Competition

Since I’ll be missing this week’s podcast due to 1) being in Virginia and 2) being replaced by the awesome Humble Mechanic, I couldn’t help wrapping up my thoughts on the RRRC USPSA match this weekend. Before we roll the tape, a little back story: three weeks ago, I shot the Sir Walter Gun Club USPSA match in Creedmoor, NC and sucked. Bad. The culmination of it all was the classifier stage where I was …

I don’t care what anybody says, if you don’t shoot for an extended period of time, you get sloppy. Shooting is NOT like riding a bike. If you don’t practice, your skills will degrade. This became apparent on Monday when I shot the monthly Action Rifle match at the WCFETC. It was the first time I’d shot a rifle in 3 months, and even longer since I’d shot this particular lower receiver/trigger. On the first …

I mentioned earlier in the week that I shot three matches last Saturday, and shot all of them with the Springfield XDs 9mm. When the scores came out for the matches, I glanced over them and noticed that I took high overall at the BUG match, and didn’t give them another look. There’s an ongoing thread about the matches at H2O Fowl Farms over at Carolina Shooters Club, and one of the guys on my …

Saturday was a heck of a day! The stars aligned and there happened to be 3 matches that I was able to shoot consecutively on the same day. A podcast listener was nice enough to lend me an XDs 9mm magazine, so I headed out for the day with the intention of shooting the XDs 9mm in all three matches. I started my day out H2O Fowl Farms for their monthly IDPA match. We shot …

I’m beginning to wonder if I’m the only person who doesn’t care what I use to lube my firearms. I’ve been known to use everything from Tri-Flow (for bicycle chains), to 80W-90 gear oil, to motor oil, to whatever else I can get my hands on that is wet and slippery. I just don’t care. There are some lubes out there that are crazy expensive, and I’ve got to wonder, are they worth it? I …

You may have noticed that I’m shooting a lot more USPSA recently than I have been in the past. This isn’t because I dislike IDPA, but because I’m trying to improve as a shooter. In almost 4 years of shooting IDPA, I’m to the point where I’m almost an IDPA Master, which is, in my opinion, a little misleading. My first USPSA classification just came in a couple days ago, and I classified C class …

Recently the developer from the Dryfiretimer.com iOS app contacted me and asked if I would check out his app. If you have seen the overviews that I have done for other smart phone shot timers, you know that both of them left something to be desired. When the folks from Dryfiretimer.com contacted me, I was happy to give their app a try. Right off the bat, I downloaded the app to my 4th Gen iPod …

The 2013 Tarheel 3-Gun Challenge starts today! This is the second annual Tarheel 3-Gun Challenge being held in New Hill, NC (just outside of Apex). I had the opportunity to attend the match last year and shoot it with a camera, and I was blown away by the stages. The venue is huge, allowing for big stages that were spread out so far that you could drive from stage to stage instead of carrying all …

Unfortunately, it looks like this app is no longer listed in the Apple App Store. If you are looking for a iOS timer for dry-fire practice, I highly recommend Dry Fire Timer. See my review of it here. On Monday, I posted about an Android shot timer that I have been using in conjunction with my dry fire practice. I had a couple of emails from readers asking about timers for their iOS devices as …

If you follow the Triangle Tactical Facebook page, you may have seen a post recently about how I am getting back into a dry fire routine after falling off the wagon for a few months. One reason that a lot of people don’t do constructive dry fire practice, is that most shooters (myself included) don’t own a shot timer. Having a timer, with a ‘Par Time’ function is crucial to constructive practice. As I mentioned …