superluckycat

Sitting at 59.88% after 5 classifiers if I throw out the low one. Need one more good one to make B for my initial classification and that will be 2016 goal accomplished. Hopefully the nice weather stays around for two more weeks. Still dry firing every weekday morning for an hour. Been concentrating on field course skills lately since I'm slow as hell. Oh yeah, last match I called a D hit on a swinger and made it up for 2A's. That's progress.

First DQ today. Broke 180 while reloading on right to left movement. Oh well, now I have that out of the way. I was having a good day too. The classifier was Riverdale Standards and my hit factor of 4.28 would have put me at 26 out of 75 shooters. I finished the day with a good attitude and it was a good learning experience. The learning experience was: Don't do that again stupid!

Took off work early yesterday and got in some live fire practice. I'm starting to have glimmers of shot calling. I called a few non A hits yesterday. Transitions have definitely improved. 10 yd Blake Drills average 2.6s with some C's. Bill Drills at 2.15 s with the occasional C. Need to work on trigger speed and indirectly SH tension. 4 Aces still giving me fits. It's a hand tension thing that causes me to botch hitting the mag release. Lots of shooting on the move in all directions yesterday at 10-15 yards. Got pretty good consistent hits. Been hitting this hard in dry fire also. Finished up with 20 yard doubles with a 2.0 s par time. About 50/50 A's and C's. Pretty good practice. Had a good mindset and didn't let mistakes piss me off.

I was first to shoot the first stage and was squaded with some good shooters. After watching them shoot I tried to go faster on the remaining stages and we all know how that works out.

Finally ran the Stock II through a practice session on Sunday. Had at least 20 light primer strikes with my reloads and Geco 124 grain ammo. The Glock came back out until I have time to go through the Tanfo this winter. In the few uninterrupted strings I shot, the DA isn't as bad as I thought it would be. Warmed up with the Dot Torture drill and all the DA shots were good except for SHO which is another story. All my times were slower with the Stock II which is understandable I guess.

I've shot probably 5000 S&B primers through my Glock with a 5.5# striker spring and it's set everyone of them off as long as they are seated correctly.

Solid hour plus of dry fire this morning. A little Wall Drill, Slow Fire Trigger and 10 yd index to warm up then went into Position Entry/Exit and shooting on the move. Started mixing the two, adding moving reloads and basically shooting mini stages. Didn't use the timer much this morning as I'm trying to focus on technique: Attaining a good weak hand grip on the draw and maintaining it through transitions and shooting on the move. I've found myself slacking on my WH grip. Also making sure I'm seeing A's. Finished up with some reloads: 6R6R6, 4 Aces. Tanfo reloads are getting better. When going fast I tend to drop the gun lower than it needs to be. My reloads are fastest and most consistent when I keep the gun about chin level. Bad news: With all the emphasis on WH grip I can feel my Tennis Elbow flaring up this morning.

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Pros Gun is all metal with the same weight and feel of the real thing. You are actually pulling the trigger instead of just getting a sight picture. It holds 2" groups easily at 7 yards. You have "recoil" as the slide functions It's fun - Breaks up the monotony of dry fire More time behind the gun Cons Of course the recoil isn't like the real thing Trigger is different, not terrible but different Eats through CO2 pretty fast 90% of my training is still done with my real gun in dry fire and this isn't meant to replace it but it is fun to get out and shoot some actual "bullets" when you can't get to the range.

Couldn't make it to the range today so I ran some drills in the back yard with the Tanfo airsoft pistol. I've got a bunch of 5" steel plates hung from shepard's hooks and I made a couple shooting boxes from PVC pipe. Ran some Call It or Leave It drills using this setup and some shooting on the move to steel in all directions. Also draw and shoot 4 plates. My neighbors probably think I'm crazy.

Ha! Man I've been living that one the past couple of weeks.

Stock II is starting to feel a little more natural now. Times are getting better. Still have trouble with the mag binding in the mag well if I don't have the gun angled right. Steel on steel has a lot different feel than plastic on plastic. I do like that mag release though. Been working on movement a lot in dry fire: Draw, fire on 2 targets, run (and reload on some) to other of the garage and engage 2 more targets. Shooting on the move in all directions. Side to side is a bitch.

I've got 8# of Clays I picked up on a whim. May have to try out some 9mm loads.

Blue Bullets. But they're all I've tried.because I'm lazy and hate adjusting my press.

It's interesting your stiff leg dead lift is much higher than your squat.

Taylor - Below are the more detailed results for Production class from the last match. 13 is me. Thanks for the feedback. The DA first shot is not bad it's trying to do Bill Drills and Blake drills that is tough. I'm having trouble not letting the trigger reset after the first DA shot. Have relearn my draw also. My thumb gets in the way of that big beaver tail. With the Glock I came over the side of the grip. With the Tanfo I have to come in from the rear. All my times were slower this morning but that's to be expected getting used to a new gat.

I too suffer from this phenomena. Example: I can perform a relaxed El Prez in dry fire in 5.0s. In live fire it's around 6.0s average. Blake Drill: 1.80s dry, 2.50s live is fast for me. Of course recoil adds time but I think stress has a lot to do with it. When you are dry firing you are relaxed in your home and there's no pressure. When you live fire it's like a test. Now you are using real bullets, now it's for real. With a match being the ultimate test. Which would explain why I my match shooting is always my worst.

Kind of a disappointing match yesterday. 4 mikes with one on the classifier. It was "Too Close for Comfort" and I barely put one into the hard cover on the 7 yard head shot target. Shot it too fast....again. This is my fourth classifier. If you throw out the one I shot yesterday I'm right at 60%. I better get 60% plus on the next two if I want to make B for my initial classification. I feel like for as much dry fire as I've been putting in I should be further along (5-7 days a week for 45mins for the past 6 months). Stoeger and Anderson say "I dry fired religiously for 9 months and became a GM." Bite me. Granted there were a lot of good shooters their yesterday and my points weren't too out of line with the top finishers just SLOOWWW. 47 out of 62 shooters overall. 13 out of 20 Production shooters. I'm officially retiring the G17 and switching over to the Stock II. Starting dry firing with it this morning. Doing the "Flip" and hitting the mag release is soooo much easier than the Glock. That DA trigger will take some getting used to though.

After a warm up of Wall Drills, Draws, SHO/WHO and Transition Drills I worked on Position Entry and Exits with and without a barricade for a solid 30 minutes. I watched the video in TennJeep's thread of the M class shooter and put those ideas to work. I had never thought of loading up on the leg you are going to launch off of. Worked up a pretty good sweat before work. Finished up with reloads and a few El Prez since that drill gives me fits.

Yeah, that is pretty short.

I recently picked up a used Stock II manufactured in 2015. I am having to reload to an OAL of 1.09" to pass the plunk test.

I took this advice and the first stage was my best. Started to fall apart on 2-5 then got it back together again on the last.

That's hardcore man.

Back is better and was able to get in over an hour of dry fire practice this morning. Ran Learning, Marksmanship and Core Skill drills from Stoeger's book. Speed gains are coming harder now. I can't always beat a previous par time. When I started dry firing in April my first El Prez was 11.88s. Now I can get it down to a sloppy 4.2s on occasion and 5.0s relaxed.