allen-1
NES Member
I took a class with Steve Anderson, something more than a year ago, and afterwards bought his books. I'm working my way through them for the second time. There's lot of good advice in them, and a bit of it caught my eye the other night. He was discussing the concept of continually moving while shooting, rather than racing to a point, stopping, shooting and then starting up again.
It really hit home because my moving is the absolute worst part of my shooting. I do pretty well in Steel Challenge because there's no movement, (other than Outer Limits), reasonably well at IDPA and a whole lot less well than I'd like at USPSA.
USPSA is all about points per second scored. Every second you're not scoring points, you're bringing down your score.
So, today I went to the range with the goal of working on my movement. I set up a starting postion, a shooting position 7 yards away, and a second shooting position 5 yards from the first. Threw in a couple of barrels to obscure the targets and starting running it. 7 yard dash/lumber, two shots on target, 5 yards to the next shooting position, two shots on target. Stop, tape over anything outside the Down-Zero, (IDPA targets), and do it again.
I ran this probably 40 times with my G44, (.22) and finished it off with 10 runs with my CO, (G34/SRO).
Serious improvement between first runs and final runs. I'm going back out this week to do it again before my match Saturday.
As for the G44. It came in about 10 days ago, and I've finally got its ammo choice sorted out after trying four different types. It's partial to Remington Golden Bullets - and I have plenty of them. What's nice is that the gun and mags fit into my G17/G34 gear, so I can use the stuff I already have, that I'm familiar with. Since I wasn't really working on my shooting, .22 with iron, (okay - plastic), sights was fine - and it allowed me to focus on my movement.
It really hit home because my moving is the absolute worst part of my shooting. I do pretty well in Steel Challenge because there's no movement, (other than Outer Limits), reasonably well at IDPA and a whole lot less well than I'd like at USPSA.
USPSA is all about points per second scored. Every second you're not scoring points, you're bringing down your score.
So, today I went to the range with the goal of working on my movement. I set up a starting postion, a shooting position 7 yards away, and a second shooting position 5 yards from the first. Threw in a couple of barrels to obscure the targets and starting running it. 7 yard dash/lumber, two shots on target, 5 yards to the next shooting position, two shots on target. Stop, tape over anything outside the Down-Zero, (IDPA targets), and do it again.
I ran this probably 40 times with my G44, (.22) and finished it off with 10 runs with my CO, (G34/SRO).
Serious improvement between first runs and final runs. I'm going back out this week to do it again before my match Saturday.
As for the G44. It came in about 10 days ago, and I've finally got its ammo choice sorted out after trying four different types. It's partial to Remington Golden Bullets - and I have plenty of them. What's nice is that the gun and mags fit into my G17/G34 gear, so I can use the stuff I already have, that I'm familiar with. Since I wasn't really working on my shooting, .22 with iron, (okay - plastic), sights was fine - and it allowed me to focus on my movement.
