In my defense, there were a LOT of headshot-only targets. And I had 9 B-hits for the match, which since quite a few were A-hits on the head, that tells you how the match was. (If those B-hits had been A-hits, I wool have hit 91%. So the question is, had I taken the extra time to get those A-hits, would it have been worth it? Hmm….)
I'm going to keep trying to meet that goal anyway. It is obvious that I need to keep pushing myself to be more precise about points.
I've been semi-bad (periodically) about my dryfire, too. (Being sick hasn't helped.) I get in a good week of multiple solid practices, and then the next week---not so much. Just getting done with a "not-so-good" week, so I need to get myself moving there.
I KNOW that dryfire helps. And once I get the gear on, I really get into it. But after a full day of work, or work-then-Hapkido, it can really be tough to talk myself into getting geared up. I'm pushing a number of people to do THEIR dryfire--I need someone to push ME do it too.
Apparently my laziness is stronger than my wish to get better, all too often.
Here's the match from earlier this month:
Had some strange equipment issues here and there…
On the first stage---just sluggish movement. Accuracy wasn't too bad except that I pulled a D hit on the swinger, which was ridiculous because it was slow-moving. I just put the sights on the target and pulled twice, which was stupid---A/D hits. You can see me moving slowly, reloading slowly (why am I dropping the gun onto the magazine, instead of the other way around?) and looking back through the port instead of just moving on?
Third on the stage---but I could have added two more points (if not four) easily in 2 seconds less time.
Second stage: Sloppy start, what with missing the far steel, and having to do a slidelock reload on the near steel. It didn't help that I didn't set myself up in a comfortable, reasonable stance for shooting OR moving--it wasn't until after my reload that I had a decent shooting stance and could actually move. (Flubbing the shot through the port didn't help either---I just threw two shots onto that target instead of actually aiming.)
There was an alternate way to shoot that stage that involved being able to do it MUCH faster---however, shooting VERY accurately would (at best) have gotten me only C-hits, and more probably D-hits, with a chance of no-shoot. So, I took the longer route.
In retrospect, the time savings was just too much---I should have gone for it. Would have saved over two seconds, and even if I dropped 8 points (2 D-hits) it still would have resulted in a higher hit factor. I'm so used to Production's "never give up points!" thinking that I didn't actually runs the numbers, and I should have.
Third stage:
Other than a messed up slidelock reload (I need to 1) work on those, and 2) work on remedial action when I have problems with it) it wasn't too bad---if you don't mind entirely too many C and D hits. I dropped 14 points on this stage, and that is out of only 18 shots---one third of my shots weren't A-hits, which is ridiculous. I could have shot that fast and gotten ALL A-hits if I had been actually focusing on the front sight.
Self-discipline, more work needed.
Fourth stage (on bay 2) was just embarrassing! Apparently, I'm not skilled enough to rack the slide correctly the first time, and in racking it again, gave myself a double-feed requiring 6 seconds of time to fix.
The stage took me 21 seconds. It SHOULD have taken me 15. Yeah, that'll make a difference. Plus, I dropped 22 points, which is ridiculous, because only 3 targets had no shoots on them--the rest were wide-open.
Yay for getting flustered. [sigh] The speed (after the screwup at the beginning) was actually quite good---I just need to get that trigger control and grip (stronger grip! STRONGER GRIP!) going all the time.
My last stage was in bay 3, and parts weren't bad. Too cautious on the no-shoot targets. (There is a difference between careful and cautious--careful still has you moving as fast as you can while getting good hits, you are just being precise about your sight pictures, while cautious meant I "slowed down to get good hits" ---and you SHOULDN'T be thinking about speed while shooting. You should be shooting.)
Points were middling ok, so that wasn't bad, and my transitions were good at the end. The no-shoots just made me timid, though, and that isn't good. (Plus, I let myself shoot a C-hit or two when the A-zones were available---again, too timid.)
On the good side---even when screwing up, I didn't make any major mistakes, and didn't blow entire stages. On the bad side--I was being cautious instead of careful and precise, and occasionally I just let myself take a lower-point-zone hit when the points were there to take!
More work needed. Dryfire--and pretty soon, it'll be warm enough to get back out and do some live fire. I need to practice some shots with recoil, so I can work on keeping my eye on the front sight as it moves.
Multigun this Sunday. Wonder if I can hit anything?
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