Competition

Linoge over at WallsoftheCity.net went and shot the Wake County Action Pistol match last night, and he wrote up his thoughts about it here. “Be safe, and have fun.” Well, hell, I can do that. Yep, that’s what it’s about.

I haven’t been seeing a whole lot of progression in my shooting recently, because, frankly, I haven’t been practicing. I haven’t been practicing because I haven’t been able to shoot a USPSA match since… ah… May? When I shoot competitions, I really care about the USPSA matches, and most everything else is just for fun. The closest things I’ve been getting to USPSA recently are the classifier stages that Ben has been designing into the …

Via Trigger Pull Photography (Go like them on Facebook) Ben shooting at the Rowan USPSA match on Saturday:

When talking to people about getting into competitive shooting, a common thing I hear it’s that they need to go buy a new gun before they get started. In a vast majority of cases though, they currently have a gun and gear that’s more than good enough to start. Case in point: The Wake County Action Pistol Matches Last Monday we shot the exact same stages that we shot on Wednesday. I shot Monday with …

Here’s the stage details for this weekends benefit match:  

A new (to me at least) YouTube channel called 2AlphaGear posted this video recently where they ask the professional shooters about the number 1 thing they do to prepare for a match: The number one answer: gear checks. Randi Rogers mentioned getting in some dry fire before heading out to the range, but for the most part all of the shooters interviewed talked about checking gear instead of trying to get in tons of last …

I need to work on my reloads, I’m not nearly this fast: Also, look how KC and Chris Tilley (2nd and last shooters) shoot the second array of targets on the move here: The other shooters take the targets on the move too, but KC and Chris barely even slow down while moving toward the next array.

Way back when I first started competitive shooting, I purchased Brian Eno’s book, and attempted to read it. The whole zen thing was lost on me, and I lost interest in the book before the halfway mark. I’m not sure what happened to the book, but I think I may be to the point where I should actually sit down and read it cover to cover a time or two. Anyways, yesterday I headed up …

Last week in Episode 99 of the podcast, Ben and I talked about how sometimes buying some new gear can give you extra motivation to practice, which will in turn make you a better shooter. I’m pretty squared away with gear: good enough holster, good enough pistol, CR Speed belt, but I’ve been lacking on the magazine pouch side of things for a while now. Magazine pouches are such a simple thing that I’ve never …

A few months back I picked up a Gen4 Glock 34 to use as my main competition pistol. After countless hours of dry fire, and a bunch of matches with the pistol I’ve come to the conclusion that I want some sort of extended magazine release for the pistol. The trouble is that with the Gen4 pistols, Glock doesn’t offer an extended mag release from the factory. With the Gen3 line, the Glock 34 and …