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Unloaded starts from the bench, from both surrender and hands at sides. If your indoor range allows holster work, there are many options for unloaded start, loaded starts, drawing from surrender while incorporating the dot torture target. If your range allows rapid fire, you can practice Bill drills. And usually using a target with 6 8" circles on it, you can work on transitions.

I started out with the Invictus Practical and I kept losing rounds or having them pop half way out. I went on to the Safariland quads and Double 8 and I am a fan. I have been lucky to have not lost a round while running the Safariland caddies. This would happen a lot, a round would hit the ground, the second round would dangle, then hit the ground. (Pics below).

Like most have already stated. Don't go out and buy all the gear right away. Run what you have, borrow what you would like to try out. Most 3 gunners are happy to let you try their gear (most, not all). And as Kellyn said, zero your rifle and no your holds.

Did you try running 1145s with the stock springs? Since I have unboxed my M2 (3Gun model, which from what I have read, has the same springs as a standard model) I have ran nothing but the cheap Wally World AAs and Federal 1145 shells with no hicups. I have only put approx. 600 rounds through it of the 1145s with no issues, but I'm just curious on why you went directly to upgrading springs before running the stock springs first?

I went with the +9. And honestly, being able to quad load from the start position, when most times you start with movement and not shooting, helps out. Running Tacops

Welcome to the world of shooting. As stated above, if you are looking to get sponsored there are pretty much three ways of accomplishing this. 1) Start competing in USPSA, IDPA and Steel challenge events. As you continue to compete and gain classifications in divisions along with either winning or consistency scoring high in local and not so local matches, vendors/sponsors will notice you and may approach you to sponsor you with certain items that you may need or use. If they are going to have you be a walking billboard for their products, they are going to want you to show off the items with skilled shooting. 2) Know someone. I have been to many local USPSA and IDPA matches and there is usually a couple people that have lacking shooting skills. But since they are out at a lot of the matches and they happen to be friends of a company owner, they get the sponsorship "hook up." 3) Get on Youtube and make a ton of quality videos. I know that there are a lot of not so known named people out there that are sponsored by companies based off of their reviews. yes some compete, some don't, but overall if people start to follow your videos and like them a lot; vendors will see this and recognize it as a good way to get their name out. As a side note. I am not a sponsored shooter, so these are just my opinions from what I have noticed in my time competing in USPSA, IDPA and GSSF matches. And 5 years of working limited hours at a local shop. Their may be some sponsored shooters that could chime in. From looking at your video of you shooting the GLOCK, I would highly recommend that you re-position your left hand thumb. Keeping it behind the slide like that is setting you up for a thumb injury. You got really lucky that you didn't smash it on your first time to the range. Either way, great job on your first time going out shooting.

You could do that, but you would have to go to Limited or Limited 10. Since you would be modifying the grip, that would make it illegal for production class. Appendix D4 21.4 If you look at Appendix D4 21.6 it states that you can use Extended OEM products, but if you modify the grip itself then you would be violating D4 21.4 Edit: this is using the latest version of the rule book that I have which was from February 2014.

I would suggest the MOS. If you like the grip texturing, to me it seems to offer the most amount of options for your dollar. It already has a slightly smaller grip, for some people this helps with ergonomics. If it's too small, you can add the medium back-strap to have the same grip size as a standard Gen3. Or you can up it to the larger size grip extension. You also have the opportunity to add the extended beaver-tails. If you plan on running Production now and Carry optics later, it will already be set up and ready to go. You know the cuts are correct and the gun comes stock with 4 mounting plates for various optics. If you are a GSSF member or LEO to be able to get a Blue Label GLOCK, then that will save you some extra cash towards an optic or more mags. I prefer the Gen 4 mag release over the Gen 3 personally. As for the dual recoil spring set up. In my Gen4 19s and 17s, I don't notice a difference in "reduced recoil." I personally do not on a Gen 4 34..........yet. Like others have said, go out and either rent or borrow both the Gen 3 and Gen 4 models and shoot them side by side and see which works best for you. If you rent the Gen 4, make sure they give you the back straps to try out as well.

I have been shooting USPSA for a little over a year and a half, unfortunately only 1 match a month. Currently sitting at B Class for Production with a GLOCK 17 (Gen 1 lower and Gen 3 upper). I recently just started shooting Limited 10 with a Gen 3 17. I kept hearing good info from people at matches about this forum so I figured I would finally sign up.