markwilliston

XD Niner, come up to our Nationals in August and I'll buy you a beer. (after shooting is done of course) http://www.pcdhfc.com/2007/ Skywalker, holy COW! No temperature/altitude/pressure compensasion? SHAME! Just kidding That is some serious spreadsheet. A_Med, hopefully the file attached to this message. If not pm myself your XD Niner Chronographdatasheet.zip

This week is going pretty darn smoothly, another gorgeous day out today. Worked out the shoulders nicely this morning and then half an hour on the bike. This afternoon I was gonna go out and wash the car, but decided to make a quick hundred rounds on the press first. With the patio door and curtains open, it was so nice standing in front of the press I stayed and made about 600 rounds AND got a tan at the same time Now THAT is productive. The car is still flithy, but that'll be one of tomorows projects (maybe) One problem I find with this forum, there is a lot of good info, but then I forget where a certain topic was. I am always looking for new books to read, and one of the other diaries not that long ago was talking about a samurai. I thought the name was mumashi (that's not it) Samurai didn't turn it up on search either, last try was sword. BINGO, it was Xre talking about it with Catfish and it's Mushashi was the name I was looking for... Dryfire went well tonight, more solid everyday. It's nice when the draw is smooooth and fast. Spent some extra time on reloads tonight, and more weakhand. Live fire tomrow.

I got a sunburn reloading today... I live in a small apartment, and the only place a reloading bench would sorta fit was by the patio window. My stepdad built it as my christmas present (with dimensions supplied by me). The press is a 550, and the tabletop has a border on the left and right side of the press to act as trays for bullets and brass, it works great! and yes, that is a target on the sliding glass door...

Fighter pilots (and others I am sure) call it "Situational Awareness." Always being aware of what is going on around you. Also, can one stay on the edge all the time? I can't. My mind will wander off on some tangent... "what's for lunch or isn't she pretty" and the next thing I realize is one of the events you gentlemen have described. FWIW dj We've got the opposite saying for when things aren't going so well "Hey, I'm a dear in headlights right now so let me know if you see anything going bad" I had a good one a few years ago. Bringing an airplane back from deepest darkest africa, one of our overnight stops was in Luton, England. After breakfast we steped out of the hotel to walk across to the airport. I looked left, and stepped.... my boss grabbed the back of my jacket and pulled as the car went by from the right. Thankfully he was more aware than I that morning

Shred, that one is about 2 floors over my head

Here's some food for thought :-) I've been fortunate enough to get to work with some awesome nutrion people both from the gym, and previous sports. I'll generalise, because obviously everyone is different, wether you are trying to lose/gain or maintain. The fundamentals stay pretty much the same though. Don't be scared of carbs. Protein is what muscle eat to grow, but carbs is where the muscle gets energy to do work. In our sport having enough carbs is a big part of getting through a match. If there's interest we can talk about metabolism as well, another huge part of nutrition.

My soft practice loads out of Trojan 5.0 w/ 10lbs spring 200gr JFN, OAL 1.240, 4.9gr Titegroup= 680fps/136pf 200gr LSWC, 4.7 Titegroup=780fps/156pf

XD Niner, that works perfect thanks. It's been a long time since I really worked with excel, and looking at a big blank page sure had me wondering where the hell to start Thanks guys Mark

I must have whupped my butt yesterday, cause plans for me going to the gym this morning went away when I woke up with enough time to eat and get to work I don't mind that, it's a good kind of tired, and it's great to be pushing myself to that level again. Dry fire went well tonight, weak hand push the gun out to the target. Sleepy time now, gonna burn my shoulders off my body at the gym in the morning.

That is totally awesome

Do any of you guys have an excel spreadsheet setup for chrono data or something similar? Now that I have my chrono up and running and collected a bunch of data from it, it just reminded me how much I hated doing statistics back in college....

Does it come with a thimble for your trigger finger?

What an awesome day. That about sums it up... Had a good dry fire practice last night, really tired pushing myself. Then backing it off a little in live fire feels pretty good. Practice with Murray and Tracey wasn't till 6pm tonight, and it was way too nice of a day not to be up at the range, so I had two practices today. Few things I needed to spend some time doing on my own, most importantly trying out the new chrono to confirm my match load. That went very well, got numbers for a few different loads for my gun, and most importantly I didn't shoot the chrono In dryfire, I am getting my par time down around 1.0 for freestyle draw and it feels pretty good. I set myself up at 7 yards, and just did one shot off the draw. At 1.5 second draw I'm solid A's, no worries, coming back down to 1.4 a few C's come in and at 1.3 the consistency isn't there yet. Gonna keep working that dry fire every night. It was soo nice out, I just ran through a few more drills with a little bit of movement. Spent some time soaking up sun rays at the end picking brass, and went down to the bottom of the hill for some sushi. Back up to meet Murray and Tracey. Murray had a new toy last week, I saw some mags on the table that looked suspiciously glock like, I thought there's no way, NO WAY he got one of those. YUP, he did. He's been teaching some people that use glocks so he figured he'd better get one. I have never been a fan of them, I've tried them a few times, it's just not my gun. If I had to have a carry gun, that would probably be my choice, but sure as hell not for IPSC. I don't know what model glock it is, but it's in .40 and it's black, and it's pretty much new out of the box. I shot one mag with it, and did hit the target reasonably well. It would have been nice to have a thimble for my trigger finger I have a lot of respect for you guys shooting glock in competition. I think your crazy, but I do respect that you can shoot that damn thing that well Anyhow enough playing around, we setup 3 targets. 2 angled together, and another about 2 yards over. We started from 12-15 yards, and engaged the targets with a total of 10 rounds while advancing to 7 yards. Once stoped, reload, and do the string of 10 shots while retreating back to 15 yards. This is where I got my first taste of what it's going to be like shooting lead this season... 10 quick shots while advancing slowly makes for not very good vis. After that we finished off with Bill Drills. The atmosphere was pretty relaxed, everyone was having fun. At this point I had pretty much shot all the practice ammo, and was now into what was left of the chrono ammo I brought along. We couldn't really score the targets cause they were pretty much shot to rat s#$t so it was more of a cadence excercise. Murray won of course, can't remember his low one but he did have some 1.8's. I wanted to get 2 seconds soo bad, I managed 2.11 2.09 and 2.08 but no 2 seconds. Tracey got a 2.1 but her gun was being a little finicky so she wasn't pushing to hard. My round count at the end of all that was a shopping bag pretty heavy full of 45 empties Definitely an AWESOME day.

Had a pretty good dry fire last night, made it a long one and tried to drop .1 off all my par times. With my time working in flight planning, I"ve got the greeen light for the club match at Thomson mountain on the 25th, looking forward to it. It is amazing what you can do in the gym when eating properly. I've been cranking up the metabolism the last couple weeks and it's working. Had an AWESOME leg workout this morning, probably be walking like a duck tomorow.... just feeling good all the way around. For my dryfire at home, I've got the targets taped up to the patio window. It's been working well. Calamaty Jane was talking about training in front of a mirror, so tonight I practiced in front of the window (it's dark outside, so it's pretty much like a mirror). Seeing the gun come up out of the holster and on target is pretty cool. One step at a time.....

At the end of practice, when everyone has put their guns and earplugs back in the gun bag. Just check your RUready timer once to see if it still BEEPS Holy crap is it ever loud with no ear plugs in....

Well I just won another lottery at work this week. They were looking for people to work in flight planning to help the old guys with a new crew sked program. Instead of commuting to Toronto for my flying, I get to do some 4 hour shifts in the flight planning room here in Vancouver instead. This means eating well, regular schedule, gym every day, and dry/live fire at will. Had a good dry fire practice wed night, still doing the basic drills. Gonna start adding a few more, get my feet used to moving at home. Yesterday we did live fire, never really got warmed up. Might be the fact that is was cold and rainy We had 3 targets at 10 yards, and two shooting positions about 3 yards apart. 6 shots, then transition to station 2 for 4 more shots. My draws didn't really flow that well, the last one I nailed and got some good splits. We didn't stay shooting long cause it was pretty miserable out. We have a club match next month at POCO, so inside work was the name of the game yesterday. Taped up what seemed like a million targets before heading off to starbucks. I've made the decision to go with lead bullets for my match bullet. At least to get the year started off. 200gr lswc feed so nicely through my gun, really can't mess around with FTF using other bullets right now. I'll keep trying to get a jacketed bullet of some kind that is really happy with my gun. Note to self, when Murray gives you a box of 1000 200gr LSWC don't put them in the gun bag that allready has 200 some odd loaded rounds of 45, cause it is gonna be one HEAVY G#$%@@#N bag

During walk through at a match last year, I had somebody put their hand on my shoulder. I turned around to see what was up, and he pointed at the gun on the ground a few feet behind me kinda pointed at my feet. Initially I thought how the F#$k did my gun get down there, and then got the hell out of the way when I felt my gun still locked into the CR speed holster. One of the guys in our group didn't have the lever locked on his CR speed.

Just got back from 3 days of very very early mornings on the east coast. I did get a good dry fire practice in on friday before leaving town. Monday was the toughest of the three days. 4:45am check in in St. John's Newfoundland, that's 4:30 time zone earlier than pacific. Sorta like waking up at 11:45pm to go to work, which means going to bed mid afternoon... I'm not bidding anymore of those trips. The upside to the early checkin was that I shoulda been back in Vancouver by noon, and able to go shooting in the afternoon. With great skill and dexterity however, something on the airplane broke and I didn't get home till midnight... Dry fire went well tonight, weakhand is still not my favourite. Not sure if it ever will be :-) but I'm working on it. There is a club match that I hope to be able to shoot at the end of the month. I'm scheduled to work that weekend, but gonna see if I can trade with somebody. Sleepy time now

+1 with Zhunter When it comes down to it, it doesn't matter what machine or gym as long as you use it! Good luck

ESTJ too, and also the owner of a yellow corvette. What's up with that???

Got up this morning very very sore. I helped out some friends with a womens athletic sporting event, working on the production side of the event. It was a lot of fun, but DAYUM is it ever a lot of work putting on something like that. With the goals of putting on at least 10 lbs of good weight, getting my ass into better shape, and stepping up a couple levels in ISPC.... There is only one way to start the day. BIG BREAKFAST 3 eggs, one bowl of oatmeal, vegi juice out of the juicer (carrots, apple, and celery) one protein shake with a banana and yogurt. Next off to the gym to work the only part of my body that doesn't hurt. Today that would be chest. An hour later off to starbucks for a meeting with the club memebers that are putting on the Nationals at our club this year. http://www.pcdhfc.com/2007/ It is coming together nicely and we allready have over 100 entries! It wasn't the prettiest day, but I went up to the club after the meeting to at least get some bench shooting in. I forgot that sundays is trap shooting day, so range 4,5, and 6 are closed. Range 7 is the public range and it was a ZOO. While I was asking the RO about the other ranges there was a girl in there trying to talk on a cellphone, with the constant sound of gunfire all around I couldn't do anything but laugh. Decided to leave the live fire for another day. Tonight had a pretty good dry fire practice. A month and a half into it, I can't say enough about Steve Anderson book or the CED 7000 timer. Right across the board .2-.3 drop in the times, and more importantly it feels more natural. Also getting alot out of reading the other journals on here. It's not possible to make all the booboos in life, much easier to read about how others did some of them.

Beautiful day today, warm and sunny is much better than the snow storm in Toronto when I left that place yesterday morning... Picked up my Chrono and Tripod today. It's the Chrony F1 Master, looking forward to trying it out next week. Much easier than trying to get a friend to bring his out for testing loads. I did video of my dry fire tonight can't post it yet, cause I haven't got a clue how to do that. Soon :-) Hands at sides index is down to 1.1 par time, turn and draw felt good down at 1.3, and weak hand index getting better at 1.6 Dry fire felt really good tonight.

Finished flying for the month last night in Toronto, got home around lunchtime today. Wanted to get out for some shooting practice this afternoon, but the 3 hours of sleep I got last night kinda made me think more about inspecting my pillow when I got home.... On the positive side, no more going away till the end of the month and hopefully the first week of march will be off as well. Tomorow I am going down across the border to pick up the shooting chrono and tripod I bought off ebay. Tripod should come in handy with my video camera for practice as well. Tonight I spent about half an hour just doing reloads from all 4 mag pouches. 1.6 par time from trigger pull to back on target. Now it's time for 12 hours of sleep....

Are you on the list yet?? http://www.pcdhfc.com/2007/received.htm 50 spaces will be awarded to International entrants

Dry fire went well last night, after reading http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=44956 on the draw, it really got me thinking about how I put my hand on the gun. This website is wonderful for just about anything shooting, if you can think of a topic, it has probably been discussed. Kept dry fire pretty simple last night, spent about half an hour on three excercises. Started with 10 yard index with a par time of 1.2, then Surrender index at 10 yard also at 1.2, last was Burkett Reloads with the mag coming just to the magwell. Did those also at 1.2 My work schedule isn't allowing the amount of dry fire I would like, but I can allready see improvement. The range times are coming down, but more importantly it feels right. I competed at the national level in another sport 10 years ago, and it's wonderful getting back into that frame of mind. For Dry fire, I picked up a CED 7000 timer just after christmas. I can't say enough good things about it for home use. It's tiny, I keep it hanging from my gun belt (don't even notice it) with the buzzer on soft, the neighbors aren't getting pissed at me, and setting par times on it is sooo easy. Tomorow I have to go back to Toronto for 4 days of flying, same captain I had on the last pairing so it should be fun. The best part is, once we are done my work month is FINISHED!