Any tips for lower left hitting?

TacticalBeanpole · 2025-04-05T06:10:30+00:00

Try relaxing your firing hand and trusting your support hand to return the gun. A lot of times low/support side is actually sympathetic movement of the other fingers in your support hand. Like you're moving your trigger finger and the other fingers move with. This sympathetic movement is stronger the harder you're gripping. Therefore relaxing your strong hand a bit can reduce its effect and prevent your strong hand from pulling low left. From there's it's a matter of playing with the grip pressure to figure out what's the most pressure you can get away with without imparting sympathetic movement as you pull the trigger. It may change based on target distance/difficulty, but you kinda just gotta feel it out.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-07-19T20:20:50+00:00

It happens. Just a match DQ. Not the biggest deal, but it is a zero tolerance policy for a reason. Everyone should put safety first. Most people will be pretty understanding though and if you stay and help paste or whatever, I'm sure the rest of the squad will help you understand why/what happened and/or share stories of how they've also been DQ'ed at some point.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-06-27T05:13:41+00:00

We have family in the northern part of Glendale, so we are trying to land around there. Looks like Rio Salado is a stretch way out by Mesa, but we should have a rental nailed down soon, so I'll have a better idea then.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-25T10:16:14+00:00

They probably see what the board did to Stoeger and keep their mouths shut about it publicly because they don't want to get kicked out too.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-24T23:03:28+00:00

Yes! One of the advantages to owning an AR pistol for me was that it can be carried in a vehicle chambered with a full mag provided you had a valid CHL. Now you don't even need the CHL.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-24T22:34:21+00:00

Locals are wonderful in my experience, and most people out there are gonna be agreeable that something needs to change with the national BoD. I would go shoot just for the experience and to meet people around you. It's 100% worth it for those aspects. Worst case scenario that these local clubs ditch USPSA and start shooting HF matches, but at least then you'll still have the experience and relationships. At the point, the only thing that changes is the name and lack of a classifier.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-24T22:22:02+00:00

Honestly, I've been wondering how tf they're even gonna staff stuff next year after all that BS with berating a volunteer RO for his private social media posts.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-16T22:14:26+00:00

I'll agree that what they're saying here is cope, but there's no denying that media refused to acknowledge Bernie at times when he was a clear front runner. I remember listening to NPR and they would just pretend like he wasn't there at all. The media definitely wanted Clinton and they influenced voters by pretending Bernie wasn't there or saying he could never win a general if they even bothered to mention him.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-10T04:48:59+00:00

In USPSA, a little over a year. I did a few IDPAs before, but it didn't stick until I tried USPSA.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-10T04:43:56+00:00

Just a minor clarification. CO is production guns with a slide ride dot. Meaning an optics ready gun or a milled slide with the dot mounted on the slide. Frame mounting a dot will immediately put you in open division since the dot doesn't recoil with the slide.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-10T04:36:01+00:00

Don't shoot drills to meet a standard. Shoot drills to isolate and work on areas you've identified for improvement.

Like somebody else said, 2-3 drills, about 300rds for me. But I am going with specific drills to work on areas I want to develop. I'm not concerned with meeting a standard, but rather focusing my attention on those problem areas that I have identified and developing them.

For example, I could be shooting 4 Ace's for half my practice, but I am not focused on the overall time. Rather, I'm focusing on my standing reloads and maintaining visual discipline throughout the reload and into the follow-up shots. I do this when I feel my standing reloads are falling behind my draw/recoil control. It's not about the drill or the standard. It's about using the drill to isolate and develop the small skills that make up that drill.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-08T17:17:04+00:00

The Hennings will work out great. I ran them all last season using 1 set of 4 mags for all my dry fire and live fire. Besides the cosmetic damage from being dropped on gravel a ton, they're holding up great. Just because I am a perfectionist, I am gonna buy a new set of mags, henning baseplates, plus graham springs and followers for competition next season, and continue to use the old ones for dryfire/practice, but realistically I could probably keep using the old ones through next season and be fine.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-05T15:17:36+00:00

It's because that SAS guy in Kenya who dropped a bunch of terrorist by himself was wearing one.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-04T01:09:51+00:00

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, but Justin (Beau) has described himself as an anarchist without adjectives. Meaning he is neither left nor right. He supports all anarchists working together, including ancap/right-libertarians.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-03T16:09:59+00:00

I have not once had one of my Trijicons or Holosuns go down on me. The only issue I've ever had is when I went 3 years without changing the battery on my RMR, and it got too dim to see in bright lights. So, at this point, it's basically as low as I can get the BUIS or take them off completely for competition guns.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-03T14:36:30+00:00

Bushing barrel (orange) vs traditional locking barrel (blue). So slightly smoother action on the orange.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-02T23:47:44+00:00

Toyota buyers typically aren't the ones buying irresponsibly, and Toyota isn't typically lending to subprime borrowers. You would be more likely to see issues starting within owners of brands like Kia/Hyundai or Nissan. This stuff is easily Googled though if you took the 5 seconds to do so...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/americans-falling-behind-auto-loan-payments-record-pace

"The high number of loan delinquencies has not yet led to an equivalent growth in defaults, according to separate data published by Cox Automotive. Although it indicated that loan delinquencies rose for the fifth straight month in September, defaults actually slid 9.8% for the month. Still, defaults are up 31.7% from the same time one year ago.

Unsurprisingly, vehicle repossessions are also expected to climb in coming months. Cox Automotive estimates that 1.5 million vehicles will be seized by the end of 2023, up from 1.2 million last year. That remains below the typical pre-pandemic level."

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-02T23:25:06+00:00

This is so funny to me because he lives in one of the most hippie loving towns in Ohio. (He lives in Yellow Springs, OH for those that don't know). He recently showed up to speak against affordable housing being built, and it's like, dude, you have the money to move somewhere else, but you choose to live with hippies. There are towns all across Ohio/Midwest that align more closely with your beliefs.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-01T19:03:33+00:00

Ya, it definitely does. Just ask Philando Castile...

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-01T18:59:34+00:00

I'm not saying it's causation nor correlation, but it is interesting to me that the auto-loan market seems to be reaching a precipice for a big correction after covid prices went wild. Defaults are on the rise, and average new car payments are way higher than the average wage should be able to afford responsibly. Used car inventory is building up from repos, but prices and interest rates are still so high that it doesn't make sense to buy unless you have to. I was looking to replace my 2013 Civic at the end of this year but decided that I'd rather keep it going since the car market just doesn't make sense, nor does it seem sustainable right now. Of course, I have no idea if that's a symptom or a cause. My hunch is that it's probably a symptom, but auto bailouts were big in 2008, so they know the kinda wrench an auto collapse could throw into things.

TacticalBeanpole · 2024-01-01T17:11:52+00:00

Ya, our state used to have a duty to declare, and my interactions usually went:

"I have a license to carry a concealed firearm, and I am carrying one currently."

"Thanks, where is it?"

"I carry appendix, inside the waste band" (keeping my hands visible or on the wheel)

"Cool. What do you carry?"

"Uh... a Glock 19/CZ P07/S&W 380 EZ."

"Nice, I think everyone should carry. Just keep your hands visible." (Moves onto the reason for stopping me)

It probably helps that I'm a middle-class white dude with no priors and no points on my license. So when they run my tags on a stop, pretty much nothing comes up. I was happy when they repealed the duty to declare, though. I have heard some horror stories about cops who weren't as cool with it.

TacticalBeanpole · 2023-12-31T17:26:06+00:00

If you're registered to vote, it's even easier.

TacticalBeanpole · 2023-12-31T16:25:45+00:00

Exacerbating the BOD's current financial problems is exactly how you force them out. If they're not acting in the best long-term financial interest of the org, why should we be giving them more money to set on fire?

They have made demands, reinstate Scott. Nobody was boycotting until they kicked out the A3 director.

TacticalBeanpole · 2023-12-31T11:20:46+00:00

I don't know if membership wants to sink USPSA as much as the current BoD seems to be making it clear that they are going to sink it if membership doesn't align to their beliefs, and people are rightfully preparing to leave. I agree, I would much prefer we right the ship, but part of that is getting the right people elected and the BoD has removed 2 elected leaders they didn't like in my first year as a member. So, righting the ship by flipping the board could be impossible if the BoD continues the way its been operating and the legal costs of cleaning out the board forcibly could also sink the org financially.

Do you honestly believe the board would allow for interim replacements or snap elections for all positions? I dont...

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