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Congrats! You didn't want to stay at D too long. You'd look like Kramer (Seinfeld) fighing and beating all of those little kids in karate class with the argument "we're all the same belt level Jerry". lol

Dude! Don't start that! Hurricanes are the last thing we need right now!!!! This year my homeowners insurance has gone from $2200 a year to $4200 a year. Speakin of heat...I'm damn sure glad I switched from IDPA to USPSA/IPSC now I don't have to wear that stupid vest.

That's one opinion. Uh oh.

I ordered a set of mags from him and we spoke for over 30 minutes on the phone last Friday. Genuinely a nice guy. He had mentioned he has picture out there somewhere with him shooting an Open gun with a Cmore he mounted upside down cause he couldn't get used to a Cmore. That's something I'd like to see. He told me about six to eight weeks till my mags are done.

HSMITH said exactly the same thing I did.

Buzz: I've set my laser from "stun" to "kill". Woody: Oh, great. If anyone attacks we can blink em' to death Mr. Potato Head: How come you don't have a laser, Woody? Woody: It's not a laser. It's a little lightbulb that blinks. Hamm: What's with him? Mr. Potato Head: Laser envy.

To some it up, they're both important. What you need to focus on in the beginning is geting your hits. Shoot for accuracy and the speed will come. When I first started I ran like a bat outta hell but had a lot of Mikes on every stage. I started shooting for points and the speed eventually came. The way the sport is scored is the "shots per second" or what we call "Hit Factor". You can shoot a stage with all A's but take too much time, or you can shoot the stage really fast and end up with D hits or Mikes...not good either. So you need a good mix. Good hits with good time. The scoring is derived from the total score that you shot divided by the time that it took you to shoot it which will equal your "Hit Factor". The Hit Factor is what determines the stage winner and placement. I explain the sport to people, that the stages need to be shot as efficiently and as accurately as possible. It took me a while to get this to sink in: Shoot for points and the speed will come.

How are you stopping the timer? I've practiced this drill for the "Making Change" Classifier we had at Area 6 on Stage 3. I shot the Stage in 6.51 seconds and I was a "C" shooter at the time. It might be more accurate to use live fire and start at the beep and stop at the first shot. Since my practice for this drill I've become very confident in the unloaded start senarios.

You can have my old mag pouches, they're Hoppner & Schuemann Speed Sec Pouches. They work really well if you don't plan on running or transitioning in a hurry they'll work fine. If you need to dump your mags fast...just run. I ordered CR Speed Pouches from Chris Patty at CPWSA, his site is: http://www.cpwsa.com/ I got my pouches in two days of ordering them and his prices were great.

Kevin, Matt, Lance, Where are you guys at with this? I need all of the training I can get.

I was talking with a buddy of mine yesterday at the range and asked him about dryfiring (since that's his primary mode of practice), and he mentioned using Beam Hit. He says that dry firing bores the hell out of him, but this really helps him a lot. The one he has, the laser slides inside the barrel allowing for holster draws. Any of you other guys use one of these?

Thanks for the reply J2fast and Paul. I found out the name of the pouches I'm using are Speed Sec Mag Pouches. They served their purpose. I spoke with Jake Devita earlier and he recommended the CR Speeds as well cause he was having the same problems I was with other carriers. I ordered three for this coming weekend a few minutes ago so I can't wait to see what kind of damage I can do if I can run full tilt in a big stage. Thanks again guys.

I was shooting in a match this past weekend and while transitioning to another spot (about 15 yards), two of my mags fell out leaving me with one mag and just giving me enough to finish the stage (ran the gun dry after shooting the last target). I can't tell you what kind of mag pouches I have because they just came directly in plastic bags without labels. The Mag carriers are like clamshells if that makes any sense. It has two tensioner screws but it's open on the front end. There's a picture below. I can tighten the tension screws but it still has that open end in the front. The big problem is, I can't run fast or they'll jiggle out, so I'm running at like 1/3 the speed to keep them from falling. I could easily kill several seconds if I could run faster in the bigger stages. Question: What Mag Carriers do you guys use with good success and no fear of falling out?

His other book (Perfect Practice) is a good read as well!

One thing that has really helped me was to work on my cadence. For example you have an array of 4 targets in a row. A lot of shooters will shoot two shots...pause, two shots... pause, two shots...pause, two shots. By having a cadence you can decrease your time by shooting with the same splits between shots, taking out the pause so its a consistant bang,bang,bang,bang,bang,bang,bang,bang. After a little practice my splits in a match are between .2 and .28 seconds between shots. This where the timing drills will help a lot. You don't just want to shoot .2 to .28 splits and end up with a lot of C's and D's either. Timing with the Bill Drills, seeing the sights go up down. Another thing that helped and that I still need to practice on myself to commit more to memory is to fall out of the box when shooting my last target and getting ready to transition to the next position. It gives you a good lead off rather than just standing there shooting and then moving. Since you're "falling" or leaning, your upper body stays in the same shooting position so that you can call your last shots more accurately but your body is already getting in motion for you to move to the next array.

I heard of this trick from one of Matt Burkett's DVD's and I tried it out on day at the range hoping to be something I could improve on. Turns out that my reaction times were there. I was averaging .14 so I was listening to the first note of the beep. JD45 is right though. There are other drills and exercise that you can invest your time on to save you a whole lot more than a fraction of a second.

My wife had the same problem. Have you tried constant dryfiring? During dryfire you have the perfect sight picture and you hold it while pulling the trigger. If done enough it becomes repetitive and you can usually break the habit. I'd tell my wife to let the trigger break surprise her rather than anticipate it. Another trick is to throw some snap caps into your mag along with your rounds. Don't pay attention to the order or even have a friend do it. When you're shooting, and the gun cycles to the snap cap, you can see if you're holding the gun still or jerking it. I start (when I practice at an indoor range) shooting groups using a 6" paper plate at 25 yards. I finish practice using the same drill. That helps me a lot with trigger control and my accuracy.

Yeah but you have to admit, Starbucks has taken the coffee business by storm. Howard Schultz capitalized off a great idea from all of the Seattle Coffee afficionados. Who would have ever thought about 15 years ago that the opening a coffe shop and charging five bucks a cup would do so well? Between that and the popular sale of bottle water, it just baffles me. I think about it everytime I buy both.

I've done that a couple of times during the smaller matches at the indoor range. They're pretty good about that. At the larger match, this just isn't a possibility. Besides that, I'm not sure how fair it is to the other shooters. They paid the same fee I did and got to shoot it once. I always feel bad about asking even though they don't seem to mind. I actually wonder if this is why there are not more SS shooters at the larger matches. There are a number of L10 shooters with 1911s at these and I can't think of any other reason they would not shoot SS. There are a couple of guys I shoot with that are facing the same dilema. What we do at our clubs is they pay an extra fee to shoot two Classifiers. One is shot as a regular match score with the Single Stack, and the shoot the second as L10 and the club turns in the Limited 10 Classifier. That way they get to shoot Single Stack as well as move up the ranks in classification.

This makes me think of that Budwieser commercial "Real Men of Genius" Why do they call it a Latte? Because it cost a latte... I can never get my coffees straight either. If I go to Barney's it called one thing, if I go to Starbucks it's called something else, and the person always looks at me like a dumbass because I'm trying to order the right drink. How did we let Coffee get so complicated? Damn you Howard Schultz!

I had until recently the S&W 645 he used in Seasons 3 and 4. At least you weren't running around with a Mullet in High School back then.

Good Eye Sandro. I can't wait for that movie to come out.

Area 3 Results are up.

Check with local gunsmiths in your area and see who reloads. I don't want to get into the reloading thing right now myself, so I buy my ammo from my local smith. He loads my ammo to the specs I ask for and I use them practice and major matches.