Had a match Saturday, went to the range early to get some rounds through my .22 Taurus. Got there literally in the dark, set my truck up facing into the pits, put the highbeams and foglights on and burnt through about 400 rounds before anyone else showed up.
Did a bunch of mag dumps, just breaking it in, and a lot of sets of four or five from a low ready, going for "good enough for steel challenge". It's a nice handling gun.
Match was IDPA format, I shot my Gen 4 G34 in it. I've been working on my reloads after reading an article in the USPSA monthly written by Rob Epifania. It's changed the way I do reloads, and I'm getting better. Read the article yourself for full context, but the key takeaway for me was to determine where my magazine holding hand wants to go and bring the gun there, rather than bringing the magazine to the gun.
So much faster, so much less fumbling.
Got to see if it actually helped on two stages in particular. One stage had a single shooting position, two targets at 7 yards and 10 yards, initial mag loaded with six rounds. Five on the first target, reload, five on the second target. 6.94 seconds, down zero. Guy who took first in that stage ran it in 6.56 seconds.
Other stage had two boxes, approximately 15 feet apart, with four targets in front of them, maybe 20 feet(?) away. From box A, dump six rounds on target one, reload and move to box B, then (2) shots on each of the remaining targets. That reload was more difficult, because i was moving. 10.28 seconds, down zero.
Adam took first on that stage with 9.99, beating me by .38 seconds and mentioned to me that I set up badly, I wasted time starting my movement to the second box. He was right, I could feel it. That's something I've got to work on, my transition from static to movement is bad.
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