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I don't count rounds when trying to get some good reps in with the EDC. I concentrate more on how well I'm sticking to the plan. If my mind starts to wander and/or I lose focus and find myself just lobbing rounds down haphazardly, I'll stop. I either then switch to my PCC or .22lr lever gun for some less meaningful fun time or leave. But if I feel the EDC rounds are counting towards some good training, I might spend more while I'm focused.I go to the range with my EDC once or twice a month and shoot between 50 and100 rds. I am curious what folk's routines are for their EDC.
I do clean my EDC after every range session.
For me because rds are so much money now. When I go, I follow a well-thought-out plan on what I want to work on that day. I have different targets for the type of training session I am doing.I don't count rounds when trying to get some good reps in with the EDC. I concentrate more on how well I'm sticking to the plan. If my mind starts to wander and/or I lose focus and find myself just lobbing rounds down haphazardly, I'll stop. I either then switch to my PCC or .22lr lever gun for some less meaningful fun time or leave. But if I feel the EDC rounds are counting towards some good training, I might spend more while I'm focused.
Yeah, the current landscape has changed how I shoot as well. I probably should have mentioned that what I wrote was my standard go-to plan. Things have definitely changed in more recent times, but I didn't want to make this a discussion about how one has changed since the shortage. Unless that was the intent of your question, at which point I'd say far more focuses sessions with typically a 50 box or less for each gun I bring.For me because rds are so much money now. When I go, I follow a well-thought-out plan on what I want to work on that day. I have different targets for the type of training session I am doing.
Now that leads me to the bigger questions if you are a new shooter how will get proficient and learn how to use your tool? if you cannot find ammo?Yeah, the current landscape has changed how I shoot as well. I probably should have mentioned that what I wrote was my standard go-to plan. Things have definitely changed in more recent times, but I didn't want to make this a discussion about how one has changed since the shortage. Unless that was the intent of your question, at which point I'd say far more focuses sessions with typically a 50 box or less for each gun I bring.
Dry fire. Then dry fire some more.Now that leads me to the bigger questions if you are a new shooter how will get proficient and learn how to use your tool? if you cannot find ammo?
I dry fire 3 times a week-- in my opinion, you need time on the range also to understand your firearm.Dry fire. Then dry fire some more.
I like to put on a show/movie, pick a character and then draw and fire when they cut back to that character.
I'm 180 from this approach. There is no way I would spend my time practicing on a completely different platform. If you were carrying a G19 and practicing with a diff G19 or G17, sure. But still why? You can run tens of thousands of rounds through a pistol like a G17, never clean it, never lube it and it will still shoot fine.Essentially never. I carry either a P232SL in .380 or a P239 in .40, and have loads for both that I know to function reliably and have good gel data on (i.e. I shot a get block with denim on top of it); I keep these guns clean and well oiled and never shoot them. On the polar opposite end, I have a G19 that I run for practice. I clean it when I feel like it, IF I feel like it, and generally that just means some lube on the rails and a bore snake. It's set up for competition with a red dot, mag well, and compensator, which means that in some ways the manual of arms differs from the DA/SA pistols that I carry (particularly with the heel mag release on the P232). My justification for this practice is that I don't want to put wear on guns that I'll probably never use but which MUST work if I ever need them. If the G19 breaks, worst case I can't complete the stage or the rest of the match and I have parts/can easily buy more if I don't.
I think there are good arguments for practicing with EXACTLY what you'd use in a real SD scenario, but for me that would reduce my overall round count substantially. My subjective choice is for more rounds spent on a platform that encourages a lot of shooting in the belief that the skills translate very well to my carry guns.
I agree. I'm just saying the solution to round shortages is dry fire more. And when I say dry fire I mean all types of gun handling. Draw from holster, reloads, house clearing, etc.I dry fire 3 times a week-- in my opinion, you need time on the range also to understand your firearm.
I still think you should get a guy to follow you around playing the sax while you are on the beat.I spend more time in mirror making sure I look cool, and practicing one liners. Bring back the 90s one liners
Pretty sure you're my neighbor. BTW, let's do something about those thin walls between our apartments.I spend more time in mirror making sure I look cool, and practicing one liners. Bring back the 90s one liners
Now that leads me to the bigger questions if you are a new shooter how will get proficient and learn how to use your tool? if you cannot find ammo?
A big part of it is that I am extremely comfortable with DA/SA hammer fired guns and greatly prefer the controls on my Sig pistols vs Glocks. My first pistol was a .357 Sig Sig P226 that my step-dad bought me as I went to college which I used to shoot Folger's cans of ammo loaded on a single stage Hornady press. For someone unfamiliar with the manual of arms for a DA/SA pistol, I agree that training with something that different would pose an issue.I'm 180 from this approach. There is no way I would spend my time practicing on a completely different platform. If you were carrying a G19 and practicing with a diff G19 or G17, sure. But still why? You can run tens of thousands of rounds through a pistol like a G17, never clean it, never lube it and it will still shoot fine.
Now that leads me to the bigger questions if you are a new shooter how will get proficient and learn how to use your tool? if you cannot find ammo?
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Was it the cologne wafting across the hall that gave him away?Pretty sure you're my neighbor. BTW, let's do something about those thin walls between our apartments.
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Toilet pop in 3...2...1...... typically when I am taking a shit I will remove and unload what I'm carrying, go through some permutations, ...