Minor Twinges, but able to shoot...

After a week or so injured, my shoulder was finally well enough to at least work some careful dry fire, and I did manage to make it to the range briefly to work a couple of things. (Such as the P-F DoTW 22: http://pistol-forum.com/showthrhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifead.php?3303-DotW-22-SHO-FAST-(or-25yd-SHO-bullseye-practice)&p=56673&viewfull=1#post56673)

That being said, practice wasn't very significant for the last two weeks. That's gonna change...

Today was the March USPSA Pistol match at ENGC, so I had fun shooting that. Some good points, some bad points:

Good points: No problems with the shoulder while I was shooting. Movement went fairly well. Didn't crash on any one particular stage. Times were actually fairly good.

Bad points: Accuracy was low (87% of possible points.) Had a significant mental issue on one stage that cost me 2.5 seconds or so. Reloads were sluggish. Having the gun ready to go at the end of movement didn't happen, so that added extra time.



Things to stress in practice:
Trigger control (Trigger Control! TRIGGER CONTROL!!)
Transitions
Shooting on the move
Still going to work on draw to low% target, emergency reload, and accuracy at distance WITH proper trigger followup/reset/prep---none of this "pin-it-back" stuff.

Things to stress after the AFHF class:
Speed reloads with the competition rig
Draws with the competition rig
Movement to a firing position
...plus the rest from above.

I have my spring break from school the week before I go to Kansas for the AFHF class, so I'm planning on a serious shooting course for myself that week---Monday through Thursday, 3 hours in the morning, 3 hours in the afternoon. Time and reps enough to ingrain a significant increase in my trigger control. (Among other things.) I'm planning about 300-400 rounds per session, so about 800 rounds a day. (Possibly up to 1000.) Have a lot of reloading to do before the class! (Because I'm bringing 1500 to the class, too.)

I'm going back to USPSA Nationals one last time, this year, and I'm going to make up for the debacle that was last year. To do that, I'm going to put in some serious practice. I know that Ardi and Julie will be joining me here and there, but I'm going to be solidly working on my own shooting issues this summer.

We'll see how far I can go.