Dkrad1935

Chuck. I wasn't addressing that post to you. What I am describing isn't constructive, it's whining. I just wish people would not feel the need to declare how they hate the rules and how they sent the card back to IDPA. My point is - if I don't like cheese flavored Cheerios, don't keep buying cheese flavored Cheerios and complaining that General Mills should quite adding cheese to it. Just go buy some Kellogg frosted flakes. And realize that they keep making it cause there is a market for it. Just buy the other product with less drama. And don't come to a big match and get squadded with me and my 14 year old son and bitch and moan about having to wear a vest and this and that for 7 hours. And those guys probably drive 10 hours for the match! Just go shoot 3 gun or whatever floats your boat.

I guess I am more interested in identifying a standard or goal time for my reloads. Then I can work out the ergonomics of how to make it faster.

I am making the same transition from glock to a 1911. Will be interesting to hear responses.

I am trying to switch to shooting my 1911 and have been dry firing a lot. My times are slower, but thats OK - I think I am gonna be more accurate. I do a couple of drill progressions like the following: My bonus room gives me about 38 feet so the distance is about 35ish 1. Draw to a paper plate tacked onto the wall and break shot. The paper plate has a small black square painted in the middle. 2. Draw to paper plate, break shot, RL simulate shot to same paper plate 3. Draw to paper plate, break shot, RL shoot, RL shoot (no transitions) 4. Draw to plate, break shot, shoot second plate, RL shoot 2 more plates, RL shoot 2 more plates If I can draw to the plate in 1.8, draw to plate, rl to plate in 3.6 - then my reload should be solid at 1.8 seconds - but when I add the second reload in it takes longer than 5.4. Is it normal for reloads to get slower in a string? Or is it something that will improve as I continue to get used to this gun? Its a new sequence that I dont remember ever doing before. Any thoughts? How fast should a reload with a single stack 1911 IDPA rig be?

I do hear a lot if complaining. I was at a recent match and squadded with a bunch if uspsa shooters that complained the whole match. I really do hate complainers. Especially whiners. It has silly rules. Deal with it. Or don't. IDPA will either thrive in your absence or not. Haha Does anyone know if memberships are up or down year over year?

I think on my g34 I have Dawson .125 rear and .1 front

Nitro chuck. Where do u get lead?

My very brief experience is that shooters want it scripted out. I have been to matches where it was left wide open and I was excited because I thought I could solve it more efficiently than others. But during the walk through people ask questions and force the SO to spell it out. My guess is that is driven by the desire to avoid PE.

I feel like I am watching someone in a foreign country asking "where is the bathroom" in very loud English. Hahaha

OK - I started shooting last summer and dry fire training last fall. I quickly improved, then got tennis elbow and my shooting has suffered every since then. I can shoot really fast - but just not getting quality hits, and then i started slowing down but still getting crappy hits. We had the state match here locally and I really stunk up a standards stage ( like the IDPA classifier but longer distance). I know I am a better shooter than that - so I blamed my gun. And this turned out to be a good thing. I was shooting my G34. In the name of redemption for those long range shots i started practicing with a custom 1911 I won in my first match. he gun is almost twice the weight of the Glock and it took a few nights to figure out how to mount the gun on my draws - still working on that. But I have had a significant breakthrough in the last couple of nights - that I can only attribute to the weight of the gun??? Maybe I was seeing the alphas when I first started dry firing but after coming back from elbow probelms i was just shooting an indistinct sight picture. With the NightHawk - i started seeing the target again - and i know it is an alpha when i pull the trigger. Of course - need to validate that in live fire, but that is the most confident I have felt pulling the trigger in a long time. I had to slow down with a new gun to actually re-learn how to see... Does that make any sense! How do I keep that sensation? I felt like I was getting better everytime i did a drill. Unfortunately, i had to stop and take care of kids! But that was an amazing break through that I hope translates to actual shooting! Im also afraid to go back to the Glock as it might go away!!!!

No wonder he is a "crack" shot!

Haha. I just spawned a new product launch that will take the shooting world by storm! I'd like a cut!

Off topic - but every time I see the taran tactical symbol I think "is that a thong?"

If u are getting the Dawson front and rear, you don't have to get a woerd size Get the front that matches the rear and if it doesn't work they will swap out

I wouldn't replace the front and not the rear. Go ahead and get rear from Dawson as well

How is the new barrell shooting? Better groups?

I don't know for sure the numbers, but when I was in the army I read that something like close to a million bullets were fired in combat for every enemy killed. I am sure there is a similar statistic in US Law enforcement. Maybe the number is a thousand instead of a million but it's a pretty good sample size. Haha. It seems like basketball - some take three pointers but usually teams work to gets the ball to a player close to the net (tactics). You don't have to be a LEO to learn, understand or master tactics. Some are common sense, all are easily found in FM's etc etc. The tactics probably preempt the shooting skills if the before mentions stats are believed. Either way this is a useless pissing contest. Leo vs non Leo. On average both are probably pretty average. Doesn't mean that I am not still am above average ninja. Just sayin

Agree in the too large point. If my 34 shot like that I wouldn't be happy. But I still miss a lot of targets in competitions. So my barrell is apparently sporadically inaccurate:)

I'd be interested and possibly would bring my son along

Can't tell from the picture which group is better. But the Kkm group seems high. Can u adjust your sights?

in my experience, 25-35 bucks is the going rate in my area for electric hook up sites. look at any nearby koa for price comps or even the state parks web site in your area. you should probably be less than them, but you could charge for practice range access.....

I am new to IDPA and competitive shooting and have now been to a few matches in my area. I am also a certified SO and will be working my first big match this weekend. The few matches that I have been to - there seems to be a long wait period before awards and raffles are given out. Usually, the MD will say - is everyone OK if we dont wait an hour to review scores - to which everyone agrees and then they go through the prize table for an hour! Then hand out plaques and lastly the gun give a ways. Is there a faster way to do this? I ask, because I am usually driving quite a distance to the match and ready to hit the road and when I dont win a gun i ask myself why I didnt leave three hours earlier? So really a couple of questions: 1- Do you like the social time and are OK with the wait after or do you want it to go faster? 2- How can you speed up the process? Can you give away the name draw awards during the shooting? 3 - Do you thing the gun give-a-ways need to be after plaques to make sure there is an audience to recognize the winners? 4 - Just looking for thoughts on how to speed things up!

How many times does a delta operator have to look left or right before it becomes so instinctual that he can't turn it off or doesn't even think about it? Just curious cause the NY Reload guy has only done it 100 times and I doubt it's so burned in after 100 reps that he isn't consciously deciding to show off his delta prowess.

If I ever want to leave a match early I am gonna do the Charlie's angels gun in the air 360. I might also drop my gun and pull another out for my reload. I really dig how he said he has dropped his gun 100 times. Haha. I am just giggling right now.

I just had to comment so I can show this video to a shooting buddy at work:)