Unfortunately i forgot my tripod so i had to put the phone in a pocket on my wagonWow! Video now! Nice work on the shooting and the recording.
Yeah, I'm a little bummed. I won't make it tomorrow most likely either. That will be two weekends in a row. Fortunately that doesn't happen often, but tomorrow morning is calling for single digit wind chills again.So no way I am going out today, currently 18 degrees and 30 mph winds. I did run some drills last night though.
Review of Canik MC9
Picked up from my LGS today. Did not get the usual discount and paid $439.99 + tax. That is what you get for being impatient. Why did I get this pistol? The plan right now is to run it in Backup gun (BUG) division of IDPA this year. I was looking for the largest and easiest to shoot gun that...www.indianagunowners.com
Yes, yes, and yes. My trigger freeze lately hasn't been complete as in failing to get off the next shot, but enough to slow me down. If you are gripping harder with your firing hand that could definitely lead to trigger freeze. You want most of your pressure to come from your support hand. This should be practiced in dry fire as well so it will carry over.I have experienced trigger freeze at the last couple range sessions. If that is when you fire a shot and then not getting back to reset, you don't touch another round off.
I have been working on gripping the pistol tighter as that is a fault of mine.
Could this be why I am getting the trigger freeze? Do I need to now focus on gripping tighter with the support hand vs both hands?
Bakersfield is good stuff. It is hard to imagine a whole department passing that on the regular.I had other plans for today, but last night a friend dropped off a newly purchased XR920 from Shadow Systems that he asked me to break in for him as he didn't have time. I guess if you really need me too He also provided ammo....
So I took the three target array that I had in the truck and my usual supplies. It was me and my usual shooting partner so setup was easy. It has an SRO mounted on it and I did not check zero until after the cold drill. I ran it from my standard glock rig without issue.
Cold drill was a double dose of the the Old Bakersfield Qual, simply running each string twice. I met all pars except on the very first string which I was .01 over. I did well until the fifteen where I pulled several into the overall silhouette dropping what I would call a total down 12 for a 187 ( loose scoring of the middle of the 8 ring where the number 8 is as the 7" circle, the paper as the next scoring zone for 9 points, and the rest of the silhouette as 6 points). It is atypical for me to trend high right so next I checked zero. Using a 10 yard zero it was about 3 inches high and 3 inche right. I corrected this and confirmed at 25 - poorly...5 were in the 10 ring but I rushed a bit and had several called shots outside.
Bakersfield qual x2
Next I ran a great drill that I hadn't run in some time but find quite challenging. The Warren Advanced 3 Second Standards - https://pistol-training.com/shooting-drills/warren-advanced-3-second-standards/
I ended up with a 47 (cleaned @5, dropped 1 each at 7&10, managed 7 sho, and only snagged 5 each at 15,who, and moving). I have a fair amount of data on this drill and the last few times I had run it were 44(with a .22), 38, 36, 40, 43, 33, 38, and 35. Those were going back to 2015! All irons scores except for the .22. So between my current skill level and a dot, i managed to snag a few extra points but not to the elusive 49 recommended as excellent by TLG haha. This drill practices so many things - draws, transitions both wider and closer because they get more acute as you move back, higher and lower percentage shots, sho & who, and shooting on the move. Fun and excellent time!
I ran probably 50-75 rounds of doubles (too much support hand pressure was causing the dot to track diagonally from top right to bottom left - I run it from a ready and a draw to see if my natural current grip from the holster is different and it actually tracked vertically so long as I didn't think about it and modify it), a modified triple nickel (3 out and over time), a 1-5 (also a few out at 4.7), various other random shots here and there to finish a magazine etc...I finished with two runs of the supertest to a 3x5. The first was an 8.7 but only 6/10. My final run was 10.09 and of course the last shot dropped out because i got lazy/cocky and relaxed my support hand just enough.
I really like the Shadow Systems guns. They are a great way to get glock simplicity without glock ergos. The two i've had the chance to run (this xr920 and a dr920) have been great with this not suffering any issues in the quick 200 rounds despite SS saying they have a break in period. The dr920 did have a few issues but they went away after the first hundred rounds and it was good thereafter. Were i going to purchase one, i would like a dr920l.
After we went to a few gun stores because he needed a few things and I handled several things. During the trip I became smitten with trying a PDP. I've handled them before and didn't have much trouble avoiding the wantsies but today they hit my spot and I actually preferred it to the q5 sf they had. I couldn't reach the mag button on the sf very well and the grip felt fat. The pdp was just right. I may grab a compact to mess around with later this year. I like the longish pre travel and smooth break vs some other options. Texture is good as well as ergos. I think MVS should trade his Legion for one Next week it's back to rimfire rifle stuff.
Stopped by a range to test a firearm. Couple of guys were there who have obviously been friends for decades.
Good reminder of what's important.
I cannot shoot worth a **** .... until I am relaxed.
Today was a very relaxed day!
Thanks, but apparently I lack this little important thing known as consistency as the following will demonstrate.Great showing on the Warren, MVS! Kudos
Thanks, but apparently I lack this little important thing known as consistency as the following will demonstrate.
Went out to the range tonight because we supposedly have crappy weather for the next 2 days and I may have my first match of the season Sunday. I started with the Rangemaster Drill of the Month for April called the 7 yard standards. It is similar to the 5 yard round up, but at 7 yards and has a reload. The reload is really my only complaint, it is way to generous with time. I did not write down my times for the strings, all of which were 5 second pars except the last stage, the reload which was 8 seconds. I made the 5 second par on all of the stages including the reload one. My shots could have been a little tighter and I think when you look at the horizontal spread it is indicative of my lack of grip consistency with that damn Sig.
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After this I tried out something I heard Mike Pannone talking about on the X-ray Alpha podcast. He calls it a skills inventory test and designed it for LE but of course it will work for anyone. At this point he hasn't assigned times to the stages yet. It sounds like when he does it will probably be a tier type system. I had my ideas about what those times should be, but based on my performance, what the hell do I know. The course is as follows for reference but please listen to the
Discussing LEO Quals and Mike Pannone's Skill Inventory Test CTT Solutions Skills Inventory Test https://www.instagram.com/p/CqUE73tKdZE/ Record your own times, post them & improve upon them
Retreating Bill drill from 3-7 (6rds)
Bill Drill at 7 (6rds)
Draw and fire 2 rounds strong hand only at 7 (2rds)
Draw and fire a single head shot at 7 (head 3”x4” modified A-zone) (1rd)
From the low ready (45-degree angle) fire 3 A-zone hits to the body from 10 (3rds)
From the low ready (45-degree angle) fire 1 head shot (head 3’x4” modified A-zone) at 10 (1rd)
3 reload 3 at 25 (6rds)
Total of 25 rounds
For your amusement my best overall run was as follows,
1) Retreating bill, clean, 2.57
2) Regular Bill, clean, 2.98
3) D2SHO, clean, 2.33
4) D1Head, clean, 1.7
5) Low ready 3, clean, 1.45
6) Low ready 1Head, clean, .74
7) 25 yard 3R3, 7.92 -2, I wasn't clear if this was supposed to be shot from ready or draw, so I drew.
I ran this 4 times, my fourth run was a fair amount faster on every stage except the 25 yard where I was 2 seconds slower.
I finished up with 10 shots from 25 at a 3X5. I only went 4/10 on the card with the rest all being about 2 inches to the right. Yes I am left handed.
Celebrate the winsThanks, but apparently I lack this little important thing known as consistency as the following will demonstrate.
There is some stuff there I feel good about, and some clarifications that hurt. Shooting a 3R3 at 25 with no more than 1 down in 5.5 seconds is aggressive for sure. The clarification on the retreating bill seems a little strange, definitely makes it harder having to move that hard and far rearward. I definitely didn't finish all the way back at 7.