Posted December 30, 2015 11:13 am by Comments

By Charles Daniel

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In my last article I mentioned I was humbled at my first match. Here are three simple and common errors I made that you can learn from. I am referencing the IDPA target, since my first match was IDPA. The same principles apply to USPSA.

My draw to first shot times were slow!

Slooow! I mean glacially slow! In practice, using my Shot Timer App, I could nail a 0.80 second draw (or so I thought, click here to learn how the app was misleading); but in the match, not so much. Even at my first match I quickly identified opportunities for improvement, thus I took a photo of the score sheet for evaluation later on.

The first the three strings of the IDPA Classifier are Mozambique drills, also known as two to the body and one to the head. My times were 3.37, 3.00 and 3.01 respectively. That sucks! My first “body” shot was slow and my “head” shot (third shot) was pathetic. My second shot was also comical as it was a true double tap, meaning two shots off of one sight picture. It was sheer luck I got -0 on all three targets. In short, I was …Read the Rest

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