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    Aggressive 2011 Grip

    in Open Pistols

    Posted

    On 10/5/2021 at 10:03 AM, MuayThaiJJ said:

    I tried Vicious skate tape for the first time a few weeks ago, wow...def the most aggressive.

    I have a Limcat with aggressive checkering under the trigger guard, it's great

    Thank you for the input, thank you! 

    Aggressive 2011 Grip

    in Open Pistols

    Posted

    Morning Everyone,

     

    I am seeking guidance on who makes the most aggressive grip for the 2011 platform? Most aggressive I've picked up was a grip with the waffle pattern, but cant seem to find anyone that does a under cut and stippling for the pattern. Tempted to do it myself, but this is not my first choice. Any suggestions? 

     

    Thanks! 

    40 Open

    in Open Pistols

    Posted

    On 1/22/2009 at 8:14 AM, splashdown said:

    To date there have been 13 people vote for 40 in G-Man's poll, "What caliber is your open gun?"

    I know there have been a few threads in the past, but I'd like this to be a place for us all to come together to compose a shapshot to answer the who, what, where, when, why, and how's. So, some questions, then I'll answer myself:

    When did you start shooting open? Was 40 your first caliber in open? Why did you choose 40?

    What make is your gun? Who built it? What barrel length, comp and optic are you using?

    Do you run a big stick, and what capacity are you getting?

    What have you settled on for a load?

    What's your open classification?

    Where do you live?

    My answers:

    I had a limited gun and put a 6" top end on it with the idea I'd reuse the 5" top end someday for an open gun. After finding little bits of information scattered all over this forum I decided to go for it. I primarily chose the 40 for financial reasons. I had the major components that were already fit to my frame. I get to use the same mags and dies in the press as my limited gun. In the end, I saved a few thousand dollars by going with 40. If I had the money, I would've gone 9mm, but i'm doing this on a poor man's budget.

    I decided to have Gary Natale (gansguns) do my 40 top end. I just received it back from him this week and haven't shot it yet. I decided on his Model 5 comp with bleeders in the last two chambers. I thought it looked cool and he said it would work fine. My optic of choice was the Trijicon MS03, 8 MOA dot with a JV Dynamics frame mount. I chose the Trijicon to keep the dot low (don't like the high up C-more) and for it's lifetime warranty. Pics can be found in the gallery.

    I'm interested to find out who the rest of you are, mainly just to learn more about it because I'm so new to "the dark side."

    Thanks,

    splash

    I've only met one person who shot a 40 open. I think with the recent changes and reliability of 9 major (mainly cost efficiency) is why everyone is changing over. 

    How To: Faster Reaction to THE BEEP

    in Tips for Improvement

    Posted

    On 3/14/2021 at 5:45 AM, StefVanHauwe said:

    Video of a presentation that explains the IPSC technique on how to speed up your reaction time (cognitive: hearing the beep) and response (mechanical: drawing the gun) to the shot timer's "BEEP", in order to start sooner and shave off .15" to .1" per stage. This video is primarily meant for intermediate/advanced shooters. Let me know in the Comments below if and how you use this or another technique, or why not!

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPG434-ZHrI

     

     

    Interesting stuff. Thank you for sharing. 

    Training With Just 50 Rounds

    in Tips for Improvement

    Posted

    On 12/11/2020 at 1:57 PM, RangerTrace said:

    One of the main reasons for live fire practice is to work on your recoil management.  If you are only shooting slow fire, I think you are going to miss out on some of the benefit of live fire practice.  Not to mention, those ranges are close enough, that you should be able to fairly quickly put your rounds on target.  I'd say use 1/4 of the rounds for freestyle speed shooting at the distance of your choice, 1/4 of the rounds for strong hand only, 1/4 of the rounds for weak hand only, and 1/4 for freestyle group shooting at a minimum of 10 yards, but farther if the range is capable of it.  Thats just a quick though off the top of my head.  But I had surgery yesterday and may not be thinking very clearly either.

    Agreed. The difference between live fire and dry fire is the physiological response to an explosion happening in our face. 

    What is it?

    in Zen

    Posted

    On 9/20/2019 at 11:37 AM, GrumpyOne said:

    Sparky, Sparky, Sparky...When did I say Buddhism was not a religion? This thread is about Zen....

     

    Zen is not a religion, it is a way of thinking...

     

    Agreed. 

    Music in earmuff

    in Little things I've Noticed

    Posted

    On 8/4/2018 at 11:28 PM, BoyGlock said:

    My default are classic rock and hard metal rock music of the 70/80s. Must be in my generation. Im not young anymore. But Ive tried other upbeat music and felt the same results. Think its personal preference. Whichever positively distracts you.  

    It's not just your generation. I am in my 20's, and rock is my default as well! 

    Buzzer dumb...

    in Mental Conditioning

    Posted

    On 11/15/2016 at 3:39 PM, benos said:

    Beat buzzer dumb with The Set. (Found this from long ago.)

    I distinctly remember when the phrase "visual patience" came into my mind on the drive home from a Tuesday night steel match, long ago. I remember thinking - wow, that really sums it up.

    The "last trick" I learned, which raised me to a higher and more consistent level, was to maintain a calm, aware state right through the buzzer, the draw stroke, and until I had the proper sight picture for the first shot. This state of awareness not only includes what I see mentally or visually, but how my body, mentally and physically, "feels" during that entire time. Maintaining total awareness during that one second or so after the buzzer is paramount for consistent success. 

    Maintaining conscious bodily awareness at the beginning prevents me from unconsciously rushing at the buzzer. Don't make any attempt to control anything during that time, simply remain aware. 

    Every planned detail, every form of control, should occur as you are mentally rehearsing exactly what you are going to do before you shoot. Then, silently maintaining a state conscious awareness allows your training, combined with your plan, to manifest as action. I call this "maintaining the set."

    The Set

    A set gathers things together, in this case – your training, clear intent (the totality of your plan), capacity, confidence, trust, determination, decisiveness, and conscious attention.

    The set is a state of mental alertness or mental awareness that allows all of the topics mentioned above to express themselves.

    The more and more I shoot and rehearse for stages, the more and more attention I direct toward the actual state of mind that I’m going to have, the actual way I am going to feel, not only as I start the stage, but as I move throughout the stage. I direct more attention to that matter than I do the actual visualization of the mechanics of the stage itself. To me that set, that state of mind, is what actually allows those things to be carried out. How am I going to feel the seeing?

    I visualize what I am going to do, but don’t dwell on it near as long as I used to. The bottom time is the set; it’s what allows everything to be expressed. It allows you to be able to fluidly shift your focus to every area that is needed to get the job done in the best fashion, but it is not a focus on that, per se. It’s a focus on clarity.

    Different people may feel that clarity in different places, although I think you’ll normally feel it in one of two places, either the forehead or stomach areas. I feel it in the center of my forehead, about an inch above my eyes. I can produce that feeling in my forehead that instantly stops the entire thought process and turns my attention so highly onto attention itself that there is no room for thought. Some people feel it in their stomach in an area two or three inches below the navel.

    It takes an extreme amount of attention to maintain that state. As soon as your attention slips from maintaining it, you will find thoughts are back and your internal dialogue is rolling, controlling, and limiting you.

    The set is an aware monitoring of your mental and physical state. It is critical because, if you start from an aware, attentive state, in which your muscles are set just right to do the job at hand - perfectly, with no extra effort – then, by monitoring and maintaining your attention, you ensure you never go "up,” thereby losing your “center.” The set is a method to maintain your center throughout the stage and throughout the match. If you start out  tense or rushing, it is very difficult to return yourself to a centered position while you are shooting. It is extremely difficult to do that; I have done it now and then, but it’s much easier to start from the proper frame of mind and then, by monitoring that, ensure that your mind doesn’t go anywhere else, ensure that you don’t create tension by unconsciously trying too hard.

    As with many things, the best way to describe what something is, is to describe what it’s not. The set contains no feeling of effort or trying whatsoever. It is a very calm, very deliberate, very matter of fact mode of operation.

    The set that you are feeling, is not only so much a feeling of awareness as it is a feeling of the whole attention level; the feeling of your mind and the feeling in your body. It is like a somatic, total body sensation of how you feel when you’re shooting. That feeling, that body feel, is learned in practice; the set is the feeling you have that encompasses all the feelings you have in your grip, arms, stomach, legs, mind, eyes and state of attention. It encompasses all those things into one body feeling. That total feeling is a lot easier to remember without using words than it is to try to think of a list of technical descriptions. When under pressure, no matter how big the strain is, the feeling of the set will not desert you like technical thoughts will. Thoughts are always a little behind the action. If you’re thinking your way through an act, you’ll notice your actions are "sticky."

    I’ve had this experience many times and have talked to other shooters who also have had it, that upon completion of an extremely successful course of fire, you cannot remember what thoughts you had. It’s a natural tendency to want to think back and know what you did or what you were thinking to control such a good performance, but it’s that lack of thoughts that produces that lack of memory.

    The lack of memory is the result of being in the set. By putting yourself in the most favorable condition to allow the ultimate expression of your capacity, that condition has very little to do with thought, so there is very little memory associated with it. So the bottom line really isn’t a bottom line; it’s that your attention always has to be attentive. It can never park itself in one place or get comfortable in one place, because that will only last for so long before the trick wears off.

    The desire to remember what we were thinking as we were performing impeccably, when in fact there is nothing to remember, imposes a sense of uncertainty or fear in the mind. Enter trust. Through experience, we must learn to trust that if we maintain a state of conscious awareness and simply witness what is actually happening, the aforementioned topics will manifest themselves to your capacity.

    A way that might help get into the whole feel of the set I’m describing would be if you were holding your pistol out in front of you and everything about your position felt the most perfect, relaxed and neutral as possible, then direct your mind to absorb your body’s feeling. Feel that set of how you’re holding right there. That total body feel also includes your mental feel, the feel of "relaxed and hard" or of "moving quickly but not in a hurry," "matter of fact," whatever means the most to you. No words! The attention necessary to hold that feeling does not allow words to surface.

    The set allows your intent to be expressed at it’s highest, most complete level. The memory of the feeling is so total that it cannot be broken down. As soon as you try to categorize any particular part of it, you make it so complex that you destroy any hope of spontaneously creating it in the present.

    You can see how your will functions while performing actions in your everyday life; it’s subtle and it’s hidden, but it’s always there. (By “will” I mean your desire backed by conviction, determination, and decisiveness.) If you’re alert to it, your will is directing your action simply by your intent or your desire to do that action in the most efficient manner necessary. In its natural state, your will asserts itself very spontaneously. When you drop your wallet, you reach and pick it up. If at that moment you are "present," the chances of not picking it up are slim. (Nor would have dropped it in the first place.) If you’re thinking random thoughts when you reach to pick it up, you may pick it up and drop it again. If you’re reaching for a doorknob, for example, and your hand slips off before the door opens, if you’re attentive to your thoughts you may notice you were somewhere else, your internal dialogue was running.

    Love Brian's posts! 

    Loosing mental focus

    in Mental Conditioning

    Posted

    On 6/22/2016 at 2:59 PM, vinceislander said:

    Eat well, sleep well and hydrate well starting at least two days out, preferably three days out.

    I have been able perform well and get my first stage jitters quickly under control by following those guidelines.

    Good advice! 

    being an idiot

    in Mental Conditioning

    Posted

    On 7/22/2018 at 3:40 PM, Davidp1911 said:

    There are two types of shooter. Those who were DQ'd and those who are about to DQ'd... know your limits starting out, speed will come as you become more experienced.

    Is this Master Yoda? 

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