Loves2Shoot Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Went shooting with the new girlfriend to see if she could shoot my open gun (114 lbs and small hands, good news is she can if she gets used to the mondo blast ) and I did some 3 meter draws. The first 5 were in the .65 .69 range, just grip and rip, all C's, then I stopped and said to myself take your dang advice and shoot when you see green (fiber optic color of my preference) in the center of the A zone. I focused on the A zone and proceded to crank a dead center a zone in .52 and then with my new sense of focus 3 more draws cranked 3 more A's. Stepped back to 10 yards and shooting a .85-.9 Alpha felt like I was taking all day. Vision is where it's at. Crank it up and self imposed limits fly away. OK now to crank that first .49 draw LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diehli Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Sounds like the new woman has had a good effect on your shooting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froglegs Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Sounds like the new woman has had a good effect on your shooting. yeah but will it work at a match and will she go to one! I would settle for a 1:20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnshapiro Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 What starting position? Hand on gun? Relaxed at sides? Either way, WOW! Joel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcoliver Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Went shooting with the new girlfriend... Aha! "Trick-of-the-day" thing because of something new. Seriously, dude, those are awsome draws! During that time, my mind is still processing wether I'm hearing the timer's beep or just my tense heartbeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhino Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Holy Crap! It takes me longer than 0.52 seconds to decide to start responding to the beep! That's smokin'! That's getting close to how fast those quick draw guys are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loves2Shoot Posted October 12, 2004 Author Share Posted October 12, 2004 What starting position? Hand on gun? Relaxed at sides?Either way, WOW! Joel A normal draw hands truely relaxed at sides, all the other gimicks seems to eat up time because you have to think about them. I've found it much simpler just to stand there and focus on the target and listening for the beep. I think having my GF there did help as it amped up my awareness, and having her run the timer (a truley random start ) made it feel more like a match start. THE KEY FOR ME It all about reacting to what you see. My fasest draws used (3 yards) used to be in the .77's not even hitting anything, just grip and rip. But by learning to relax and fous on seeing at that speed now I can draw with less hesistation and get a really great sight picture much faster than I would have thought possible. Just gripping and ripping is a waste of time if you aren't focused on seeing at that speed IMO. It not about the time, but the experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Merricks Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 That's smokin. Do you know what your audible reaction time is? Mine is around .20 to .25 so I don't think I'll ever see a sub .50 draw. But I did have a 1.06 in a match Saturday which is about as fast as I’ve ever done one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loves2Shoot Posted October 12, 2004 Author Share Posted October 12, 2004 That's smokin. Do you know what your audible reaction time is? Mine is around .20 to .25 so I don't think I'll ever see a sub .50 draw. But I did have a 1.06 in a match Saturday which is about as fast as I’ve ever done one. I don't know. How do you figure that out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwell Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 I think that you start with the gun pointed at the target, finger on trigger, safety off. When you hear the beep fire a shot. You have some Smokin' Draw times. Very impressive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ankeny Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Jon: My reaction time runs the same as yours .20-.25. My best times are in the low to mid .80's and that's good enough for me. Even with my sloth like 1.10-1.20 match draw, I have no problems with speed shoots, classifiers, and standards. For now, I have no designs on a sub .80 draw, if it happens it happens. L2S: Man that's a smoking draw. I am not convinced vision is the main ingerient though. I can see real fast, but I don't react that fast and I am a bit slow getting the gun in front of my face. I'll never say die, and always keep working on the draw. My goal is to break .90 on a regular basis. I'll get there if old age doesn't get in the way, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterLefty Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 L2S, Nice job. !! Work up some minor loads for your girl friend. At least till she gets comfortable with the pistol and shooting a couple of matches. Kenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnshapiro Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 Thanks for the clarification. I haven't brought targets in that close yet so I don't know how to compare. Still a great job! Joel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcoliver Posted October 14, 2004 Share Posted October 14, 2004 Last night I did some draws. After several warm-ups starting at 1.2sec I was struggling by the time the timer was set at 0.8sec. And then it happend. One EUREKA moment! I heard the beep, felt the draw, saw the sights, then the hammer fell...then the end BEEP. Unfortunately, a fleeting moment I could no longer replicate. But I'd like to think it was (or close) to 0.6. Will try again tonight (hmmm... there's that try word again.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loves2Shoot Posted October 15, 2004 Author Share Posted October 15, 2004 I am not convinced vision is the main ingerient though. I can see real fast, but I don't react that fast and I am a bit slow getting the gun in front of my face. I'll never say die, and always keep working on the draw. My goal is to break .90 on a regular basis. I'll get there if old age doesn't get in the way, lol. Not the main ingrediant, but maybe the last one for me There is a point you just can't do it any faster (isn't there?) Funny thing is my main goal is to stay at .95 with A zone hits at 15 yards everytime. I just figure the quicker you get your gun stopped in front of your face the more time you have for the aiming part That's why the seeing is the most important ingreidient for me to work on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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