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yea, but even the smallest amount of jogging or small warm up exercised get the weird looks from everybody else...there is something about the shooting community and their aversion towards physical activity (except when the buzzer goes off!)

This is great info, however has one major issue: your program assumes that everybody has enough and equal time to do these rehearsals, which is never true. What I can see is that the people who designed and setup the course has the most advantage in finding the best plan memorizing it, and then those who arrived early, and finally those who shoot it later in the squad....this all adds RANDOMNESS to the outcome of a match, or even leads to unfair practices and outcomes.

I am relatively new to the game, but already can recognize this pattern. I dislike these kind of "memory" stages and think that they are unfair for the reasons you mentioned. There is a local club here run buy a GM, his family and his buddies. They always throw in two to three such trick memory stages in every match with huge overall points and seem to be so well rehearsed in how to shoot them....they give all the nonmember/outside shooters a total of 5 mins to walk through these stages, and no surprise everybody outside of their group make costly mistakes. The funny thing is they never shoot in any other club either. These stages are testing memory skills that are not necessarily practical for real life either, but that is a different discussion.

but then, I would have to live in Florida

i've heard that before, and i don't know how it works there with the 10rd mag law, but more power to you brother!

and shoot low cap? nah im good.

Now that the shooting season is ending, what can we do to continue improving? My plan: 1. continue dry firing 2. get fitter and more agile (go to gym regularly, sprint, drills, etc.) 3. shoot the occasional indoor match 4. try to shoot some drills at least once a month outdoors

there are multiple spring types and followers, which combination do you suggest?

the mags are so tight with the +2 that i have trouble even racking the slide

i dont think the grip can flex so much with adding tape, to me the issue seems to be the mags are too tight when adding the +2 (23 rounds total) and the feedlips allow a bullet to slip into the chamber because of excessive pressure the mags are extremely tight if I put 23 rounds in them

That TTI +2 base plate sucks, by the way. It causes a hard jam (double feed).

This question may not belong here, but here it is anyways: i wrapped my x5 grip with multiple layers of grip tape to add thickness, and it really works well for me. Below is a picture. Is this gun still legal for carry optics division??

here are pictures:

I use skateboard tape and wrap the grip in areas that I want to be thicker. This way I can fully customize the shape of the grip to my hand. I found that I am adding more and more tape, because a thicker grip works well for my hands (but the gun looks really ugly). One thing I noticed is to make the bottom of the grip thicker than the top part: make it thinner near the beaver tail. This helps pushing my hands up, for a higher grip. Really helps with recoil control.

seems like you are posting to the wrong forum

i suggest ignore the title of this video (which is gross hyperbole), but do listen to Rob Leatham describing how to shoot action pistol:

The proper way of classification can be done by plotting the distribution of all HF's from a given period (which will typically be a log-normal distribution), assign top 5% of shooters GM, the next 10% M, and so on...in other words grade them on a curve. This is what I though was being done by USPSA, and I was shocked to learn about the nonsense method they currently use. It just doesnt make much sense. Nevertheless, I do not think even in local matches people usually want to trash a match by going hero or zero. And it seems like there is consensus that today's shooters are better. And, come on people lets admit: the the way they shot that 2012 Nationals classifier look awfully slow

The bedrock skill relevant to action shooting is pulling the trigger fast and straight to the rear so that the sights don't move much, no? The bedrock skill for bullseye shooting is increasing the pressure on trigger until it breaks in a surprise, which sometimes can take up to 10 seconds to do properly. These are completely different skills and not related to one another. I was able to print a 1 inch group from 25 meters with a 9mm target pistol before I started shooting USPSA. This skill did not help me at all in USPSA. So, my suggestion is a) learn what sight alignment and sight picture are; b) grip the pistol hard and c) pull the trigger fast and straight to the rear on demand, so the sights don't move much when the shot breaks

i think this is a wrong advice given to beginner shooters (to go slow and get your hits)

i used to be a bullseye shooter long before i started action shooting, and realized that my skills from bullseye do not translate well to this sport...it was almost counter productive to have prior experience in anything other than action shooting when the time comes to teach my son shooting, i will tell him to slap that trigger fast and make sure he hits the targets too!

this makes sense.

I think today's shooters are better overall. This is similar to what happened to martial arts in the past decade with the proliferation of MMA and internet videos: inefficient techniques disappeared and overall skill levels increased dramatically. Better communication, cross-breeding of methods and techniques....in short better communication technology allowed shooters to learn from each other much faster than ever before.

shot it in Oct 2019 HF: 8.3, time 9.1 seconds (messed up reload), 67.3% (carry optics/production)

believe it or not, some IDPA matches we shoot here locally are pretty athletic (run by a 40 year old "young" guy)

just made B, by shooting only outdoor classifiers