Jun 27 2010
Area 1 is complete. Jeff did very well – winning Limited A overall. Congrats! Ken N. had a good Saturday and weak Sunday just missing a 5th place in Limited B and a trophy. We all then had good luck driving home and getting signed on to the National’s Limited Match wait list, with numbers low enough to be confident we will get a spot on the match.
Area 1 results can be seen here.
Here are videos of Ken N. and Jim M. for your enjoyment. These are stages 1 – 6, 7-12 will be uploaded later.
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May 19 2010
All of Brian. I, frankly, wasn’t worth videoing this match (-:
As you can see these stages are long and have lots of positions/reload options. We shot with 6 GMs in our squad (a nice learning experience) and you could see even them backing up, missing reloads, and forgetting stuff. Fun!
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May 07 2010
Sorry… no news on the range, but maybe a funny will cheer you up (-:=
In the meantime… Drex is having a match up in Cedar tomorrow. E-mail me if you don’t know how to get there. I’m not attending, but I can send directions.
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Apr 12 2010
Bob Vogel won the Production Nationals in 2009, and he just missed nabbing Limited 10 by a fraction of a match point. This video is from a clinic he gave last year at the 2009 South Carolina IDPA Championship.
The targets are IDPA, but the movement and other things he discusses certainly apply in USPSA as well.
One thing, a bit controversial, is round dumping. He talks about shooting “3 into the first moving target” to “make sure he got a zero”. This is so he will go to slide lock and not have to do a retention reload (slower). This practice is somewhat controversial in IDPA circles. You’ll note that when he actually runs the stage, he drives down the first popper with 3 shots, instead of dumping three into the first target while moving. I’ve SO’d stages in IDPA where round dumping would be a “Failure to Do Right” (FTDR) penalty of 20 seconds – effectively zeroing any stage. You would issue it if you found 3 zero (A zone) hits in a target and the shooter had a slide lock reload.
Rules like this keep IDPA from growing, IMHO. IDPA has a lot to offer practical shooters, but in trying to introduce a controversial tactic (tactical reload) they cause a lot of shooters to shy away because of concern over learning an unsafe tactic. Better would be to stick to certain tactical advantages – like shooting from cover, from odd positions, weak handed/strong handed, and while moving.
But hey… I just like to shoot and if they want to make me reload and keep my bullets, I’ll oblige. (-:
This video, also of Bob Vogel has some interesting grip and arm advice to maximize recoil management – he keeps his left arm higher than the gun and explains why:
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Jan 27 2010
The Nelson’s have a new family member today… a Glock 35 kitted up to be a USPSA Limited Class race gun…
You will recall that I have a custom STI 2011 that many consider to be the best Limited race gun available. That pistol is now Brian’s. We’d made an agreement that when he got better than me, he’d get the best pistol. Right now we are about even, but he is moving up fast, so I went ahead and handed it over.
About this Glock… It pretty much checks the box on improvements over a standard Glock 35:
The only things left to do, perhaps, would be a KKM or Bar-sto, match barrel. And perhaps more slide lightning (it already has a ported slide).
So I’ll compete with this or a Springfield XDM configured similarly going forward. Which ever I like better, I’ll use. The other will either be sold or used as a backup gun.
BTW: I’ll try to remember to bring some white backdrop material to matches. Then we can photograph your gear and describe it here similarly.
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Jan 25 2010
Our last match, and many classifiers in general, test reloading speed. Here, SFC Travis Tomasie of the Army Marksmanship Unit covers the “Speed Reload”:
Here he puts it into use on a 4.54 second El-Presidente:
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Jan 19 2010
After 4 static classifiers he was raring to run with a gun… here is how it went:
A few hiccups, but pretty good for the first time!
What were the hiccups? In the spirit of constructive criticism click “Read more” to see…
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Dec 11 2009
Put together from pictures by me and three other parents. Done by a parent from Phoenix.
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Nov 10 2009
Brian shooting stage 3 at the AMU Junior Shooter Clinic Match
Nov 2009
Picture by Dan Fitzgerald
The AMU camp ended yesterday. In a word… awesome!. Brian had 2 days of training from world champion action pistol and rifle shooters + a 6 stage match. And Rob Leatham straightened me out in a class for parents on Saturday (-:
Here is a summary, written just after it ended.
I will write up a report on the Rob Leatham class soon. He is fun and a great trainer. He spent all day on the trigger and multiple shots to a single target, with a brief but very useful explanation of how to build a grip. Guess that is important! By the end I was shooting significantly faster, as in a LOT faster. And I could put 19 of 20 into the Alpha at 25 yards. Whether that will hold without his magical presence, I do not know…
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Sep 21 2009
Stage 1:
Stage 4:
Thank you Adam for videoing much of our match this Saturday. I’ve trimmed them down and put the videos, from most shooters on stage 1 and stage 4 in a a video for each stage.
(Note – Adam’s camcorder had battery issues in the heat, so if you aren’t in the video it was likely because he was replacing batteries).
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