[Pittbug]

Just had time last night to put these together. I have a couple of others I'll post in the next couple of days.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=04ipRc5zdC4

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Hz8j30kF3PQ


(Camera is a Canon FS20)

[Pittbug]

Reload with retention
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=ptiVJn9XsCU

Tactical reload
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=ptiVJn9XsCU

El Prez
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=N0kj3vqzGrk

[CHA-LEE]

Get an airsoft gun if you like to dry fire shots with transitions. That will give you at least some semblance of reacquiring the sight picture for the second shot. For example, in your El Prez dry fire video you are doing 3 - 4 second runs. Unless you can perform the same times in live fire you are wasting your time because the dry fire practice isn't realistic. The process of aligning the sights, pulling the trigger, watching the front sight lift, managing the recoil, and recovering from the shot takes a lot longer than people think.

I guess this is why I have never been a big fan of dry fire practice. Its too easy to fall into a false sense of skill level because everything is easier when you don't have to manage the actual shooting of the gun. Sure its good for burning in the basics of the movement and mechanics. But on any given stage, we spend a tremendous amount of time shooting verses doing these other things. So I would rather just practice these things in live fire practice sessions. The timer and holes in the targets tell me the real story of my skill level and what I need to work on. Verses my fantasy land dry fire practice where every shot has a .10 sec split and of course every shot was in the A zone

[Flexmoney]

In DF, I would make myself take an extra sight picture (after the shot), to build in a bit of follow through.

[Pittbug]

Thanks Flex - you've mentioned follow through to me before... I guess I should take the hint

[Dan Burwell]

Two things I see that are holding you up and I had to break myself of both of them.

1. Keep that gun up! you drop the gun way too far on all your reloads.
2. Hip swivel on draws. check out what you are doing with your hips on the draw. try and get your hips to that position before the beep that way you are not trying to grip a moving object.

[CocoBolo]

I don't shoot IDPA much but on the draw I did notice a lot of shoulder movment, but this may be due to the hip movment I didn't catch mentioned in the prior post. If you can bring the holster a little more forward this might help to cut down that shoulder movment. But I think IDPA say it has to be .0000001 behind the hip bone.

Most of what I know about drawing and reloading I got from the Matt Burkett videos.

[Pittbug]

In IDPA the trigger guard has to be behind the torso mid line, which is an imaginary line from your armpit to your ankle bone when you're standing straight. And on the other side the front face of the mag pouches also have to be behind the center line on the other side.

Thanks for the tips, I'll work on a couple of things tonight.

[Pittbug]

I just managed to get the videos from the OH State IDPA match uploaded. Here are a few with better camera angles.

Stage 4

Stage 5

Stage 8

Stage 10

Stage 11 (Standards)

All comments welcome.

[CHA-LEE]

What’s up with all of the static reloads to finish a final shot? You could be reloading earlier in the COF as you are moving to the next position to eliminate the static reloads. The same goes for reengaging targets after you have shot them. You are either shooting too fast, not calling your shots, or looking for holes in the targets. All three of these things waste time. Shoot at a speed that allows you to call your shots solidly so you can be confident your hits are on the current target and you can move onto the next target.

This is nothing against you, but I also find it funny how one SO's definition of "Cover" is different than another. I know that if I would have shot from "Cover" at a local IDPA match the same as you did on a couple of your stages the SO would be yelling at me non stop to get behind cover. Or assessing me procedurals for not being behind cover "enough". This is a major reason why I am not a fan of IDPA. Its too subjective on the stuff that can save a ton of time in a COF. But hay, if you dig it and have fun with it that’s all that matters.

[Pittbug]

Chalee: IDPA only allows reloads from behind cover. Even if I wanted to do a tactical reload, or a reload with retention earlier in the stage, it would still have to be behind cover.

I've shot a lot of 12 round stages, which I think are specifically designed to ensure that everyone in ESP and SSP will have to do at least one reload.

As for shooting too fast, I thought my pace was ok. Out of 13 stages I only dropped 42 points and hit 1 NT, not great, but ok.

I wasn't really trying to get into a discussion on IDPA rules, more trying to solicit advice on shooting technique, movement, etc which could be applied to almost any game.

Thanks.