Ags91's Range Diary

[STI91]

Just thought of doing this. After a piss-poor showing at a local 2 Gun on Sunday, 27Jan. where I completely regressed in capability, I have realized my weakest link is pistol by far. took me 24 rounds to hit 10, 4" dueling tree plates at a range of 10 yards. So yesterday, I went to the range for a couple hours and worked pistol until my hands got sore. As follows:

150 rounds - grip, draw, single round on 10" plate at 10 yards. Slow pace. Fundamentals. Concentrated on trigger press. Not too good. Hits were all over.

75 rounds - singles on 10" plate at 25 yards. Trigger press. Not bad

100 rounds - singles on 10" plate at 50 yards. Trigger press. Let shot break. Not bad.

Hand Tired. Worked a shotgun reload drill with left over ammo. 6 rounds.

Worked rifle. 25 yard double taps at target head. 2" low at 25yds. 100 rds. Went ok. One magpul mag bad, mag needs work.

Not confident on pistol. Need ALOT of work. fundamentals. fundamentals. slow down. fundamentals.

Total

250 pistol

100 rifle

6 shotty

Edited January 29, 2013 by STI91

[STI91]

Got Seeklanders book. Started reading it all the way through this weekend. About 15 min of dryfire in garage on Saturday. About 50 reps of weakhand shotgun reloading practice on Saturday. About the same on Sunday.

[STI91]

Haven't been as disciplined about this as i thought I would be. Anyway, shot the 3 Gun Nation Pro Qualifier in St. Augustine this last weekend. Poor showing on stages 1 and 5 kept me out of it. Stage 1, mental mistakes biggest problem. Handgun cold start mistake, then had to return to 2 rifle targets i missed, mistake on latter part of handgun array. Stage 2, pretty good, handgun array was quick. no misses on shotty, good 4 round reload, no misses on rest of shotty, blazed rifle, best stage. Stage 3, mental mistake, totally FTE a short handgun target, missed it completely on 7 walkthroughs, other than that not bad, a pickup on shotty but close time with rest of squad. Stage 4, poor choice to reload shotty full cost a lot of time, should have taken 4 steel with handgun rather than shotty, 1 rifle miss left me 10 seconds off the pace. Stage 5, long range rifle 2 pick ups, poor transition to shotty, a pick up on shotty cause run dry and bolt lock reload (dumb), then mental mistake on handgun when shot 2 targets i had already shot with rifle, then disaster, round jams in chamber, can't work slide. Had to put front site on fault line board and drive round out. reload continue without any pickups. 30 seconds off pace. Bad.

Lessons: Need speed work on shotty. Way behind splits of others. Also too many pick up on shotty. More reload work to keep myself under control. Handgun not bad. No mikes. splits ok. Rifle ok. slow splits on stage 1. Mostly mental errors and not keeping under control. Too jerky. No "flow". Need A LOT more work on shooting on the move, all three platforms.