Gadela08

have you seen the Brian Enos's Article on having a balance between Control / Abandon in competition? I love the analogy. It's a dial you set. Figure out whether the stage will reward a dial of 8 control and 2 abandon or whether the stage rewards 2 control and 8 abandon. http://www.brianenos.com/pages/words.html sometimes the stages require you to switch up the dial for different elements. I'm still learning myself, but i feel like increasing the abandon could really improve my times.

like others have said, i see no advantage to shooting a larger caliber in 3-gun, unless your 3-gun match has major/minor scoring. but i don't see that happening as that's mostly a USPSA pistol competition scoring factor.

for me, i saw the biggest improvement in my recoil control when i finally learned to LOCK FORWARD my supporting wrist. there should be no bend in that baby. if that means holding your supporting thumb way forward on the frame, then so be it. i used to think the hands had to look pretty on the gun; now i just focus on locking that supporting hand forward and holding the trigger hand as high up on the tang as i can get.