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Here's a training spoof video I made to spice up the upcoming DVD of Season 2009 matches: http://www.askomiko.com/Montage03_pieni.mp4

We have an indoor range in town, (a rare thing in Finland) but because of work schedules I missed most of the club practises there. That might be good too, the lead levels might be a bit unhealthy there. But some shooting in the long winter is necessary, I remember making lots of progress in winter 2006-2007, when I could attend all practise sessions there. Training sessions of outdoor season 2009 so far: 23.4. 120 rounds 26.4. SRA match 30.4. 300 rounds 3.5. SRA match 7.5. 160 rounds 8.5. 50 rounds 9.5. 100 rounds 14.5 50 rounds 15.5. 230 rounds 16.5. Bigger pistol match 17.5. Medium IPSC rifle match. Sucked hard. 22.5 300 rounds 24.5 Medium pistol match. Vacation! Lets go shoot! -> 26.5. 200 rounds 28.5. 200 rounds 29.5. 230 rounds 30.5. 50 rounds <- Vacation 1.6. 230 rounds 5.6. 160 rounds 7.6. Medium pistol match 13.6. 150 rounds 17.6. 200 rounds 22.6. 320 rounds. This was today, so I remember something about it: Drill 0: Accuracy shooting from 20m Drill 1: start with gun pointing at target #1, at beep, run few meters right and engage target #2. Repeat to left from there. Drill 2: add reload on the way. Drill 3: Three targets with or without tight N/S's. Is it faster to shoot them from 20 meters or run closer and shoot. I ended up preferring to shoot them from 20m. Drill 4: draw while sprinting forward. Focusing on the exploding start. And with cleats, the range grass is now mud. Drill 5: shoot target while moving towards it Drill 5: shoot target while backing away from it Drill 5: shoot targets while moving left to right Drill 5: shoot targets while moving right to left Drill 5: emptying mags at full speed from 10m Drill 6: accuracy shooting Plus a few training sessions on another range, I haven't written those down since there's no book on that range. Better start writing those down too. Next matches: 5.7.2009 Medium pistol match 12.7.2009 Medium 25.-26.7.2009 IPSC Pistol National championships 1.-2.8.2009 SRA Championships. Biggest match of the year, in competitor numbers, and this year it is held in our neighbourhood, so we are building it for the whole week. (9.8.2009 IPSC Rifle national championships. Lets see if I go or not.) I like how all those big matches are grouped, 3 weekends of high quality shooting. Whoa, lots of text.

Greetings from Finland. We are sort of endangered species here, after two school shootings in one year politicians have pressed the "we have to do SOMETHING" -button, and it shows. Getting licenses for guns has been tightened, with doctor examinations and club membership requirements and other extra hoops. I figured a range diary can't hurt when proving that you really do the sport thing actively, so I might as well start to write this range diary here. I've been shooting actively for .. maybe 4 years, this is my third summer competing in IPSC (and finnish reservist 3-gun). I shoot standard, at this moment with Tanfoglio HC limited custom, also know as EAA Witness Elite Limited in US. Standard/limited is my main focus, rifle, 3-gun and "long" range accuracy rifle (.308 Savage at the moment) come as a bonus. Ranking as of 31.5.2009: 76.14%, which is A, for the first time. Just by 1.14%, but still. The ranking is different from US ranking, ours is calculated as average of 4 highest match results from the last 5 matches (lev2 and up) you have attended. 2007: Shooting minor, with CZ Tactical sports in 9mm. 60%'ish scores. 2008: Started the season with CZ TS .40, switched to current Tanfoglio in summer. I attended pretty much every IPSC pistol match there was in the country, totalling 8 pistol matches, 1 IPSC rifle match and 7 Finnish reservist 3-gun matches (SRA from now on). Here's a video from a funny little SRA match in the middle of a forest: http://www.askomiko.com/sissicup3.mp4 Exotic! Usually they are just like IPSC matches, in normal ranges, only that coming from the military backround, military clothes are ok. And the stage description might say "enemy." Ooh, so un-politically correct... Considering that the summer is short up here in north, it's quite a lot. 2008 IPSC pistol matches: 24.2.2008, Indoor match in my home town. 52%. The winner was on fire, as usual, 2nd place finisher got 79%. I got 53%. 18.5.2008, Bigger match in Kouvola. 59%. Looking the videos now, my shooting looks somehow ankward and sloppy. 8.6.2008, Medium match in Loimaa. 71%. 29.6.2008, National Standard and production championship, Mikkeli, 53% 6.7.2008, Medium match, Jyväskylä. 71%. First match with the Tanfoglio. Don't remember much anymore, some stupid mistakes. 20.7.2008, National open and modified championship, Sipoo. 59%. The gun killed me, the sear had worn so that the hammer wouldn't stay back, so I was shooting a single action revolv.. pistol. I remember being very very pissed, but then I won a CZ Shadow from the lottery at the end. Sort of saved the day (month). 27.7.2008, Medium match, Vaasa. 83%. I felt good here, got my first stage win too. Video here. http://www.askomiko.com/rasti3.wmv 25.8.2008, Medium match, Porkkala. 53%. I remember being pissed off on the way back. Got at least one major malfunction on a speed shoot stage. There's somehow a 10-15% drop in the results when our 6 time national champion and nordic champion is in a match and shooting limited, let's just say he just rules his class. Year is a long time, and I felt quite big improvement this year. In the Vaasa match, things kind of worked. Compared to the first match of the year, there was a noticeable difference. At least I hope so. Just for fun, here's a summary of all stages, SRA and IPSC from 2007-2008. Excel reveals a slighty upward trend across the 166 stages, 64 stages in 2007 and 102 stages in 2008. 2009 so far: 31.1.2009. Indoor match SRA. 22.2.2009. Indoor match, 65%. 14.3.2009. SRA, Mikkeli. Cold. Fun. 4.4.2009. SRA. Cold. Fun. Did somewhat good. I have to put this video of one stage because I beat my dear shooting buddy so much on this one: http://www.askomiko.com/kivaari_heh.mp4 First 4 paper targets maybe 25m, rest are 100 meters away, some paper on the mid port, the rest are steel. Oh, and yes, that is ice, which explains the non-exploding "granny on ice" - style movements. 26.4.2009. SRA in the middle of a forest, again. 3.5.2009. SRA in a proper shooting range. Bad. 16.5.2009. Bigger IPSC pistol match, Kouvola. 74.3%. I shot steadily, finishing 10th-15th for all stages, except... Almost zeroing 2nd biggest stage due to shooting 4 misses in two swingers hurt a lot. Add fumbling with the reload.. Crash and burn. Without that.. Well, there's always room for "IF":ing. Bought 8100 bullets here, gearing up for hopefully lots of training in the summer. 24.5.2009. Medium IPSC pistol match, Ilmajoki. 80%. Pretty good here, only two own mistakes: one miss and one standing reload. Video: http://www.askomiko.com/Pop.mp4 7.6.2009. Medium IPSC pistol match. 89%. Zero mistakes, only 17 C's in the whole match = 468/485=96.5% of available points. Felt real good. But after the match, I had to do some IF'ing again: two nose dives cost me 2 seconds in total, dropping me from 3rd place finish to 4th... Video here: http://www.askomiko.com/ppm.mp4 So, this season has started good, the gun works (eek, am I allowed to say this aloud, the gods will punish me), and I feel I do better and better on each match. Borrowed from Seth: "My current focus is on my own physical conditioning and improving my speed and efficiency on range." Yes, movement.. The aforementioned standard national/nordic champ is from our club, and it's great to watch him (and the other national champ (production) shoot and move. Yeah, a good club, eh. ) He is just insane in pretty much all aspects of the game, but what I'd most like to improve for now, is to be ready to shoot when I arrive a at a shooting position. In addition to that he can shoot while moving, moves fast as hell, jumps into ankward shooting positions, and gets up from those like a electric rabbit on a spring, has splits of an UZI and never misses a shot. Well, that's a long list, but lets start somewhere.. The main thing after all, is to constantly improve, not to beat others, just your dear shooting buddy, who's always within 5% and will own me if I stop.

Thanks all, Hey, I didn't think of that, time to change the basic windows picture in my PC too! Here, they're big so you can cut them to fit your different screens: http://www.askomiko.com/kuvat/big/

With a cold beer in hand, this also belongs to the "what I like" -forum. Midnight: Noon:

Found this good ol thread from the FAQ's! "Oh, looks slippery, better watch out". It's a great feeling if you can trust that you won't slip and crash. I have that while playing (finnish) baseball, with track&field type spiked shoes, sharp half inch spikes. I'd love to get that same amount of trust while shooting. So, shopping we go... Orienteering shoes with short spikes, good traction anywhere, except maybe steel. Never seen a steel platform though... Very good for running (hopelessly lost) through forests. I searched all nearby stores for regular outdoors shoes with rough texture outsole, for allround use, but I could not find any with proper (big) size for me. Spiked, low off-trail / orienteering shoes: http://www.icebug.se/Product.aspx?m=395 Those felt good, but I didn't want to get spiked shoes, they are so limited in their use, eg. you cant go indoors at a match without changing shoes... (If you care about wrecking the floor, that is.) I thought these would be good overall candidates: http://www.lasportiva.com/catalogue/catalo...amp;Language=EN But as with many others, I couldn't find them locally. Landsharks.. well, american football is not very common in europe, so those are not around either. I was so bummed not finding anything, so I just bought regular cheap soccer shoes, and so far I'm liking them. Good for soft-ish surfaces and not too bad on concrete either. On smooth surfaces I'd use normal shoes. Many football shoes are very prone to.. how would I describe it, "falling" towards the outer edge of your foot, which can be very very bad when stopping from a sideways motion. Those Adidas soccer shoes I got are a bit wider, which makes them less suspectible to that nasty ankle snapping thing. I also have those track&field spiked shoes but I haven't used them in shooting. Maybe if there's a winter match on smooth ice... Nothing beats sharp half inch spikes.

Wwwwwhat! I'm crying here! Going for the messiest title: Start: Reality: The table is like batmobile, it has so many gadgets bolted into it. Rifle case trimmer, fire extinguisher, vacuum cleaner...and it will probably fall apart if I try to move it! A bit too heavy for the original $1 table. The legs are already crushed into the lowest drawers, I pretty much can't open them anymore.

I really hate that feeling, "oh, this looks slippery, better watch out..." Then I end up walking like a granny on ice. I moved my shoe findings here: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?...0&start=100

Well, I just had to make a training montage spoof to spice up the annual match DVD I make for our club. Video If you cant see it, download the VLC player: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

I use the older, basic black one without any adjustments, and I cut a bit of it away to fit the box. The plastic on that one is soft enough to be easy to cut with scissors. You pretty much have to rack the slide from the back serrations with that installed, so that's a bit slower, but overall I like it. This, and the grip mod with putty to fit it to your hands -> "where'd the recoil go?!" I might take it off if a match had all starts with an empty gun though.

Ok, lets add the bonus of not having an extra hole in my leg.

Well, lets try a low resolution version if that doesn't work: http://www.askomiko.com/rasti3.wmv

I got my first stage win in level2 competition last autumn, that left a good feeling for the whole season. Well, the national top shooters were not there, but it still counts. Here's the video, too bad you can basically see just the RO's back. The last targets are around 50 degrees left from the furthest targets you can see here. The cameraman comment cracked me up, "damn, he went fast." http://www.askomiko.com/rasti3.mp4

Oh no, about the only spare part I did not buy this week was rear sight / rear sight elevation screw, and guess what broke today, two days before match...

I use tape in front of the left eye, and before the beep I like to focus to the spot where the front sight will be, so that the target is already blurry.

Cash is burning in my pocket, gimme something to buy!

I'm thinking about putting a C-more on this mount for my limited gun, just for practise use. Do I have to remove rear sight or is there room for that? Front sight has to go I guess.

Dryfire Shooting. Shooting more. .44 magnum. .40S&W is nothing then. Also, double hearing protection helps.

I had this done 4 months ago. Bladeless, open-the-flap and shoot the laser -thing. I'm 27, had glasses since I was 8. The procedure is really quick, "now you'll feel pressure" was the worst part, the whatever-device-it-is is pushed hard against your eye. But it doesn't last more than 20 seconds. The next day I felt I was looking the world thru Zeiss binoculars, distant details were just Awesomely Sharp, and I just stood on my balcony, going "whoa dude!", staring at the beautiful sunset and forest in the distance, and seeing the detail of my neighbours house's brick wall.. = it was a bit over-corrected, like wearing just a tad too strong glasses. The vision varied for a few days, and then settled down for a perfect normal vision. Only problem now is that bright lights make a bit of a glow effect while it's dark outside, like looking through a bit dirty glasses. Also, eyedrops are required for maybe about a year, my eyes get a bit dry. I'm very happy with my decision, altough it cost more than a very nice blaster! E: Oh, and rifle scope reticle was a bit blurry for a month, but it's perfect now.

I cant seem to add one in my shopping cart at the moment, are they out of stock?

I think I will be getting these too! I ruined one match when the hammer wouldn't stay back, it was like shooting a single action revolver for the rest of the match, and I don't want to experience that again. Have you done something to these parts or are they straight from EGW?

This one makes my stomach hurt: If you've been onboard a rally car, you know that you wouldn't want to be in that car! I was on the front seat once, "Wow, this has some acceleration! Hey, it's a corner closing in, you need to slow.. what, not yet, ... what, still accelerating, what are you doooooiiing! Aieee!!!" Pure horror.

Well, I went to the store and changed it to another one, this also has ugly barrel. I tested it quickly before work, this at least seems to shoot better: I'll accept this one, maybe it's possible to get this one to shoot ok.

Base: http://egw-guns.com/store/index.php?main_p...products_id=179 Rings: http://egw-guns.com/store/index.php?main_p...products_id=220 I shot a box of Lapua Aficionado with 168gr Scenars, and I couldn't make it group at all. I got same size groups with 5 shots that I got with 30 rounds of 55gr bulk ammo from AR15, fired fast. Yippee, my luck with rifles continues.