Match Video: Jan 22nd Steel Challenge

This year ENPS started having 6 stages for our Steel Challenge matches, so we get significantly more trigger time on steel this year, which is a good thing.

Pre-video comments:
1) No jams or gun problems this time with the G17 and the 124gr ammo. At all. Ran beautifully.

2) The match felt fairly strong throughout. Yes, there were some stages where I forgot about trigger control, but overall it was decent. Not back up to my prior level, but certainly better than the last few months.

3) My first stage felt like I was moving fairly slow and deliberately---and it looks that way on the video. However, each string was 5-for-5 until the 5th string---and was the fastest time on that stage out of all the centerfire divisions (including the Open guys).

4) At the start of most strings (and you can tell which ones I forgot) I told myself only one thing: Work the trigger. And mostly, I did.

Here's the video, after which I'll comment some more. (And next time I'll tell my video folks to stand a bit further back...)



Notes:

1) Inconsistent draw. Often fast, but occasionally very deliberate---which isn't necessary, because it isn't the _draw_ that is my aiming problem. Need to consistently get the gun out and on target quickly.

2) "Snatching" the trigger occasionally---and sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Later in the day, I started jerking the gun into position as I pulled the trigger, attempting to "Use The Force" to make sure that it went off just as the gun swept the target. And since I tried this on Pendulum, that was one of my worst stages of the match. I did fix it again by the next stage, but Pendulum did go really badly. (Roundabout did have a bit of it also.)

3) Relax my shoulders! Something I'm going to have to work on significantly--I was good at not being tense up until March of last year, but the Rogers school (and how it was pushing my speed limits) ingrained some tenseness that wasn't necessary, and that I haven't fixed. So now, after a year, my stance is too high and my shoulders too high and tense.

Good thing: Often, the trigger work was decent-to-good, with occasional glimpses of very good. Dry fire practice is apparently helping (not a surprise) and I plan to continue.

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On two separate notes:
1) I need to get to the range and find my base times/scores so I can make realistic goals. I'm thinking the ones I have are either too easy or too hard.

2) I REALLY need to work on my distance bullseye shooting. I still need to check to see if part of that is a function of my sudden glasses need at long distance...no matter what, though, it needs work.

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More to follow.