CM 99-61

[WayneBullock]

A couple of questions:

1. Do/have you shot this one while sitting in the chair, or do you stand to shoot all three strings?

2. Where exactly is the fault line for this stage?  For example, can you lean against the table for balance, or is that technically "grounding" yourself in front of the fault line?

3. How do you place your holster to make the draw easier from a seated position?

Thanks,

WayneB

[Flexmoney]

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[Flexmoney]

1. Do/have you shot this one while sitting in the chair, or do you stand to shoot all three strings?

You can shoot it either way, standing or seated...you could even go prone if that were faster.  I guess you have to figure out what is fastest for you (not much help I'm I?).  I don't know which way should be best.

2. Where exactly is the fault line for this stage?  For example, can you lean against the table for balance, or is that technically "grounding" yourself in front of the fault line?

I think leaning against the table is legal.  I have found that trying to use props for balance is a loser though (for me).  I try not to touch the props.  I just deliver the shot out of my regular stance whenever possible.  That way I am always shooting from the same position (and the gun is always returning in the same manner).

3. How do you place your holster to make the draw easier from a seated position?

Rule 5.3.5 says you have to keep your holster and equipment in the same place throughout the competition.  (I don't know that I have seen this called on any shooter...the RO's would have to document the location as some point so that they could compare?)

[BSeevers]

I would recommend standing anytime you can. You shoot more aggressive, faster and its more natural. The draw time is the same either way after practice. Some guy named Brian Enos wrote about this in his book.

[joelhilgy]

Limited, 53 points, 14.42 sec., hf 3.6755.  I have been shooting for a little more than a year now and this should be my highest percentage so far.

[Jake Di Vita]

Joel,

I got you at about 73%.

[Shooter Grrl]

Shot this one yesterday in 13.08 seconds, 39 points. Got a miss on the weak hand upper A/B shot. Looks like I need to practice weak hand more - I had a good sight picture and even called it as the miss it was, I have super lousy trigger control with that left hand!

Looks like another one that's gonna get trashed at a whopping 38%!

[tightloop]

Lim 10 52 pts 11.08 4.693

Stallion, what is that % from USPSA

[Flexmoney]

TL,

The high hit factor in Limited 10 is the same as Limited. A little calculator work and pulling from the above post ought to get you a number.

[Theo Carter]

Shot this one today in Production Division total time 16.79sec with 56 points for a hit factor of 3.3353 with a Glock 17 can anyone tell me what % this gets on national level.

[Pro2AInPA]

Shot this on Sunday in Production. My only classifier of the day that went fairly well.

50 points in 14.47 seconds for a HF of 3.4554.

www.classifiercalc.com says it's good for a 72.7452%.

[cyburg]

I zeroed it on the 4th. I shot two shots per on the first round. Otherwise it would have gone good.

[Pezco]

The Masters and GM shooters I shoot with all shoot this standing. Call me lazy, but it seems they already figured out what is fastest so I just follow suit. It seems that the table would get in the way of the draw if you were sitting. I don't necessarily follow suit with the M and GM's on long courses because my skill sets are different than theirs.

[Modoc]

Shot this one 2 weeks ago and tanked. SS for a 5.2% by the calculator A couple of mikes and caught my pistol on the chair on the last string. Will be a while to dig out of D class at this rate

[colt22man]

Shot this classifier sitting down last sunday, 12.40 seconds, 57 points HF 4.5967. I had spent most of saturday (match set up day) on my feet setting up stages. Sunday morning (spring fwd. we lost 1 hr.) was a whirlwind setting up & debugging 6 stages, 74 targets placed, not including the no shoot targets to slow the GM's down, which it didn't, 14 pieces of steel including 4 steel poppers activating 6 movers. Match round count was 162. So when I finally got a chance to sit for the classifier, stage 4 for our squad, about 1pm in the afternoon, I was ready to be seated and take a load off. The chair was padded, felt soooo good I felt like taking a nap. So I shot the classifier comfortably sitting. I stayed sitting while the R.O. scored and reluctantly gave up the chair to the next shooter. Oh my, I'm still thinking about how comfortable that padded chair felt on a sunny 74 degree day. We had fun.

[Northern Xtreme]

We shot this classifer today at our club and the RO felt that it was almost impossible to shoot the stage without sweeping yourself on the seated draw so they wanted everyone to do it standing. I would like to hear some opinions on that please.

[rowdyb]

I shot this seated. For me, seated is faster than standing. I clear my leg and the table easily and nothing in front of me obscures the target. I do enough other training that I don't 'have' to be in any position to feel comfortable shooting.

My time was 12.85 with a hf of 3.7354. I shot two D's, two C's and 8 A's. This is 78.6% according to classifier calc.