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First time shooting a handgun for me was two years ago. Last week, I made Master class in Carry Optics with my Shadow 2.

All I can say - if you are not dry firing at least twice a day (doesn’t have to be long) you’re wasting time, money, and ammo.

And if you own a bunch of guns but don’t shoot competitions, you really should. Especially if you have a CCW. Stress inoculation is real.
 

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Nice work! That is no small achievement. I shoot too many different divisions and don't put much work into it anymore, but definitely commend those who do. If/when our local clubs start doing PCSL or 3-gun, I'll start shooting more again. I used to shoot 3-4 matches a week, but i'ts gone down to 2 or 3 a month max. I don't get enough out of it to get up early and make the drive.

Congrats again and kudos on sticking with it. That's awesome.
 
FriedChickies said:
First time shooting a handgun for me was two years ago. Last week, I made Master class in Carry Optics with my Shadow 2.

All I can say - if you are not dry firing at least twice a day (doesn’t have to be long) you’re wasting time, money, and ammo.

And if you own a bunch of guns but don’t shoot competitions, you really should. Especially if you have a CCW. Stress inoculation is real.
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FANTASTIC!!! Congratulations. 🎉🍾🎊👏🏼

Feel free to pass along as much advice and guidance as possible for those of us who hope to follow in your footsteps.

I would love to hear more about your adventure, how you got started, you challenges and successes along the way, etc.
 
Congrats, that’s awesome! I took ten years off from pretty much touching guns in general and just got back into USPSA two months ago, fingers crossed I don’t mess up the all classifier match this weekend lol
 
PlasticMan said:
Nice work! That is no small achievement. I shoot too many different divisions and don't put much work into it anymore, but definitely commend those who do. If/when our local clubs start doing PCSL or 3-gun, I'll start shooting more again. I used to shoot 3-4 matches a week, but i'ts gone down to 2 or 3 a month max. I don't get enough out of it to get up early and make the drive.

Congrats again and kudos on sticking with it. That's awesome.
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It’s a lot of work, most people don’t appreciate that. Cleaning and maintaining your mags and gun, getting the ammo ready. Getting enough sleep and waking up early, prepping, getting to the match early to walk the stages, formulating and executing your stage plans, then helping with tear-down. It’s essentially a second job tbh.

PCSL is getting more and more popular in CA, still not like USPSA but it’s definitely there. I have yet to join in on one. Have to get my rifle ready!
 
FriedChickies said:
Focus on being safe. Speed comes with time. You’ll see a lot of people on your squad go fast and feel the urge to keep up with them, but don’t. Imagine if the timer doesn’t exist.
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You must have seen who im squadded with, lol.
A couple of masters and maybe a grand master in there too.
 
cali_jazz said:
FANTASTIC!!! Congratulations. 🎉🍾🎊👏🏼

Feel free to pass along as much advice and guidance as possible for those of us who hope to follow in your footsteps.

I would love to hear more about your adventure, how you got started, you challenges and successes along the way, etc.
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I got into USPSA because I heard some “automatic gunfire” next to the steel range I was at. At the time I didn’t know Action Pistol was a thing. Well I walked over to the range and saw a USPSA competition in progress. The MD saw me and explained what they were doing. He also showed me his weird looking gun called a “Infinity”. I thought it was weird-looking alien gun at first glance. Anyways, that club is now my home club.

Biggest thing that held me back was lack of Dryfire and practice at the range, but also not shooting the right platform. I started on the 320 X5 Legion,but didn’t really like it. Then moved to a HK VP9 Match, which was ok but the grip was too anemic and thin for me. I wasn’t able to get good purchase on the gun with my weak hand.

I wish I had gone straight to the Shadow 2 at first and saved myself the money and time. But it was a fun learning experience nonetheless.

The truth imo is you need to compete on a regular basis, as well as live-fire practice. Most of USPSA is a thinking game... think stage plans. BUT your execution (shooting skills) needs to be as perfect as you can be.

Competing regularly allows you to build experience, so when you’re walking a new stage, you’re already “seeing” the possibilities of stage plan. What’s the round count and number of targets? Where’s your reload? How many minimum shooting positions are necessary? What can you blend (shoot on the move)? Where are the high-risk targets? Where can I be aggressive, where do I need to be conservative? How many makeup shots do I have? What’s the average hit factor of this stage going to be? Stuff like this.

The two most important concepts I’ll close with…

1. Read the WSB. No seriously

2. Grip, sights, trigger. That’s your priority.
 
Excellent work, congrats! I finally shot my first steel match last week after months and months of talking about getting into competitive shooting, and it was a blast. I’ll be shooting in the PRG 5.11 Championship Series match on 6/20. Nervous as hell but very much looking forward to it. Main priorities are to be safe, make it to the end without a DQ, and learn as much as I can from the more experienced shooters in the field.
 
cobian1984 said:
Excellent work, congrats! I finally shot my first steel match last week after months and months of talking about getting into competitive shooting, and it was a blast. I’ll be shooting in the PRG 5.11 Championship Series match on 6/20. Nervous as hell but very much looking forward to it. Main priorities are to be safe, make it to the end without a DQ, and learn as much as I can from the more experienced shooters in the field.
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That’s the right mindset.. Everything else will come with time under the timer. Glad to see you take the plunge into the sport!
 
FriedChickies said:
It’s a lot of work, most people don’t appreciate that. Cleaning and maintaining your mags and gun, getting the ammo ready. Getting enough sleep and waking up early, prepping, getting to the match early to walk the stages, formulating and executing your stage plans, then helping with tear-down. It’s essentially a second job tbh.

PCSL is getting more and more popular in CA, still not like USPSA but it’s definitely there. I have yet to join in on one. Have to get my rifle ready!
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Yeah, the whole reason I started shooting USPSA was specifically to become a better pistol shooter and not embarrass myself when the club started hosting multi and 3gun matches again(went away during covid). Slummed it for years shooting multiple divisions in USPSA just trying to improve without really caring about classification only for the club to finally say "Multigun isn't coming back here. We are only doing USPSA." Needless to say, that kind of took the wind out of my sails and I just started focusing more on my dirbike. I can go up to Burro for PCSL and West End for 3gun, but 2 hour drive + long match + 2 hour drive.... meh. I still want to shoot to maintain the skillset, but that's about as much value as I'm willing to put on it anymore.
 
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