38supPat Posted September 7, 2011 Author Share Posted September 7, 2011 Come to think of it on the first couple of runs I did set up my NPA on the first target. I usually set up my NPA on the hardest target, in this case the middle and since they were close together, 1m apart edge to edge, there really wasn't a whole lot of pivot...though I guess at 7m there is a bit more of an angle covered than at 10m or 15m. I did try altering my NPA to the last target for a couple of runs since it was the target I was shooting poorly on and it didn't seem to make a big difference...I even tried moving down the fault line I had on the ground so that the last target was right in front of me...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted September 10, 2011 Author Share Posted September 10, 2011 Another 500 round practice today, and I'll be coaching a newb....I'll let y'all know how it turns out gonna be a long day...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 Well since the Nationals I have added a thumbledge to one of my open guns, my SVI IMM, to see how I like it. I got a chance to try one in Vegas and was pleasantly surprised how well I did with it. I've now run it for one match and a practice (with swinger) and so far the results look promising, the biggest area of improvement I'm seeing it in transitions, though I am running a substatially lighter gun which may account for this. I'm looking at what I have to rebuild for next year and it seems a bit daunting. I'm going to recomp and remount my scope on the old Millenium gun, Millenium Ti comp and DoubleTap scopemount. That will have that gun good to go for a bit. Next I need to build a new topend for the SVI. Im currently looking at building a IMM sized top with a Millenium comp, bull barrel (Barsto or similar) and cut the slide back to IMM length (1/2"?) and thread barrel to match. I seem to drive the lighter guns better and Ideally I want it close to feel and balance of a 5" Standard gun (like an STI Eagle) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted October 16, 2011 Author Share Posted October 16, 2011 Shot an M&P Pro today at our home club Level I. What a great gun! I whacked a couple of Mikes and a N/S on the classifiers but I managed to have the fastest times on every stage and posted the HHF on two, and thats including all divisions. I kinda like beating up on Open and Standard guns with an out of the box 9mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted October 23, 2011 Author Share Posted October 23, 2011 Spent my practice today shooting groups from sandbags and freestyle @ 25m, I'll try to get the pics up later but I managed to group 15 or so rounds into about 1 1/2" off the bench and then shoot some around the 3 1/2" freestyle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Shot an M&P Pro today at our home club Level I. What a great gun! I whacked a couple of Mikes and a N/S on the classifiers but I managed to have the fastest times on every stage and posted the HHF on two, and thats including all divisions. I kinda like beating up on Open and Standard guns with an out of the box 9mm. That's fun stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted October 25, 2011 Author Share Posted October 25, 2011 I've been asked by a couple of the locals to not shoot anymore Production division.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted November 21, 2011 Author Share Posted November 21, 2011 I hate lame, boring matches, and I hate getting over charged for lame, boring matches, but to keep it interesting I treated it as a training exercise. I shot one stage entirely on the move even though the target presentations were pretty much set for stand and shoot positions. I did have a couple of cases where I pulled off targets early causing misses, one was on a bank of targets in the middle of a CoF and the other was te last target (plate) on a speed shoot, I had a really good run going on it but then just relaxed my arms as I fired the last shot instead of staying on target. Pretty much everything else was a waste of bullets, I wish I had just gone to practice instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 Starting my dryfiring for the new season, just warming up with some simle drills today. Picked up a ContourRoam camera today so I'm going to do some FPS video this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 January jitters today, haven't been on the gun that much since end of November so things were a bit rusty today. Nothing major just some reloads didn't quite go according to plan, some were real good. I fumbled a couple but one on a medium course was 1:26 moving from one port to another and reloading off a table. Had a three no shoots, one was a close target (partial mini under 3m) and I didn't allow enough for the height of the Cmore. The other two were for going too hard into a door and getting off balance and starting to shoot before I regained myself (partial mini @ 12m and then trying to make it up too fast and poking my 11th shot into the no shoot as well and since I was empty at this point I gave up lol. Blew an unloaded start by grabbing the mag badly and failing to seat it. Overall though not too bad for the first match of the year. The old open gun still rocks pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted June 10, 2012 Author Share Posted June 10, 2012 I was working 30m partials today. My three targets are on the left and pic was taken from the 30m line Best runs were in the 3.7 to 3.9 range average was 4.25 down 3 points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Stoeger Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 That is too far for me. Move the targets closer so I don't feel bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted June 11, 2012 Author Share Posted June 11, 2012 Hell, you're the one that inspired me to push them out that far!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Stoeger Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 I was drunk that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 I was working 30m 15m partials today. My three targets are on the left and pic was taken from the 30m line Is that your water bottle at ~15m ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted June 11, 2012 Author Share Posted June 11, 2012 Nope, Range trash, I use nalgene bottles. That is my patch gun sitting on the stump though, I pick it up on the way downrange. Open division, going where production fears to tread... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted October 7, 2012 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 Good practice session today. Warmed up with some movement drills on 35m targets. Box to box type stuff. Shot some 35m strong hand/weak hand Moved on to a variation of a walk back drill. Set up 3 targets like an El Prez setup, started at 5m and shot 2+2+2. Take 2 steps back and repeat. Keep repeating until I hit 20m, usually around 48 rounds. Interesting how things worked out. From 5m to 10m there was almost no difference in my draw or splits, running .9 to 1.0 draw and .14-.15 splits on target, .18-.20 transitions. Past 10m, draws slowed to 1.05 to 1.10 and splits were in the .18-.20 range out to 15m. Right at 15m I got very tense. I felt my grip increase, and my jaw clenched. After 15m I settled down and was running 1.15 draws and mid .2 splits. I reloaded my mags and ran the drill again but this time I started at 20m and worked in taking two steps forward each time until I got to 5m. After a couple of steps I felt myself get tense again, sure enough I was at 15m. Again jaw clenched and uber tight grip. the rest of the drill I was pretty relaxed but always at 15m I got tight. Closer and farther I was good, but right at 15 I tightened up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted October 9, 2012 Author Share Posted October 9, 2012 A note on the movement drill. It was a simple box to box drill with the start box @ 35m and two boxes, one to the left and one to the right, both slightly forward of the start box. Same as the drill Nils posted on his Facebook/website. The first couple/few runs I had misses and lots of C/D hits. As I shot the drill and really narrowed my focus to shooting A's (I became much more tuned into the sight picture/trigger press) the shots tightened and I was shooting mostly A's. overall this is not a big deal or a real revelation, it's kind of what we expect, what was interesting was that the whole time I ran the drill my times never really changed. Every run was timed out about the same, I was taking whatever time I needed to make the shots and I went from bad to better but the times never changed. They were slightly better with really good hits when I went back and shot the drill after doing the walk back drill. But I think this is mostly from really grooving into the gun at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted December 3, 2012 Author Share Posted December 3, 2012 So starting my plans for 2013. Dry fire, dry fire, dry fire. But more than that, perfect dry fire. I've gotten sloppy this year and some of that comes from both lack of dryfire and poor dryfire. I no longer will accept anything that is not an A in dryfire, I will learn visual patience if it kills me. I will perfect my reloads and will run zero failure reload drills. I will eliminate the failures to shoot points, uncalled misses and blown reloads that killed my matches this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a matt Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Good luck in 2013, Pat. I looking foward & have 2013 planned out also. Well at least most of the year anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Stoeger Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 So starting my plans for 2013. Dry fire, dry fire, dry fire. But more than that, perfect dry fire. I've gotten sloppy this year and some of that comes from both lack of dryfire and poor dryfire. I no longer will accept anything that is not an A in dryfire, I will learn visual patience if it kills me. I will perfect my reloads and will run zero failure reload drills. I will eliminate the failures to shoot points, uncalled misses and blown reloads that killed my matches this year. I shoot C's in dryfire a lot. I am trying to fix it...but I wont slow down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul-the new guy Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 So starting my plans for 2013. Dry fire, dry fire, dry fire. But more than that, perfect dry fire. I've gotten sloppy this year and some of that comes from both lack of dryfire and poor dryfire. I no longer will accept anything that is not an A in dryfire, I will learn visual patience if it kills me. I will perfect my reloads and will run zero failure reload drills. I will eliminate the failures to shoot points, uncalled misses and blown reloads that killed my matches this year. I shoot C's in dryfire a lot. I am trying to fix it...but I wont slow down. how do you know they are C's? I shoot all A's in dry fire and C's in live fire... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Stoeger Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 how do you know they are C's? I watch my sights. After enough live fire I have a good idea what the sight picture needs to like like to get an A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted January 23, 2013 Author Share Posted January 23, 2013 I'm not about to slow down, but I need to redefine what is acceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 Since I video most matches I'm gonna start posting them in here This weekends Match: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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