Practice Thread

Dryfire practice consisting of reloads coming out of a shooting position. Starting to become habit.
 
Well this was way down in the lists. Either no ones practicing or no one wants to tell about it.

Working on movement. In and out of positions. And reloads, especially making sure the darn mag is seated.
 
Travis B said:
I've been dry firing on a BSPS mini plate rack cut out this week. Steel is my major weakness.

Live fire practice of Four Aces for about 100 rounds. Fastest I could push is about 3.5 seconds. Here's a run- https://instagram.com/p/BQ9ef03gXtY/
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Practicing on Saturday I was consistently running 4 Aces in the 2.5-2.8 range. Decent improvement.
 
I've been practicing excuses. From the beep, I can have an excuse in .7 seconds. That's a huge improvement, down from 1.3 seconds. I'm running .13 splits between excuses, which is pretty decent but I'm going to start holding my breath while I do different tasks throughout the day. I think that having to breath so much is really holding me back.
 
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I have not done a single thing I set out to do this year in any aspect of my life. My last promotion is killing me, turnover sucks. Hire, train, they excel like I want to, I lose them, they suck, I lose them. I guess this would be better in the rant thread but I have not practiced at all since my horrible showing at area 6. Hell, I haven't even cleaned my gun, crap, hopefully I have time to do that tomorrow but I doubt it.
 
I got in a 300rd practice session this morning working on transitions and then ran some new loads over the chrono. Tonight I pulled the handle 1000 times and filled the hundo 8 times before I ran out of steam. Now it's time to relax with a little snort of brown liquor....


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FatboyFlash said:
I practiced transitions today. I don't think I really need to practice those anymore though. My transitions between excuses and talking about where we are going for lunch are pretty fluid. The timer can't even pick it up!
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Lost 20lbs and knee no longer feels like imminent implosion, need new excuse for slow ass, recommend anything?

Haven't done anything competition related since 4/15. Am debating dragging the AR out to see if I can remember how to hold it before Saturday, and maybe some G17 dryfire since I've focused on M&P for 4 months and they do not come up the same at all for me. Maybe tomorrow.
 
Beef15 said:
Lost 20lbs and knee no longer feels like imminent implosion, need new excuse for slow ass, recommend anything?

Haven't done anything competition related since 4/15. Am debating dragging the AR out to see if I can remember how to hold it before Saturday, and maybe some G17 dryfire since I've focused on M&P for 4 months and they do not come up the same at all for me. Maybe tomorrow.
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That's an easy one.

"Due to weight displacement changes, my timing seems to be off and my movements just feel awkward. We doing Bbq or Mexican today?"

Boyee! I am ON IT! I'm ready for Sunday.
 
Accelerating out of position and decelerating into position. My quads are burning.
 
NKD said:
That's very interesting video!
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It seems counterintuitive to run with an empty pistol but doing it this way I'm able to execute 2/3 of the magazine change while on the move. Moving up range eliminates the ability to finish the magazine change while moving (180) but completing the magazine change before leaving position to move up range was slow. And slow is slow.
 
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Travis B said:
It seems counterintuitive to run with an empty pistol but doing it this way I'm able to execute 2/3 of the magazine change while on the move. Moving up range eliminates the ability to finish the magazine change while moving (180) but completing the magazine change before leaving position to move up range was slow. And slow is slow.
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Heard a much faster than me shooter recommend similar for any long movement.
Haven't put it to practice, but makes sense, hand will be going right by the magwell anyway. Would of course very beneficial if 180 concerns trip you up.
 
Went to the range Monday morning. Worked on movement in and out of positions. Then worked on bill drills at 30 yards. Had a @FlatFender like moment. Shots were going left. Was convinced I was jerking the trigger until I really focused on front sight. I was lining up the front fiber to the left of the notch. So fast forward to the last 2 nights of dryfire, big concentration on sight picture. Slowed down the par times, and am being brutally honest on a solid sight picture.
 
Did some dry fire with the old hk last night. I think the da pull on that thing is about 38lbs! I had to use both hands to pull it to the rear. Saturday is going to be interesting.
 
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Ran a few drills with ncaviator trying to get use to finding the dot and working on mag changes without a magwell:eek:
Ugly for sure
 
Went out yesterday and burned some rounds. Was sharing a bay so pretty limited. Came away with two things,

Reloads need work, sub second in dry fire not even close live, 2.7, granted 6" plate much smaller than A zone.

Apparently I'm significantly faster right to left than left to right on an array, not tjat either is fast. Three 6" plates 10yds, shot from the draw, <3.7 r-l, >4.7 l-r consistently, weird I almost never go right to left dry fire or live.

ETA: should've been bugging the guy i was bay sharing with. A class open when he uses to shoot USPSA, he probably forgot more than I know.
 
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Beef15 said:
Apparently I'm significantly faster right to left than left to right on an array, not tjat either is fast. Three 6" plates 10yds, shot from the draw, <3.7 r-l, >4.7 l-r consistently, weird I almost never go right to left dry fire or live.
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Interesting finding. I will have to duplicate and see what I find. I wonder if being right handed or left handed has anything to do with it, or if it is purely a practice issue. I am a lefty and will let you know.

Something new to play with. Oh happy day!!!!!
 
Setup a dryfire range in the backyard. Able to run up to 40 ' between arrays. Big emphasis on getting in and out of position. Accelerate - decelerate.
 
I'm working on converting my rifle range (shooting lane) into something suitable for practicing uspsa. I had set some large steel plates out around 25 yards from my bench but that doesn't do much for me. Especially since from the bench to the steel is down a steepish hill till about halfway to the plates.
Before uspsa that worked out really well because from my bench out to 192 yards, length of the shooting lane, it was all down hill shooting which made me feel a little more responsible shooting on my property.

I had a truck of fill brought in, will likely need two more, and started dragging dirt and clearing out brush.
My plan is to make a nice big flat and level pit where I can keep some home made barriers, ports, etc and make some target stands and really start working on shooting stages.

I'll post a quick vid of what it looks like now after I started doing some clearing.

On a safety note 200 yards from where I'm clearing and shooting is a natural rise of about 20 foot of hillside with about 300 yards of wooded land past that in between the next property ( no house in that direction but property. On the left and right I plan to burm up to the targets just in case of a stray round.

I need to source some cardboard targets for live fire practice. I cut out the A box on one of my plastic targets and used that to paint a template on my steel so I can shot steel and work on getting A hits.

Anyways any tips of recommendations appreciated on a setup.
 
Ran some movement drills, strong hand and weak hand at 30 yards on mini poppers. Biggest thing I learned was my old loads that I had put in the practice ammo bin are so much more harsh recoil then my current load.
 
I've been doing some livefire practice, but hopefully the Doc clears me from the neck surgery Wednesday and I can start back the full livefire/dryfire routine in preparation for the Sectional. I'm thinking 1000 rounds livefire a week minimum till September should make up for the 6 weeks on the couch in recovery.
 
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