Jimlakeside

I have shot many thousands of Wolf primers in my G34. My experience is that they are harder than Federal primers. I have had light primer strikes with a lightened firing pin spring. I just put the original spring back in with no other problems. I run factory recoil spring and a Glockworxs rigger. Love the set up.

"...Oudejans recommends devising a high-tension practice regimen appropriate to your particular performance situation." If I understood the article correctly training under the same kind of pressure as one would experience at a match is the answer. How to duplicate that experience in practice would be the trick.

While shooting groups last night I observed that once I fired and the sights lifted my finger wanted to pull the trigger again before I could align the sights on the target with my eyes. It's like my finger has a mind of it's own urging me to pull the trigger before my eyes could align the sights back on the target. When I shoot before I have the sights aligned it always results in a poor shot. It's like a little war going on in my head. Any suggestions on how to discipline my finger?

IDPA you are limited to division capacity (whatever your magazine will hold up to 10 rounds plus one in the chamber). In other words high capacity magazines in IDPA offer no advantage. Also IDPA doesn't have major or minor so shoot whatever gun you want.

Lots of good powders out there, it's just a matter of preference. With cast bullets I like Vihtavuori because it seems to smoke less than a lot of other brands. Cast bullets will smoke more than FMJ bullets because of the lube on the bullet. Since I shoot a lot indoors the less smoke the better. http://www.vihtavuori-lapua.com/pdfs/Reloading-Guide.pdf

I stole this article from another website. http://library.thinkquest.org/C0123421/index.htm I found it to be very interesting. There are many real situations, which cannot but cause stress. We cannot help being "stressed" by a car accident or by a street robbery. So what will our attitude help then? A proper attitude will not eliminate stress and for cases similar to the above ones, that is not necessary; a proper attitude will help us react with less panic and less useless worry or anxiety. Or, in other words, we will react with the "necessary dose" of stress only: we shall be able to estimate the stressful situation correctly and not "overestimate it. This will facilitate our coping with the stressor and will prevent health risks. It is a way of utilizing the stress responses instead of suffering from it. In the case of stress caused by emotional stressors, change of our attitude can eliminate stressors and thus eradicate the very cause of distress. The power of adaptation We can think of problems as obstacles on our way, but we can think of them as challenges, too. We can yammer about the hardship of tackling a problem, but we can also look at that tackling, as an opportunity for gaining practical experience, as a way of training ourselves. Training which otherwise we would not have enough willpower to perform. Whenever something bad happens to us, something which brings frustration, we had better think of the experience we gain: we can see where our weak points are, where we mistake in our way of thinking and preparing. Instead of whining after a failure, we had better sit and analyze where exactly we have mistaken, could we have prevented the negative consequences and how. We may find out that our abilities to succeed had been far smaller than we have thought; we may have been blaming ourselves unnecessary for things out of our control. Or we may have really made a mistake, but now at least, we shall know what we have to correct in the way we think/act and will be sure that next time the same thing will not happen. If this way of rational behaviour becomes our habit, we will soon forget what frustration means. We really are not perfect The trick is to admit that you may fail - fail to win the match, fail to pass the exam, fail to make the right decision… To admit means not only to tell yourself "OK. That might happen". To admit means to imagine the failure - to imagine it to the greatest detail, feel all the consequences, all the pain, grief, torment, disappointment, bitterness… When we are not prepared One of the greatest sources of panic is not the inability to deal with a situation, but the very thought of not being prepared to so. We become used to the fact that best performance comes after a good preparation. That is true. But not applicable to stressful situations. The mistake most of us make is to try to perform excellently, realize that they are not prepared to do so and finally miss to do what is just enough. We must change this unconscious habit of ours. Under stress, the trick is to act according to the situation - not to think what you could have done if you were prepared, but just do what is necessary. It is no time for thinking what your teachers, or relatives, or friends will say - it is time for acting, acting with the resources you have now, not with the resources you "could have, if…". Ignore discomfort, ignore the onlookers, ignore your reputation, ignore the pain and just do what is necessary. Do not stop to think whether you are prepared to do it or not.

I have a very similar problem with my Glock 34, it spits brass back in my face, on top of my head, etc. On three different occasions, when I didn't wear a hat, I have had brass lodge between my shooting glasses and my face. That stuff is hot!! I have found that the lighter the load the more it throws brass on top of my head. I just wear a hat and go on since I am looking for the lightest load I can shoot and still have it cycle. I am using the standard recoil spring. Welcome to Glocks. Jim

Franklin, We hold IDPA matches indoors every month. I am not quite sure what you are asking for. You can Google IDPA COF and get literally 100s of courses of fire that other people have already designed for you. Many can be adapted to physical dimensions that you described. Our range is also 75 feet deep, but wider than 20 feet. We are able to set up two courses of fires in the range. After we have shot those courses we take them down and set up another one. Hope this helps. Jim

147 grain cast bullet 3.5 grains of Vhtavuori N340 powder Wolf primers Mixed brass Hard to beat

This will be my wife's and I first trip to Louisiana. I am looking forward to it.

I have shot bowling pins as practice and one time at a match with my Glock 34 with no problems. If you hit the pin it will fall off the table. Go to a new gun if you want to, but I think hitting the pin is more important than what you hit it with. Bowling pins are available on line for practice if you have a place to set them up.

For me prematch jitters means that I have too much invested in the outcome of the match. I am usually overly concerned about doing well which creates my own jitters (anxiety) which then shows up as tension in my body. Redmanfixit is exactly right. Relaxing and stop focusing on the outcome of the match, stage, etc. and begin focusing on the fun of shooting helps.

While at a IDPA match in Hot Springs while sitting in a car my magazine fell out onto the front seat. Cost me 6 seconds. I missed first place (in Markman's division) by three seconds. Only time it has happened.

My 34 did the same thing. Ordered new ISMI magazine springs, problem solved. Sometimes factory glock magazine springs are a little weak.

Lead all the way. I cast myself, so make bullets out of wheel weights. I also shoot my lead bullets out of a factory Glock 34 barrel with no leading problems. I shoot my reloads in competition which has cost me since I had a squib in an IDPA match, but then that just adds more excitement. I'm just to cheap to shoot factory loads!!!

I shoot cast bullets in my factory Glock barrel all the time with no leading problems. Commercial cast bullets are safe to shoot in Glock factory barrels. Any barrel will lead if you bullet size is too small or you are pushing lead too fast. My Glock 34 hasn't seen a factory load through it yet, and I have shot 1000s of rounds of cast bullets in it.

Super glue.

My wife didn't grow up playing baseball, football, tennis, etc. like I did. I think sports and hunting at a young age are a real plus in developing the skills necessary to shoot later in life.

I agree. I also use VVN320 and VVN340, but there is still smoke. No problem outdoors, but indoors it will distract you a little.

I am completely satisfied with my Lone Wolf barrel in my Glock 34. I also have another G34 with a stock barrel. I shoot lead (both commercially cast and bullets that I cast) in both guns and can not tell the difference between the two guns. I have had no leading problems in my stock barrel, so I just haven't bought an after market barrel for my second G34.

Primers are cheap at Powder Valley. Setting up you Dillon is not that hard, just read the instructions and call Dillon if you have problems. You will love it. I think you will be surprised at how well you do and how easy it is to make reloads.

Just like this is the "go to" forum for learning to shoot this forum http://castboolits.gunloads.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8 is the go to forum to learn to cast bullets. I took up casting about three months ago, it's addictive. It's not too expensive to get into either. The cast boolits forum has tons of information that you will need to get started.

From the “Bible.” Awareness is observation without thought and judgment. If we can just look at something without judging or evaluating it, we are seeing it in its purest, actual form. (pg 14) Focus is simply paying attention to things your awareness shows you are happening, as they are happening. (pg 16) Has anyone developed a way to improve awareness and focus outside of shooting that would then improve our shooting? For example, if while observing a male with long dirty hair, tattoos, piercings, and gold chains, we don’t judge, but just observe his actions for a minute or so, will that help us develop awareness?

I participated in the Texas State Championship match this last Saturday. I watched some really fast shooters shoot and this is what I observed about how they used cover. When running down a hall, for example, they would sprint to the end of the cover, run past it, quickly stop and back up before engaging targets. In contrast I would sprint to cover and slow way down before getting to the edge of the hallway, stop, and then look around the cover for targets. I can see where running past cover, stopping and backing up would be faster, but it seems to violate the spirit of the game if not the rules. No one was called for exposing a large portion of their bodies to the bad guys for a short period of time before they got back behind cover. Any thoughts about this observation. If it is allowed by the rules, then it makes more sense to me to slightly run pass cover, quickly stop, and back-up since this is faster.

Thanks for all of the great replies. I will print off Jthompson's comments and see if I can figure it out tonight. Jim