Pond James Pond
New member
Firstly I have learnt that it takes very little to "stress" me. IN this case it was merely trying to get a good time and not a DQ. Under those less than demanding conditions, I managed to screw up 2 mag drops and managed to flip the safety whilst running back to another target, the gun over my shoulder, pointing down-range.
Practising draw, load and rack drills in my living room, using my IPSC timer app to record times I managed several where the gun is racked and "on target" in between 1.25 and 1.7 seconds. Not all, but those were my "good" times and there were a number. The same procedure at the firing line in Stage 1 didn't go nearly as well, costing me time!!
So all this tells me that a) I am not yet familiar with my pistol b) that perhaps my training needs to include more drills such as the empty gun manipulations and dry-firing I raised in another thread and c) that when they say practise the way you want to shoot and expect your performance to drop when the pressure rises, they mean it.
Time to re-evaluate my training regimen.
Practising draw, load and rack drills in my living room, using my IPSC timer app to record times I managed several where the gun is racked and "on target" in between 1.25 and 1.7 seconds. Not all, but those were my "good" times and there were a number. The same procedure at the firing line in Stage 1 didn't go nearly as well, costing me time!!
So all this tells me that a) I am not yet familiar with my pistol b) that perhaps my training needs to include more drills such as the empty gun manipulations and dry-firing I raised in another thread and c) that when they say practise the way you want to shoot and expect your performance to drop when the pressure rises, they mean it.
Time to re-evaluate my training regimen.