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Standards work today. 15 yard Freestyle, Strong Hand, and Weak Hand. MUCH MUCH better at it now. Really good experience, and on top of LOTS of weak hand and strong hand work I also got in freestyle work with draws and reloads. Only had 1 messed up live fire reload today. Really smooth and worked really well. Tried some 15 yard partial work. Wasn't happening so I stopped wasting bullets at it. Did a 50 yard group today. God smiled down on me, 5 round group, 2 inches across. Wyatt

Split at 1:28 sounded like a ~.10. Holy moses.

When I asked that same question I was told "When they get final approval". Wyatt

USPSA is a 501c(3) non-profit, so that's not necessarily accurate and you missed the point Chuck was trying to make. USPSA isn't putting on the match. The range, which may or may not be for profit, is collecting most of that fee. For area matches the clubs only receive money for props that go for the match. Don't receive money other than that. Wyatt

Faster transitions are a go. Bad thing is the makeups I needed. We had a couple stages that were extremely hardcover/barrel heavy, so I don't feel terrible doing a make up when I though the sights looked odd, and it turns out I called them good 4/5 correctly. The one I didn't call correctly was a far delta I made up with a close to alpha c hit. This shit never ends. Ended up with a Production win, but I still need to get my transitions faster. I still think there is a second or so a stage I could be saving, if not 2 seconds or so. I need to see faster. My mental game is mostly there, my reloads are pretty consistent, and my long range shooting is good. Tanfoglio seems to be running like a champ. Haven't had a malfunction or anything to speak of in over 5k rounds, so I am a happy boy. ​ Wyatt

Registration opens on: April 01, 2016 @ 8:00 PM · Registration closes on: July 15, 2016 @ 11:30 PM Times are local to America/Denver timezone. Match starts: September 01, 2016 @ 7:00 AM · Match ends: September 04, 2016 @ 5:00 PM Location: Salt Lake City 13 Stages and Chrono To all wishing to work Staff, Compensated shooters, Junior shooters Please email us to register. We will then send you a registration form that you will need to fill out and return ASAP. Thank you huntemup@comcast.net USPSA level II match, with the following divisions: Limited, Limited 10, Open, Production, Revolver, Single Stack, Carry Optics https://practiscore.com/berrys-2016-utah-state-uspsa-handgun-championship/register

Working with the timer on fast transitions. Mainly focusing on doing Bens "Widening Transitions" drill further and further apart, then when I find my max doing 10 reps at that same distance apart at the 1.6 pace to build the consistency of it. Seems to be helping that and a combined focus on gripping the hell out of the gun. Wyatt

Shot a local USPSA match. Had another timing issue on a drop turner thing. Still experimenting to see if I really want to attack certain disappearing targets. Transitions were pushed, and as a result dropped 13 (yes you read that right) 13 charlies on a stage. Granted the targets were angled, and I think that a good portion of them were caused by them being angled so I couldn't really get a full alpha presentation. However, I still dropped C's on close targets where I wasn't really looking in the correct spot. My fault, will fix this. Ended up winning production, and taking 4th overall. Beat a couple of really good open and limited GM's and M's so I am happy with my score. First match in a while where I just focused on having fun and just shooting again. Had a blast, and really learned a ton about my game. Found out I love going first. Can't stand going last in order. Wyatt

Been a while since I have posted. Been shooting matches, and finally have all the video made, so I will now be doing an update on them. TTI Zion Classic, was easily the most fun match I have been to. Lots of shooting on the move, swingers, movers, gully runs, lots of fun stuff that you don't see every day. I felt like I honestly shot very good. Had 1 mike, and 1 no shoot for the whole match. I felt like I was calling my shots well, I was just always off pace a little bit. By the time I really started to make a push for points, it was too late. Learned a lot about my level of skill, and where to push and how much if I need to. The only bad stage I felt I had was one I had to go first on a tricky swinger sequence. Involved a popper that activated a clamshell and a swinger. I shot it a certain way, and it ended up screwing me on timing, and the swinger was where I couldn't see it for about 2 seconds. I figured if I had this more down I could've been closer to 96% of the match winner, but I was still a little off from BNels. Shot an indoor match for fun/practice. Was working on really motoring my transitions, as that has been a strength of mine and I missed the boat on that at Zion Classic I felt like. Ended up winning overall. Wyatt

Just in case anyone was still reading this. New Stock 2 with mag inserted, weighed 45.4 ounces at Area 2. Old Stock 2 with mag inserted, 43.8 ounces at Area 2. Now considering the max is 46, kinda interesting that they made it that close to the edge. Thanks EAA.

I think I solved this issue. Basically I think I had replaced the extractor with either a non stock one, or a different one. Or perhaps the springs got confused when I put the new extractor in, and it may have been my old Tanfoglio Stock 2 .40 extractor spring. Don't know exactly, however, I replaced it and have been almost 8k rounds through both my guns without a malfunction. LPS, extraction, anything. Wyatt

I'd like to say that it was because of the flu that I shot like such dogshit, but I know it was completely a mental issue. I built the match up too much in my head. Basically the stages weren't any more difficult than our easiest local club. I built the match up to be super difficult, 50 yard partials and other stuff. It just simply wasn't the case. I went into the 3rd day with the mindset that it wasn't a big deal just another day of shooting, and I scored within a couple percent of Dave on 3 of the last 4 stages. Another thing I found that was really interesting, none of the top guys actually look all that fast. Don't get me wrong, I get that they shoot fast and I am not calling them slow at all, but it really seemed like they never split faster than maybe 20? They just have 20 transitions to match all the splits. Big lesson for me. Sat down and talked with a few of the top shooters of our sport and was able to ask them some of my questions for a couple hours. Took a lot of mental notes, and really learned a ton. Placed 11th in Production out of about 90 people. 3rd master so I got a cool award. Shot 9 mikes, and 2 no shoots. 2 of the mikes were on targets about 6 feet away, so f*#k me right? Another thing to note, I learned a TON about what to do and what I have been working on. My shooting on the move is really solid in a match. 20 splits at 7 yards, and pulled all alphas on every target I shot on the move. My running skills have improved a lot, and I am noticing less dead time. When I compared my footage to Brian Nelsons, Dave Sevignys, or Jacob Hetheringtons we all got to position in about the same time, my reloads for the most part were either on par or faster, draw was on par or faster, but I absolutely got SLAUGHTERED on steel. Just way too many makeups and it showed. So ultimately, what did I take away? My transitions will become much better. I have goals from talking to some top shooters, I want to get mid 20's on a consistent basis, and I want to be able to actually watch my sights at that speed. I can right now, but I didn't push it in the match for whatever dumbass reason of mine. I need to be able to see much faster, and have a lot more acuteness in my vision. I don't want to blame my gear, but I ordered some new glasses to see if they helped with it. I tried some Tombstones and damn they made it much easier to see. Can't hurt to be able to see easier. Wyatt

Heeding the advice of every top level shooter I know of, my dad and I built a drill that I will be using before every major match I shoot from now on. I have dubbed it "Practically Impossible". 11 rounds in first mag, each other mag loaded to 10. The drill is compromised of a zebra hardcover target on the far left, next is a no shoot up to about half of the alpha zone, next is a plate rack, then the next to the right is an open target, then finally is a no shoot that is place so the shoulder of the no shoot covers about half the alpha zone. Start at 45 yards, draw and engage all of the targets and two plates, move up to 30 yards while reloading, engage all of the paper and two plates, move up to 15 and engage all of the paper and the final two plates. The goal is to get the fewest amount of mikes. Admittadly I didn't clean this drill once. The best I was able to do was 32 seconds and 3 mikes. BUTTT I did notice a HUGE improvement on my distance shooting, along with my ability to shoot at 15 yards. 15 yards almost became EASY to shoot all alphas at a very fast pace, when compared to the hellish distance of 45 yards. I am ready for Area 2.

I have been working on preparing for my matches more, I have noticed an increase in focus and deliberation. As with exams in college, I always wake up an 2 hours before I take an exam. For matches this has begun to be the same way. I found if I don't do this, I am not completely awake for the exam or for the match. So for example, if my match starts at 8 pm, then I would wake up at minimum 6am. However, my normal habit is now to wake up at 5am every day including Sunday which is training day for me. Basically, I try and go to bed between 9 and 10 o clock, so I get between 7 and 8 hours of sleep before a match. I found that if I have between 4-6 hours of sleep, its not that I am tired but my eyes and reflexes don't work as well as they do when I am fully rested. Anyways, wake up at 5am, dry fire for an hour. Usually this is just position entry, or gun handling. Mainly I want to make sure the gun is where I mean to point it. After my dry fire, I grab my first cup of coffee and do some meditation and power yoga. Not enough to overextert myself, just to get limbered up. Then I eat a small breakfast, and go through all my gear a second time (also do it the night before). Show up to match usually 35 minutes to an hour early to walk stages and get an idea of what I will see. Make notes in my journal about anything confusing (sort of a mini large match stage planning idea) and then once I find out what stage I start at I go there until I start. I don't do the whole group walk throughs of stages, don't do meetings. Just kinda focus on what I need to do. Anyways this was more for me than anything else, but thats how I prep for a match.

Sleep.

Just chrono'd my two Tanfo's back to back. Old one chrono'd at 129pf, new one chrono'd at 133. Which means I now have to build two different rounds all the time. When I bump up the powder to get the old one to 133, that knocks the new Tanfo up to around 138-140 which is very noticeable compared to the previous ammo. Kind of a pain in the ass to be honest. Wyatt

http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=228824 Wyatt

Match today. Had a goal to win by 15%, only won by 12. Messed up the first stage bad, hands were frozen solid and trigger finger just wouldn't work. Had to RO most the day, and I think thats why I forgot the steel on the hoser stage. No excuses, both were my own fault, just trying to learn what not to do next time. Wyatt

Trying to build speed. Set up two boxes around 8 yards apart. With a "ladder" between them. Gives me enough space to do a reload before I start the ladder, but also enough to get into position without being running the ladder. I can tell this will help my skills a lot. Haven't live fired for a while, but I think a couple friends and I will go Wednesday, I have a match Saturday, practice Sunday, match the following Thursday, practice that Friday Saturday and Sunday, then A2 the weekend after that. LETS GOOOOO!

I figured it would be interesting to compile all of the differences we have noticed in our New vs Old Tanfoglio Stock 2's Limited Pro's and Stock 3's. For those who don't know, the "Old" Stock 2 have a longer barrel, more checkering, and a different beavertail seen here. Left is new, right is old. Bottom is new, top is old. New is right, old is left. Now, after a quick running over of the checkering fixed that issue no problem. Here are the things that I have found between the two guns. The new one chrono's higher than the old one. I can't explain why this would make sense (shorter barrel SHOULD chrono less) however the new Tanfo chrono's around 5 fps faster on average. The checkering on the new one is lessened, however this can be fixed. Eric Grauffel xtreme grips don't fit both of them the same. The distance between the magwell is slightly different and doesn't fit the gun as well with those grips. The barrel is shorter. The gun itself is wider, I had to loosen my holster before it actually was able to go in smoothly. It is heavier. I can't give an exact amount as of right now, but it definitely is slightly heavier. The barrel throat is shorter on the new model compared to the old. I have to load my lead ammo at 1.050" in the new one, however in the same old one I could load to 1.125" all day long. Anyone else?

I did think this was a rather interesting note. My "new" model stock 2, with the lessened beaver tail and slightly enlarged trigger guard REQUIRES shorter ammo than my old model stock 2. My old model stock 2 runs ammo at 1.125" all day long, gobbles it. My new model Stock 2 will not load that ammo, and requires it at 1.060". Kind of an interesting comparison.

I did a thing. 1,000 draws in a week? Yeah I think it could help. Also, match footage. Took 2nd to Mr Brian Nelson. Bummed I couldn't take the win home in Production, but ultimately my brain failed me and I was unable to control my shooting as I usually can. Had the opportunity to shoot with Sam Travis, learned a TON from him about what to do in a match and what not to do, along with Dave Shore. Also made some very good friends in the process.I am learning more and more the importance of dry fire just having watched my dad get to the level he is now at just from a month of dry fire. The improvement and drive is real.

Hahahah, sorry about that. We had a group that wanted to squad up also on 28, so it sounds like two groups tried to get on one squad! Wyatt

That is my exact thoughts on this entire process. ALL I or anyone I know who is going wants is some communication regarding squadding, payment, registration, shirts, anything.

The way this match has been handled so far it only makes sense that it wasn't done in the more simple way and better communication way of practiscore. I am sure the match is amazing, and I am sure its probably just a misunderstanding that everything so far hasn't gone smoothly, but I am not the only person who is dissapointed in how this has been handled. Its not so much that none of us knew whether we were in or out of the match after we had paid for hotels and the match, but the response after the payments were returned were automated. Its what, 4 weeks out, and none of us know whether its Friday morning or afternoon that we have to shoot? Wyatt