[billdncn]

Just starting to dry fire again after spending a winter off with my 11yr old Wrestling, and now coaching his Baseball team. Gotta start shooting again. Anyway, putting my new camera to use I decided to video myself a little.

I see 2 things. One being my weakhand grip. Towards the end I think I start improving that....You can see the thought process in my facial expression (no comments on that please)
No. 2, I think I need to have the gun up some upon reloading.

More suggestions please. Thanks guy's and I hope to be back at the range soon

Bill

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[Tactical Timmy]

billdncn, on May 4 2008, 07:21 AM, said:

Just starting to dry fire again after spending a winter off with my 11yr old Wrestling, and now coaching his Baseball team. Gotta start shooting again. Anyway, putting my new camera to use I decided to video myself a little.

I see 2 things. One being my weakhand grip. Towards the end I think I start improving that....You can see the thought process in my facial expression (no comments on that please)
No. 2, I think I need to have the gun up some upon reloading.

More suggestions please. Thanks guy's and I hope to be back at the range soon

Bill

http://smg.photobuck...U...p;os=1&ap=1

http://smg.photobuck...U...p;os=1&ap=1

The one thing i noticed was on your draw, you might want to work on getting your support hand onto the gun a bit sooner.That will help with faster first shot times.

Also are you practicing for IDPA? if not you might want to consider sliding your mag pouches forward a bit, so u can get to the mag a bit faster for reloads.

[billdncn]

Timmy Thanks. Yeah I shoot both IDPA and USPSA. Thanks for the tip

Bill

[IPSCDave]

I agree with what Timmy said.

It might help to have the left hand go down and then back up at the same time during the draw, that way your right hand will naturally go faster and it will meet your left hand sooner when you are acquiring your grip. By acquiring your grip closer to your body, you could shave more time off by firing the first shot before full extension on close targets, and you'll have more time to get a sight picture on the longer ones.

You should be doing your reloads at eye level, and you shouldn't bring the gun back so far to reload either, only a few inches or so. Try tilting the gun less to reload and see if it works better for you, just tilt it enough to barely see the magwell.

It could just be me but it looks like most of the time your followthrough is too short, after breaking the trigger make an effort to hold the gun on target just a split second after the break and call the shot by watching the sights right then to be sure you aren't jerking the trigger or moving the gun right when you pull the trigger.

I would recommend using a timer, and setting a par time for doing draws and reloads. Don't rush the par time, pick one where you can do your drills smoothly and accurately and then speed it up without losing those.

This post has been edited by IPSCDave: 06 July 2008 - 05:47 PM

[billdncn]

IPSCDave, on Jul 6 2008, 08:42 PM, said:

I agree with what Timmy said.

It might help to have the left hand go down and then back up at the same time during the draw, that way your right hand will naturally go faster and it will meet your left hand sooner when you are acquiring your grip. By acquiring your grip closer to your body, you could shave more time off by firing the first shot before full extension on close targets, and you'll have more time to get a sight picture on the longer ones.

You should be doing your reloads at eye level, and you shouldn't bring the gun back so far to reload either, only a few inches or so. Try tilting the gun less to reload and see if it works better for you, just tilt it enough to barely see the magwell.

It could just be me but it looks like most of the time your followthrough is too short, after breaking the trigger make an effort to hold the gun on target just a split second after the break and call the shot by watching the sights right then to be sure you aren't jerking the trigger or moving the gun right when you pull the trigger.

I would recommend using a timer, and setting a par time for doing draws and reloads. Don't rush the par time, pick one where you can do your drills smoothly and accurately and then speed it up without losing those.

Good stuff! Thanks Dave. Between you guys and Deegie I have some things to try and achieve.

Match this mornig
I'm sure all this will go out the window when the buzzer sounds

[Tactical Timmy]

billdncn, on Jul 12 2008, 06:31 AM, said:

IPSCDave, on Jul 6 2008, 08:42 PM, said:

I agree with what Timmy said.

It might help to have the left hand go down and then back up at the same time during the draw, that way your right hand will naturally go faster and it will meet your left hand sooner when you are acquiring your grip. By acquiring your grip closer to your body, you could shave more time off by firing the first shot before full extension on close targets, and you'll have more time to get a sight picture on the longer ones.

You should be doing your reloads at eye level, and you shouldn't bring the gun back so far to reload either, only a few inches or so. Try tilting the gun less to reload and see if it works better for you, just tilt it enough to barely see the magwell.

It could just be me but it looks like most of the time your followthrough is too short, after breaking the trigger make an effort to hold the gun on target just a split second after the break and call the shot by watching the sights right then to be sure you aren't jerking the trigger or moving the gun right when you pull the trigger.

I would recommend using a timer, and setting a par time for doing draws and reloads. Don't rush the par time, pick one where you can do your drills smoothly and accurately and then speed it up without losing those.

Good stuff! Thanks Dave. Between you guys and Deegie I have some things to try and achieve.

Match this mornig
I'm sure all this will go out the window when the buzzer sounds

How did ur match go?

[billdncn]

Tactical Timmy, on Jul 13 2008, 03:57 PM, said:

billdncn, on Jul 12 2008, 06:31 AM, said:

IPSCDave, on Jul 6 2008, 08:42 PM, said:

I agree with what Timmy said.

It might help to have the left hand go down and then back up at the same time during the draw, that way your right hand will naturally go faster and it will meet your left hand sooner when you are acquiring your grip. By acquiring your grip closer to your body, you could shave more time off by firing the first shot before full extension on close targets, and you'll have more time to get a sight picture on the longer ones.

You should be doing your reloads at eye level, and you shouldn't bring the gun back so far to reload either, only a few inches or so. Try tilting the gun less to reload and see if it works better for you, just tilt it enough to barely see the magwell.

It could just be me but it looks like most of the time your followthrough is too short, after breaking the trigger make an effort to hold the gun on target just a split second after the break and call the shot by watching the sights right then to be sure you aren't jerking the trigger or moving the gun right when you pull the trigger.

I would recommend using a timer, and setting a par time for doing draws and reloads. Don't rush the par time, pick one where you can do your drills smoothly and accurately and then speed it up without losing those.

Good stuff! Thanks Dave. Between you guys and Deegie I have some things to try and achieve.

Match this mornig
I'm sure all this will go out the window when the buzzer sounds

How did ur match go?

Thanks for asking. But I'm sorry you did. I'd had almost forgotten about it. 6-stages and I didn't remember how to shoot until the last 2. Out of spec replacement mag release hurt my reloads bed. I think I fixed that......19th out of 33

Thanks for the help.

Bill