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RESULTS: IDPA Nebraska Indoor Match, November 8
JTH:
--- Quote from: SeanN on November 10, 2014, 01:25:06 PM ---As far as seeing your hits: Don't look for hits, watch your sights while you shoot! If your front sight was properly aligned with the rear sight as the trigger broke, you got a good hit. Trust your sights. :)
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Which of course can be very frustrating---but is REALLY good incentive to 1) focus on that front sight, 2) actually HAVE a good sight picture, and 3) practice trigger control so that you don't screw up at that sight picture before the gun goes off.
Ask me how I know about the frustration. :)
--- Quote ---I saw mine dip a few times but decided not to take a makeup shot. I should have, however... I threw two into the hard cover (black) on one target, thankfully one was close enough to the perforation that I got credit for one "down zero" hit.
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I even knew I threw a bad shot that got me a down five (which ended up on the target, but not enough to be anything than a "past the perf" shot) but I ignored it for some reason.
...which screwed me up enough so that I DID put a makeup shot on a bad hit later on the same array in the second stage, even though that got me a procedural. Yay slow-mo cascade of errors!
--- Quote ---My feelings about people leaving, not being ready to shoot, having equipment issues, etc. is that I trust people to be responsible for themselves. If they are not, I'm not going to work super hard to help them out. Exceptions, of course, for those that have medical/physical issues that prevent them from being able to participate a lot of the time. I would strongly suggest bringing a folding chair and staying in the range, if possible, in those scenarios.
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Folding chair an excellent idea. Shooters are responsible for being ready. If you aren't in the shooting area, already having it set up so a buddy comes and gets you when you are on deck is a good idea. (It isn't the MD's responsibility to go searching for people.)
mott555:
I have pretty decent eyesight. No need for glasses/contacts yet. :P
What probably got me more than anything is I have not practiced at that range. I just finished my CHP training a week or so ago so I'd been doing everything at 7 yards, and even with the mile-long trigger pull of an LC9 that was no sweat. But being on the clock and trying to fire quickly at longer ranges with the DAO trigger was all new to me. I knew my groups were pretty loose. I had lots of -5's on the second stage, so it was a game of "Do I hope I hit the second shot, move on, and risk -5's" versus "Do I take an extra couple seconds to do a third shot just in case".
SeanN:
--- Quote from: mott555 on November 10, 2014, 01:55:35 PM ---I have pretty decent eyesight. No need for glasses/contacts yet. :P
What probably got me more than anything is I have not practiced at that range. I just finished my CHP training a week or so ago so I'd been doing everything at 7 yards, and even with the mile-long trigger pull of an LC9 that was no sweat. But being on the clock and trying to fire quickly at longer ranges with the DAO trigger was all new to me. I knew my groups were pretty loose. I had lots of -5's on the second stage, so it was a game of "Do I hope I hit the second shot, move on, and risk -5's" versus "Do I take an extra couple seconds to do a third shot just in case".
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Haha, shooting with an LC9 does put you at a significant disadvantage vs a lot of the other competitors too. A lot of us have full-size guns or even "competition length" guns with longer sight radii so we can see our sights "move" much more easily than you can with a short sight radius and the LC9's sights, if I remember, aren't the best from the factory either (it's been awhile since I've looked down the factory sights on an LC9).
Hopefully we see you at more matches in the future, mott! It was good to meet you in person.
mott555:
--- Quote from: SeanN on November 10, 2014, 01:59:21 PM ---Haha, shooting with an LC9 does put you at a significant disadvantage vs a lot of the other competitors too. A lot of us have full-size guns or even "competition length" guns with longer sight radii so we can see our sights "move" much more easily than you can with a short sight radius and the LC9's sights, if I remember, aren't the best from the factory either (it's been awhile since I've looked down the factory sights on an LC9).
Hopefully we see you at more matches in the future, mott! It was good to meet you in person.
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I hope to be at more matches when my schedule allows. Was good fun and good practice. Also cool to see the faces behind some of the names here.
I know technically the LC9 puts me at a disadvantage but for now I'm competing against myself, not others. The LC9 was my carry weapon when I had a CCW in another state, and it will be my carry weapon here in Nebraska too, so it's important to me that I'm proficient with it. I could get a good single-action 1911 or something and do much better in scenario matches but that won't help me at all if something happens and I have to take action with an LC9. I was armed security at my last church before moving into Nebraska so having to take quick shots at hostage-takers is actually a very practical scenario.
I'll practice a bit and try a few more matches to see how I improve. Hopefully at some point I'll be comfortable with what I have and then I can try "easier" handguns for competition's sake.
JTH:
--- Quote from: mott555 on November 10, 2014, 02:09:25 PM ---The LC9 was my carry weapon when I had a CCW in another state, and it will be my carry weapon here in Nebraska too, so it's important to me that I'm proficient with it. I could get a good single-action 1911 or something and do much better in scenario matches but that won't help me at all if something happens and I have to take action with an LC9. I was armed security at my last church before moving into Nebraska so having to take quick shots at hostage-takers is actually a very practical scenario.
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Cheat like I do and carry a G17. Easier all around! (Yes, I shoot a G34 in competition---but since the frame of the G17 is exactly the same and I have the same sights and trigger on both guns, there really isn't much difference between the two for CCW purposes.)
Carrying a full-size for CCW is kinda like having that EASY button available for everything. :)
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