How do you know if you can shoot faster if you never try?

Just wondering, for the guys who shoot matches do you practice with the same ammo,, weight?
99% of the time.
Reload, changing press sucks.
Occasionally buy, or change something and show up at a match with untested.
Ben Stoeger has said repeatedly he practices with reloads and buys match ammo. I really don't think the feel and cycle timing is near as important as all the conversation about it would have you believe.
 
One more thing and then I'll go check the mail box and quit ramblin'. The last Real match we had here was 3 stages long. Not a single person knew what we were doing! We kept all the shooters away from the match area and called them down one at a time. No pre planning for position or reloads or Anything. Here's your problem, Go solve it. We had winners that day that had only been mid pack shooters before, but damn they could solve the problem. The match was set up behind an 8 foot wall of tires. We told them what color the shoot targets were and nothing else. Buzzer went off and ….chaos... "Kinda" like a real problem but with nobody shootin atcha.
Blind stages. I like it. Amp has talked about doing that, but then we'd REALLY have to thumb our noses at IDPA.
I mean, more than we already do, lol
 
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You should post up some rimfire steel vids. Doesn’t get much faster than that!
Nobody wants to see me shooting my pea shooters. Maybe if I shot a real man's load like a 45 [emoji39]
 
Nobody wants to see me shooting my pea shooters. Maybe if I shot a real man's load like a 45 [emoji39]

Well, I’ve seen you shoot big guns too.

But the .22 stuff is impressive as hell imo.
 
Lies, demand refund.

Seriously though, speed is great, til you meet someone nearly as fast and more accurate, and you will, in the Southeast probably at any sanctioned match you go to.

I do think speed is a bigger hurdle for most people in "practical" shooting, and usually not the speed of the shooting but all the non shooting time. Funny thing is most of us starting out try to rush the shots and then kinda trot instead of sprinting, pause everything to reload, drop the gun before we leave, stand up and bring the gun up when we get there and do all sorts of unnecessary time consuming stuff. Just getting to the shooting as quick as possible shaves seconds and costs no accuracy.
 
Blind stages. I like it. Amp has talked about doing that, but then we'd REALLY have to thumb our noses at IDPA.
I mean, more than we already do, lol
I agree. Setting up a stage that mimics a defense situation -- a blind stage as you put it -- would make their heads blow.

Not that is a bad thing...
 
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