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The Shooting Thomcat: February 2012
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Friday, February 24, 2012. Injured and not practicing. So, in this month before I go down to Kansas for the Aim Fast, Hit Fast class, I had planned on dryfiring almost every night, working my trigger control, draw, and slidelock reload. Also, live fire once or twice a week, weather permitting. Some bullseye work (boring! But necessary for me, obviously), some FAST drills, some precision work off the drop, and definitely some SHO and WHO work. With that focus, training trigger control on long distances, l...
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The Shooting Thomcat: December 2010
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Sunday, December 19, 2010. End of the Year Commentary. So, time to look at my shooting goals from this past year and find out how I did. On the defensive tactics side:. Again- -this doesn’t make it bad. It just means (given a limited amount of time and training funds) I’d rather spend them both on something different that’ll help me grow more as a shooter/instructor. Of their training was like. For example, the training class I went to this past year had as its instructor someone who has indeed had a...
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The Shooting Thomcat: Practice Week, plus Multigun...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Practice Week, plus Multigun. Let's talk about Multigun first. This past Sunday was our first Multigun match of the year. Four stages: Rifle/Shotgun, Pistol/Rifle, Shotgun/Pistol, and Rifle. Fairly high round count, too. Stages were creative, fun, and challenging. And my shooting was plagued with issues. Missed shots on that part that I had to make up, and the amount of time it cost me. Second stage: Rifle/Shotgun (I designed this stage.). We were originally told that this stage ...
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The Shooting Thomcat
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Sigh] Well, there goes that goal! Shot about 87% of the points possible at this past month's match. In my defense, there were a LOT of headshot-only targets. And I had 9 B-hits for the match, which since quite a few were A-hits on the head, that tells you how the match was. (If those B-hits had been A-hits, I wool have hit 91%. So the question is, had I taken the extra time to get those A-hits, would it have been worth it? Here's the match from earlier this month:. On the first s...
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The Shooting Thomcat: Practicing carefully..
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Friday, March 16, 2012. Shoulder is better, though not back to 100%. As such, I can shoot, and move. However, any sudden abrupt motion is- - contraindicated. So of course I took my shotgun out and ran 100 shells through it a couple of days ago. Because my main priority issue is lack of trigger control, and good dryfire practice will solve that. Matter of fact, good dryfire practice is probably more important than live fire practice in terms of volume. On the good side, I have managed to get to the range ...
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The Shooting Thomcat: March 2013
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Sigh] Well, there goes that goal! Shot about 87% of the points possible at this past month's match. In my defense, there were a LOT of headshot-only targets. And I had 9 B-hits for the match, which since quite a few were A-hits on the head, that tells you how the match was. (If those B-hits had been A-hits, I wool have hit 91%. So the question is, had I taken the extra time to get those A-hits, would it have been worth it? Here's the match from earlier this month:. On the first s...
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The Shooting Thomcat: 2013: New Year, back to work...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013. 2013: New Year, back to work. 2013: Considering that the last post here was from approximately March in 2012, I'm thinking I got a little lazy with regard to keeping on track to get better. Time to fix that. Quick recap of the rest of last year:. Multigun went ok, here and there. Got a Mossberg 930 JM Pro, and I actually like shooting shotgun now. Not enough to actually practice, mind you, but at least it is now fun when actually shooting. So- -for 2013, some GOALS. Keep my pe...
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The Shooting Thomcat: Minor Twinges, but able to shoot...
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Sunday, March 4, 2012. Minor Twinges, but able to shoot. After a week or so injured, my shoulder was finally well enough to at least work some careful dry fire, and I did manage to make it to the range briefly to work a couple of things. (Such as the P-F DoTW 22: http:/ pistol-forum.com/showthrhttp:/ www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifead.php? That being said, practice wasn't very significant for the last two weeks. That's gonna change. Things to stress in practice:. Trigger control (Trigger Control! I'm going...
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The Shooting Thomcat: September 2010
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Thursday, September 9, 2010. Idiots on the Range. I'm militant about firearms safety. Seriously, I'm completely insane about it. I am NOT going to get shot because someone I'm teaching can't be bothered to follow extremely simple safety rules. So when I run a class or teach anyone, they do it right every time, or we are done. Haven't been shot yet. So that leads into. Idiots at the Range:. Wondering what they thought they were doing, I stopped shooting and just watched them, while Ardi and Anna kept up t...
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The Shooting Thomcat: March 2012
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Practice Week, plus Multigun. Let's talk about Multigun first. This past Sunday was our first Multigun match of the year. Four stages: Rifle/Shotgun, Pistol/Rifle, Shotgun/Pistol, and Rifle. Fairly high round count, too. Stages were creative, fun, and challenging. And my shooting was plagued with issues. Missed shots on that part that I had to make up, and the amount of time it cost me. Second stage: Rifle/Shotgun (I designed this stage.). We were originally told that this stage ...
