Posted on 09/26/2008 5:55:47 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5
Best lesson you could have given the man..........he’ll wake up and remember that mistake till he dies ! He is smarter today due his error !
Well, it was the very least I could for the guy. LOL.
I bought a Springfield 1911 for my son plus a Ruger 10-22 and a Dillon 550. He still has the Dillon.
46. After cleaning my brass and tumbling the media out of it, I still had to find containers to move them from the garage to my reloading bench in one of the bedrooms. I finally gave up and now use plastic grocery bags. The plastic box stays with the Dillon and I don’t have to fuss trying to find another box just to move the brass to one side of the house to the other. Two plastic storage boxes per Dillon is all I need.
WHERE are you practicing? methinks it looks a little familiar.
The desert area where I used to shoot when I was living in Lake Havasu was about 9 miles north of the city. I set up targets in a gravel pit and that’s where I conducted qualification shoots for CCW applicants. It was a real nice place to shoot .... I had the mountains for a backstop ... and I could set up a shooting bench at 50 and 75 meters for my long guns. I have since moved about 90 miles south of LHC and need to find a place to shoot down here.
Short vid of me shooting my Romanian AK-47 semi-automatic assault shotgun revolver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fwmG2tQPUs
That’s right.
In fact, I sold all the ones I HAD yesterday.
And good on ya for saying it. IDPA was cooked up to make shooters think and practice for real world possibilities. Some of the scenarios may be extreme, but I never heard of anyone winning a gunfight and complaining that he was too good at it. I stopped because the guys I was shooting with were playing IPSC with carry guns, and that was not what I wanted to do.
BTTT before I go aerate some paper targets!
I once clung bitterly to this gun and it got wedged under my fingernail.
This one's my personal favorite.
47. This morning I went to a different shooting club for an IDPA match. I kept shooting targets out of turn. If my front sight covered a target, IT WAS GOING DOWN, even if it wasn’t the closest. I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong.
I finally realized the shooting bays were much wider at this club. My club has the targets so narrow, I could miss seeing which was closer than the other. These scenarios were as wide as they were long. I couldn’t and didn’t bother figuring out which was a few feet closer than the other.
It was practice, I’m still alive, I had fun and there’s always next time.
I know a guy who has two gun safes and he still carries a little North American.
I don’t know why.
Use a little imagination.
By the way, I want to donate to the PVF to keep the NRA's current crop of anti-Obama ads running, but when I go to the nrapvf.org website, the donation link is to the ILA. Can you offer some clarification on this? I tried calling, but no one's at work today, it being Sunday and all...
I had the same trouble so I donated to the ILA this morning. Thanks for the reminder.
I finally figured out the IDPA designs scenarios not so you can shoot the targets as quickly as you can. The positions of the targets are there so you can develop your motor skills. Swinging from target to target develops that. It took me until last night to think that one out. The qualifier match which I shoot twice a year should have given me a hint but since this was a new club, I didn’t pick up on that.
It’s funny when so much is going on, your mind reverts to a “I know better and this is how I’m going to do it” mode regardless how many times I was asked if I understood the course of fire.
We even had Range Safety Officers who ran particular stages dozens of times fail to do right.
If I’m going to be better at this, I’m going to have to take at least ten minutes to stare at each stage and memorize my movements. It’s not real life but it will help me develop the motor skills I need to use my firearm.
I’ve done the same thing to my Dillon XL650.
I mounted an LED-converted AA minimag light to the third stage (blank) of my toolhead.
Very useful.
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