on February 27, 2010 9:50 PM
I sighted my Wilson Combat CQB in at 25 yards today. I have adjustable sights on the gun, and figured I might as well take advantage of them. They weren't off too much as it turns out, but they are dead on at 25 yards now. (2 clicks up, and 1 click to the right if anyone cares.)
I also wanted to see how 200 rounds of my gaming load ran in a dirty gun (I left it dirty since the last time I shot it) and it ran fine, other than the slide didn't lock back a couple of times, but I blame the magazine for that. It had never been cleaned and has a lot of rounds through it, well over 1000. I swear .5 grains of unburnt powder was in it. :)-~ (BTW, It's an ACT magazine that came with my RIA Tactical. For the money, they are damned good magazines.)
After 25 rounds of sighting in, I went over to the "plinking" range so I could practice my draw. I wanted to work on drawing and picking up my sights. I don't have a shot timer, so I don't know what the speed was, but this was more remedial type practice. Did 175 rounds of that and left.
Oh, and I sold my Glock to a guy at the range. I think I will get an M&P Pro. That STI GP6 looks pretty cool though. I just don't know if I can live with DA/SA. I can do ok with it just target shooting, but as soon as I add coming out of the holster I start pulling that first shot bad. The SA mode is supposedly superb, as in 1911 like superb, though.
I also wanted to see how 200 rounds of my gaming load ran in a dirty gun (I left it dirty since the last time I shot it) and it ran fine, other than the slide didn't lock back a couple of times, but I blame the magazine for that. It had never been cleaned and has a lot of rounds through it, well over 1000. I swear .5 grains of unburnt powder was in it. :)-~ (BTW, It's an ACT magazine that came with my RIA Tactical. For the money, they are damned good magazines.)
After 25 rounds of sighting in, I went over to the "plinking" range so I could practice my draw. I wanted to work on drawing and picking up my sights. I don't have a shot timer, so I don't know what the speed was, but this was more remedial type practice. Did 175 rounds of that and left.
Oh, and I sold my Glock to a guy at the range. I think I will get an M&P Pro. That STI GP6 looks pretty cool though. I just don't know if I can live with DA/SA. I can do ok with it just target shooting, but as soon as I add coming out of the holster I start pulling that first shot bad. The SA mode is supposedly superb, as in 1911 like superb, though.
Greg Hamilton from InSights Training once told me: "to become what you want to be, find someone that is already there. Do everything that person does, use the gear they use, train the way they train - until you are as good or better than they are.".
So far nobody has won a major match with a GP6 and historically people shooting DA/SA guns don't win in Production. The guns that win in Production are Glock, XD and M&P...so the logical thing to do to maximize your chances of doing well in Production is to shoot one of those 3 models.
There is now a drop in trigger kit for the M&P guns that reduces the reset and lowers the trigger pull weight.
FWIW: I (and many others) have found that skill development goes faster if you aren't a "gun of the month" club member - the more time you spend shooting one gun in one caliber, the better you'll get, because as your skill level increases it takes time to transition from the feel of one gun to another. That's time wasted on just trying to get back to your baseline, not moving forward.
Yeah, there was a time earlier this year where I was thinking that I needed to compete in Production instead of Single Stack. I was thinking it would be more friendly to newbies and cheaper somehow.
My thinking on that has changed, and I'll be sticking around in Single Stack.