joshs' Journal: ISIS Field Training Log

[OrigamiAK]

Those FAST times are awesome, Josh.

The consistency is impressive.

I was just going to say that too.

Good job!

[GJM]

Josh, what especially stands out are how great your reloads are. What is your secret?

[joshs]

Thanks guys!

Josh, what especially stands out are how great your reloads are. What is your secret?

Lots of dry practice. When I was focused on winning a coin, I realized that I didn't get to shoot live fire enough to significantly reduce my times on the "shooting" portions of the fast. The easiest way for me to reduce my time was to work on reloads. A good concealment reload makes the FAST significantly easier.

I broke the reload down into a couple of components and tried to improve them separately. The biggest gain came from improving my hand speed from the grip to the pouch and from the pouch back to the point right before mag insertion. Like the draw, there are aspects of the reload that require precision and others that don't. I take more time on the precision aspects and try to move as fast as possible for the rest of the reload. I also gave up on the high reload that I had been doing in favor of reloading with the front sight at or just below the eye/target line. For consistency, I now index my elbow against my ribcage in order to hold the pistol at the same angle for every reload. I'm slightly faster with the gun farther away from my body, but much less consistent, especially when reloading on the move.

[ToddG]

5/3/13 NRA Range practice w/ ToddG

DoTW Cold Shot

Distance: 5 yards
Par: 1.5 seconds
Result: Hit

Kitten you.

I broke the reload down into a couple of components and tried to improve them separately. The biggest gain came from improving my hand speed from the grip to the pouch and from the pouch back to the point right before mag insertion. Like the draw, there are aspects of the reload that require precision and others that don't. I take more time on the precision aspects and try to move as fast as possible for the rest of the reload. I also gave up on the high reload that I had been doing in favor of reloading with the front sight at or just below the eye/target line. For consistency, I now index my elbow against my ribcage in order to hold the pistol at the same angle for every reload. I'm slightly faster with the gun farther away from my body, but much less consistent, especially when reloading on the move.

One of the biggest things I've got out of shooting with you recently was seeing how much closer you are to what I teach than I am. In my quest to fix my 1911 reload I've been all over the map with technique. I really need to dial that back in.

[joshs]

My pistol shooting has been rather stagnant recently. In large part, I think this is due to a lack of goals (not to mention changing pistols quite frequently). In the past, I've always used result oriented goals, but I'm going to change my approach to one that is process oriented. My new goal (stolen from Tom Jones) is to train every day* for the next year. I'm also going to shoot the same pistol for the whole year.

Due to the current ammo shortage, most of my training for the near future will be dry fire. I'm going to start with the pistol-training dry fire routine.

Day 1

Pistol-training.com "basic routine." 17 minutes (dry fire)

I've been working on getting my vision used to having the front sight accommodated and my convergence on the target since I read this post. I find this especially difficult to do on the Wall Drill due to how close the "target" is to the front sight. My vision seems to want to bring my convergence back the last little bit to the front sight. I had to step back from the wall to get my vision to adjust, then I was able to move closer and stay converged on the wall with the front sight accommodated.

*The minimum amount of training for one "day" is fifteen minutes of dry fire.

[GJM]

I'm also going to shoot the same pistol for the whole year.

Going to declare what that pistol is now, or wait until the end of the year?

[ToddG]

I'm also going to shoot the same pistol for the whole year.

I see a new PF competition coming: guess the date joshs switches guns.

[GJM]

Overlooking my complete lack of credibility on this topic, I would want to know whether "shoot the same pistol," means one serial number, one model, one brand or one type (as in semi-auto versus revolver)?

[JV]

Overlooking my complete lack of credibility on this topic, I would want to know whether "shoot the same pistol," means one serial number, one model, one brand or one type (as in semi-auto versus revolver)?

Same caliber.

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[OrigamiAK]

My pistol shooting has been rather stagnant recently. In large part, I think this is due to a lack of goals (not to mention changing pistols quite frequently). In the past, I've always used result oriented goals, but I'm going to change my approach to one that is process oriented. My new goal (stolen from Tom Jones) is to train every day* for the next year. I'm also going to shoot the same pistol for the whole year.

Due to the current ammo shortage, most of my training for the near future will be dry fire. I'm going to start with the pistol-training dry fire routine.

Day 1

Pistol-training.com "basic routine." 17 minutes (dry fire)

I've been working on getting my vision used to having the front sight accommodated and my convergence on the target since I read this post. I find this especially difficult to do on the Wall Drill due to how close the "target" is to the front sight. My vision seems to want to bring my convergence back the last little bit to the front sight. I had to step back from the wall to get my vision to adjust, then I was able to move closer and stay converged on the wall with the front sight accommodated.

*The minimum amount of training for one "day" is fifteen minutes of dry fire.

I have a terrible time with that on the Wall Drill too. I find that I have to give myself a blank wall at some distance to get it to work well for me. When I do it very close to the wall I get a slight double image on the rear sight and it strains my eyes and it's hard to maintain the accommodation and convergence where I want.