Time for sleeps. The little one better let me get more than 2 hours tonight...

Good luck.

Your xdm is the 9mm? Mine is pretty comfortable, but my hands aren't big either.

Yes, and mine is set with the smallest grip. I was shooting my father in laws today and I think he has the medium on there.

Your xdm is the 9mm? Mine is pretty comfortable, but my hands aren't big either.

Yes, and mine is set with the smallest grip. I was shooting my father in laws today and I think he has the medium on there.

That's nice to be able to switch between both grip styles quickly.

I went shooting last week, normally I close one eye, but tried without closing one, did pretty well. I need to work more on my shooting with the xdm then the p22.

I am getting more and more away from pistol shooting, and more into rifle shooting.

I only shoot at about 5-10 yards with pistol. Not trying to win records, just have fun. I just like getting better at everything I do.

I've gotten bored of the rifle, but where I'm shooting there isn't that much distance to do long range stuff otherwise it would be better.

So the pistol is more fun, normally just hitting cans and small boxes around 30ft or so. If I can hit a one gallon milk jug at 30ft then I shouldn't miss a body if I had to. Stationary body. "Don't move, lemme aim."

That is why I feel the need to learn to be more comfortable getting on target or on bulls eye with both eyes open.

Hows the project going Luke?

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I swear my brain isn't good with remembering numbers and math concepts.

I knew 90% of stuff from Calc I, had three week break for christmas, got in Calc II, and forget basic shit like deriving and integrating. I'm getting all the HW done, but it's taking me ten minutes to do something that I use to do in two.

I can't remember the lyrics of music I listen to now, but I can play Offspring, and remember the lyrics from when I listened to them over six years ago.

People always talk about bits from a movie, "hey remember when x said to y, and then z did...", I never remember any of that especially quotes.

I'm sure this is pretty normal, but sometimes I feel like I'm always just off.

I'm going to call you Corky.

"Never look a rape horse in the mouth".

Damn.

Just damn.

yeah Santorum really set himself up for that one

Hows the project going Luke?

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I swear my brain isn't good with remembering numbers and math concepts.

I knew 90% of stuff from Calc I, had three week break for christmas, got in Calc II, and forget basic shit like deriving and integrating. I'm getting all the HW done, but it's taking me ten minutes to do something that I use to do in two.

I can't remember the lyrics of music I listen to now, but I can play Offspring, and remember the lyrics from when I listened to them over six years ago.

People always talk about bits from a movie, "hey remember when x said to y, and then z did...", I never remember any of that especially quotes.

I'm sure this is pretty normal, but sometimes I feel like I'm always just off.

I messed with it for awhile and decided on MS Word. Mostly because I used it a week ago for a different assignment and it's somewhat familiar. I can't connect to the VPN to upload it to my X drive at school so I can't see how it actually looks yet. A friend in another section just finished his so I might have him sit down with me and show me some stuff.

I can hardly remember all the stuff I learned from freshman year and the course is a continuation of STA 205 so it's been a PITA trying to get the hang of it.

found packers of briskets. If you need the Love Matt let me know. Restaurant Depot wholesale. Just took some finagling to get a membership

Awesome! I am all over it. Wifes favorite is brisket.

Anything else you want in bulk as well. Yesterday's special Angus Prime NY Strip $4.04 /lb (50+ lbs)

That is disgustingly good. I couldn't use that much quickly though and would have to freeze. I have never frozen beef for steaks before. Isn't that a bad idea?

At that price it is worth freezing. A good steak frozen is better than a mediocre one fresh. Just have to allocate a couple days to thaw in the fridge and slowly bring it back to room temp.

Or an hour or so in luke cold water...

R2

When shooting I am having 2 problems that I noticed today more than ever. I am not able to shoot with both eyes open on iron sights. Everytime I line up the front and focus it to where I need it to be my stereo vision creates two target images and I loose the sight. I can close the left and put it down, but everything I read says I am handicapping myself only using one eye.

Next, I have started to blink when shooting. This is a kind of new thing for me. Especially when shooting the AR10 and AK. I have to concentrait to keep my eye open, and if another shooter is working the trigger I blink every shot. I am not sure when I gained a flinch reflex but do you have any tips?

Finally do you know of some good documentation on grip strategy for pistol? I am right hand right eye dominant. I fit my right hand on the grip and hold firm. I use my left around my right with a stronger grip and have both thumbs on the left. For me, my 1911 is the easiest to shoot even though the grip feels "long" and I stretch my finger a bit. With the 9mm and even with the ruger 22 in a bull bbl I feel like I can't get the grip right and just wanted to some pointers there too. The ruger angle is a nightmare for my thick wrists, but I would like to improve it a bit anyway. The XDM feels close to the 1911 but I feel like the nose comes up harder when it barks.

Any tips would be great. I know you are a champ at this so I appreciate any pointers.

Not a champ, use to be slightly decent but now I'm sorely out of practice.

On your safety glasses, put a piece of scotch tape over your left eye where you look out. Don't put anything dark, just something that will let the light in but obstruct your view. It doesn't have to be a big piece, a .5" square will do it.

On the trigger, dry fire, dry fire, dry fire. If you have something like a .22 rifle, shoot it from the bench focusing on the trigger pull. It doesn't matter if its a stock trigger or a match one, need quality trigger time though. Also, don't concentrate to keep your eye open, you need something to focus on. That item to focus on is your front sight, you need to learn everything about that front sight. Remember (in the words of the USA pistol coach) FOCUS ON THE GOD DAMN FRONT SIGHT. When shooting you should be focusing on the front sight, then bam, the shot breaks. If you tell yourself 'hey, I need to shoot now' you'll have blown it.

Breaking the trigger should almost be a surprise to you, but not a oh shit, didn't mean to do that surprise. Let your body do its natural rhythm. You would be surprised at how good a persons hold is, trust that hold and don't try to influence it to much. For some stuff you can force it, but lots of others if you force your going to be bite in the ass. The goal is to get the entire process refined enough to be driven into your subconsciousness so you don't have to think about it. Shooting is mostly a mental game, and shes a cruel mistress.

For a grip, I use thumbs forward. Main pointers are suck your hand as high up into the grip as possible, be firm but not necessarily crushing the poor pistol to death (though some people do). I'm terrible at explaining grips without being able to see what I'm talking about. Google some pistol sites and see what you can find. Thumbs forward is the standard for semi-auto guns, just be mindful to not be riding the slide stop.

found packers of briskets. If you need the Love Matt let me know. Restaurant Depot wholesale. Just took some finagling to get a membership

Awesome! I am all over it. Wifes favorite is brisket.

Anything else you want in bulk as well. Yesterday's special Angus Prime NY Strip $4.04 /lb (50+ lbs)

That is disgustingly good. I couldn't use that much quickly though and would have to freeze. I have never frozen beef for steaks before. Isn't that a bad idea?

At that price it is worth freezing. A good steak frozen is better than a mediocre one fresh. Just have to allocate a couple days to thaw in the fridge and slowly bring it back to room temp.

Or an hour or so in luke cold water...

No. Never do that if you can help it. Better than warm water, but if you thaw it quickly it will not retain its moisture in the right places. And running cold is just as effective as slightly warmed. The key is moving water. There are other items that I surely use this for, but red meat is not one of them.

Interesting, imagine that focus and concentration are the key to nearly everything in life.

<- has hardly ever shot a gun and found the above insightful, but the reality is the same as other things...but applying it to the right part. I would have focused more on my target and not the site.

Hows the project going Luke?

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I swear my brain isn't good with remembering numbers and math concepts.

I knew 90% of stuff from Calc I, had three week break for christmas, got in Calc II, and forget basic shit like deriving and integrating. I'm getting all the HW done, but it's taking me ten minutes to do something that I use to do in two.

I can't remember the lyrics of music I listen to now, but I can play Offspring, and remember the lyrics from when I listened to them over six years ago.

People always talk about bits from a movie, "hey remember when x said to y, and then z did...", I never remember any of that especially quotes.

I'm sure this is pretty normal, but sometimes I feel like I'm always just off.

I messed with it for awhile and decided on MS Word. Mostly because I used it a week ago for a different assignment and it's somewhat familiar. I can't connect to the VPN to upload it to my X drive at school so I can't see how it actually looks yet. A friend in another section just finished his so I might have him sit down with me and show me some stuff.

I can hardly remember all the stuff I learned from freshman year and the course is a continuation of STA 205 so it's been a PITA trying to get the hang of it.

You can view it with any web browser. Should be able to double click on the file, or drag it into chrome, ff, ie, etc.

just be mindful to not be riding the slide stop.

Oh that would hurt.

Alright it looks like I am going to spend the day looking at cars. I guess that is better than sitting through the wife's convention.

So it seems I am one of only 50 or so men at this.

Interesting, imagine that focus and concentration are the key to nearly everything in life.

<- has hardly ever shot a gun and found the above insightful, but the reality is the same as other things...but applying it to the right part. I would have focused more on my target and not the site.

I find ISSF style bullseye shooting like a zen moment. I enjoy using the string method of showing how sight alignment is vastly more important to the sight picture. I take a long string, and show if you move the front sight a little, how far the impact point changes due to everything being in a line. Then show that if you keep the two sights aligned, how far you can move it and still maintain a respectable point of impact.

When having problems just take it back to the basics, little mental notes can make a big difference. Calm yourself down, do a few mental calming/breathing routines, visualize what you are after, then execute the shot. It should happen in your head before it happens for real. Little mental notes like when breathing tell yourself "I desire 10's", and believe it when you tell yourself.

If you find yourself staring at the target and not your sights, put up a target backwards and shoot at a clean sheet of paper, not looking at where you bullets are impacting, just focus on the same thing, one at a time. You'd be surprised how tight the group will be. When shooting ISSF, we use to shoot targets backwards, you'd be surprised what kind of scores you can get without ever seeing the actual bull, just knowing your hold.

Shooting a bullseye match is only one shot. Period.

That shot is repeated, 40, 60, etc times, but you only ever shoot ONE shot.