JP_Thomas

Definitely CR Speed

Well, considering Matt is so Gung-ho to join the Marine Corps in 4 years.. (a fact Steve - the dad- does not like too much) .. hopefully he can get the Corps to come up with an Official Marksmanship team like the Army has to compete within IPSC/USPSA! Don't forget ... Steve (Dad) Sweeney won C Class Lim10! -Joel

(1) Glock 34 (2) n/a (3) 9mm (4) Atlanta Arms & Ammo Match grade 147gr (5) Dawson Adj rear - fiber front (6) BladeTech

DITTO!!

Well, all - shot again yesterday. I thought I shot VERY well. When I 'zoned' in I was shooting 98% Alphas - 2 MIKES!!! Mikes were on a stage with strong & weak hand stuff - needless to say, I see more reps of thoses dryfire drills!! Funny thing - one of the guys said that now that I am making so many Alphas - I should speed up some. Welllllll, I did on the VERY LAST stage and my acurracy went down ... a lot ... still no Mikes ... but 16 Alphas - 7 Charlies - 1 Delta. I think I was trying to go TOO fast. Now that I look back at it, if I would have slowed just .50 or even 1.0 seconds, they would have been all Alphas! Maybe I would have seen the front sight more!! (hahahaha) "Grand Masters, tricks you must learn old padawan" ...... yoda!

Aw....dear sir, you have earned my respect in more than one topic! You know .. David Monnette actucally makes 'frumpets" .. http://www.monette.net/newsite/instruments_flumpet.htm

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww....a freak'in STRING player! That's it...I'm returning the book! (Yea, right!) Brother ... pick up a REAL instrument ... a BRASS one!! (Hence, yes, I do know what practice is all about! --joking

A little thing I am just starting to notice and a short story, I wanted to relay to everyone else… Back in June 2005 I bought my first pistol in over 10 yrs. I have had various girlfriends/wife that were TOO liberal for their own good and severely fronded upon having a gun in the house. Do you realize how insulting telling a former Marine that he cannot have a firearm around??? Anyhow, I needed time with my ‘gun’ not a rifle or pistol, so I sucked it up. (see the movie Full Metal Jacket for proper differences between a ‘gun’ and a ‘rifle’) Anyhow, the above mentioned females are no longer a factor. I always qualified ‘expert’ on rifle and pistol while in the Corps, but using Known Distance courses – it never was that difficult, at least for me. So, in June 2005 after purchasing a Glock 23 (I should say ‘re-purchase’ – I used to own 4 different Glocks in the early 90s) I decided to research out opportunities to shoot with others – thus I found IPSC, then USPSA, and finally my club – Gwinnett Practical Shooters League. All I can say is – WHAT A BLAST! I can’t wait for every Wednesday night to come around – and then the outside matches 2-3 times a month at various clubs in the area. In late August, I purchased a Glock 34 specifically to use in production class. Well, I shot for a couple of months – and just listened to the more experienced guys around me to learn. I could never remember everything that was said and started searching for some sort of instruction or manual that would help me improve – at least in a home environment. The range is too far to go on a daily or bi-daily basis. About a month ago, I bought Steve Anderson’s book Refinement and Repetition I am slightly strapped for time, so I do not always get ALL the repetitions in nor all the dry-fire exercises in. I am pretty consistent on the first 18 to 20 exercises. I usually put in 4-5 days a week, 2 sessions @ 30 minutes or so per session. Anyhow, to get to the point --- this past Wednesday, we had out league shoot. This is ‘Carry Night’ and consisted of three stages. STAGE 1: 3 boxes w/walls total, 2 targets per box, two shots each, targets @ 4 yds - boxes about 8 ft. apart. STAGE 2: "ATM" type stage - slip paper through slot, turn and engage 6 targets @ 10,12, and 2 o'clock. (no shoot in middle of target 'sets") targets @ 4 to 10 yrd. STAGE 3: Typical 6 shot Bill Drill. I do not remember all my times exactly, but they where pretty "quick" for me. I think stage 1 was around 10.5 sec, stage two - I do not remember, and stage 3 was like 2.15 sec or something like that. ANYHOW --- the BIG deal is ......I do not remember dropping one point ............. ALPHAs on all targets - every stage. And YES, I can recall breaking each shot in the A-zone! Pretty damn neat. Hell, I amazed myself! (well, my memory is foggy … I **may have** dropped one or two in the C zone – scores are not posted yet) Nevertheless, I do feel pretty darn good about my performance. The only thing I can credit this two is 2 things: 1) Exercises from Steve’s books 2) Hints and helps from our two Grand Masters – Erik Lund & Bill Munier I just got my ‘D’ classification on Sept 10th. Right now, my goal is to make ‘C’ by the end of the year, and ‘B’ by the end of 2006. Sorry for such a long post, but I figured some beginners on the board would enjoy hearing my story and my increase success.

Just spoke with "Jeff" at Glock tech support. Looks like I have two issues: 1) When cleaning, I am not re-assembling the firearm correctly. I **was** putting the bigger pin (trigger pin) back in first, then the smaller pin (locking block pin). This is incorrect. The locking block pin must go in first - in order to properly seat the spring on the slide stop lever. THEN put in the trigger pin. 2) My locking block pin is slightly bent and that could be an issue also. Jeff also advised me about how to test that the slide stop lever should not be 'loose' nor 'stick' in the up position. Anyhow, I'll take a quick trip to Glock tomorrow and have the locking block pin replaced by Jeff and he'll check out the slide stop lever also. Thanks all! -Joel

Hi all – I have a little problem with my Glock 34. The last two local USPSA matches that I have shot, my G34 seems to wants to go to slide lock – even when there are still rounds in the mags. This happens maybe 1 or 2 times a stage. This is the FIRST time this has ever happened to me. I know what you are thinking – “you are thumbing the slide stop lever during recoil.” Well, that is what I thought too. So, after the 1st local match of this happening – I changed out the standard extended slide stop lever with the ‘standard’ one that comes on the G17, 19, 22, 23, etc. Per the recommendation of a club member who is a GM in production and shoots Glocks also. Well, at a match yesterday, it started slide locking again. One guy that was RO’ing me said he saw my right thumb very close to the slide stop lever and that I might be thumbing it by accident during recoil. Okay – I made an adjustment and deliberately made the effort to always ensure that my right thumb was ALWAYS sitting on top of my left thumbs’s rear knuckle. (which in turn slowed my timing down) The next guy that was RO’ing me (on several stages – and was watching closely) said my thumb was no where near the slide stop lever . I am lost in a dilemma! The only non-stock part in my G34 is an ISMI Stainless Steel recoil guide rod and a 15 lbs. spring. Both parts were installed 2-3 weeks before all this started to happen. Remember – the slide lock thing just started last week. Questions – 1) Could my slide stop lever be ‘loose’ and ‘jumping’ up during a quick-double type of firing? 2) What else could it be that I have not considered. I am gonna call Glock Tech support, but I thought I would post here and see if anyone else has had this issue and what their resolution was. Thank you all for reading and contributing to a solution. Best Regards, Joel

Ditto! I think you can get the DOH and then buy the SR (Sting Ray) Belt loop w/Hardware to swap out with the Drop & Offset Loop - thus I **think** it would be legal in IDPA. Someone correct me if I am wrong. http://www.blade-tech.com/product.php?prod...&cat=251&page=2

Not a bad run for me back on 9/7 - Considering I have only been shooting USPSA for about 3 months now. I think I could have been faster, but lost 1.0 - 1.5 seconds on the reload. Outgoing mag hit the counter, and that 'sound' kind of 'broke' my 'zone' up a little when trying to re-charge the ole glock. Oh well .... Joel Thomas 33 U Production 60 0 10.95 5.4795 36.8106 61.35% Well, at least I got all 'A's !!! My 4th classifier so, looks like when the database is updated, I'll be a solid 'D' shooter. Now .... to make 'C' by the end of 2005!

I can say, that out of all the classifiers (4) that I have shot, this has to be the one I hate the most! Gosh, I bombed the hell out of it this past Saturday! Just plain embarrassing! Joel Thomas 32 U Production 49 40 17.09 0.5266 12.1808 16.24%

2a. If it looks too tough for marines send in the Seals and Seebees. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Very doubtful ...... Semper Fi! (especially the Seebees ... unless they are gonna BUILD us fortified cover)

God, that is just plain WRONG!