WJM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRdtGp0C9k&t=18sGood practice today. Live Fire- I probably made the drill a touch too difficult. Swinger was at 20 yards with an IPSC target, and we had a no shoot IPSC target with 1/4 of the A-Zone available at about 16 yards. Minis were at 15. Anyways, numbers aside it was a DAMN difficult drill to clean (no M's NS's D's). Good news is my steel work is really coming along. I found when I slowed down my draw just a small bit of a second, and got a really good sight picture on the first piece of steel the entire steel array goes excellent.I also tried many different options to shoot this. Consistently I found the best method to be drawing to the mini poppers first. This gave a consistency on the steel array. I tried entering from a few steps away, and the result was the same. Now while I wouldn't want to leave on a small steel like that, entering for me is a good idea. Interesting to learn this, definitely worth the few hundred rounds spent today.Ran the drill SHO, first couple runs were really solid, only a couple of make ups. Which, for this difficulty I am really happy with.Dry Fire- Had to take guns apart and fix my grips so didn't dry fire.Notes- Cleaned guns, fixed my grip so it isn't smooth, and hand checkered the left side grip. Doesn't look amazing, but is extremely functional.Wyatt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRh3a3XVwO4 Live Fire- Today I did probably my favorite static shooting drill. I have done this drill now 3 times, and I learn something new every time. In an attempt to gain better skills at moving my eyes to specific locations on open targets, I did this drill. The results were phenomenal. I was able to not only speed up my transitions, but also gain consistency in where my gun was going to go. However, I did have some issues. The biggest one I see from watching myself on film is that my knees aren't bent enough, and I am transitioning too much with my upper body. While my knees do slightly move with my upper body, its not enough to really do the desired effect, and the result is far from perfect. Dry Fire- Worked on the Hopkins drill for about 15 minutes with my knees more bent and focusing on transitions the gun with my eyes and knees. Saw big improvements in being able to hustle my eyes to the next target, and still stop the gun there without really forcing it to stop. It seemed when I focused more on reducing the momentum the transitions were smoother. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE9-Ls4h7_8&t=119s Notes- Fixed my gun to have a larger grip on the right side. Allows me to still be production legal for weight, but gives me a better grip on the left side of the gun. Noticed that I have never ever ever shot close to 25k rounds in a year that are specifically for training. In a little over 20 days I have shot 3,028 rounds of focused shooting and I feel like I haven't wasted a single round. I am learning more than ever and seeing bigger gains than ever. Wyatt

#Goals

It kinda all depends on the stage for me. If I am doing a standards I know I need to nail a reload and the movement of my feet and the grip on my hands, angle of the gun, etc. So in that case I am putting more thought into my reload, and can usually nail it a lot smoother and quicker. If I am just leaving a position I am not thinking about reloading, I am thinking of the front sight and where I am going next if that makes sense. Either way I am just working on a good consistent grip on the magazine once my hand leaves the gun to retrieve the next magazine. Once this occurs and I have a good grip on the mag I can with about 90-93% consistency get a smooth 1.0-1.2 reload to a 7 yard target. Further than that and its usually 1.5 seconds. Anyways hijacking thread. Wyatt - out

Reloading them are tough. Once I figured out that I have to get a consistent grip on the mag, and not moving the gun to a specific position, it helped me reload a lot more consistently. I don't really care about how FAST I reload, but about how many times I can reload consistently. Something I learned from a dinner with a couple National contenders was consistency and transitions.

Hey thanks for subscribing! Sorry iPhones are so silly, its time marked on the post now. I don't want to have to make a video on youtube for one stage

If you clicked it it's a link to one stage which is 22 seconds.

Go to 3:41 for the video.

Been working on Barrier skills and Leans. Its tough, but my gun was actually working, and the hits weren't terrible. Changed my warm up to be 50 rounds, 10 rounds sighting the gun in every time I practice at 15 yards, and then 2 times of 20 alpha drills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7MI4NwXGxo&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9HaMhaonpg Wyatt (I am keeping a lot more detailed range diary over on Doodie Project http://www.doodieproject.com/index.php?/topic/4596-becoming-a-deathstalker/)

That awkward moment when I don't know the person who knows my PF, bullet weight use, or recoil spring.. ? Edit- THATS YEE YEE! Love ya bro!

So here is an interesting thing I noticed in my guns. One of my Tanfo's which received approximately 20k rounds last year, I never changed the recoil spring. It may have been as many as 30k. While I liked how little it recoiled, it actually started to cause my lock up near the top of my barrel to get sheared and ruined. From now on I will be replacing my recoil spring ever 10k rounds. There doesn't seem to be a point not to with it being as cheap as it is. Then again this is the first year I have actually ever recorded how many rounds I have shot.

Smart to do the 8lb. I just barely bought 2 9lb's because I couldn't remember if I used the 8 or 9. Turns out I used the 8 and it has taken a bit to get used to it. For 147gr bullets the 8 seems to be the ticket.

Yes! When I tested this exact thing I found a time saved of around a half-quarter of a second. However, consistency wise I was unable to produce a consistent hit factor without make up shots, on a 12 yard mini popper on the move. Perhaps if my shooting on the move was better I could get better results, but from what I tested the result was shooting it the way I did went best. The other issue we ran into was having a consistent foot placement while shooting on the move. Entering on the target to the left resulted in a very consistent foot placement, and ultimately better stance.

The issue is the magazine can be over inserted with that basepad combination. The same issue used to happen with the old Henning base pads. Either switch to stock base pads, Springer's (what I use), or Hennings New ones, or shockbottle. Basically anything other than those POS extreme.

I can name 3 shooters that I personally know that practice standards this difficult. Or comparable difficulty. I look at stages like Stage 9 as something like this. Occasionally in practice when I run extremely difficult stages I will have a run or two that completely baffle me. Such as an extremely high HF or an extremely low HF where I didn't appear to do something different. Statistically they call that randomness. Other people call it luck. To me that's the same reason you see B class and C class shooters beating GM's who practice stuff like this.

Do I have to to form an opinion on whether or not a stage was too difficult? I know my skills, I know how I would shoot that stage, I know the general skill level of most people, and I know the results. Based on that I can decide for myself whether or not a stage would be too difficult for nationals, or any match.

Says who? You? Thats your opinion, just like my opinion that the shot is too difficult and involves luck. Just because you say something doesn't make it a fact.

Well, since I didn't specify how I practice SHO and WHO it doesn't really matter. Suffice it to say that I do practice it a lot, and anyone who doesn't think that a target like that involves some amount of luck has not tried it at that distance. To those that don't think its luck, lets list the people in order of who cleaned it. If there is no luck involved, it should be based purely on a skill basis, and by definition we should get a large percentage of M's or GM's right? (of people who cleaned it) 1-M 2-GM 3-M 4-B 5-B 6-A 7-U 8-C 9-B 10-M So basically of the people who cleaned it, 5 of those would be considered the upper level of our sport. Ultimately this is an opinion thread, and my opinion was that this particular stage was too difficult and I didn't even shoot it. I know several people that placed high at the match that also agreed with me that it was too difficult and bullshit.

Wow, thread is full of immature people trying to insult others. As a little background, I practice standards a TON. I work on SHO and WHO more than almost anyone I know except those Washington shooters (darn them). When I saw Stage 9 from Nationals video, my first thought was it must be a typo that stage is just too difficult. I then proceeded to message a couple of my friends that placed very well in GM and overall, and they both agreed that stage was TOO tough. On a stage like that I feel as if the luck involved outweighs the individual test. Say for instance you want to test standards. GREAT! Put open IPSC targets at 15-20 yards. That still tests the GM's to their limits, as well as puts the B class shooters at a very tough challenge. A shot that is 25 yards away, to a zebra, SHO, and 15 yards away on a zebra WHO is just insane. The fact that 10 people shot it clean shows that that stage was complete luck. To whoever was saying "well my B class friend shot it clean". True. And not to say he didn't work at it, but whats the saying? A blind squirrel finds an accorn every now and again. I know from my personal experience that I could clean that stage MAYBE 2/10 times while being on pace for what I think is acceptable. If thats the results that would happen, I think that stage is bogus. As to other nationals, I think they should be slightly more difficult than an Area match. Not insanely difficult, but from what I have seen at Area matches (1, 2) they could ramp up the difficult a tiny bit.

Boy I love that! I think I may do that with my wood grips now! I love how they feel just no grippy grip.

Yes. Only difference is the 5-7 yard targets are about 50-60 degrees. Partials are at 90 degrees or in other words just whatever a tough lean would be for you. Was a helpful drill for both my dad and I. I have set up similar things a few times, but it's a low round count and allows me to run it a lot of times a few different ways. IE right to left, left to right, close to far on the draw, far to close, etc. I believe the video shows the drill pretty alright on the right hand side and the left hand side is just mirrored. Wyatt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QipEjY3C3UA Latest training. Decided I had enough of working on shooting on the move for a little while. Needed practice on leans and distance change up. Used a steel in the middle to shoot on the move to still work on my strengths. Couple things I noticed: 1- I tended to get on average 1 C on each of the partials. I guess this is understandable and acceptable. They were about 10 yards and the no shoot was pretty intimidating. 2- The thing that really pissed me off was the 1 shot pulled on either exiting or usually entering the position. I am gonna attack this in dry fire and fix this. Bullshit pulling C's on 5-7 yard targets. 3- Hit the steel about 85-90% of the time. I think I had 3 runs out of 22 or so that were an issue. 4- Didn't run it right to left, although I think I will recreate this drill and do it again right to left. Really interesting drill that tested a ton. 5- Leans seemed to be really good. I pulled 1 no-shoot the whole day on the leaning target, and I called it immediately. What to work on- 1- Exiting and entering a somewhat easy somewhat difficult target. I dunno. 5-7 yards should be burner distance but everything is tougher around a barricade and on the move. Wyatt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cA_pK3siIg Went to practice shooting from left to right I figured I would record every run, and also record the time and points of every run. The good news is, my runs are very consistent. Having a standard deviation of about .5 on each way I ran the drill. The first ten runs I ran it on the move from left to right, then did a position entry on the far target. The next ten runs I ran it on the move left to right, then did a position entry on the easy target. The result was a higher hit factor on the times I ran it far to near in the position entry, however a slower time by about a quarter of a second. On the 10 runs I did it close to far in the position entry I had on average 1 charlie more every run. Definitely interesting data that will help me break down stages. There are still a few things I want to test on shooting on the move. Mainly backing up, and going forward while shooting on the move. Also a couple of small IPSC stages I have seen that I am going to build and run a few different ways to mess with hit factor. Here is the hard data if anyone cares to view it. [url=http://s140.photobucket.com/user/Fowl-Kid/media/Screen%20Shot%202016-10-24%20at%207.52.45%20PM_zps2vaqjju4.png.html][/URL] Wyatt