Steve Moneypenny Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Well I've been out of the game a long time, Too long and it's time for a come back. I've greatly missed shooting and it's really eating at me to shoot some matches. I have been dryfiring, mostly my old regimine to get back, reading some and putting new thoughts and perspectives on what I am doing and have done. hope to put a couple practice sessions in per month live fire, once a day minimum hopefully twice a day dryfire. Shooting one match the end of october. and the winter will mostly be spent dryfiring. So far I've been stretching warming up and dryfiring once a day, some times twice when time permits. Managed to get my elbow pain to come back within a week. so I've had to add the strengthening exeriises back into the regimine. I"m remodeling two houses, working a full time job, and teaching CCW classes part time and working on guns (mine and some others) for cash and shooting money as well as helping a friend in his HVAC business for $$ The time will be the hard part. Will be starting a Youtube video series of my progress thoughts and opinions soon. I've learned a lot in jsut a couple of weeks. playing with gear. etc. I am shooting a S&W M&P 9L that I had dan burwell work on just before I stopped competing, I like the gun a lot. But am pretty sure as soon as money is available I'll be stepping to a Stock II which fit me a lot better. and I have always preferred the DA/SA guns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hi-Power Jack Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Time and money are always the problem ... Welcome back, and good luck - hope you get to shoot a ton. If you move down to Florida, you can shoot all winter .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted October 6, 2014 Author Share Posted October 6, 2014 I could move to arizona or south texas too... moving at this point isn't much of an option, maybe some day. WV's taxes keep going up it's even more probable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 (edited) Dry Fire is progressing well, we NEED a good dry fire app.. that's just a par timer and two buzzers. and resets it's self.. Callouses are starting to come back. everything Static Skill (Stance Grip trigger work, draw, reload transitions, etc) wise is starting to feel pretty solid. I plan to round out week 4. and then start week 5 with some movement, work. getting out of chairs. position entry and exit. Match date Oct 28th. working on a way to video that. Edited October 9, 2014 by Steve Moneypenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driver8M3 Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Match date Oct 28th. working on a way to video that. where is the match? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted October 14, 2014 Author Share Posted October 14, 2014 Date is Oct 26th .. It's at putnam county gun club just out side of Charleston, WV. How have you been stranger.. still putting that lotus on? I'm playing in a 2001 vette now. it's an absolute blast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted October 16, 2014 Author Share Posted October 16, 2014 So last night i found the droped offset adapter fo rmy holster. thismorning i worked a bit on draws warming up before movement. par time to an easy beatable .70 and about half the time at .60 Worked some lateral movement draw step into box, 6 shots leaving both soft and hard exits. then into another box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wamcei Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Steve I want to thank you for helping me out on Facebook! I will get rid of that "bounce" lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a matt Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Good luck, good to have you back, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted November 7, 2014 Author Share Posted November 7, 2014 Thanks a mattYour welcome wamcei I have been crazy busy remodeling on the house, really most days so tired I fall asleep before i get the app open. been dryfiring 10-15 min per day yet. movement has seemed to be the hardest thing to get back to. I definitley over estimated how much of a role fitness played. I hope to get back to the videos in atleast one this month, and then more in december. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wamcei Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Steve we all get a little more around the waist as we get older lolol. Get that house done or am I gonna have to drive down there and finish it for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted November 25, 2014 Author Share Posted November 25, 2014 LoL your more than welcome, i'm so sick of that house at this point I never want to see it.. i'd be happy alone living in a cardboard box I do believe. the shooting on the move thing hasn't progressed as well as I would like. Position exit is good, entry is descent, but on the move sucks. gettting a little better in the medium port flexibility part. but not as smooth as i would like on th emove.. guess I know what to keep on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wamcei Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Hey Steve btw Happy Birthday you old fart [emoji14] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerTrace Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Nice to see you coming back......I will be a few months behind you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra99 Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Dry Fire is progressing well, we NEED a good dry fire app.. that's just a par timer and two buzzers. and resets it's self.. Callouses are starting to come back. everything Static Skill (Stance Grip trigger work, draw, reload transitions, etc) wise is starting to feel pretty solid. I plan to round out week 4. and then start week 5 with some movement, work. getting out of chairs. position entry and exit. Match date Oct 28th. working on a way to video that. Hey Steve, Been a looonng time. You'll need to get up to Hollidaysburg and shoot one of Dan's matches next year. I remember when I first got started and we all worked Area 8 together, you, Dan, Kyle, Harry and me. Hope you are progressing the way you like. Here is a link to an App Matt Burkett put on his website to help with dryfire. http://www.predatortactical.com/cart.php?m=knowledgebase_detail&id=5 Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra99 Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Well I've been out of the game a long time, Too long and it's time for a come back. I've greatly missed shooting and it's really eating at me to shoot some matches. I have been dryfiring, mostly my old regimine to get back, reading some and putting new thoughts and perspectives on what I am doing and have done. hope to put a couple practice sessions in per month live fire, once a day minimum hopefully twice a day dryfire. Shooting one match the end of october. and the winter will mostly be spent dryfiring. So far I've been stretching warming up and dryfiring once a day, some times twice when time permits. Managed to get my elbow pain to come back within a week. so I've had to add the strengthening exeriises back into the regimine. I"m remodeling two houses, working a full time job, and teaching CCW classes part time and working on guns (mine and some others) for cash and shooting money as well as helping a friend in his HVAC business for $$ The time will be the hard part. Will be starting a Youtube video series of my progress thoughts and opinions soon. I've learned a lot in jsut a couple of weeks. playing with gear. etc. I am shooting a S&W M&P 9L that I had dan burwell work on just before I stopped competing, I like the gun a lot. But am pretty sure as soon as money is available I'll be stepping to a Stock II which fit me a lot better. and I have always preferred the DA/SA guns. Steve, When you want to sell the 9L, I'm sure Dan would be interested. Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wamcei Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Dry Fire is progressing well, we NEED a good dry fire app.. that's just a par timer and two buzzers. and resets it's self.. Callouses are starting to come back. everything Static Skill (Stance Grip trigger work, draw, reload transitions, etc) wise is starting to feel pretty solid. I plan to round out week 4. and then start week 5 with some movement, work. getting out of chairs. position entry and exit. Match date Oct 28th. working on a way to video that. Hey Steve,Been a looonng time. You'll need to get up to Hollidaysburg and shoot one of Dan's matches next year. I remember when I first got started and we all worked Area 8 together, you, Dan, Kyle, Harry and me. Hope you are progressing the way you like. Here is a link to an App Matt Burkett put on his website to help with dryfire. http://www.predatortactical.com/cart.php?m=knowledgebase_detail&id=5 Pat That link doesn't show an app for me Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra99 Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Dry Fire is progressing well, we NEED a good dry fire app.. that's just a par timer and two buzzers. and resets it's self.. Callouses are starting to come back. everything Static Skill (Stance Grip trigger work, draw, reload transitions, etc) wise is starting to feel pretty solid. I plan to round out week 4. and then start week 5 with some movement, work. getting out of chairs. position entry and exit. Match date Oct 28th. working on a way to video that. Hey Steve,Been a looonng time. You'll need to get up to Hollidaysburg and shoot one of Dan's matches next year. I remember when I first got started and we all worked Area 8 together, you, Dan, Kyle, Harry and me. Hope you are progressing the way you like. Here is a link to an App Matt Burkett put on his website to help with dryfire. http://www.predatortactical.com/cart.php?m=knowledgebase_detail&id=5 Pat That link doesn't show an app for me Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk It should take you to the Predator Tactical website, where there are 4 drills for dry fire. You'll have to use your computer, not a smartphone. They aren't downloadable. Dot Transition Drill Draw at the Beep (with par time) Variable Speed Swinger Target Tracking Drill You can also hook your computer up to the a TV and make the targets bigger so you can increase the distance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wamcei Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Dry Fire is progressing well, we NEED a good dry fire app.. that's just a par timer and two buzzers. and resets it's self.. Callouses are starting to come back. everything Static Skill (Stance Grip trigger work, draw, reload transitions, etc) wise is starting to feel pretty solid. I plan to round out week 4. and then start week 5 with some movement, work. getting out of chairs. position entry and exit. Match date Oct 28th. working on a way to video that. Hey Steve,Been a looonng time. You'll need to get up to Hollidaysburg and shoot one of Dan's matches next year. I remember when I first got started and we all worked Area 8 together, you, Dan, Kyle, Harry and me. Hope you are progressing the way you like. Here is a link to an App Matt Burkett put on his website to help with dryfire. http://www.predatortactical.com/cart.php?m=knowledgebase_detail&id=5 Pat That link doesn't show an app for me Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk It should take you to the Predator Tactical website, where there are 4 drills for dry fire. You'll have to use your computer, not a smartphone. They aren't downloadable.Dot Transition Drill Draw at the Beep (with par time) Variable Speed Swinger Target Tracking Drill You can also hook your computer up to the a TV and make the targets bigger so you can increase the distance. Ahh I see now sorry blond moment there Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobert1 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Wonderful to see you back Mr. Steve !!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted December 15, 2014 Author Share Posted December 15, 2014 Thanks Bobert! So, I decided my eyes suck, and found out i could get them fixed. So the PRK surgery happened DEC 3rd at the laser eye center in Pittbsurg. The surgery and everything went off without a hitch... they gave me a low dose of Valium which i didn't even feel the doctor said he required it it allows the eye muscles to relax better. walked out.. and all was great. I never had any real burning or itching. some annoying flashbacks a little swollen eyes. just kept my drops in any time i felt like they were remotely dry. I am still having trouble focusing.. have done a little light dry fire. I still can't see the sights my biggest concern was eye dominance, but that seems ok. Things are still fuzzy though at times. with PRK they say that's normal for the first month to 6 weeks. Vision was 20-50 before squinting as best i could. but not it's 20/40 with out squinting at all. The doctor says looking at my eyes it looks like a steam room and will clear up as it heals. next appointment is friday. So far so good! I listened to Brian's book about 4 times over the course of sttting around with my eyes closed... quite handy that it's now an audio book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wamcei Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 (edited) Steve I am looking into this as well since you suggested that to me the other day! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Edited December 16, 2014 by wamcei Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 Well the vision still fluctuates, but i have been dryfiring again for a few days, reloads i have a hard time focusing on the dark hole. didn't seem to be a problem before. movement is a good bit smoother, i've worked on that some and done a bit of stretching while i was waiting on my eyes to heal and working on the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 and some dryfiring also. feels good to have new gear and getting back to feeling descent at shooting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted March 17, 2015 Author Share Posted March 17, 2015 Doing some Dry fire reloads, let me know what you think tips for improemtn? https://youtu.be/V2pbUREzDAc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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