leam Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 30 Jan 11 Range time to work on first shot hits. Did about 100 "draw...shoot...reholster" Challenge area for me though I'm normally very accurate on successive shots. At 5 of 6 for 5 yards and large piece of paper with a "shoot when the sights are on the target" program. Very strong roll to off hand that I need to work on. Bonus practice, timed Bill drill. Draw, shoot 6 unaimed, reload, shoot 6 unaimed at 9.68 with a 5.22 reload. Lanny Bassham's 21 Day Plan: "My reloads are smooth in motion and in any direction." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted February 1, 2011 Author Share Posted February 1, 2011 31 Jan 11 Dry-reloads for smoothness, clickty-six for trigger finger endurance. Treadmill and like anaerobic workout. Good meal portions and a good night's sleep upcoming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 1 Feb 11 Grip reaquisition, off-thumb chamber pushout. Clickety-six for trigger finger endurance. Still have a lot of issues with trigger control throwing the front sight all over the target. But my reloads are getting smoother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 2 Feb 11 Treadmill, crunches, pushups, squats, and a little of that "weight on a roller" thing for my grip and wrist. 1 shot between reloads, doing no ammo reloads walking side to side. Keeping things smooth and the gun controlled. My reloads are smooth in motion and in any direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Lord Gomer Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 What revolver are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 What revolver are you using? Smith and Wesson M-28-2 with large grips and fibre optic sight. Shooting 38 Spcl Minor loads. Nice gun, shoots better than I do anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 4 Feb 11 Smooth reloads moving side to side. My reloads are smooth in motion and in any direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted February 6, 2011 Author Share Posted February 6, 2011 5 Feb 11 Loaded up 50 test rounds to chrono. Bobby at Freedom Gun Works has offered to chrono my loads, for which I am grateful. While my barrel is 2" longer than the test barrel listed in the books, I never trust the books totally and they don't have the cylinder gap to worry about, either. The bullets are MildAtlantic Bullets 158 RNFP. A random pull of 3 bullets from the same box as the test loads weigh 158.2, 158.5, and 158.8. While the FP part isn't ideal, Bob at MidAtlantic was a pleasure to work with. Maybe we can talk him in to a larger and true round nose at some point in time; I'd love a 180, Bob! Loaded 5 each 3.0-3.9 grains of Bullseye, dribbling the last few grains in by hand. OAL length is 1.417 +/- .002 and all were double run through the RCBS Rock Chucker with hand-me down Dillon dies. Until chrono results are in I'm running 3.6 grains so I shouldn't have to worry about sub-Minor PF. Hopefully we can tone it down a bit though. For no reason other than looks I'm lusting after a heavy slab side or large round barrel. Expensive, pointless, and cool looking. It would slow a real shooter down, but if you've seen me shoot you know speed is not a factor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 7 Feb 11 Swimming today, hoping to recover lost aerobic capacity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 (edited) 8 Feb 11 Trigger finger placement and isolation. Long fingers and a lot of side pushing when I shoot. Faux reload and then regain trigger finger placement. Fun stuff! Edited February 9, 2011 by leam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopalong Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Patience my friend. It took me 3 years to break into a sub 2 second reload with a revolver. Good luck, if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask PM if you wish. Hopalong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted February 11, 2011 Author Share Posted February 11, 2011 Hey Hopalong, thanks! I'm targeting smooth and not much else. For months I tried to set goals that I didn't reach in any decent time, and got frustrated and depressed about it. This time it's just smooth, and just the small things. Hopefully they will add up in the end. I am about half way through this 21 day cycle so we'll see what's at the end and what's next in a couple weeks. Leam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted February 12, 2011 Author Share Posted February 12, 2011 11 Feb 11 Still on trigger control, smooth faux reload, and regain grip. Getting steadier as I click through six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 12 Feb 11 Spent a good bit of time on Draw, shoot 6, reload, shoot 6. Par time of 10 seconds. Couldn't accurately time as I was on a busy public range. Target was a paper place at ~7 yards. I had one set of 17 where I hit all 12 times and was under par. So I know I can do it! I had three instances of the reloader dropped a round on the ground instead of in the cylinder, one round that would not go in, and a few times where I didn't pull the trigger to the full distance to release the hammer. I think all of these can be dealt with; smooth practice for the trigger-monkey and chamber checking all the ammo before going to the range. All in all, a fun day and I'm happy with my performance yet aware that there's room to grow. Leam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 24 Feb 11 Days swamped, days ill, and a few days in the hospital. No energy. Blah... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Lord Gomer Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Sorry to hear that. Were you looking for love in all the wrong places (again)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 Sorry to hear that. Were you looking for love in all the wrong places (again)? No, nothing to do with Open...just medicine for one thing tripped off another, and I was already snow-balling down hill anyway... JFlowers, a long time friend and tempter, has been encouraging me with revolver stuff so I'll be back to that as soon as I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share Posted March 26, 2011 Recovering energy and focus. Fun day at the range, though I'll focus on the good draws and shots and gloss over the others. Back to dry-fire and dry-draws! Leam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted May 15, 2011 Author Share Posted May 15, 2011 14 May 11 Who needs a grip strength workout? I just primed 1650 pieces WHO with my RCBS hand primer! Many thanks to JFlowers for keeping me encouragd, in spite of myself. Leam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted May 19, 2011 Author Share Posted May 19, 2011 (edited) 18 May 11 Reloading manually, doing some mount and click drills to regain what smooth I had. Pondering Northern Xtreme's 25-2. Nice gun, just hard to stay on track with anything. Edited May 19, 2011 by leam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted May 23, 2011 Author Share Posted May 23, 2011 22 May 11 A little dry practice with draws and first shot hits. I do mean a little. Life is dumping on me right now and I do what I can to stay mildly on the okay side of "sane". I'm working a Mental Management program and am starting the second of three weeks on the draw and first shot. Tallahassee on 4 Jun will hopefully give me another classifier so I'll have 2 in Revo. My first one was bad; I read the stage, made my plan, shot my plan, and then realized my plan missed the mandatory reload after shot #7! All them penalty points added up, I can tell you! I'l confess that it's nice having a revolver; the trigger pull is a pain but it's always the same. Dry-fire is so much more like real shooting, as are reloads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted May 25, 2011 Author Share Posted May 25, 2011 25 May 11 Dry draws and one click, targetting 1.5 seconds par time on a medium target at about 3 yards. I could generally do that, but spent time trying to feel where the tension was so I could relax more and speed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted June 5, 2011 Author Share Posted June 5, 2011 5 Jun 11 A few minutes of pracitce. as well as watching a Jerry M's DVD and starting to read "Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting". nice motivation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted June 11, 2011 Author Share Posted June 11, 2011 10 Jun 11 Actual range time, woo-hoo! I worked on a couple things today. First was draw and fire one shot on an 8" metal plate at 10 yards. Main goal was a smooth draw and good shot with great sight picture. Per watching JM's video, I used the "use only as much accuracy as you need". At first I wasn't recording time on misses but then started to. Misses are in (), except the early ones with no time. They are "-".. 2.62, -, 2.32, 2.05, 2.17, 2.52 -, 2.26, -, 2.28, 2.04, - -, 2.19, -, -, 2.43, 2.02 2.08, (1.92), (2.42), 2.26, 2.20, 2.01 2.17, 2.32, 2.08, 2.33, (1.92), 2.10 So an average is 2.22 on the hit. Fastest hit is 2.01. Second exercise was all 6 plates at 10 yards. Per JM, trying to get consistant splits and keep the cylinder moving. (2.24), 0.77, 0.69, 0.74, (0.68) 2.09, 0.71, 0.66, (0.69), 0.81, 0.67 2.30, 0.92, 0.71, 0.67, 0.62, (0.71) (2.24), 1.24, 0.81, (0.87), 0.77, 0.76 (2.15), 0.85, 0.70, 0.66, 0.63, 0.59 (2.29), 0.76, 0.78, 0.70, 0.61, 0.65 (2.33), (0.93), 1.06, 0.89, 0.76, 0.67 2.38, 0.83, 0.70, 0.62, 0.67, 0.59 2.08, 0.71, 0.63, 0.54, 0.53, (0.56) 2.18, 0.67, 0.78, 0.83, 0.59, 0.57 So first shot hits average 2.206. However, a significant number of first shots where I took longer still missed. Issue there. Splits averaged 0.723 for hits. Low of 0.53. I forgot what little bit of statistics I used to know so can't figure Standard Deviation. Thrid and final exercise was unloading 6 into the berm and just watching the sights lift. I did actually see the front sight go up! Woo-Hoo! 0.43, 0.46, 0.21, 0.21, 0.20, 5.09 (Missed a round) 0.34, 0.25, 0.48, 0.28, 0.33, 0.31 0.38, 0.40, 0.33, 0.34, 0.35, 0.37 So the fastest I can cycle the cylinder right now is 0.20. For my splits that means I'm taking at least 0.33 seconds to aim and confirm sight picture. Using averages, 0.333 for spinning the wheel and 0.723 for splits; so 0.39 to aim in addition to the trigger pull on average. Leam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leam Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 13 Jun 11 Dry-draw and shoot one for Par time. Started at 2.50 and when south in 0.20 increments. Was doing occasionally well at 1.50, with focused effort on relaxing. I really saw a time lag based on starting to pull the trigger after acquiring sight picture. So that's the next area of attention; bringing the sights into visual line consistantly so that I am on target and don't have to manually adjust as much. Also replaced the factory weight springs with some lighter ones, now that I have Federal primers. Makes this much easier! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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