Practice Thread

Went and shot some stuff today with the production gun, been making excuses since Friday, and slacked pretty bad on dryfire all week.

Shot "The Dots" @ 5yds, drawing to a smallish point is very slow, only managed three strings of the 6 in under 5 secs first shot coming very late on the three that went overtime, and only one no misses, number of slightly wide first shots, and few look like maybe pushing the gun down or squeezing my whole hand during the trigger press.

Then a few renditions of a drill I threw together to work on short movement and getting a stable stance before shooting harder targets, which I tend not to do. 2 6" plates at 15yds, small vision barrier (barrel stack), engage both then move to the other side of the barrier and engage both, continue as such for 10 secs. I think 3.5 reps (7 hits) was as many as I managed in time.

Shot "Distance change up", way too slow drawing to a 5 yd open target; then too much time getting on and aiming at the headbox, probably a confidence issue; and then super slow getting to the next open target, not sure what that's about, I can't see bullet holes @ 15yds so can't be looking for those, but definitely not leaving when the shot breaks. 9 strings with 3M and 3 M NS, think I'm taking too much time aiming then rushing the trigger press, seems a common theme for me. 5 close Cs on the open targets is certainly not ideal at this distance, seemed like mostly 1st shots, at least none were on the slow target after the headbox. Averaging about 4 seconds overall.

Finished out with a few runs of the Blake drill at 7yds, I had put a few sessions into working my transitions down <= .30 with acceptable hits, seems I've neglected them and they've crept up and gotten fairly inconsistent anywhere from .3-.5, draw slow as always avg 1.3, fastest run 2.29 was also the only all Alpha run, gotta get back to working these hard in dry fire and live fire I spose.

Clearly apparent, figure out this shot calling thing it eludes me better than 90% of the time, and doing everything sooner without rushing.
 
It's warm, it's mother's day, it stood to reason the range would be empty, it was.

I think I'm going back to CO 'til the optic dies again, so went to work on that.

The Dots, far far worse with the optic, gotta get all remedial with the draw/index I guess.

On to Steve Anderson's "Drag Race" drill, been wanting to try it, leg's been hurting, felt mostly ok so gave it ago. I like this drill, easy set-up, low ammo consumption, I think it will be very good for position entry. Steve would probably say misusing it by having a 6" plate, turning it into an accuracy drill or something. 20 reps, never broke 2 seconds to a hit, getting consistent around 2.09. Leg is not ok, I knew that yesterday, but didn't listen when it popped, limped off to some stand and shoot stuff.

Distance change up was mandatory, cause head boxes cost me a Production win. So easy with an optic, err, well, better hits, two mikes, but I called them, didn't make them up, but knew they were going to be there, wish I could do that with irons. Transitions are WEAK, on to a short round of Blake drills til I decided I was just wasting ammo.
 
Beef15, just an observation based on your two previous posts. By working on everything, you're not getting better at anything.

GB
 
GByerly said:
Beef15, just an observation based on your two previous posts. By working on everything, you're not getting better at anything.

GB
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Certainly something to ponder, and I do not mean that to be dismissive.
So you advocate working individual skills in isolation? Or the broader work speed or accuracy, but not both simultaneously? Of course they're not mutually exclusive.
 
It looks to me that you're doing several drills but not spending enough time on any of them to improve. Using distance change up as an example. If your draw is slow just work on it in isolation then go back to doing the entire drill. Same with the head shots. Work that section by itself for a bit.

When I'm doing drills I usually will do no more than 2 in a practice. Certainly I'll alter them as I go but keep the core focus of the drill. In practice we should be doing one of three things: learning a skill, improving a skill or implementing a skill.
 
Match in Coharie was a wash,, went to a indoor range. Should have stayed home:(
Back to dryfire for a week.

Don't like the 34 any better than the other one. I was a lot more accurate with it though
 
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Majicmike said:
Match in Coharie was a wash,, went to a indoor range. Should have stayed home:(
Back to dryfire for a week.

Don't like the 34 any better than the other one. I was a lot more accurate with it though
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Keep at it, you'll be fine after 1000 rounds.
 
After cleaning it today, found th Rear sight is starting to come apart, gave it the JB Weld treatment.

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Butter said:
After cleaning it today, found th Rear sight is starting to come apart, gave it the JB Weld treatment.

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Same one that lost the little screw 6/8 months back?

Just a guess, but you could probably get a new one. Or just keep going til you have a nice one off hand carved model, that'd be cool in some circles.
 
Beef15 said:
Same one that lost the little screw 6/8 months back?

Just a guess, but you could probably get a new one. Or just keep going til you have a nice one off hand carved model, that'd be cool in some circles.
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Same one, new cracks. Why get a new one? Thats redunkulous
 
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Warranty?
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I stand corrected, they sent me a new one.

Also got a bunch of parts to replace:
firing pin and spring
Hammer spring
Extractor and spring
Guide rod spring

Anything else Im missing for 10k maintenance?
@NKD
 
Butter said:
I stand corrected, they sent me a new one.

Also got a bunch of parts to replace:
firing pin and spring
Hammer spring
Extractor and spring
Guide rod spring

Anything else Im missing for 10k maintenance?
@NKD
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Grock?
I keed I keed.

I never do maintenance, I just wait until something breaks and then use it for an excuse as to why I sucked.

But, IME, the trigger return spring and bolt stop lever are the weak links in CZ's. Although I think with SA ones the TRS last longer.
I use a bolt stop pin in my TSO and I think they break less.

On my CZ75 I have broken:
Bolt stop
TRS
CGW rear EZ Drift sight
CGW Billet Sear

But nothing on my TSO has broken in well over 10G rounds. But I am sure something will now that I said that!
The only wear item I have replaced is a recoil spring. Those are both 9mm's tho. Forties might be harder on parts.
 
I'm thinking moving up a class may be overrated.

Instead of dominating the lowest echelon of the bush league like an 18 year old on a middle school basketball team, I guess I'll actually have to start dry fire practice.
 
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Question for you experts. What's the easiest way, if there is a way, to time your draw at the buzzer to your first shot in dry fire drills?

I've got a CED 7000 shot timer and a smart phone. Any way to do it?
 
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fieldgrade said:
Question for you experts. What's the easiest way, if there is a way, to time your draw at the buzzer to your first shot in dry fire drills?

I've got a CED 7000 shot timer and a smart phone. Any way to do it?
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I use an app. Dry Practice Drill. You can set your par time and number of reps.
 
fieldgrade said:
Question for you experts. What's the easiest way, if there is a way, to time your draw at the buzzer to your first shot in dry fire drills?

I've got a CED 7000 shot timer and a smart phone. Any way to do it?
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I would isolate the draw in practice until you can consistently hit your par time. Then incorporate that newly improved draw into other drills.
 
fieldgrade said:
Question for you experts. What's the easiest way, if there is a way, to time your draw at the buzzer to your first shot in dry fire drills?

I've got a CED 7000 shot timer and a smart phone. Any way to do it?
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To hell with your draw time. Work on it enough that the gun comes to your eye automatically. Practice that while drawing to a blank wall. Spend most of your time practicing transitions. Practice slowly and on the 2nd squeeze of the trigger, move your eye to the next target A-Zone as quickly as possible. The gun will follow quickly! The gun should be moving during recoil.
 
FatboyFlash said:
To hell with your draw time. Work on it enough that the gun comes to your eye automatically. Practice that while drawing to a blank wall. Spend most of your time practicing transitions. Practice slowly and on the 2nd squeeze of the trigger, move your eye to the next target A-Zone as quickly as possible. The gun will follow quickly! The gun should be moving during recoil.
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Splits for show, transitions for dough.
 
Just use your par time on the timer, with random start. Start with a very long par time 5 sec or something. Make each draw/grip/sight picture/trigger press perfect. When you can do that perfectly, slowly ratchet down the time as you can honestly beat it, still doing everything right. You can easily tell whether the hammer/striker falls before the par time beep or not. Start every session with slow perfect draws.

Drawing to a blank wall to learn the muscle memory of where the gun belongs for a good sight picture is excellent also.

The main point is to not practice a sloppy draw. It might help a little in the short term but you will hit a plateau and have to unlearn it (hard) and start over.
 
JimP42 said:
Just use your par time on the timer, with random start. Start with a very long par time 5 sec or something. Make each draw/grip/sight picture/trigger press perfect. When you can do that perfectly, slowly ratchet down the time as you can honestly beat it, still doing everything right. You can easily tell whether the hammer/striker falls before the par time beep or not. Start every session with slow perfect draws.

Drawing to a blank wall to learn the muscle memory of where the gun belongs for a good sight picture is excellent also.

The main point is to not practice a sloppy draw. It might help a little in the short term but you will hit a plateau and have to unlearn it (hard) and start over.
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Slow is slow! Don’t do anything slowly.
 
I had been missing more moving reloads recently. Consistency in practice greatly improved after pulling in the pistol tighter to my body on the first step. I *think* this keeps the pistol more stable, thus an easier target to hit with the fresh magazine.
 
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