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GLOCK17RACER

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  • Birthday 01/01/1975

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    Overgaard, AZ
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    New to USPSA and 3GN, wanting to learn everything I can.
  • Real Name
    Bo Cox

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  1. Sunday went well, however I had stove pipes on every stage and 4 of them on one stage. Somehow I still managed to win the match overall, placed first on all stages except the one with all the malfunctions. I have done a bunch of work to my Glock 34 Limited gun and I guess I overlooked the recoil spring. I still had the stock spring in it so when I got home I went thru all my gun stuff and found an 11# spring. I plan on loading a couple hundred rounds today and heading out for some live fire. I have another USPSA Match this Saturday and I want to make sure everything is good to go. I did some d/f drills with the rifle and pistol yesterday. I wish I had more time to train on the rifle/shotgun. I will just have to fit it in somewhere. My training also includes watching videos and reading as much material I can find on the net. Anyway, I was watching a video by Rob Leatham and suddenly had an epiphany! It's funny how you can go from trying to figure out how to get the mag off your belt and into the gun and then you realize youre trying to figure out how you can get your gun ready for the mag after a little practice beacuse it happens so fast but Leatham's vid simply stated something that just clicked. When you fire your last shot, why are you wasting time thinking about your last shot instead of reloading and moving to the next array? Hmmm, ok. I tried it, #8 drill on Mr. Anderson's book, I started out with a 4 second flat drill speed and couldnt get it faster to save my life but after watching that video I went to work. 3.8 seconds baby and it's gonna get faster, I can feel it. #1) 0.50 dropped 1/10th #2) 0.60 dropped 1/10th #3) 0.60 same #4) 0.70 dropped 2/10th (funny story here, I don't look at my times befrore each drill and I do more reps than expected. I kept practicing and couldn't figure out why I couldn't get below 0.60 after a while I was getting it about 50% of the time so I decided to write down 0.70 cause that is where I was comfortable at everytime. To my surprise 0.90 was my fastest last time. I need to forget previous times more oftyen, maybe it sets a predetermined wall mentally thats hard to overcome.) #5) 0.70 dropped 2/10th #6) 0.90 dropped 1/10th #7) 0.70 same but I am getting down to 0.60 about 80% of the time, I won't log time unless I'm 100%. I would be lying to myself if I did otherwise. #8) 3.8 down 2/10th ( I truley believe that epiphany effected the rest of my times as well. I actually started witht his drill first. I have to say, I feel more comfortable in the box than I do out of it. The sound of the buzzer sets me free instead of binding me now. All in all I feel right at home when I step into a stage starting area. Some things I need to work on are more visualization by shooting the stage over and over in my mind and being able to do that by walking a stage before I shoot. I try to walk the stage and then step off to the side and close my eyes, when the buzzer goes off in my head I see all the targets and choose my first mentally and shoot the stage, I open my eyes and re walk the stage to see if that makes sense. It does most of the time but once in a while I have to do some rewrites lol. Once I decide how I'm going to shoot it I then close my eyes and shoot it over and over in my mind, I almost feel like I'm cheating but you can't tell me the pros are not doing something similar.
  2. Been out sick for a few days, it sucked to say the least, I missed one local match and have one more up tomorrow. Been hitting the training pretty hard today. The 3-gun event was cancelled so nothing to report there. I recently started working a dry fire routine from Steve Anderson's book, some drills I will not mention due to copyright protections, I will simply replace them with the corresponding drill number. Before I start, I have seen more than one person here claim that there is no need to work on fast draws or fast sight picture aquisitions, to that I say, with matches being won and loss sometimes as much as half a second I think I will continue to practice those drills. The time simply adds up and I enjoy winning. Next thing I want to bring up is the fact that a lot of folks here like to say just to buy a book if you want to know. Well heres my theory on this statement. I can absolutely understand that these folks are loyal and I understand that the folks who write books are trying to make money, both facts are honorable. However with that said, new guys/gals that come here to ask questions of someone giving advise shouldn't be told to just go buy a book. If you're already giving advise answer the question and add the fact the person should check out what ever book. This all kinda reminds me of a story I once heard when i was a kid, it goes like this; A boy comes to a local teacher and says "I want to learn everything you know" the teacher smiled at the young man and told him to meet him at the shoreline in the morning. Eagerly out of bed, materials in hand the young student headed for the shoreline. Soon after arriving the teacher made his way down the beach to meet the student. The teacher said leave your materials and come with me in to the water for your first lesson, the old man led this boy into the ocean by his hand until the waves started to hit the boy in the chest. The teacher took the young man by the shoulders forcing him under the water, the student thrashed and kick, clawed at the teacher for what seemed like an eternity but after a few seconds the teacher helped him to his feet and the boy screamed "why would you do this to me?!" The teacher replied witht this question, "what was the one thing you wanted more than everything else at that moment under the water?" The boy said "I wanted to breathe!". The teacher took the student by the hand back to the beach, once out of the water the teacher turned to the young man and said "when you want to learn as much as you wanted that breath, you won't need me to teach you". This is exactly how I feel, I don't care who or what, nothing is going to hold me back, I don't care who stands in my way I will beat them, I don't care what avenue I have to take to learn there is nothing I won't overcome. I train to WIN. I also want to pledge any support I can give anyone along the way, I know that there comes a time to make money, I also know there was a time you didn't know anything and someone showed you something for free. Ok, back to the range log. #1) 0.60 sec 10 yd draw 0.70 sec 10 yd Surrender draw 0.60 sec Surrender, Turn, Draw 0.90 sec Strong Hand 0.90 sec Weak Hand 1.00 sec #7) 0.70 6/6 4.0 sec Surrender 6/6 4.0 sec El Prez 4.2 sec #11) 4.5 sec #12) 4.8 sec #13) 1.90 sec #14) 1.90 sec 2/2 2.30 sec Bill reload Bill 3.80 sec Head shot 0.80 sec Glad to be back even as sore as I am, Ill let y'all know my results from tomorrow when theyre posted.
  3. I didnt get much training in today, however, getting a stock DPMS to hit a 12x12 plate at 600yds felt awesome! I spent all of today developing a load for my DPMS which I plan on using for the HaH event. With that in mind I know there will be some very long difficult shots, soooo I had to find a load that'll work in my rifle. After 3 different powders I was finally able to nail it down, 50 yds, all thru the same hole, 100yds, about a 3" group, I took it out to 600yds, "what the hell right?" First shot, steady breathing, exhale and break the shot. It seemed like it took an eternity for the round to get there, but it finally moved and a few seconds later "TING", now thats an awesome feeling. Rest of the shots.....dead on. I got home and realized I need to make up some kydex mag pouches, so I worked on that till about 5 minutes ago. Its been a long day but a very good day. Tomoorow, more training and loading for match this Saturday.
  4. Forgot to add this, I finally got my book from Steve Anderson today. I cant wait to put it into action. I would really like to take one of his classes as well.
  5. 10/28/14 Shotgun mounting drills Shotgun loading drills (twins and strippers) Shotgun loading Dry fire drills (8-10 sets each) 1) Shoot 1 load 4 2) Shoot 4 load 4 3) Buzzer, fire 1, load 6 re-acquire target, engage First 10 sets was at 6 sec par. Second 10 sets was 5 sec par, After screwing up in my first 10 sets I mentally loaded and mounted the shotgun, hence the 5 sec pars. Evening, while its fun doing this, its easy to wear yourself out. My thumb is completely numb and my arms hurt like hell, but I'm getting better. I couldnt leave the shotgun alone so I did moving and loading drills from twins and strippers. In addition to loading I'm working on target acquisition and target transition. In case y'all are wondering why the AR and shotgun drills, my very first 3 gun match is Hard as Hell in December, Train Hard, Train Hard, Train Hard. My club has actually gave me a chance to set up a club 3-gun shoot for this saturday, so I'll keep those of you who are interested in this wild ride updated on the results.
  6. 10/27/14 Target Acquisition drills with AR Mounting AR from Table Physical traing program at gym
  7. Ok on to updating range journal. 10/26/14 Took family (wife and 3 daughters) out for shooting. I did some live fire drills and finally chrony'd my 9mm loads. I'm shooting an avg 138pf with 115g HP and 150pf with 124g HP, i didnt think i was under pf and some people made me question myself when saying that the gun had no muzzle rise and looked like a .22 recoil. Now I feel good, it shows I have some decent recoil control. live fire results- (i don't record any drills that do not score 100% alphas) Bill Drill (live fire) #1) 1.02 #2) 1.21 *.19 #3) 1.42 *.21 #4) 1.60 *.17 #5) 1.81 *.21 #6) 1.96 *.15 (1.96 seconds for the bill drill isnt too bad is it?) Hands at sides draw and fire 1 shot (live fire) (1) 0.93 (2) 0.82 (3) 0.82 (4) 0.83 Having a sub second draw in live fire feels great, I know I'm just starting out at this and there are folks way quicker than me but shows my dry fire practice is working. Surrender Draw, fire 1 shot (live fire) Theres only 2 because i hit C's on the other sets (1) 0.93 (2) 0.96 Surrender, turn, draw and fire 1 shot (live fire) (1) 1.12 (2) 1.03 (3) 1.03 I need more work on this, I can feel that I can go quicker, I just need more practice Surrender, turn, draw and fire 2 shots (live fire) (1) #1-1.16 #2-1.36 *.20 (2) #1-1.32 #2-1.51 *.19 (3) #1-1.02 #2 1.23 *.20 I think I was getting tired by this one because the wind was blowing and we were chasing targets and trash all over the place. NO EXCUSES!!! Shotgun Drill- FIre 1 Load 4 Fire 1 (live fire) This is the only drill I hit my targets with one shot each. #1 0.64 (load 4) #2 5.88 *5.24 (I just started with this shotgun stuff a few days ago so I yeah, I know I suck lol)
  8. Got my Results from the match, took first place in my division (LTD) and class. 2nd overall, considering the guy is a open a class shooter i dont feel too bad.
  9. 10/25 I shot a local USPSA match, I applied something new. I would shoot each stage mentally over and over. It worked. I shot every stage over a 4 hit factor with two over 7. I told a couple other guys what I was doing and they tried it and it worked for them as well. I think I did fairly well. When scores post, I will update/edit
  10. 10/24 Got a JM Pro for Multigun (it's needs. A lot of refinement) Practiced with it loading 4 shooting 1 or 2 Load 2 shoot one and load 4 shoot 3 load 4 I'm around a 6 second load time for 1 shot load 4
  11. 10/23 Surrender draw needs a lot more practice. El Prez is is just below 5.5 consistently, I'm having a hard time watching sights instead I am point shooting. I found out turning into the gun during el prez is faster but feels unnatural to me. I'll keep practicing it. Bill Drill 4.0 seconds with reload and 6 follow up shots Surrender draw is at 1 second flat El Prez is 5.5
  12. That is more in line of what amateurs need to hear. I actually ordered one of your books last week and I'm anxiously awaiting it's arrival. I also don't mind working hard searching for answers through many posts late at night. For me, I WILL find a way to do this and do it right no matter what it takes. I don't mind trial and error either. What works for one may not work for another. I'm willing to do what ever it takes. Even if it's buying some good books
  13. If all we have to do is buy books then why have a forum?
  14. How does one apply what you mentioned into a dry fire practice at home? These are skills in which I need improvement. I totally understand what you mean by drawing, reloading in a static position. But with limited space, how could beginners break down movements into smaller drills that would be beneficial to our learning?
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