drmitchgibson
The white Morgan Freeman
Some of us have talked about forming a study group and posting to a common thread a sort of story of our journey into shooting. I wasn't really sure how to start this thing, and I'm still not, but it seems like it would progress naturally if it centered around what is learned while shooting.
Breaking bad habits formed by shooting the wrong way takes quite a bit of time in terms of dry-fire practice .
When you start competing, you'll be amazed at the amount of time you remember NOT seeing your sights.
I've learned not to focus too hard on single targets in an array, since it's all there and you just have to shoot it according to stage rules, which are generally repetitive. It's ridiculous to concentrate on transitioning target to target when you'll do it automatically using your eyes.
If you get too comfortable shooting generic stage rules, this can lead to a pitfall when doing a Virginia count stage or one that includes specifics like strong-hand only arrays. Pay attention during walk-through.
My vision is getting faster, in that I can see the slide moving all the way back and forth, but I can't follow the front sight across it's full range of movement yet.
Shooting and moving is easier to do than I thought, and I wish I had started sooner. It frees up a lot of time.
If you're watching a bunch of people shoot a classifier and they all seem to be doing an oddly-placed tactical reload halfway through, it means there's a mandatory reload, and you need to ask the RO for clarification.
Switching from a heavier trigger pull to a dramatically lighter trigger pull makes it tough to prep the trigger. I shot two matches slapping it because of this and the match tension. Running a stage mock-up in live-fire practice, I was able to get it down again pretty well.
Wearing a shooting jersey while having D-class accuracy is sort of embarassing, but I'm also not trashing any clothing not meant for shooting.
People who shoot for a living and people who shoot like this for fun by and large aren't using H&K USPs or Beretta 92s or Mossberberg 930s or Galil carbines. There are many good guns, there are few best guns. "You need to be a chameleon."
That seems like a decent, albeit brief, start.
Breaking bad habits formed by shooting the wrong way takes quite a bit of time in terms of dry-fire practice .
When you start competing, you'll be amazed at the amount of time you remember NOT seeing your sights.
I've learned not to focus too hard on single targets in an array, since it's all there and you just have to shoot it according to stage rules, which are generally repetitive. It's ridiculous to concentrate on transitioning target to target when you'll do it automatically using your eyes.
If you get too comfortable shooting generic stage rules, this can lead to a pitfall when doing a Virginia count stage or one that includes specifics like strong-hand only arrays. Pay attention during walk-through.
My vision is getting faster, in that I can see the slide moving all the way back and forth, but I can't follow the front sight across it's full range of movement yet.
Shooting and moving is easier to do than I thought, and I wish I had started sooner. It frees up a lot of time.
If you're watching a bunch of people shoot a classifier and they all seem to be doing an oddly-placed tactical reload halfway through, it means there's a mandatory reload, and you need to ask the RO for clarification.
Switching from a heavier trigger pull to a dramatically lighter trigger pull makes it tough to prep the trigger. I shot two matches slapping it because of this and the match tension. Running a stage mock-up in live-fire practice, I was able to get it down again pretty well.
Wearing a shooting jersey while having D-class accuracy is sort of embarassing, but I'm also not trashing any clothing not meant for shooting.
People who shoot for a living and people who shoot like this for fun by and large aren't using H&K USPs or Beretta 92s or Mossberberg 930s or Galil carbines. There are many good guns, there are few best guns. "You need to be a chameleon."
That seems like a decent, albeit brief, start.