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I'd never bother with a mag well funnel, since I am not going to train with gear I'd never use for real. With that limitation, 1.5 seconds is a really fast reload and hit of the A zone at 10 yds. I made up for it with .80 second draws and hits, tho. If you can react, draw from surrender, using a "limited" gun hit the A at 10 yds, swap mags, hit it again, under 2.5 seconds, you are cooking pretty good. If you truly can average 2.0 seconds, you are a real whiz.

I'll never bother with an optical sight. When I worked out a lot with a speed rig, and after I warmed up a bit, a surrender start and reliable hits on the 10" A zone averaged under .80 second at 5 yds. The same was true at 10 yds, but about half of the shots would be C's. I would have to slow down another .15 second to make them all be A's at 10 yds, and even that was no guarantee under match stress. Are guys much faster than that today? I hear that the split times are much faster than the .16 second that was about all I could manage. I wonder, tho, if that's from having the tactically unsound sub-2 lb trigger pulls? I was using Bob Arganbright's variant of the Hackathorn special (muzzle forward rake verson). The Hack (by Sparks) had a lot of leather in the way of getting your middle finger tight up against the bottom of the trigger guard,so I had Bob remove it. quote=MattBurkett,Apr 21 2005, 12:57 PM] A good starting point is for the weak hand to be 45 degrees "kicked out" at the bottom. The fingers are straight but not tensed. Relax for the speed - on both hands. If anyone has any questions or sees somthing posted about my technique, drop me an email - not a PM - at matt@burkettvideo.com and I will try to add what I can. Take care, Matt PS I will try to follow this thread while I am teaching in TN this weekend and answer any questions. :-) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

that depends. Not everyone is up against grand masters all the time, and even GM's can screw up. If you have no chance of winning at your normal speed (because of a screwup, you might as well go for the "hose". If it was for real, fast, noisy misses have made many an enemy duck and miss.

Brian himself practiced the falling plates at twice the match distances. Controling recoil doesn't mean much until you are truly, truly good, and then it means nothing at longer or really short ranges, only at mid distances.