Reload Pointers Please...

[kruger]

Arg! I look completely different than I feel...

So, what are the biggest things I need to work on?

http://quack.clearwire.net/shooting/1.36%20reload.wmv

Respectfully,

Mark Kruger

[Loves2Shoot]

#1 Thing - remounting the gun. Look at your hands before and after the reload. It looks like you were doing a reload "for the camera." Be careful about sacrificing good technique for for "speed."

[Jake Di Vita]

I agree. It also looks like you are shifting your weight back a little bit when you reload....your body is noticeably straighter on the 2nd shot. You can also see on the first shot your grip is absolutely perfect (great cant to your weakhand) and on the 2nd shot the weak hand is much straighter (not as much recoil control).

Try bring your gun in a little bit more...that will cut down on the length of the pause you need to double-check the orientation of the mag to the gun. Bring the gun in about 8 inches and you will have much more fine motor control.

Try to hit the mag release a little bit earlier....if possible we want the mag falling straight out of the gun. When you get faster you will really started beating the two mags together.

Try and get your weak hand to the mag a tad faster. Imagine it as kind of a wet towel snapping down to the mag.

The reload actually looks pretty good though...just those little things will take tenths and hundreths off of it.

Edited March 11, 2006 by Jake Di Vita

[Loves2Shoot]

Jake hit all the rest of the points I saw in the other things, overall it is ok, it looks like it just needs some refinement and focus on being relaxed and confident.

Jake shoots open and is smaller in stature than you are, so how he presents the gun and reloads will "look" different than taller, longer armed folks, even if he is bringing it to the exact same "sweet spot" you just have to move your arms further to get there. Body size and type does play a big role on the finer points of how you do things. It is all angles and dexterity.

Also, when timing a reload going from buzzer to buzzer is harder than just hitting the buzzer, letting the clock run, then shooting a few targets, reload and shooting some targets. That will give you much more feedback on "real" reloads IMO. A lot of reasons that reloads are too long in matches have to do with what goes on before and after the reload, and not in the load itself.

Keep at it.