An example of FLINCH!

Now let's get the fact that I am not picking on Tess out of the way first! This is however the best video example of flinch, the almost involuntary preaction to recoil that causes the shooter to miss, that I have ever seen. The good thing is that Tess realized what was happening and did not shoot. This leads us to.... how do I stop flinching? I hate to ruin this for you but you won't, the best you can hope for is to reduce it greatly and not have it move the sights off target as much. Dry fire as much as you can ( remember to follow all the safety rules). Go to the range and shoot as much as you can..... the first step is knowing you do it because everyone does!

Andy



It happens about 37 seconds in. Great first shot Tess!

Police Charity match................

This past Saturday (4/4/09) Carlos Gibson asked myself and Angel Medina to help him as safety officers in a Charity match held at the Chesterfield Public Safety range. Loosely based on IDPA rules it was only open to Law Enforcement, mainly Chesterfield Police and Sheriff. The match had 8 stages and was a total of 112 rounds if you did not take any extra shots! Here are the Videos I shot, I did not get every stage. It's a little difficult to be a Safety Officer and a camera man!

I was truly impressed with the skill of the folks who came and shot the match. All were proficient with there weapons, most of which appeared to be Glocks in .40 Caliber. There was a mixture of plain clothes officers and those who had true retention holsters and I not having much experience with retention holster was amazed at the draw times some of the officers had.

Most typical IDPA skills were used, shooting on the move, slide-lock and tactical reloads, drawing from a seated position, targets with t-shirts on them, swingers, no-shoots, strong hand shooting and shots out to 20 yards. I believe Carlos is going to try to do this more often to help with the traing of Chesterfields already highly skilled Officers!

Thank you Carlos we all had a great time and would be more than happy to do it again for you!

Andy

Here is a video of Carlos shooting a 10 round stage with 2 disappearing pop up targets and 3 static target. All targets get 2 rounds each!




Angel Medina shooting!



Angel shooting the 20 yard stage. From each side of the barricade shoot the targets with 3 rounds each, tac-reload , move forward and repeat, Limited Vickers.


Here is one of Carlos's associates. Knock over the non-threat with ticket book which starts a non-threat swinger. Engage each target with 3 rounds each, near to far and don't shoot the good guys!



The winner and still champion!!! Carlos G. shooting a self explanitory stage!

Proarms Podcast, Training Drills......

The latest Podcast from the Proarms crew! Very interesting training or practice drills. I have been doing a lot more weak and strong hand at the Cavalier match recently.... that might turn into an all weak hand match!What do you think? Of the podcast? What are some of your training drills?

Andy

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Ballistics gel...........

Cavalier IDPA Stages 3/22/09

Stage 1-String 1 Bill Drill, engage one targets with a minimum of 6 rounds while moving lateraly. Free style. 20ish yards.



Stage 1-String 2 Bill Drill, engage one targets with a minimum of 6 rounds while moving lateraly. Strong style. 10ish yards.







Stage 1-String 3 Bill Drill, engage one targets with a minimum of 6 rounds while moving lateraly. Weak style. 5 yards





Stage 2. More moving and some hard cover on the targets, 18 rounds Vickers count.






Stage 3 18 rounds Vickers All shots fired while moving, weaving between vision barries.

The Incident

OOOpppsss.....

Andy

The "Snubby"

For anyone who has not listened to this yet it is all about the past present and future of the snub nose revolver! I really enjoyed the last side match at Cavalier and we will be doing more of the same in the months to come. Andy

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Here is the winning run from the Great McHaffa!

Carry Ammo

Another fantastic podcast from the Proarms crew! This one is on carry ammo! Listen and be amazed.

Andy

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