I think I just said this recently in a thread. So I haven't grown.....so sad. What I say most of the time is that anytime you are racing a timer, stop telling me that you are training for real. I hear the "competition is just like the real thing". It isn't......in my limited experience. When the timer goes on in competition, I am so weak that I go into "win" mode. I shoot from right in the doorway (because if you put a door and doorway in a course, its real), I leave cover to reload (cause its faster), and a host of other things. Look at the thread on de-cocking....de-cocking to move 5 yards....the horror of the thought. How about not making surgical shots because you have calculated the points to speed. Want to watch a bad ass competition habit? Check out the post-shooting gun handling habits being instilled. Check out the speed in which a "unload and show clear" is done. Want to send the RSO into a total meltdown...come back to a ready, perform a tactical reload, and scan and re-holster...then un-holster to perform the administrative "load and show clear". I like the part where you flip the round in the air and catch it almost as the last shot is fired better for show, but it's not a great habit. So will competition get you killed? Nope, but you will start building some less than optimal habits. Is there a timer in a gunfight, no there isn't, and if you are leaving cover to reload "cause its faster"...you are wiring in some bad software for a fight, but good software for a game. Decide what you are doing and quite trying to make one into the other.