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Everyone else got much better while I only got slightly better

If you're D class then there are zero expectations for your performance so just go out and have fun. Go shoot your non-major gun in limited and get all your window-licking enjoyment out of it.

Shot this today and it came out pretty well 15A, 3C 7.96s (1st string 2.67, 2nd 5.29) 10.9296HF 78.67% in open Took it too easy on the first string. Could’ve saved like 0.3-0.5 with just a little more aggression

Just came in to post this meanwhile, I’ve been waiting on Armadillo Arms for months now. Emailed them several times to cancel the order - no response. It appears that I have been scammed

I had problems with these in my 2011 with a 15lb mainspring. I'd wager that a striker gun would have even more issues

Podcasts, usually. Either Steve Anderson's podcast or old episodes of the Shoot Fast Podcast (RIP).

Shot this yesterday at my first ever CO match Firearm - Sig 365XL w/ Holosun 507k Time - 7.30 Points - 48 HF - 6.5753 Class percentage - 78.3847% I usually shoot open, so I was a little sloppy with hits here. Otherwise it felt pretty good.

Anecdotally, everyone I've talked to that made the transition from irons to a dot said that the dot was considerably quicker. That's certainly not scientific, but it seems that shooting a red dot lends itself to a higher hit factor.

If you look at a sampling of earlier classifiers, it appears that every classifier earlier than the 18-series uses the same HHF for both production and CO. They definitely haven't been adjusted. Therefore, you can argue that it's empirically easier to get a higher classification in CO than prod.

'Refinement & Repetition' is an awesome way to get started, but as others have said if you don't train other skills you will be pretty deficient outside of classifier-type stages. His discussions on visualization, mental preparation, and vision have all helped me tremendously in the last year. Most of that stuff is discussed in his podcast, although he touches on it a little in 'Principles of Performance' and 'Get to Work'. If you take one of his classes (as I did this year) you'll hear a lot more about the mental aspect of shooting, which I think is really underappreciated. I will say that if you've consumed all of his other material, such as the books and his podcast, his class will feel like very well-trodden ground and perhaps a little repetitive. However, it is awesome for building confidence in your skills and gaining a few practice techniques.

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Recently I worked as an RO for a level II match. It was my first time working a major match so I was a little nervous, but at this point I had been an RO for about a year and a half and had run shooters at dozens of local matches. The other two folks I worked with were certified CROs, so I knew that if I had a rules question I could go to them and get a solid answer. On the day after staff day, I report to the stage that I'm going to work for the weekend. It's an unloaded start with the gun on one table, and the first loading device to be used on the second table. This meant that, essentially, you only had to put your first magazine or moon clip on the opposite table, but any others could be loaded from your belt. The stage also had three shooting areas: left, center, and right, with the two tables straddling the center shooting area. What most shooters did was grab the gun off the right table, the magazine off the left table, then run to the left box while loading. I think you can see where this is going already. We cycled through a few shooters from the first squad of the day without incident. A CO shooter stepped up to the line, place his X5 Legion on the table, and his magazine on the other table. I was standing on the far left side - behind the rear fault line, but close enough that I could see 180 breaks without endangering myself. One thing I noticed was that his hands were shaking just a little bit, which is normal. After all, it was the first stage of the day at a major match, and some jitters are normal. Timer goes off, he grabs the gun, grabs the mag and starts moving left. As you might imagine, he forgot the rule of thumb you use when you're a right-handed shooter trying to reload going Right -> Left: point the gun downrange and tilt it on its side. I saw the muzzle go straight to the left, almost in slow motion, and then I saw it start to point right at me. The thing I remember most was seeing the picatinny rail on the underside of the frame, and then suddenly seeing the inside of the barrel (which is something you don't want to see at a USPSA match). It pretty close to a 190 degree break and clearly apparent from where I was standing. I called STOP, had him unload and show clear, and explained that I observed him break the 180 and was disqualifying for unsafe gun handling under rule etc etc. He understood the DQ and apologized, then I apologized because the guy was DQed on his first stage before he even got to fire a shot at a major match. Range Master was called over, stage CRO explained what happened, I showed him where I was standing and what I saw. RM explained the DQ to the guy, and he packed up and went home. After the match was over, I looked this guy up in the Practiscore Competitor app because I was curious. It turns out that he was only a C class CO shooter, and this was his first major match ever. Not only that, but his home club (or, at least the club he shot at most frequently) was several hours away from this match, meaning that he paid several hundred dollars and several hours of his time to shoot the match, and then got sent home before he even fired a single shot. At his first major no less! So yeah, I feel very, very bad for him.

That’s been me at least twice now

It took me far too long to learn this lesson, and even longer to get the "good ammo" part correct.

Aren't they just the best? In the last five months I've had exactly one malfunction with my open gun - a Phoenix Trinity Honcho - which was caused by a light primer strike. I've been cleaning my magazines fairly often, the gun gets cleaned and lubed before every match, and I case gauge all of my ammo to ensure that it'll chamber. I've seen more malfunctions from GLOCKS this year than from my gun, and it's really amazing to finally be able to trust my gear 100% Sure, it takes more effort to keep it running than it would, say, a Sig or a CZ. However, I like this gun more than I like any of my other guns so it's really nice to have it running perfectly.

There's a very talented shooter in this area named Luke Cao who uses that grip.

I don’t carry every day, but when I do it’s a Sig 365XL with 507k

I bet that you could do well in Limited once you re-acclimate to irons. Of course, that's easier said than done.

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Reach out to GX Holsters (https://gxproductsusa.com/product/gx-vice-holster/). Their Vice holster is awesome for both USPSA and 3gun. They have several left hand models for both 5.4" and 6" 2011 pistols, and I bet that at least one of those would fit the XL. However, I'd ask first.

Man, you went from C class to M with non-traditional open gun in like six months. I'd say that's pretty good.

FTP is awesome. It's the optic I use on my backup gun

For those that normally shoot JHPs: do you go for truncated cone in your coated bullets, or round nose? How is feeding and accuracy compared to normal JHPs?

I think 9.1.5.3 addresses it succinctly. The partial hit continues on to the no shoot target, which incurs the NS penalty. Top target is A/M/NS, bottom target A/C/NS

I recently started zeroing at 20 yards and I think I like it