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Doesnt seem to be for me either. Gets hung up when it tries to open and nothing loads.

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[How do you track your progress?]

I've been using Anderson's book for the past few months which has a full page tracking grid for each drill. When I switch back to Stoeger's book, I'll either use something like this shooting journal that Annette put together or some sort of separate notebook. I agree that tracking your progress is very important if you want to continue to improve.

[Anyone doing trigger crosstraining?]

I squeeze the grip with my support hand so hard that my middle finger on my strong hand ends up swollen and sore. Part of that is the Apex trigger, which situates the trigger so far forward that I have to run my M&P without back straps to get enough reach. That leaves not much grip for my hand, and my support hand nearly doubles up on top of my strong hand. Definitely not ideal, but the gun runs well.

If you're going that long between live fire sessions, it might be a problem.

With that said, I don't think it's really productive going back and using a trigger you won't be shooting consistently. I train with multiple guns, but I plan on using all of those. I think it detracts from my ability to use my race gun to it's fullest potential, however. It did get me in trouble when using my 930, I was so used to the very short reset that I didn't let the trigger out far enough to reset on my 930 and tried to pull the trigger twice. Nothing happened, and it cost me time, and led to me not winning the match.

If you train to use your stock Glock 17 trigger, sure that Vanek will feel really smooth, but you might condition yourself to let the trigger out more than you need to, or applying much more pressure. Again, might be a good thing if you need to use a different gun in a self defense situation. But from my experience, "train how you fight" is pretty good advice. You're going to revert to what you've trained for in a high stress situation, be it competition or otherwise.

All good points. I definitely need to get more live fire in between matches...I also carry a glock 19 with a stock trigger so I'll continue to crosstrain for reasons mentioned above but focus any dryfire within a week of a match using only the gun I'll be shooting in the match

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[Anyone doing trigger crosstraining?]

Over the winter i spent several weeks doing almost daily dry fire practice and had to fix a grip pressure issue the next time I went out for live fire

If your hands aren't tired after a dryfire session...

They normally are but somewhere along the lines I started crushing the grip with my strong and during dry fire when I normally grip more with my support hand during live fire. Now I just make a conscious effort to maintain proper grip during dry fire.

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[Anyone doing trigger crosstraining?]

I almost say it couldn't hurt, but I won't say that.

I will say that if you can master a "worse" trigger, then you shouldn't have much trouble with a "better" trigger. Just be careful that you don't make any bad habits by doing such crosstraining.

That's my only real concern (creating a problem that wasn't there). Over the winter i spent several weeks doing almost daily dry fire practice and had to fix a grip pressure issue the next time I went out for live fire

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[Anyone doing trigger crosstraining?]

I shoot a glock with a vanek trigger in production and normally have pretty good trigger control but will sometimes get sloppy when I pick up the pace. I'm wondering if anyone crosstrains with the factory equivalent of their uspsa gun as part of their regular routine? I have a glock 17 with factory trigger that I'm thinking about shooting 1-2x/month as part of my live fire training and looking for feedback from others and whether it helps or hurts competition performance.

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[Q/A: Reloading in a unfinished attic]

I load in an unfinished basement and had problems with humidity causing surface rust on my dies. A dehumidifier solved the problem. Like others said, I would not store powder and primers in an unfinished attic because of the temperature fluctuations

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