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Awesome run Pens!!!!!!!

I dont read it as not focusing while being an RO, i think the point he was making was that you need mental agility to be all in while you RO then immediately switch gears and be all in as a shooter when you are up. You dont always have the luxury of the perfect walk through and being able to step aside and prep while on deck, and have to be able to navigate any situation.

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Had a pretty good breakthrough in dryfire this weekend. My reloads were really causing me frustration, they certainly weren't keeping up with the progress i made elsewhere in my shooting. I have had the gun low, medium, high, rotated the gun, tilted, etc. and since i never settled on one method, i was inconsistent. This weekend fo some reason i did a few with the gun up high, and pulled it in just a few inches and all of a sudden things started going better. So i played with that and found the sweet spot with just a little gun rotation i am having pretty consistent results. Not perfect but really havent had any massive mag/gun collisions. Need to refine a bit more then just get about a gazillion reps in. Really hope this is going to get me over that hump!

I have been able to get a few live fire sessions in this year which really helped. I needed to learn to wIt on the sights and work on seeing the recoil. I am getting better at not double tapping and taking two unique shots. Shot the Buckeye Blast and had a really good match. Won D class production but also did well for me overall compared to the B and C guys. Two things jumped out at me from that match, sort of related. One, my stage planning needs work. A lot of time i try to get cute and to fancy. I skip targets tha are easy shots to come back later while backpeddling or somehing like that. The better shooters on my squad mostly did it diferently than me on a lot of stages, and their times were better and hf too. Have to make the plans simple i think. Second, as i got tired at the end of the day my focus drifted. My accuracy waned, it is visible when i look at my match as a whole. And i completely hosed stage 12 because i was tired ans came up with a stupid plan, was too tired to visualize enough, got confused in the middle of my run, and left a target untouched...2x Mike and FTE. This was one of the targets about 5 feet to the side of the start! But overall very happy, bst match i have shot yet and good learning experience. Got to watch Hopkins shoot a couple stages in person...that was cool. Mever saw an open sight GM shoot live before.

Shot it today. Had a great time. Fun stages, good squad, and the staff was great! Shot the best i have ever shot. Thanks Sarge for all the work! And staff as well! hope it is at the same place next year, will definitely shoot it again.

Yes, i also turn my head a bit to the right, barely noticable (i just had to "practice" to see how much) but I really dont even notice, it is so sleight.

I get up early to dryfire and/or go to the gym. Occcassionally i wont be able to get to bed on time for a while and i start falling behind. I also will start to get sick or not be able to focus. I dont think any prolonged sleep deprivation is good physically or mentally. If you are training, you need to recover.

I am cross dominant, just draw to your strong eye, no other changes needed. Sevigny, Seeklander, and i am sure many other accomplished shooters shoot this way.

Mine is hard to get in, although i have only done it a few times. I have to compress the spring a bit and it goes in. Removal is fine and reliability is 100%.

I think focusing so much on what not to do can be distracting. Visualizing what TO do is a skill and needs to be practiced. Throwing a lot of NOTs in there might be counterproductive.

Excellent news! Very happy for you and your family!

Who makes the custom molds for them?

Thanks, going to order them this week!

I was going to go passive molded ear pro this year but my ears aren't good (many years in bands) and in testing i cant always hear the beep. Electronic custom are too much so i am going to go with Sordins or Predator Golds. I have a smallish head. My howard leight sports dont fit well because on the smallest sizing the cables interfere with the brackets holding the ear cups and dont allow it to set at the best angle. Plus they give me a headache after 4-5 stages, even with Smith Aegis Echo glasses (they have flat temples for under ear pro). Anyway, the question is whether the Sordins or the Predators are better for small noggins, or neither? Thanks!

Same as you. PPS is becoming less and less interesting to me for some reason. TSS has been the one that has most influenced my shooting and training in the last year. I like Mike Seeklanders as well but I don't always have time to listen to it.

Welcome! I have travelled to San Antonio a lot the past few years for work, great restaurants!

Very cool! Congrats!

So I ordered bright green from Eggleston, blackened a bunch of cases and loaded up 100... Being a relatively novice reloader never thought that the different bullet profile (I use Blue Bullets) would produce longer rounds which now don't fit in my mags... Haven't tried to just reseat, think it will be ok? My crimp die just takes out the bell.

As someone who still considers himself new going into my third year of USPSA, my advice is to keep it relatively simple. My first year and a half of dryfire followed one of Ben Stoegers plans and it was pretty comprehensive but I have since simplified a bit. Movement into and out of position and barrier and port work is part of the game, but during my off-season dryfire this year and took them out and focused on draws (which help with getting a consistent grip and index), trigger control, transitions, and reloads. And for me, having a schedule helps. I get up early to do dryfire, and my days are M, W, F, S, S. I have a sheet listing all the drills for the day as well as my par times. This works better for me than just dryfiring when I have spare time and figuring out what I am going to do as I go. I used an app for a long time, but a dedicated timer works better for me. I can get more repetitions just clicking a button rather than going over and swiping the timer then restarting it every rep.

It's weird, I played hockey growing up and bass and was essentially a complete gear geek for those activities. But for shooting, I decided I am going to choose my gear and stick with it. I shoot a G34 as well and I am not even thinking about getting a different gun. I think this helps me just pay attention to nothing but practice and evaluating my shooting.

Finished off-season program. Only had to skip one day over three months because of work travel. Almost all drills were run in speed mode and I saw significant improvements in times. But I also saw improvement in precision. So basically I didn't just get faster from moving quicker, I wasted less time. My index has improved dramatically. It has really become all about my eyes, if I look to the next target fast, the gun gets there fast and the sights are generally lined up. I miss times when my eyes get lazy. This week is a break. I am going to do some reloads all week because those are still not where I want them to be but going to sleep in a couple days then start a pre-season routine next Sunday then get outside if it starts to warm up around here for live fire.

Still doing my off-season fundamentals dryfire routine. Reloads are coming, trying to find a consistent spot for my gun hand but just getting a consistent grip on the mags is helping. This morning was all transitions, both Hopkins drills and Anderson's starts and stops. I don't push the times in the Hopkins but for the starts and stops it was one of those days where for all three drills I kept coming in comfortably under the beep. I just kept reducing the time by 2/10s and hitting them. breakup starts and stops dropped 6/10 and the other two by 4/10. Sometimes you go for a while and don't increase much and then it kind of comes together in a rush. Taking my my daughter to the range tomorrow with the 15-22, going to do some group shooting with the pistol as well. Hope to start life fire training in about two weeks and will adjust dryfire to add some movement and barrier/position drills.

I used the ShotTimer (I think that was the name) for about a year. It worked ok. For dryfire you have to reach over, hit the slider, hit start, or some sequence like that. It would also crash a lot. Much better having a dedicated timer hanging from my pocket. The instant I holster I hit the button to start. Seems minor but I get a lot more reps in per session.

Heard about it on Triangle Tactical podcast, pretty funny.