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had a chance to go to the range today while in Phoenix visiting wife's relatives, wish it could have worked out with timing to actually shoot there, maybe someday.

if History makes a dvd version available they should include Calebs interviews

I am listening to the Gun Rights Radio podcasts and there some good ones. The Gun Dudes are always good for entertainment.

we are having our first pin shoot next week, I am very interested to see what kind of times we are going to get for clearing 5 pins,

I am thinkng the use of props or other monkey motions except running and pulling the trigger do get added into stage designs with the idea to increase the challenge of the stage or make it more fun, but when it gets done without proper vetting the extras make the stage seem kooky and frustrates those who don't just get to the shooting. As a match director I have learned my lessons the hard way by allowing some of this into matches and paid for the indiscretion. Anything that cannot be repeated exactly everytime regardless of height, weight, arm length, shoe size etc of the competitor is not fair and is not included in my stage designs.

yes KURTM is correct, here in Grande Prairie Alberta the welders make $2000.00 / day, safety inspectors make 1000.00+ / day, consultants are charging $1500.00/day, environmental guys charge over $1000.00 / day and on and on. This is the real reason oil is $77/barrel!!! or at least when it is $77 a barrel the oil companies can afford to pay the crazy money

the worst part about not doing well in a match is not doing well because of unreliable equipment, the equipment has to work flawlessly I have spent time and money getting my Para to work, would I have spent less in the long run to get another brand working?? money spent on ammo is still the best investment

I have been using this timer on my laptop in conjunction with SteveAndersons dryfire book because the volume is controllable compared to my real RUReady timer. As far as being accurate it is as much as anything done dry fire, on the range with ammo I will add as much as 50% to my best dry fire times to my actual cold times, the cold live fire times are the only ones that I really count because that is how I will be at a match when dryfiring I have learned that the only times that count are when sight picture is perfect, it is too easy to get sloppy

I just watched Pistol Masters and How to Shoot fast and Accurately tonight for about the 10th time since I got them a few years ago and I always get impressed by the interviews with TGO, BE, Chip McCormick, J Michael Plaxco, and Jerry Barnhart and so on... what these guys were saying almost twenty years ago is so true even today I think that it is well worth it to watch these interviews just to see what we think is new and revolutionary like dry firing to get better and what kind of sight picture to see is actually stuff that was figured out years ago Magills style may be outdated compared to now but the TGO and BE philosophy is just as valid now as it was then I have the Burkett 1-3 and the most watched part is the interview with BE on the truck tailgate, I get something new from it everytime.

match results in the order I shot them the last 4 stages were shot after the sight was corrected Place Pts Time HF Stage Points Stage % Stage 4 21 23 14.05 1.6370 20.7997 26.00 Stage 3 17 27 10.30 2.6214 27.2165 45.36 Stage 1 23 10 7.26 1.3774 9.4824 23.71 Stage 2 7 69 11.93 5.7837 57.2674 71.58 Stage 5 7 64 14.05 4.5552 65.4822 81.85 Stage 6 2 62 12.04 5.1495 49.7785 71.11 Stage 7 3 107 19.72 5.4260 96.2595 80.22

shot a level 3 match last weekend and thought I would have done better than I did, so after thinking about a quick fix, I slapped a piece of fibre optic rod onto the top of my front sight with a bit of glue thinking that well this is going to be great I will be able to focus front sight, front sight... shot a level 2 match today and after the 3rd stage not having any idea where my rounds are going I realize that this fibre rod is killing me so off it goes, next 4 stages back to normal no more mikes, I didn't think the whole thing through, I thought I could hold the sights with the glowing dot above where I hold the front sight in my regular sight picture but my sight picture kept going back to having the top of the sight, in this case the fibre rod at the the top of the notch making me shoot low big lesson learned this time

I started dry firing with Steve Andersons system in an attempt to improve my skills and I agree with what Steve says. I also think that familiarity with the equipment is one of the most important aspects to improvement. Rob Leatham has said that he is constantly handling his firearms and is always picking them up and acquiring sight picture. Supposedly Bruce Lee was like this, he was always training, he lifted weights all day, practiced moves and worked on technique all the time. When I am at home I specify certain drills from Steves book but I will have the firearm out when I am doing other things just to pick it up and look at the sights and do some mag changes and trigger prep.

shooting holes in cardboard with different value scoring areas while being timed make it more like a game than anything practical that I can imagine

at the range doing some sight alignment yesterday and at about 12 yds I shot 3 bullets into the same hole I didn't belive what I was seeing myself, I shot the first hole and then thought the second was a miss and then shot the third thiking it was a miss, when I took a close look at the target the three holes were touching each other, I thought that for a moment that I had become Superman so I tried to shoot a water bottle at 20 yds and missed with 4 shots, back to reality.

being the match director and getting dq'd after having my loaded pistol fall on the ground, felt like I was going to burn down a run and gun stage, start position was hands on the barrel facing up range, turn and engage targets, I just swung around too fast and then complete stop looking at gun in the sand, do as I say, not as I do

first match this year at the Grenville Fish and Game Cluband wow what a hot weekend to be outside tucked inside some berms without any trees I used to think we were crazy shooting in November and December with gloves and coats on but shooting in 95 degrees is worse. got some good coments on stage design, but I know that the guys would like to see the COF look a little prettier, definitely going to have to invest in some paint or see where we can get some donations and give everything a touch up already looking forward to next month

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http://www.hurtwood.demon.co.uk/Fun/copter.swf best so far was 485

had it on my previous sight and went back to the regular style, I was using a fibre optic front and sometimes I would see the fibre off the corner of the sight and I didn't like that, now I have a narrow black front sight with the regular rear sight and it is a more definite sight picture.

on February 6 my friend who prompted this thread passed away, he was 31 years old I will remember the good times we had forever.

sorry to hijack but I would like to see Exploding Varmints Caution: contains hundreds of actual shootings of prairie dogs exploding into pieces - not for animal lovers!

Wolf Hoffman 1999, 2000, 2003 Canadian champ is a real pleasure to watch shoot, his cadence is so smooth that you can hardly tell the difference between transitions and splits.

that's it, good info thats the nice thing about this forum, not only can I experience the problem but I can also experience the solution