Any local M,A, or B shooter willing to help a guy out

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Just curious if any of you solid uspsa shooters would be willing to give me a few pointers. I have a place to shoot at the house or could meet anywhere conveinant to you.
Im located in between greensboro and burlington.
Never been any good at self diagnosis. I dry fire practice regurally etc.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks
 
I'm a lowly b shooter, and would be glad to help but match video will by far be one of the best ways for someone to see what you are doing and help you make correction. One of the things I can recommend right off the bat for you since I have seen you shoot is to work on calling your shots. Set up an array, fire at them two shots each at your current match speed. Don't look at the targets at all after you have fired at them and then grab a sheet of paper and sketch how you think you shot. Compare with targets. You want to learn what an acceptable sight picture is, and what that sight picture looked like when the shot broke. After that you can start to trust your shots more. I know I pasted a few of yours with 4 alphas, a Charlie or two etc. That is my .02¢ worth.
 
Thanks slow.
I really think im struggling with the trigger the most. Ill break a shot with a good sight picture and see impact on steel in a different area.

I just put up some target stands with meteic targets so i will work on what you said. I appreciate the advice.
 
Trigger finger discipline is they key to consistent shooting. Dry fire practice is a good start. Don't pull the trigger, don't squeeze the trigger, just move the trigger. Moving the trigger finger independent of the other fingers is not natural so it takes practice.

Grip strength practice helps also. The stronger I hold my grip, the more independent I can move the trigger finger.

I live in your neck of the woods and would be glad to shoot some with you.

I am no expert and only shoot 2 gun comps and a couple defensive pistol comps. But, I practice religiously and have improved a great deal. I was also fortunate enough to get an impromptu lesson from a professional awhile back at my gun club. He saw me struggling and spent an hour with me and straightened me out. It was a great day.
 
Haven't shot with you, but trigger control can be greatly improved with dry fire, like you mentioned you're doing. I start off every dry fire practice with ten un-timed shots on a blank wall, looking at nothing but my sights. Every 'shot' should see absolutely no movement in your sight picture. Dry fire can take you a long way.
 
Just a suggestion: try and shoot as much paper as you can. Steel is great, it gives you instant feedback, but that makes it difficult to learn to "call your shot" which means learning to know where your shot has gone without hearing it or seeing where it punched a hole.

So, pick up some IPSC cardboard targets and pasters and use them a lot.
 
NKD said:
Just a suggestion: try and shoot as much paper as you can. Steel is great, it gives you instant feedback, but that makes it difficult to learn to "call your shot" which means learning to know where your shot has gone without hearing it or seeing where it punched a hole.

So, pick up some IPSC cardboard targets and pasters and use them a lot.
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^^^^This.
 
Shoot Matches, lots of matches...almost everyone, including "most" GM's will provide tips and pointers all match long...one of the great things about the people in this sport.
 
One other super important thing: grip the gun really really hard and as high as possible with your weak hand. No, harder.
Like you are not going to tolerate any recoil at all. The gun is going to go right back to where it was because your weak hand will not allow it to do anything else.

Dryfire should be sweaty and feel like you just worked out.
 
RUN!!! This game is about speed and accuracy. When you are done shooting from a particular position, get your ass to the next position faster than you think is possible. This is a sprint, not a marathon baby!
 
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RUN!!! This game is about speed and accuracy. When you are done shooting from a particular position, get your ass to the next position faster than you think is possible. This is a sprint, not a marathon baby!
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It's amazing how much I struggle with this. I practice it during live and dryfire then come match time I don't run as fast as I think I can/should. Mental game.
 
Wolffy said:
It's amazing how much I struggle with this. I practice it during live and dryfire then come match time I don't run as fast as I think I can/should. Mental game.
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You need to focus on it for a few matches. Make speed your main goal. See your sights on target as fast as you can but don't rush it and then run like honey boo boo to get to your next position. From now until nc section, my goal will be to have the lowest time possible. My shots will go to Hell but the plan is to shoot my sights at nc section and hopefully my body will just automatically be faster from having done it for the 5 previous matches.
 
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I suffer from that as well. You see a video of yourself and it's like "why am I kinda wandering through that stage?", lol.

@Travis B gave me a good advice nugget for this that I am trying to implement: "during stage walkthrough, visualize yourself sprinting between positions. If you don't, you will just walk through it" or something to that effect.
 
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I suffer from that as well. You see a video of yourself and it's like "why am I kinda wandering through that stage?", lol.

@Travis B gave me a good advice nugget for this that I am trying to implement: "during stage walkthrough, visualize yourself sprinting between positions. If you don't, you will just walk through it" or something to that effect.
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That's all it takes! That, and the confidence one build in practice to move fast and efficiently.
 
Shooting open targets, as soon as they can see them, is one thing I see a lot of the quicker shooters (that place high in the match) do. I study a lot of stage plans and it always catches my eye when good shooters will take 2 or 3 unnecessary steps to get all the way to a fault line, just to shoot an open target.
 
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Take a lesson. You'll learn more in 4-8 hours than in a years worth of matches. What to do, how to do it and how to practice it.

No real feedback at matches except for score.

My 2¢
 
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