2017 NC Sectional

Travis B said:
~45 days until the match. If you dry fire 30 minutes a day then you will have over 20 hours of practice. How many USPSA shooters dry fire less than 20 hours in a year?!
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Talked to one local hotrod last weekend. That individual does 15 hrs a week of dryfire
 
Travis B said:
Sure, but that level of commitment is possessed by maybe 1% of the sport.
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...... Do you mean commitment, or should be committed? :rolleyes:

But seriously, probably only 10% of the participants in the sport even have that kind of time. It is a sport, not a career.
 
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I started substituting any time I would be watching television with dryfire about six months ago, I found I enjoyed it so much that I carve an hour a day out to dryfire. Now any tv time is replaced with playing with my girls. In 6 months I feel like I'm getting more competitive and am looking forward to the next six months of improvement.
 
How does the prize table work, you have to show back up Sunday for the results I assume?
 
I have 0 motivation to do anything right now. Haven't touched my pistol in close to two months. Not sure why, just a serious lack of motivation.

Damn bolt action rifles...
 
hlpressley said:
I have 0 motivation to do anything right now. Haven't touched my pistol in close to two months. Not sure why, just a serious lack of motivation.

Damn bolt action rifles...
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They can be addictive. I went through a nra marksmanship program phase where all I could think about was getting my distinguished expert badge. I was averaging about 300 .22 rounds a week of controlled 5 shot groups. Then one day, a switch flipped halfway between expert and distinguished and I haven't shot that course of fire again in 8 months. My poor cz probably thinks I have abandoned it. You'll come back around to the pistol. Variety it's the spice of life. One day I'm gonna get out to an appleseed shoot.
 
hlpressley said:
I have 0 motivation to do anything right now. Haven't touched my pistol in close to two months. Not sure why, just a serious lack of motivation.

Damn bolt action rifles...
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Sounds like classic burnout. Combination of two things: 1) you had built up expectations in your mind of how good you should be with a pistol and 2) you were spending time/money/energy on it and not seeing any progress.

In bolt rifles, you don't have any expectations of yourself, and it's easy to make progress when you're just starting out at something.

Don't feel bad about taking a break from pistols. When you come back, it'll be with fresh eyes and you'll see what you were doing before more clearly and feel energized to fix it. The longer you wait, the bigger the gains will be when you come back. So enjoy the break.
 
Tick, Tock... Where did all the time go? It should be interesting shooting Single Stack in the NC Sectional for the first time. Area 6 was "interesting" to shoot Single Stack, so I hope to show improvement.

I can hear my revolver calling for me to bring it back out to matches, and after the NC Sectional I believe that I will... I never really planned to compete in a division other than Revolver and a little Production once in a while (aka rarely). With the low number of fellow revolver competitors I have encountered at sectional, area, and some local along with special matches it seemed necessary to have a secondary division ready to shoot in. It is not matches themselves that I have found to be issue, it is the atitudes towards Revolver Division. Not overall, mind you, but enough to be disheartening reference to the future of the division. I think that something serious must be wrong when Revolver shooters on the A, M, & GM levels are deciding not to shoot matches on a regular basis due to the current climate. Maybe it is different in other regions, but I have seen very little indication of that being so.
 
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