Micah's Range Diary

[Steve Anderson]

Good job on the tobacco dude... Do you feel a little calmer without it?

Your tobacco free weight loss dry fire divorce buddy,

SA

Edited March 1, 2013 by Steve Anderson

[L-10_shooter]

Great job dude. Its been very educational reading you diary over the years! Keep it up. Great "quiet" velcro video, haha.

[beltjones]

Hey Micah - long time no update!

What is your training like these days? What have you set up in the dryfire dojo? What's the next evolution of your shooting???

[Chris iliff]

Wanted you to know that you inspired me to quit chew.

So far it has been 1 month and 2 weeks tobacco free. After 30+ years and a can a day it has been a stiff challenge, but I'm doing it.

My first tobacco free match was a grind, but I did it. Up to that match, I had never shot without chew.

Anyways, thanks for demonstrating the courage to quit. It helped me.

[Micah]

It's been a long, long time. Gotta figure out what I've missed.

[RangerTrace]

Welcome back Brother!!

[Sarge]

Holy crap! Stuff changes almost daily these days. You have missed a bunch.

[Chris Keen]

Hey buddy, good to see you back again!  Lots of changes since you left, but it's still basically the same as it ever was! Hope to see you on the range sometime soon! 

[Micah]

[Micah]

Okay, here is what I know so far:

 

• My index is still there, but for iron sights and not a dot. That is taking some time.
• Gen 5 Glocks are infinitely easier to reload than my poor Gen 3 babies!
• It looks like people find matches in a website called Practiscore. I signed up there and was able to hump around. That's really neat! I remember when you either had Chris Keen doing the scores, and he would be adding them up while I drove us back from the match and upload the results immediately, or you had to WAITTTTTTT!
  • The squadding system in Practiscore is neat too. Cool to see some familiar names.
• The giant range that I drive by just outside of Columbus, Ohio has apparently become a mecca for sports shooting! Unbelievable to think that there are nationals just an hour from my home! Hey, remember when nats were in Missoula, Montana? Wuff.
• I just need to show up to a local soon and figure life out. I also need to get some classifiers in carry optics under my belt to change that U to an M.

 

And finally: Nobody, NOBODY shoots Glocks anymore.

 

14 or so years ago I was a GM who only shot a Glock 34. I switched to a CZ 75 SP-01 Shadow and was just miserable. The gun has a trillion subatomic parts that were impossible to wrangle (compared to my Glock), and I hated having to learn the change of the platform. I hated how changing the gun didn't give me that .5 edge that I needed, and that what I needed was just to get to work on myself and not chase equipment. I still forced myself to train with the CZ, and it was a factor in my burning out of the sport.

 

14 years later, I'm rusty and have a lot to learn back. If I actually care about it in the first place, and if my G34 becomes the actual, true barrier between winning Area 5 First M and placing somewhere on page four, I'll revisit it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RangerTrace]

You're going to notice a lot of 20 somethings who can shoot fast and run even faster!!

[ChuckS]

45 minutes ago, RangerTrace said:

You're going to notice a lot of 20 somethings who can shoot fast and run even faster!!

Crap, I see that from 50-somethings

[Micah]

It has been such an amazing first year back so far! I need to update this to reflect all the new, old, and weird stuff that has taken place from February to the precipice of nationals.

[Micah]

After an amazing first season back, I get to shoot a nationals for the first time ever! I did not have the opportunity to attend one when I first got into the sport.

 

Ammo wise, so long as I shoot minor 9, I'll go store bought until the end of time. Blaser 115 brass chronos perfectly for USPSA, so I will stick with that. 147g Blazer is hot as the sun, and the 150g Federal USPSA ammo is not as spicy but still hotter than it needs to be.

 

I shot a bunch of majors this year, and had so much fun at each of them! Most of the majors I shot Limited 10 with my Gen 5 Glock 34. Beginning with the Ryan Rocks major, I began shooting with an ACRO p-2 on my Glock, as well as a Carver magwell, and I began my Limited Optics party.

 

There was rarely any dot shooting when I got started, and I never got into the dot game until Ryan Rocks. The learning curve has been staunch, but I am not at a point where I can comfortably hit any target reliably, despite the distance or difficulty. The time needed is still LENGTHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY however, there was a point where I was completely unable to read the dot with any reliability.

 

I used epoxy glue and silicone carbide to make semi-permanent the aggressive grip, as well as locking in the magwell. I used epoxy to secure the "flashlight" as well to prevent it from moving about. The flashlight is a gutted x300 clone filled with tungsten shot, and adds 15 ounces to the front of the lightweight Glock.

 

I've been finally dryfiring the way that I need to, and it truly makes all the difference. My goal after nationals is to ramp up training so that when the 24-25 season begins, I'm caught up instead of playing catch up.

 

 

[Micah]

After my first season back, I have decided that the juice is worth the squeeze. Here is my Dryfire Dojo 2.0.

 

 

Side note: If Steve Anderson is the Socrates of dryfire, which he is, I was def Plato. I gotta get my Plato status back.

[RangerTrace]

That is the way to do it.  Great work!!