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And if the factory spring breaks...you can always cut a piece of a large paper clip...really.

I think you can afford to "trigger slap" when you are shooting a 1.5 pound trigger with less than a centimeter worth of travel like on some limited guns. At that point it seems rather hard to ride the reset without tensing up.

If you want to practice riding the reset while simulating shooting at speed in DRY fire what you can do is pull the trigger and hold it to the rear, rack the slide and continue to hold the trigger to the rear, assume your regular two hand grip bring the gun up to the target and THEN release the trigger to reset and pull it again. I do this a lot at various sized targets at varying distances and it shows me how fast I can reset and pull the trigger without disturbing the sights. Also, it really lets me know of imperfections in my trigger control. I shoot a glock so riding the reset is pretty much the way to go.

Pretty cool stuff. "Athletes are able to improve their ability to respond accurately through coordinating the period of intense concentration o­n the target[...]and the duration of time they fixate o­n that point before responding." To me this description of "quiet eye" at work sounds a lot like visual acuity and visual patience as explained in Practical Shooting. Also I find it interesting that although the goal is to quiet down the analytical mind they are still advocating repetition of a conscious idea like "target target target."

Thanks a lot for the responses guys. I just shot my first 4 classifiers since joining USPSA today with a stock 19 and came around 7% short of B class. I guess I'm going to keep shooting the 19 and see how far it takes me.

I got a G19 when all I thought of getting into was IDPA. Plenty of compact guns there. Now that I have been shooting IPSC exclusively I don't see anyone shooting a compact gun...except for me that is. Just wondering if anyone knows of anyone who shoots a compact in competitions. Any A-class and up shooters for that matter? thanks!

My mag release spring cracked in my G19 today. I ordered a replacement spring but it won't get here in time for the match this weekend. So in a semi act of desperation I went MacGyver on it and cliped a piece off a large silverette paper clip, threw it in the gun, and it found that it actually works. While the paper clip metal is quite soft and bendable, when cut down to the size of a mag catch spring the paper clip is rigid enough to provide ample tension to keep the mag in place. I have been doing dry reloads all night with mags full of dummy rounds and all seems well. Of course this is only a temporary solution until the real replacement spring comes in. I'm not sure how long the paper clip will hold up, but it should be just fine for a couple of days at least.

I had a chance to shoot this last month. I came to the match sorta late and had this as my first stage to shoot. Production / box-stock Glock 19 96pts 7.90 sec = HF 12.15 My time was better than all but two of the limited shooters and I finished 7th overall out of about 70 shooters. (Now I wish I could say that about the rest of the match ) A couple of things I learned from shooting this: - I was surprised that you can pull a shot into the C at 10 feet (which I did on both strings). - Also, you don't need a large magwell to load well.

Spook, that sounds like pretty good advice to me And thanks for the thread link Flyin40.

Actually I should clarify that I normally do not blink anymore. After shooting numerous matches at an indoor range and a couple IPSC matchs this blinking thing seemed to crop up again all of a sudden. Honest to goodness, a week ago I remember seeing the sights lift all day at the first IPSC match I attended. I especially remember watching the sights bounce accross 2 plates and 4 poppers about 30 feet away. It felt like a magic moment and I think I tried too hard trying to expand on that in dry practice. This past saturday I was missing steel at about 20 feet. I think I expected to make much faster hits just because I was seeing a little faster in dry practice. This led to slower/tenser shooting. At my first IPSC match I remember I didn't really expect anything. I actually did ok. Basically the bad performance has been bugging me these past couple of days, and the more I think about it the more I think I need to just get out there and shoot and let it all work itself out....that and work on a relaxed stance and grip. =T

Honestly I am pretty positive I'm seeing what I need to see to hit the target durting dry fire. I see a stopped sight picture on each target before I move on. I'm definitely not waiving the gun through an array. To prove this to myself I occasionally pull the trigger at targets in the middle of an array of "plates" and I have been seeing the same stopped sight picture when the trigger breaks. However, what I usually do when going through a dry fire array is pull the trigger on the first target as a sort of calibration of the sight picture and time I need to hit the target. Is that something I'm doing wrong perhaps? Thanks a lot for your responses.

This past week I have been practicing a lot in dry fire on smoothing out one shot transitions between targets (like an array of plates and poppers). I feel definite progress has been made in getting down my target-to-font-sight focus speed which is reflected in a dropping of my par times in the various drills I practice. So then rolls around the weekly match and this one stage that's mostly steel. Just what I was practicing for. I shot it pretty poorly. Had to throw a lot of make-up shots. More specifically I noticed that whenever I got to an array of steel and got my sights on the plate/popper my sights were dipping and I was blinking just before the shot broke. I noticed that this was happening on paper targets as well. Aren't pushing the gun and blinking things that happen subconsciously during the shot (if ever) ? My question is that could my mind be expecting the shots to come sooner and so triggers these reactions? This seems like a plausible explanation since I didn't get a chance to integrate into live fire practice what I was practicing in dry fire before the match. Anything like this happen to any of you guys?

I have been running a blade-tech injection molded paddle holster for the past couple of months and it pulls the gun so close into the body that I find it harder to get a solid grip on the gun when my hands come down for the draw. My right thumb is usually riding on the back-left of the slide as I'm bringing the gun up, which forces my hand to shift mid-draw which leads to some inconsistency in sight picture as I bring the gun eye-level. Practice more or less mitigated this issue. Then I tried my friend's uncle mikes kydex paddle holster and noticed that it offsets the gun about an inch off the body. Now I can actually get a full grip before the gun comes out of the holster. And getting a good sight picture is almost effortless when drawing from an uncle mikes when compared to the blade tech paddle. My confidence in my draw increased tremendously. For me this experience reinforces the importance of getting a full grip for the draw. Too bad this also means I'm going to have to buy a new holster

Hey ramtough does yeager know you been messing with your glocks?

Shoot, I feel dumb for not asking the GM more questions. Something to post in match screw ups? Thanks a lot for the input guys. After actually shooting a match and then watching videos of good open shooters I can now really appreciate their smooth movements. One thing I noticed about shooting production is that there is definitely less room for error. I thought I had planned a stage out where I wouldn't have to do a standing reload, but one make up shot i had to throw on a missed steel nixed that plan. But I guess that's a topic for another post

I just shot my first real IPSC match today and had a chance to see a lot of fast open shooters in action. For one, it's intimidating to see these guys shoot through a course of fire so fast. But at the same time I found myself thinking "I'm shooting production, there's nothing I can learn from these guys." Open guns with their seemingly bottomless mags and optic sights seem to allow for a different style of play than what I can do with my glock 19. "Of course open shooters are going to shoot faster and better" I thought. I realize to think that I can learn nothing from open shooters is ignorant, especially when one of the open shooters in my squad is a GM...what can I learn?