As of 3/3/2022, I’ve been twice in 4 months.
Indoor range, static targets, several mags loaded up before starting the half hour I never wholly use.
Here let’s maybe wonder, when is the last time you did any training!
Tip: to practice drawing from concealment, I draw from concealment at home, ea time bsthroom is needed. I draw, sim at the man in the mirror, reholster.
Also do my own derived “get off the X drills” that included draw & aim. Follow hun safety rules when doing such else u may put a near 1/2” hole in the drywall……worse yet, into someone other side, so yeh, gotta know wats on other sides of whatever we aim a loaded weapon at. Slow to start work into correct speed vs sloppy speed.
These are wat I do. I’m not giving training here so if needed, find it do it
Yesterday and going back out today, testing compensator effectiveness and reliability on a Glock 19 Gen5 Roland Special build. Just hit 1000 rds on it yesterday and so far couldn’t be happier. More to come.
For me its been about 2 months i need to get back into it because now i have the springfield hellcat so im looking into carrying with a shoulder holster for first time cc option or should i carry left iwb holster! Im open to suggestions please watch one is the best im 6 feet about 215 pounds
I went today. Shot closer range than I pretty much ever do, just to check off the forum favorite “rule of 3s” (yards, rounds, seconds) with a red dot sight from concealment.
It was probably 4 yards. The thingy said 5 but it had some gear slippage so it wasn’t running as far as it thought. 3 rounds into the circle from concealment, 2.06 seconds, S&W Compact with Holosun dot
So, when you shoot at that pace, do you actually acquire and place the dot?
At distances where I can shoot accurately at that speed, I wasn’t sure whether I was using my iron sights or not. I thought I intended to, but I couldn’t rewind my mental tape clearly enough to decide what I was using to orient the gun. When I starting working with a dot, my brain could keep track of whether the bright reticle was in my sight picture or not. Nope — never appeared. Seemed pretty clear that I was orienting my hands, the target, the slide — but the sight wasn’t actually playing a part.
I see the sighting system at that speed, whether it is a front sight or a dot. What is generally referred to as a flash sight picture. I surely get it mostly into position using other cues, be it muscle memory I could do ‘blind’, my hands, the top of the slide, etc, but I see reticle in circle before pulling the trigger, happens to fast to break down how much last fractional-second adjustment I make after picking up the reticle in the area of the target. After that it’s a blur whether I’m tracking irons or RDS
Probably I use other cues/muscle memory to get onto the general target, then use the dot or front sight to make the minute adjustments, and then grip/whatever keeps the gun basically on target, with each consecutive shot fired based on seeing the front sight/dot appear/flash over the target area, and grip makes sure that when that flashes back, it’s still accurate-enough.
I was thinking about this today and now realize I should not have bad mouthed the snap cap - this was entirely my fault. I was using a 40 S&W snap cap in a 10mm auto. Because the 40 is a short version of the 10mm cartridge, it loaded, extracted, and stopped the firing pin. So, every time I dry fired it the firing pin energy was being absorbed by the extractor holding the snap cap in place as opposed to the snap cap case bottoming out in the chamber. The snap cap rim finally chipped out after enough dry fires. Again, my mistake.
Yesterday. Wife told me to go…Lost a pistol while packing, kind of feeling bad karma…but I found it again…was planning on my M9 going but change in plan had 4 home builds going instead. They were more accurate and generally happier than I remembered, so a good couple mags through each and 30 cents mag dumps with the .22 conversion
Then hit the rifle range, mini 14 and marlin 60. No paper just steel, but the new steel at 285 yards was very doable with the mini…and my dope for the Marlin is “third dot below crosshairs aimed at rock in berm over target”. That’s my story, I’m stickin’ tuit… consistent hits at just over a penny/100 yards… seriously considering that “cheapskates guide to shooting” blog for the tournament
Finally made it this week — only 3rd live fire since last Thanksgiving. Between awful weather, press of RL, and short supplies — just once a month instead of my weekly intention.
Spend it on baseline checks to see what ground I’ve lost with months at dry fire only. Could have been worse.
Wizard Drill at 11.2sec — slow on the 10yd double, but got all my hits. I think ok for my first 5 shots in 5 weeks.
KR 3-Second or Less with minor variations on a QIT-99 — score is ok, time is a bit slow. Some good shots and good times, but more uneven in both than I would like.
Then a variant I am just starting to work with from 3 Second or Less: In the standard drill, the first four strings are shot at 3yd where I just point and shoot. The final five strings are at 7yd, where I need an actual sight picture to get my hits. In between is where I need some work — prefer a fast miss or a slow hit? — need to do something about that. I’m shooting all the same strings, but all at five yards. On the easier IDPA target zones for now.
Clean target. (Well, 1st shot nearly in the belly & 1st shot of several strings pull low/left from intended hold — but they all find their way.) It’s not clear what would make a suitable par. Shots normally 3yd become harder and 7yd become easier, so a single time may never balance. Even in the original drill, I prefer to benchmark an average time, looking at individual strings and splits to see where I have the most need and opportunity to improve. Seems even more appropriate here. 2.90sec on a newish drill, rusty but warmed up — maybe I can push that average down to 2.50 seconds per string after a while.
Finish on 8-inch steel at 15yd — pretty much not much. If you’re hitting steel, you can push speed. But if you’re missing steel…what? I need to take that distance back to cardboard for a while to figure out what I’m doing. But any day at the range is a good day!
Competition Electronics Pocket Pro II. I’ve had it for about 5 years now. It’s discontinued now, looks like they replaced it with a 4720 model maybe
It’s been great, you can adjust the sensitivity and I am generally able to (without changing the setting now that I have it dialed) record my own shots at the range, but somebody shooting a pistol just a few bays down won’t register.
Last weekend, ( prior to that August 2021 ) grandson got back into town, hugged grandma, left for a day on the range. Been taking him to range since he was 10, he’s 25 now and will never miss a chance to hit the range with grandpa!
Me “Red” .45 ACP Him “Blue” G43 9mm.
Time flies when your having fun, tomorrow he’ll be 40 married and maybe I’ll have great grandkids. Wish he was 10 again! Travels the world as a large generator inspector! From Cambodia to Paris, Brooklyn to San Diego. Proud of the young man he’s become! Lots of lessons learned on the range! A few from college! Fortunately he saw right through the bull!
Been 11 hrs since I was at the range. FINALLY zeroed Savage .308’s Artek scope. After I double checked things this evening, I rediscovered how critical details like turret stop screws are….initially, knowing better, believed I was out of up clicks. Nope, the turret was simply locked in that direction. Nothing at all like the scope once on my Daisy pellet/bb rifle
I had some feeding issues. I thought it was the mag, but it was a jam o matic with the other mag. I looked at the case stamps & found I had reloads! It didn’t say anywhere on the box.
Ran a Florida CWL qualification this morning at the range before it got too hot and humid out there. Two excellent students transitioning from life in Michigan to their new lives as retirees in our great State of Florida.
That’s my story, I’m stickin’ tuit… consistent hits at just over a penny/100 yards… seriously considering that “cheapskates guide to shooting” blog for the tournament 
