argue the point" I scored it down 10. The single hit was in the down 0 area so FTN was not a concern on this target. I know in IDPA we never use templates and give the shooter the benefit of the doubt. Should I have called it like I actually saw it and become unpopular or would you have given in and said sure it could be a perfect double? Again, I called it like I saw it and I looked at it hard, I saw no evidence of a double. It would have had to be a perfect double. Rick

This should be a simple one and I believe I know the answer but wanted your input. COF says shoot T1 through T3. I shot if right to left, T3 first. The SO who is experienced gave me a proceedural for not shooting it in order per the COF. Then the match director said, "it's OK, it doesn't really matter" and the Procedural was taken away. Was the match director being nice or do I have to shoot it in that particular order? It was a 3 target array where you shot it 1, 1, 2, 1, 1. It was not part of the classifier, just a club level match. Thanks for the comments.

I about shit my pants - what is wrong with you people!

I've done the USPSA speed reload at an IDPA match and picked up the mag before leaving the area but not before shooting and was not given a PE just had added time to pick up the mag. I feel that is how the rules were meant to be inforced. If it was at the last station and you dropped the mag coming out of the gun to gain a competitive advantage a FTDR would be appropriate. In your example he didn't do a speed reload which is not allowed in IDPA but rather dropped the mag that he was trying to reload the gun with. Then he went to his belt carrier again and got another mag. This wasn't a speed reload but a bobbled RWR. Did he pick up the mag before leaving the station? He probably did under the direction of the RO. Interesting senario, will be interested in seeing how headquarters responds. In my own mind he did bobble the reload and live ammo hit the ground. He did not perform the reload as intended. If I were the shooter, I wouldn't try to argue the point of the PE because I picked up the mag before leaving the station. I would take responsibility for dropping the mag and not doing the RWR properly. I know in your example no PE was awarded. I wouldn't argue to get a PE either in a match. If one was awarded, I would just accept it and start thinking of how I was going to shoot the next station properly and leave this station behind in my mind or it might effect the next stage that I shoot. I shoot a match this afternoon and will bring this one up. Rick

I didn't get it the first time around at all. After reading TriggerT's response I had to pull the picture back up and then went - Oh, that's what they were talking about.

On the adjustable cant: if it can be adjusted while you are wearing it, it isn't legal. If you have to take it off to be adjusted then it is legal.

Boo, you made me hungry.

I came home after work the other day and haven't had Ramen noodles for years. I was hungry and fried up some chicken breast then added some spaghetti sauce to the meat. I wanted some pasta with it, but that was going to take too long when I saw the Ramen noodles. Cooked in water in the micro, drained the water and then added to the chicken and spaghetti sauce. Hit the spot and the pasta was done in about 3 mins.

I use an RCBS scale. The trigger hook is thick enough that I can place the hook at the very end of the trigger by the trigger guard and do my check. It holds down the trigger safety and the scale hook rides next to the trigger guard. This gives me the best mechanical advantage to read the scale as well as producing a repeatable reading. My Ralph S. trigger is breaking about 2.25 pounds these days in my G34. I need to clean and lube and it should get back to about 2 pounds with this method. Rick

Truly a wild ride watching Dan O do that climb. A phenom as an athlete. Thanks for sharing.

Saul Kirsch in his new book talks about not training with the same intensity all year around and how that can lead to serious burn out. I took two months off after the state shoot this year and it has led to a nice renewed interest in the sport. I Didn't shoot or post on this board in Aug and Sept and it really charged my batteries. The idea of shooting something else also interests me. I love to shoot sporting clays but haven't been shooting a shotgun since the pistol bug bit. Rimfire silhouette was also a grand time. Next year if I get to the same place I think that I will just switch games for a while and enjoy myself.

On doing reloads at the buzzer, one note is to initiate action at the start of the buzzer. There is no need to wait until the tone has completed to start. If focus is placed at movement at the very beginning of the tone this can help. On dropping the mags; I stand at the end of the couch and do them so when I drop a mag it just drops onto the couch and I don't have to bend all the way to the floor to pick them up. Works for me.

It's not that the cheapos are just dirtier. The shot is not hard shot so longer shots the soft stuff doesn't pattern as well. The components are all less expensive. The hulls usually aren't meant to be reloaded, the wads are cheaper resulting in not as tight patterns, etc. The truth is that if the shots are close shots the cheap stuff can do the job. I just don't like to run it in my autos. For a pump gun it isn't as critical.

I'm with DirtyPool on this one. Even though I move both hands at the same time, I cut substaintial time off of my reloads by focusing on moving the weak hand at the last shot. I'm just a C class shooter so take this advice with this in mind. We shoot a training type of league on Tuesday mornings and keep of log of basic times. Last Tuesday the fastest reload that I did was a 1.12 with an Aver closer to 1.25. One thing besides the focus on moving the weak hand has helped me and that is practicing at what I call 1/3 speed. I use to practice all of my reloads at full speed. In Saul Kirsch's newest book he speaks about training precise movements at a slower speed doing everything perfectly and then working up to a FEW reps at full speed. He says that by training at full speed all of the time you have some sloppiness built into your technique and by doing some dryfiring and some precise slower movements you are training your subconscious the proper way to do a perfect reload. One last comment and that is if you believe that you can't go faster than 1.6 guess what? You won't go faster than 1.6. So by seeing yourself do reloads in your minds eye (visualization) much faster, you will open yourself up to performing faster. You have to believe. Sounds like mumbo jumbo I know, but after Sauls books and just about finished with Winning in Mind by Lanny Bassham and these two books are going to be the key for me making the next big break in my shooting development.