KelsonAK

With the Blitz and the Zulu 2.0 - do you disable the secondary spring in the receiver tube that comes with the Zulu?

That handguard looks amazing on that. Reeeeally nice work.

I bought a 10/22 at a pawn shop. Replaced the extractor. Dropped it in a magpul stock and ran that. I think I paid as much for the stock as I did the rifle, actually... I upgraded the trigger by doing a trigger job and that's it. Really - factory sights and all. I've decided that I'll shoot RFRO some this year, so an EGW rail is on it now, (it is the extended rail) and a Cmore 8 MOA dot with a riser on the comb of the magpul stock.... If'n I want to get fancy I'll get a Willand, Tacsol, or Beyer barrel and spring for a Brimstone trigger job, and maybe one of them cool bolt handles.... Heck... maybe I'll get someone to paint it 'purdy.' I guess what I'm saying is this: Get something that fits you, has good balance, and that runs... period. You can certainly get sucked into shaving ounces, or grams - and you can make some damn sexy looking guns. But if your budget is bare and you want to shoot - you can do pretty reasonable with a pawn shop find and a couple of magazines.

Is there such a thing as too light?

So - dryfire documentation: I am of the opinion that you don't need to or WANT to document every rep. Instead - identify the duration and par time used. As the part time drops - document it. So if I dryfire the draw and I start with a 1 second par time and do that for 1 minute, then drop the par time to .9 for 1 minute - I document that kind of 'block.' I don't care if once I got it at .85 and once I got it at .89 and once I got it at 1.3..... I am documenting my training a bit more coarsely. I still try to have a session goal, I still document solutions and successes. But I do NOT have 232 lines of data.....

Yep - made it myself.

I have a lovely Steel Challenge Performance Log that I've made. 200 pages, spiral bound - split between dryfire and live fire practice. Kinda pretty much follows the Lanny B model. If anyone wants one... shoot me a message and we'll figure out how to get you one. I'm on my 4th version of it at this point... I tried doing a spreadsheet and recording it electronically, but I don't take a laptop to the range and I wind up using my phone for video analysis purposes... paper, even in the 21st century - works best for me.

Ooooooo.... pretty!

Wait till your perspective changes on Roundabout.....

I go to the range with a specific goal in mind. Sometimes the goal is 'figure out what I need to figure out' - but sometimes it is as specific as 'decrease first shot time in 5 to Go'. Most often, it's figure out what I need to figure out.... I start with a few dry fire reps for trigger control and then shoot a few groups. I will set up a stage - we'll use 5 to Go as an example. I shoot it 'for score' to get a baseline and to identify what specifically I need to work on. I'll look at every shot on the timer. In some cases I'll video the baseline and take a few minutes to review the video. Then, I figure out how to best work on whatever it is that I need to address in isolation. In some cases, that means that I shoot the entire stage but ONLY am concerned with the times/accuracy for a specific function. In some cases it means I only shoot 1-3 shots to work on a specific skill. My general idea is this: Figure out something to work on. Work on THAT and implement a solution. Make it the 'new normal' and then integrate it back into the full stage for a new 'baseline.' Repeat, or move to a different stage/skill. I try to NOT do too much in a single session. I try to work/improve 1 or 2 things at most. Then... Sleep. This is critical, as it is the sleep cycle that is responsible for moving stuff from the conscious mind to the subconscious mind. If there is a long period of time between doing and sleeping, I will add in a little visualization of whatever it is I'm trying to make permanent. One of the things I'm going to try is substituting 30 minutes of meditation/relaxation for the sleep cycle. A few studies show that 90min of 'learning' with a 30min 'nap' (doesn't have to be sleep, you can substitute meditation) can be very effective at moving learned things into the subconscious/long term storage. I've also been considering adding some other mechanisms that are a little woo woo to my training - including smell. Some studies show that a fragrance during the learning process and then repeated during the 'sleep cycle' portion assists in the effectiveness of making permanent. Smelling Eley primer mix probably isn't the right fragrance for this... I talk about practice and isolation a little bit in my latest youtube video and will be doing a bit more in the future:

I use a right side charging handle. Mostly because I'm poor.

For practice... i use my highly calibrated 1 yard pace. I usually get within a foot or 2 that way... For matches, 100 foot tape and 25 foot tape. If I'm feelin froggy I may even mark the ground with some orange marking paint. At our range, which does not have dedicated action bays at this time - if it's down range it gets shot. So the whiskers, survey markers, etc - they all become targets once we leave the bay. Damned people....

I finally got some of the promo CCI clean run through a chrono - and it all came in subsonic instead of 'high velocity' - so I sold it to a dude on the spot so he could run it with his cans.

Todd wound up with Covid and that has put him a bit behind last I heard. He's a good dude - email him and I'm sure he'll get you a status update.

Picked up 2 170mm's In my Stock 3 and my Limited turned Open gun, tons of nose up feed issues. Like, un-useable nose up feed issues at any length bullet. Guns are NOT stroked. Removed the brass buffer in the open gun and put the stock guide rod in the Stock 3 and the issues pretty much vanished with hand feeding. Will confirm on range. Then... will likely order a few extras.

https://christiansencomponents.com/ has a few toni system parts. MBX Magazines are available in the 170s again. I just got a couple and and working out the bugs. It seems they like a longer stroke, so I may wind up stroking my gun just for feeding. I did not look to see if they have 155s or 140s in stock - I use factory 17 round magazines with Henning extensions. I'm not hugely happy with that solution, but for the time being it 'works for me!' Patriot Defense has already been discussed. I have ordered parts from https://www.ericgrauffelonlineshop.com/en/133-tanfoglio-parts-?page=1 and gotten them just fine. I have a Cheely 90deg setback for a Cmore that I got from a feller on here. Not sure how often those come available these days. There are other options. Same feller has a comp that is a bit more better than the factory comp but I can't speak to availability.... I'm sure John will pipe up here shortly.

The prize table and awards will go kind of late into the evening - 9:00ish or so on Sunday. I drove back to Atlanta after the awards to make a Monday morning flight and it made for a very late night. I will try to stay Sunday night this time and drive out on Monday. If possible, take your son to the CMP store - the one where they refit the M1s, etc. I did NOT make it there last time and am kickin myself for not making time for it.

Right handed shooter. 1,2,4,3,S It works based on my movement - gun swings left to right as my body starts to move left to right. Aiming on 4 as I come in and swing back to center. The better question is really - where is your body pointed, where are your feet, where is your weight, when do you start to move, what foot first, etc. When we look at the numbers of a stage breakdown the big numbers are usually first shot time and box to box shot times. Yes, you can peel a little off the transitions in this stage, but really the 'money' is in how you bring your box to box time down and THEN we can talk about cutting transition times down between 1 and 2, and 43S.

Thanks - I've been waiting for a bit for them to be back in stock. Ordered a couple myself.

I turn my 6 and 8 moa slide rides off between stages. Battery lasted about a year - and I replaced it before WSSC because I kept hearing how they are such battery pigs and I wanted to just be safe vs. sorry. I find turning it off between stages makes sense, since I need to set the brightness for the angle of the sun, etc usually anyway.

I managed to take high B class at WSSC with a bone stock 10/22 with a self help trigger job and a Magpul stock. Kept the stock sights. If/when I do it again, I'll swap out the barrel for a Wiland, and use his sights as well.

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Shhh..... don't tell. I'm about half a second away from 100% in RFPI now....

Ben, What is important? Developing and training the best techniques and processes that yield the best and most consistent results. Being an 'unconscious' performer is part of that (a process or a technique.) The question and follow up is probably best dumped into it's own thread as the issue of vision and following/leading the sights or dot is moving pretty far afield from the OP's question on first shot times for RFPI.