Sigh...

So, now I'm A-class. Barely. (By 0.06%!) Time to actually go back to _practicing_ so that I get better. My current skills, in my opinion, are not consistent enough to support an A-class designation---so, time to work on them.

Granted, I should have been working on them throughout...

Good motivation, which apparently I needed. Since I read this on the USPSA site, I have practiced dryfire and reloading every other night, and I can already see improvements, particularly in reloading. I REALLY wish KyTac would send me my new mag pouches. These Fobus ones I'm currently using are adequate for the basics (and were nice and cheap) but better equipment now will make a difference--and my reloading is one of my weak points in the first place! I have a set of the CR Speed pouches, but they are really heavy compared to what I'm used to. I know plenty of people use them, but I'm hoping the KyTac ones will work better. Dave Sevigny certainly doesn't seem to have any problems with them!

Looking back at videos of my shooting, I see numerous examples of situations in which faster/more precise reloads would have made a huge difference in my overall time. Wouldn't have had to wait to shoot, would have started shooting on the move more quickly, and stand-and-shoot stages would have gone better.

Being as it is getting cold out, I won't be able to get to the range to practice much, in the next few months. As such, it is dryfire and AirSoft practice, for me. However, that means I can spend time working on sight focus, transitions, reloading (and reloading while moving), plus shooting on the move with an AirSoft gun.

Actually rather looking forward to what my skill level is going to do over the next couple of months with that sort of practice. :)

Still more to come regarding the CQT course we attended awhile back.

Lots of Shooting Stuff Lately...

I'll be adding commentary later, but here's some of what has been going on...

We took Emily out shooting, this time with a real gun instead of an AirSoft gun. She started with a .22, then tried out a revolver and a 9mm. Did pretty well...



Middle of last month we had a Steel Challenge match at ENGC. I did pretty well---first place for the non-.22 shooters. That being said, however, I shot a lot of misses on steel that I had to make up, and could have done considerably better.



Thirdly, we just had our monthly USPSA action pistol match, which was a lot of fun. Overall, I won Production, but could have done much better. My reloads were poor, my brain shut off at one point, and I had a mike on my own stage. [sigh] More commentary to follow.



There is a good chance that this month's classifier stage may have bumped me into A-class. There are several "ifs" to that, though---it depends on IF the online classifier calculator is correct, IF I can do math correctly, and IF I understand the classifier rules for what is used or not. IF so---I'm going to be in A-class after next month's update. By 0.0395%. [sigh] I'm going to need to practice a lot more to sustain an A-class card for the major matches next year. Lots and lots and lots...

I wouldn't be unhappy if I wasn't quite A-class yet. I could handle it taking a bit more time before that happened...

And lastly, I still need to discuss the CQT class we attended, a month or so ago. It was highly disappointing, and there are a number of DT things I want to talk about. Forthcoming...