Good to see you back. Not sure how long I will be down for. Recovery is slower than I thought. It will for sure be weeks before I can cinch a match holster down tight again.--*I finally got back to the range after a jam packed June. I haven't had any live fire or meaningful dry practice since my last post here - end of May. My schedule finally cleared up and i was able to hit the range with a friend today.
Cold test was my 10 in 10 all hands at 7 yards. 8.46 but dropped a sho and two who.
I ran the friend through a few things and then did some ball & dummy and skip loading to diagnose and try and fix some issues he's having. They allowed him to see that it was him pulling shots and not the gun and when i had him hold the gun but I pressed the trigger, he saw the dot didn't jump as when he pressed. I think he is tensing his gun hand as he is pressing. Though i was unsuccessful at conveying a solution in a way to cure it.
I didn't have a lot to work on so I ran garcia dots. 27/36, with 2 being ot on the first 2 strings and then 7 dropped between 3 other dots. 5 seconds is the par from the holster.
Garcia dots shot in the order of 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 5 with 6 & 7 over 5 seconds and the last 4 under.
I ran him through the FAST and some other stuff because he was interested in being introduced to other drills and then we did a touch of rifle work. The 10 round assault course from Justin Dyal was a fun adaptation for carbine work.
I am busy next weekend but should be fairly free for the remainder of the summer to get in some work. I also should get some time with a p365xl soon which will be interesting.
I don't think I'm a very good diagnostician so i just try and try to use process of elimination and throw solutions at the wall.Good to see you back. Not sure how long I will be down for. Recovery is slower than I thought. It will for sure be weeks before I can cinch a match holster down tight again.
Like your friend I throw on occasional round due to input from my firing hand, though for whatever reason it is often high left for me. I might have a solution but that remains to be seen.
Went to Range USA in Evansville a couple of days ago. First time at a range that wasn't a family member's back yard and first time shooting in ages. I recently changed my grip from an (unintentional) revolver style grip to a more modern aggressive grip. All of these were in between 5-7 yards. My recoil management is atrocious, but for not shooting in a while, I'm fairly happy with the groups. All shot on a Ruger SR9 9mm.
Any tips for recoil management or drills you like to run?
I got the mantis blackbeard the other day so that I can dry fire under night vision without having to keep the county up all night. It's an amazing training toolRangemaster Sept. DOM Advanced Bullseye Course.
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25 yards 16.22 seconds (30 sec par) 46/50
15 yards 6.3 seconds (15 sec par) 47/50
7 yards 8.59 seconds (12 sec par) 100/100
5 yards 2.78 seconds (5 sec par) 50/50
5 yards 2.4 seconds (3 sec par) 30/30
5 yards 1.83 seconds (2 sec par) 20/20
293/300 points, shot from the ready. 7 yard stage includes a reload.
Not bad, wish it didn't have the 2 in the white. The one from 15 was sorta an ND as I got in too much of a hurry and pressed the trigger before I was ready.
I miss having a training partner sometimes but it has to be a good fit. A previous partner, who I like a lot, just didn't provide enough challenge. It was like I was teaching every session instead of working to improve. No offense to him. My first USPSA mentor was good for me as he knew the rules and was a very good shooter. Since he got older and had to have both knee replaced we don't get out as often together. I am always on the lookout for another.Today the shooting buddy wanted to get a few hundred rounds through his new carry gun, 43x with tlr7 sub and holosun eps carry. It was a nice setup but i could not index it well for the life of me. Double add one, no index cost me 20 in OT points for a 73. A poor run on the test. Just generally terrible shooting all around. I ran it from the ready, as I don't have a rig that will work with the light. But i could not pull it together today. In the past, i've ran the slimline glocks well but today was not the day.
The highlight was running Rabbit a few times. I was talking to him about how hard it is to catch up when you're behind the loop, processing and such, but that it's nice to have solid technical skills for consistency and efficiency because they do alot to either make up for overcome that lag. Our skill gap is such that when he is the Rabbit i can catch or beat him 9/10 times unless i have a poor draw or some other issue or go SHO draw which then makes us more even with me still generally winning.
On the other hand he got to see that when he was reacting, not only was he making more mistakes due to the pressure but that there was no way he could catch up because of the processing gap and the relatively tiny window available to act and get everything right. It is a fun thing to do with equally skilled shooters but is also beneficial to those with a greater disparity to show certain lessons. I really like it to show how bad some carry ideas are - like empty chamber or odd carry positions like small of back etc... - it's hard enough to catch up with a loaded aiwb gun, why add time unnecessarily.
It is certainly that way with nearly all of my range companions. But i am happy to be in teach mode, with the hope that they eventually get skilled enough to provide challenge. There just aren't many skilled shooters out there outside of match goer's etc...my uspsa mentor was so much better than me at the time (6 division M) that it was the inverse - I learned a ton but he wasn't gaining much. Hard to find evenly matched folks once you do find skilled folks within reasonable driving distances. Hell, at my range I'm the only person who owns a timer or target stands. The rest of them staple walmart targets to pallets and blast away at 7 feet...I miss having a training partner sometimes but it has to be a good fit. A previous partner, who I like a lot, just didn't provide enough challenge. It was like I was teaching every session instead of working to improve. No offense to him. My first USPSA mentor was good for me as he knew the rules and was a very good shooter. Since he got older and had to have both knee replaced we don't get out as often together. I am always on the lookout for another.