Spotting your shot, most import factors.

[Wilfred]

They are ok. After using GRS stocks, I went back to factory. I would rather use a KRG Bravo than about anything if for some reason I wouldn’t use a ROKStok.

I recently acquired one of the T3X Sporters from Europtic after reading your praise of the Master Sporter. I realize the stocks are not identical, but close. Must say it is a very comfortable stock. Especially the grip/thumb treatment and the comb bevel and lateral, in addition to vertical adjustment.
In case anyone was wondering as I was - yes, the deeply recessed magazine well does allow use of Mamba mags.

 

[Formidilosus]

I recently acquired one of the T3X Sporters from Europtic after reading your praise of the Master Sporter. I realize the stocks are not identical, but close. Must say it is a very comfortable stock. Especially the grip/thumb treatment and the comb bevel and lateral, in addition to vertical adjustment.
In case anyone was wondering as I was - yes, the deeply recessed magazine well does allow use of Mamba mags.

While not quite exactly the same, it is a dang good stock.

 

[Formidilosus]

This is the video I mentioned that was sent to me. What these guys discuss about people with certain backgrounds and group-size obsession fit me perfectly. And it's exactly what was holding me back, until listening to how they flipped the speed/accuracy equation on its head. Pranka's background, coming out of the stockade and focusing on accuracy first - and then seeing him teach what's in this video - was a powerful endorsement of the idea, at least in giving it a shot. What he shares here in how he taught his 3 boys to shoot - and the substantially different performance outcomes - were also a key part of what convinced me to give this a shot.

We absolutely talked past each other. But there also is something that is likely to be missed by those just reading, or watching the video- that do not have a heavy precision at speed background. What they fail to acknowledge in the talk about how “all the people in a club stay at the same level over the course of 5 years” portion, is that there are many people that come in and shoot at the speed of an A class shooter, hit nothing- and stay exactly that same shooter for 5 years as well.

In “practice” it has to be ok to miss/fail when the goal is to force adaptation and change. In “training” misses should cause serious concern. In “testing” misses should cause behavior altering consequences or loss of job.

What may have been missed in what I shared about going fast, is that 1) It's about going fast to a certain speed, and learning how to get accurate within that speed-envelope you want, and 2) it's absolutely predicated upon being able to read a target, self-assess, and correct your shooting based on what the target's saying.

I've essentially spent my entire life under the paradigm of "Speed is fine, but accuracy is final". And it's an absolute truth. But it also held me back after some point. Flipping things upside-down and setting the speed standard first, and learning how to be as accurate as possible within that, is directly what led to these recent performance breakthroughs.

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I would change that for the benefit of others to- “this is the size target you must hit on demand- no misses EVER. “This” is the time it must happen in- EVERYTIME.” When testing. Practicing to improve, yes- you must train at failure speeds.
The issue is that people really do not want to be held to on demand- right now, no failure accepted “test”, or “standard”. So they look for anyone, and anything that excuses their inability to perform on demand.



Out of curiosity- if you ran 10x bill drills (7 yards, USPSA target) back to back, and only 2 of the runs could have a even a single shot out of the “A” zone- what would your no shit average time be?

 

[RockAndSage]

In “practice” it has to be ok to miss/fail when the goal is to force adaptation and change. In “training” misses should cause serious concern. In “testing” misses should cause behavior altering consequences or loss of job.

Overall, I very much agree with this. There might be a bit of nuance depending on defining practice (relaxed and just running some drills, vs pushing the absolute hell out of yourself) or training (evolutions over weeks and months, vs scenarios, vs team/mission oriented with clear benchmark standards to exceed, etc), but overall, hell yes. The testing part especially, with clear consequences for performance fails. Including things like flagging, NDs, integrity violations, etc - some things need to be absolute job-enders.

Regarding bills, I like the idea of how you're presenting it as an actual test, with 1 or 2 C's being hard disquals with consequences, across 10 runs. Guys would talk a lot less shit about their times if they were betting their guns or their careers on it. I mostly have used bills as recoil-management and draw-at-speed training, rather than as a qual of some kind, so they're used more for diagnostic, learning, and evolutions, than for setting time standards to excel, on-demand as a qual. But I like that idea, a lot. Especially if it was balanced with a distance precision qual as well. In the context as presented, from OWB, I'd feel pretty comfortable with a 2.5 second no-miss standard. Most of my runs would be around 2.10-2.25, give or take a tenth either way. A couple of the runs might be sub-2, but with that much emphasis on no-miss, with hard consequences, I don't think I could push it any harder than 2.25ish, safely.

 

[Formidilosus]

Regarding bills, I like the idea of how you're presenting it as an actual test, with 1 or 2 C's being hard disquals with consequences, across 10 runs. Guys would talk a lot less shit about their times if they were betting their guns or their careers on it. I mostly have used bills as recoil-management and draw-at-speed training, rather than as a qual of some kind, so they're used more for diagnostic, learning, and evolutions, than for setting time standards to excel, on-demand as a qual. But I like that idea, a lot. Especially if it was balanced with a distance precision qual as well. In the context as presented, from OWB, I'd feel pretty comfortable with a 2.5 second no-miss standard. Most of my runs would be around 2.10-2.25, give or take a tenth either way. A couple of the runs might be sub-2, but with that much emphasis on no-miss, with hard consequences, I don't think I could push it any harder than 2.25ish, safely.

If you are averaging 2.5 sec bill drills with those parameters given, man you don’t need help with shooting unless you are trying to make USPSA GM. On demand 2.5 sec clean bill drills is excellent skill.


This was the last heavy day of that, that I have a picture of. Hadn’t shot a dot in a long time, so working on draws and vision.

Above the neck line are head shots, below it is 250’ish bills drills and the rest in one shot draws- 7 C’s total. IIRC the slowest time was 2.10sec, and fastest was 1.5 something seconds. 80+ % were between 1.65 and 1.85 seconds. This was the last run and you can see the time.

 

[RockAndSage]

IIRC the slowest time was 2.10sec, and fastest was 1.5 something seconds. 80+ % were between 1.65 and 1.85 seconds. This was the last run and you can see the time.

Holy shit, that is eye-popping...

 

[Formidilosus]

Holy shit, that is eye-popping...

Haha. Nah.


The next week. This was a test, not practice. Had to make sure I still could shoot other guns. Back to back, no break, no warm up. FBI Bullseye quals (if you haven’t shot it, it’s a nut cracker for most).




Then the next day, a bill drill cold and clean (test again) with a carbine-

 

[id_jon]

If you are averaging 2.5 sec bill drills with those parameters given, man you don’t need help with shooting unless you are trying to make USPSA GM. On demand 2.5 sec clean bill drills is excellent skill.


This was the last heavy day of that, that I have a picture of. Hadn’t shot a dot in a long time, so working on draws and vision.

Above the neck line are head shots, below it is 250’ish bills drills and the rest in one shot draws- 7 C’s total. IIRC the slowest time was 2.10sec, and fastest was 1.5 something seconds. 80+ % were between 1.65 and 1.85 seconds. This was the last run and you can see the time.

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Is this from concealment or a comp type holster?

 

[RockAndSage]

Haha. Nah.


The next week. This was a test, not practice. Had to make sure I still could shoot other guns. Back to back, no break, no warm up. FBI Bullseye quals (if you haven’t shot it, it’s a nut cracker for most).

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Then the next day, a bill drill cold and clean (test again) with a carbine-
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Some people see the mona lisa, some see the f'ing brush strokes. It's an actual pleasure to read those damn targets.

Is the FBI bullseye qual all at 25yds? What are the details on that?

 

[Formidilosus]

Is this from concealment or a comp type holster?

Not a comp holster. Outside the waistband open top leather.

This was the same week, cold for the day, from appendix concealed with @PNWGATOR new pistol before it went for nitride.

 

[Formidilosus]

Some people see the mona lisa, some see the f'ing brush strokes. It's an actual pleasure to read those damn targets.

Haha.

Is the FBI bullseye qual all at 25yds? What are the details on that?

String one: 25 yards, 10 rounds, 4 min.

String two: 15 yards, 5 rounds, 15 seconds. Repeat this again for a total of 10 rounds.

String three: 15 yards, 5 rounds, 10 seconds. Repeat this again for a total of 10 rounds.


Total of 30 shots and a possible 300 points. Old passing for FBI Firearms instructors on day one of class was 260pts IIRC. It’s one of the best diagnostics that can be done to see quickly whether someone can shoot well enough to be trusted to shoot around other people.