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I got shipping notification today on my order placed over the weekend. That's quick. Basically on the next business day. Will share my results with the 135 once I receive them and load some up.I’m going to have to try these Brazos bullets. Might put in an order for some 124’s tomorrow.
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Thanks for the feedback. I am definitely aiming during these drills. I don't recall my sites moving too much on entry but something I will watch for.You plant extremely hard which causes massive movement in the sights on entry. This will slow you down on your first shots if you are truly aiming... or more likely... cause poor hits or mikes in matches.
Work on deceleration steps and soft entries to help with that. It will decrease time dramatically when done correctly. It will also allow a better base to explode out of for existing. Not to mention it keeps you lower in position vs. stand up so tall. Which causes loss of time on both the stand up and the squat back down to explode out.
A lot of this foot movement is the same as baseball. Played for the first 25 years of life but it's been at least 10 years since I've thrown a ball around. This is the first sport I've done in years that requires starts and stops like this. Not much of that in surfing. Ha.
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i can look into 135 gr. There are 135 round nose bevel base and 135 rn flat point square base. Lube groove and no lube groove. Y’all let me know and I’ll see if we can get the moulds ordered. It’s nearly a $1000 investment so I’d like to get it right.
I noticed you added 135gr RN bullet to the site. Just ordered 3800. With the memorial day discount and free shipping, that's under 5 cents per bullet. Can't beat that with a stick!!I'm also a 135gr fan for my pistols and I prefer the RN BB with no lube groove. Your 125's run great out of my PCC!Thanks for getting the 135s up so quickly.
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Explode out of your position!!!
Thanks. The problem I'm facing when I explode out is I often fumble the reload. A friend and M class shooter that watched the video suggested I pull the mag as I exit. Then insert in the last two steps as I enter the next position. This will allow me to explode out and then insert as I am coming to a stop.
I am gonna work on this today. See if it works better for me.
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Thanks. I've been training a lot for movement and reloads on the move since my last match. It's my low hanging fruit. I'm getting beat by time not points. And although my split times can be faster, analysis of my stage runs compared to the guys beating me, its moving within the stage where they have me beat. If I can execute like this in my next match, I think I will move up quite a bit in scoring amongst the other Production shooters. We shall see.Looks pretty good to me [emoji6]
I find it kind of hard to judge my own movement without a timer.
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Been working on my movement in/out of position and reloads. Thought I'd share this video for some feedback.
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I've come very close to buying the Mantisx used a couple of times but I never pull the trigger. Two reasons.
The sights do this too, and they're included free with your handgun.
My sights do occasionally disappear during the course of fire though.
One... what you just said.
Two... the fact that I see them being sold as "only used a couple of times" confirms reason one.
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Shot a ProAm match this weekend. On a 11 second stage my last shot fired was at 7.23 seconds. Gun went into slide lock, I was not able to reload, rack the slide and fire a shot for 3.77 seconds.
What techniques do you use to keep from running a mage empty? Count Shots, Plan exact locations to change mag?
What types of drills should I use to improve my Mag Changes?
Any pictures of gear setup? Not sure about pouch positions, bullets up, down, or out? Magwell, are there advantages over others?
Stage planning is key to not running empty. Walk the stage and determine where to do each reload. On stages with movement, you should plan to do them in between positions, while on the move to save time. Avoid standing reloads whenever possible.
As far as practice, the fortunate thing is reloads is something you can do at home in dry fire. There are plenty of videos YouTube that show proper technique by some of the top shooters. Look up the Burkett Load drill. Has been very helpful for me. You want to make sure you practice both standing and moving reloads. Goal should be to get standing reload done in about a second. Moving reloads done by your second step.
As far as pouch placement, I'm not familiar with the rules of Pro Am. In USPSA, placement is dictated by the division rules. I shoot Production division so pouches must sit behind the hip bone. However, some of the other divisions allow pouches to be placed anywhere on the belt. If there are no rules for placement, put them on your belt where you can get to them easily and consistently. Typically up front with a cant towards weak arm.
Mags should be placed upside down in the pouch with the rounds facing forward or out depending on the type of pouch you're running. Some pouches have the mag sit perpendicular on the belt so rounds facing out on those. Rounds facing forward on traditional pouches.
Practice reloads often. It's a fundamental that you need to keep sharp.
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[mention=66421]anonymouscuban[/mention] you haven’t told anyone what division you shoot. What kind of gun within that division? What is your current classification, and are you having trouble climbing out of that classification - have you been in B class for a long time or are you a fresh C class just getting started in the sport?
Sorry. Should have mentioned this stuff. Here goes.
I shoot Production. Shooting an SP-01 Manual Safety that I've tuned over the past 1.5 years with CGW parts. Polished all the internals. It's a great running gun. Very reliable and much more accurate than I am.
I shot my first pistol not quite 3 years ago. Shot my first USPSA match in January. I've shot 3 matches so far. My local club hosts a monthly match and I've committed to shooting all of them. I am planning on shooting other matches at other clubs as well. Actually gonna see about shooting a match in Hawaii in July during vacation.
I am currently unclassified. I get better with every match so looking forward to finally not seeing a U next to my name. There are a couple of B and C class shooters in the squad I've been shooting with and I place right in between them typcially. Some stages I beat the B class guys. Some I don't. Seems like the bigger stages, where time matters more, they get the better of me. My low hanging fruit right now is stage planning. Especially moving to each shooting position efficiently.
I dry fire at least 4 days a week and I live fire at least once a week. More now that I am reloading my own rounds. I've taken a few training classes but they were defensive/tactical shooting classes. This was before I started action pistol shooting. I've become friends with a an M class shooter that I am learning a lot from but I'm an information junky so I like to seek out different opinions on things and then process it to see what works for me.
That's about it.
And here are the results and video of one of the stages in my last match.
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****UPDATE****
Hit the range today. Confirmed that it is my rear sight that is drifted left. I shot at 25 yards. Shots were all about 3-4" left. Then my friend shot. Same results. Then shot from rest. Same deal.
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I know most of you guys have Dillon presses but I thought I'd share a quick video of my DIY 3D printed case feeder for my Hornady Lock n Load AP press.
This is not my design. I found the files on the Thingaverse site. A friend printed it for me for free. About $20 in screws and rigid tubing for the collater and I was rock and rolling. Works well. Has more than doubled my production.
If there are any other Hornady users, you can download the file and instructions here:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2488944
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Thanks for the advice guys.
@ hi-power jack - no reason it can't be the sights. I just assume it's me and not the gear. But good point. I plan on running some drills at the outdoor range on Sunday morning. I will shoot my pistol from a rest to see if its pulling left. Man. I hope so. Makes things a helluva lot easier.
By the way, I had another match this past Sunday. I totally mucked up the classifier but over I saw much improvement in all my other stages. There is still low hanging fruit so got a lot to train.
One big thing I noticed is my shooting has moved to the subconscious. I no longer seem focused on the actual act of shooting, reloads, etc. More focused on movement through the stage as I planned. Still got lots to develop though.
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OK fellas. This is something that isn't a huge issue for the type of shooting we do in competition but its something I definitely would like to fix or at least understand.
The last few times I've worked on shooting groups in training I noticed that almost all are fall just left of my POA. I forgot to take a picture of the actual spent target but I marked this one up to show exactly where all my groups land. The last couple of times, there was a large hole in this shape at the end of my session.
This is at 10-20 yards. No matter if I slow fire or I shoot at a comfortable pace. Results are same. Just slightly left. I don't think it's the pistol or sights. Haven't ruled either out but I think it's me.
Anything you can suggest I hone in on as the culprit?
Any tips on how I can diagnose the issue?
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Well said.In all seriousness, these dry fire gimmicks are either invented by, or meant for people who don't understand how to dry fire.
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That was my thought. Based on airsoft pistols that have blowback, I think those get about 40 rounds per canister. I have to imagine that this uses just as much.Seems like a cool dry fire tool but I’d imagine you are constantly refilling with CO2 anyone that dry fires daily use one of these?
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This also begs the question... why not just use the airsoft for training like many do. You not only get the benefit of recoil simulation but you also get hit confirmation from the pellet.
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Please share your results with TG. Very interested.Received my order from Brazo's last week, bullets look great. Like the sealed bags they came in, but they need to put a little more packaging tape around the boxes. One of my boxes was busted open on one side when the post office delivered them. I loaded the 150 SWC's up tested them with sport pistol today. 3.2 gr of Sport Pistol at 1.140 shot best. 2.13" at 25 yds in TSO from Ransom Rest. 899 avg FPS 138.4 PF. I want to test with Tightgroup next. Nice clean holes and worked in all my 9mm's at that length.
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I'm good with any profile although I am able to run flat nose bullets a bit longer in my CZs.
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Just bought both of them. LoLFor the question you're asking here, definitely start with:
https://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Marksmanship-Tools-Practical-Shooting/dp/1091416818/
But getting Skills & Drills Reloaded while you're at it is good, too. [emoji846]
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I was just about to order his Skills and Drills Reloaded. Do you recommend Practical Accuracy over this?
Get Ben Stoeger’s newest book, Breakthrough Marksmanship and work on his drills like Practical Accuracy and Doubles.
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Lightfoot... do you guys have any plans of making a 135gr. 9mm projectile? I didn't see it offered on the site.
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I think what I'm really trying to figure out is where I draw the line for match mode. I may be over thinking this. What I don't want to do is use "safe mode" as my match mode. What I mean is I don't want to regress to playing it safe during a match. I want to push myself. Find that line and walk it where I'm safe, in control, but moving fast, transition fast, etc but still making acceptable hits. That's all on me. You guys can't really help me figure this out . I guess I was just looking for some help to conceptualize it.
Accuracy mode means your only goal is improving accuracy. This could be group shooting, or it could be something you use when you’re working on a type of target, positioning, or distance that’s new to you or that you find difficult. Your goal is to improve your accuracy and the time doesn’t matter - don’t even use a timer!
Speed mode means your only goal is improving speed. This means pushing yourself faster than you’ve gone before and finding ways to do everything quicker, sooner, and faster. Accuracy doesn’t matter and isn’t judged, you only care about improving speed. This doesn’t mean you’re just waving the gun around, but it means that dropping points is OK as long as you’re making speed gains. Let’s say the fastest you’ve ever done a draw to an alpha is 1.1 seconds. If you do a 1.0 and it’s a charlie, and your goal is speed, then that’s an improvement. What about a .8 and a delta? Or a .7 and a mike? If you’ve never done a sub second draw, those are huge gains, and worth ignoring accuracy for a bit.
The key thing about these 2 modes is that they are ONLY for practice. Not matches. The only mode you should take to matches is... match mode!
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Good to hear you got it worked out. No worse feeling than thinking you took a perfectly working firearm and made it inoperable by tinkering with it to make it "better". I think most of us have been through it. Fortunately, its usually something simple that needs tweaking.Just to close things out ... S2 is now perfect!
All done and all good! Talked to CGW via email and they gave me some tips. Trigger bar spring and further work on the disco. I have the blue spring in now and will shoot it that way first. Once I decide on ammo, I will swap in the black spring and see what I get. Will run an 11# recoils spring. Once I got the disco final fit, I took it out one more time and glass beaded the transitions and surfaces (lightly) and am getting a really smooth DA pull. SA is crisp. Reset is excellent. Polished all surfaces as instructed (on all components). Feels great. Functions perfectly. Waiting for my buddy to mill the slide for the optic. Will post pics when complete.
Looking forward to hearing your first range report with it.
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Thanks. I have Ben's older book. Will check out his new one. I have taken Def-tac classes but never a competition centered claas. I plan to for sure. I don't mind spending on good training.Buy Ben Stoeger’s new book. Read & apply. Take a class when you can.
That’s the best advice I can give
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My goal is to be A class by end of this year. A lofty goal since I only shot my first match in January and I shot a gun the 1st time 3 years ago. But it's the goal I set for myself. I can do it if I stay committed to putting in the work.What is your overall goal for shooting in competitions? From my limited experience (I'm in it for the fun ), I've seen guys blow through stages at super fast paces with charlies, deltas, & mikes and still come out in the top 5 or higher for that stage just because they completed the stage so much faster than everyone else.
Now at larger events where there are many more high level shooters this doesn't work out so well for them. They have to slow down a little and make good hits.
Thank you for the explanation. I've listened to a couple of Anderson's podcasts that he has shared for free. I think he has a subscription that I plan on buying.
Steve Anderson describes it as such.
Accuracy mode. Not the speed where you get almost all Alphas. Only Alphas. Accuracy is the only thing important. Goal is to learn to fire accurate shots.
Speed mode. Massive speed gains are the only goal. Accuracy is not judged in this practice mode. You are still calling your shots but not making up any poor hits. This is why he advocates using shot up targets or even no targets and just shooting between the target sticks. Only thing is working time down and not being concerned with hits during this mode of practice.
Match mode. Only leaving acceptable hits on targets. Time is not judged. Therefore alphas or close Charlies. What looks like wide Charlies have a way of becoming deltas. Any shot called as unacceptable is made up instantly.
Check out his podcast. He can explain his philosophies much better than I can. The common denominator between all his practice modes is to only work on one thing at a time. Narrowly define success as he puts it. If I made a mistake in my explanation above, I apologize. This is just my interpretation of Steve Andersons work.
As as for A / C ratio, get ready for the debate. Too many variables to list. If you're calling your shots and leaving acceptable hits, the Charlie ratio will work itself out. The entire scoring system comes down to a balance of speed / accuracy.
You explanation does help. Especially the speed mode description. I think the key is still maintaining some control to call your shots. Not going so fast that your just throwing lead down range. I like the idea of using shot up targets. As I said, one of the hardest things for me so far, mentally, is accepting hits outside the A zone. Even in practice. I'm learning to but it's still hard not to get hung up on it and slow down. A shot up target will help.
Thanks. I think I've read the 85% before but not sure. I shoot Production. Plan to stick with it for a while so I know I need to shoot better than the guys in my squad that run major. This helps me to gauge where I need to be.In a Minor division getting anything less than 85% A’s isn’t going to be good enough.
In a Major division you don’t need as many (provided you are fast enough).
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What's great is that I'm seeing consistent improvement in my shooting. Both speed and accuracy. However, I know I'm on the steep part of the learning curve right now and as I get better, the incremental improvements will be harder to come by. I want to make sure I am practicing correctly.
Appreciate the help.
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Deciding maybe to make the jump into reloading
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I also agree with Grumpy. Go with the 550. Many will disagree but you may also want to consider the Hornady Lock n Load AP. I ended up with the Hornady because I just couldn't pass up the deal I got. I've been running it for a couple months now and it works great. Well built.
I am in exactly the same boat as you. I shoot 9mm. A lot! I compete in USPSA. I have 556 but I rarely shoot it. I also don't see myself adopting any new calibers for a while. For sure, not till I become a Master Class shooter in Production.
I go through about 1000 rounds a month currently. I'm loading match grade 135gr rounds, tailored to my gun and preference for 9 cents per round. So I'm paying less than half of what I was when I buying. And almost a 3rd of what I was paying for match grade factory ammo. So don't let anyone tell you that there is no savings in loading 9mm.
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