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Study your times in detail and find your weakness - mine is reloads. I'm a B class and I can shoot on par with the times that Ben Stoeger lists for GM's, except when it comes to reloads. That's my low hanging fruit that is getting a LOT of work these days.

I'm right handed, left eye dominant. I've tried both eyes open which was problematic under stress, and tape on the left lens which made reloads more difficult. Now I just close my left eye, and open it for movement and reloads. After a year of that, my right eye is becoming more dominant - I randomly use either eye on dominance tests now. Although, trying to use my left eye on WHO screwed me up for awhile again.

I was at a store looking at .223 ammo and had found what I wanted as the salesman walked over to "help" me. He asked what caliber I needed and the kind of rifle, so I told him. He then asked me what distance I have it sighted in for.... thinking he was just chatting, I told him I usually use 200 yds. He proceeds to grab the box out of my hand, look at the ballistic chart (which has the bullet drop with 200 yd zero) and says "yup! these should work fine... see, they're zeroed at 200 yds."

For me, it put more of a bend in my support hand arm than I realized because I don't turn my head.

I'm right handed, left eye dominant. After seeing how weaver-ish my stance looked on video when drawing to my left eye, I started using my right eye. First with both eyes open, which screwed me up under stress. Then with a blinder over my dominant eye - that worked good until I really started pushing my reload times in production, then the depth perception became a problem. Now I just close my left eye while shooting and open it while moving and reloading. It's been a year since I started this, and I think the dominance favors my right eye now.

As someone who is still fairly new to competition... It's hard to do! I'm just now routinely tracking my sights. There's a lot going on when the shot fires. Sometimes I'm distracted by the brass leaving the gun, sometimes it's the smoke and sparks leaving the barrel. It's all there in front of me to see, but actively KNOWING exactly where the sights were the instant that they start to lift... that's maybe 1 in 50 shots right now. Seems to happen more often on a plate rack, though. Until you're trying to shoot fast and everything is moving, there isn't much of a need to call your shots when shooting slow from static positions. Put the sights on target, squeeze the trigger.

I don't really want to get involved in this discussion, but.... 8.1.5 In respect of handguns used at USPSA matches, the following definitions apply: 8.1.5.1 “Single Action” means activation of the trigger causes a single action to occur (i.e. the hammer or striker falls). 8.1.5.2 “Double Action” means activation of the trigger causes more than a single action to occur (i.e. the hammer or striker rises or retracts, then falls). 8.1.5.3 “Selective Action” means that the handgun can be operated in either “Single Action” or “Double Action” modes. At least I have it easy... Shooting a "single action" in production and the safety is engaged by removing my finger from the trigger.

Awesome! Thanks! I wanted to verify the weight on a calibrated scale before I tried to get it corrected. Finally got an chance to do that last night - the difference was insignificant from my first weight. It looks like you don't have an empty mag included.

Bkreutz, yours is lighter than mine with all the extras on it. I guess it could be my scale, but it matches the weight on my Lyman trigger pull gauge to the tenth of an oz. I'll have to check the weight with another source just to be sure before I get too far. ttolliver, thanks for info... This doesn't look like it'll be much fun. On the bright side, it just squeaks by as is.

This is my first post. After a brief search, I see the inaccurate weight topic has come up before with the Pro series - I just got a new M&P9 Core 5" model to use in production. I put it on the scale when I got it home and it's already 1.92 oz over the listed weight (small grip). So, the question is, how did this get corrected in the past with the Pro series models?