Losing Muh Shit

[Alphatreedog]

Man I have been barely shooting so as to preserve My stash and I am losing my shit .
After a range session wether it's ; pistol trigger discipline/speed drill , recoil management , all the number drills , steel , AR up drills , positions etc . I have been reborn . Anointed by God and overall head dislodged from posterior . So I started dry firing with muh timer and running airsoft on muh back yard steel challenge set up . I am going to hit club steel challenge comps for November and December as wells as Action Pistol . Fuck it , what's 2400 rounds right vs muh sanity . Besides December club comps are usually charity events .
It's for the kids .

 

[Not a Sniper]

Shoot and be sane-hoarding ammo and wandering around drooling like the Commie sock puppet doesn't help anyone.

Save enough so you can resupply in a pinch.

Happy hunting Hoss.

 

[308pirate]

I've shot 29 USPSA matches in 2021 to date including the following level II and III matches:

• Buckeye Blast
• Mitten Match
• Michigan Sectional
• Battle For The North Coast
• Area 5

I also took a one-day class from Matt Pranka and two-day classes from Mason Lane and Tim Herron. Went from low B class at the beginning of the year to 79.1% in Carry Optics and have a good chance of pushing into Master class before the year is over.

Fuck the ammo shortage

PS, I've shot less ammo this year than ever before in practice. I've shifted from about 50/50 live/dry fire to 90/10 dry/live fire. And I've become a better pistol shooter than I've ever been before.

 

[Alphatreedog]

I've shot 29 USPSA matches in 2021 including the following level II and III matches:

• Buckeye Blast
• Mitten Match
• Michigan Sectional
• Battle For The North Coast
• Area 5

I also took a one-day class from Matt Pranka and two-day classes from Mason Lane and Tim Herron. Went from low B class at the beginning of the year to 79.1% in Carry Optics and have a good chance of pushing into Master class before the year is over.

Fuck the ammo shortage

You're an effin Stud . Thank you .

 

[308pirate]

You're an effin Stud . Thank you .

I've also been buying components in as large amounts as I can throughout the year.

Most I've paid for primers is $150/K and I still have a surplus of LRP for trade towards pistol or small rifle primers (both of which I'll use to make 9 mm)

 

[TxWelder35]

if you are play your cards right you can still load 9mm for close to the price it was in 2018.

primers from scheels 5.99/100
Bullets from rmr for 8c a pop
Pistol powder for me has been the hardest to come by but a little goes a long way and can still get it local for $30/#

that’s right around 20c/round

 

[308pirate]

if you are play your cards right you can still load 9mm for close to the price it was in 2018.

primers from scheels 5.99/100
Bullets from rmr for 8c a pop
Pistol powder for me has been the hardest to come by but a little goes a long way and can still get it local for $30/#

that’s right around 20c/round

Polymer coated lead bullets are still less than 7 cents each in volume and from click "buy" to my door less than 2 weeks

 

[Alphatreedog]

By the Grace of God we just had a Sportsman's Warehouse open near me and the get mixed primers here and there . $41 per k .
Kin Ahh git en Amen .

 

[Not a Sniper]

I've shot 29 USPSA matches in 2021 to date including the following level II and III matches:

• Buckeye Blast
• Mitten Match
• Michigan Sectional
• Battle For The North Coast
• Area 5

I also took a one-day class from Matt Pranka and two-day classes from Mason Lane and Tim Herron. Went from low B class at the beginning of the year to 79.1% in Carry Optics and have a good chance of pushing into Master class before the year is over.

Fuck the ammo shortage

PS, I've shot less ammo this year than ever before in practice. I've shifted from about 50/50 live/dry fire to 90/10 dry/live fire. And I've become a better pistol shooter than I've ever been before.

You, sir, are a committed muthafucker! Congrats!

If'n folks cannot participate in these ways...

Y'all may want to check out the TACO conversation some German dude (@TheGerman ) started. It took ALL my damn self-control NOT to post the PBJ Taco recipes I found. Just sayin'. PS: they were SOFT! Ask and the DuckDuckGo ears hear....

PS: I want the follow up to that Marmalade challenge. Asking for a friend.

 

[502Chevelle]

@308pirate, you go man! I shot real hard last year getting ready for Uspsa National 2 gun match. Shot it and did ok. I told the Ms that I’d back off a little to catch up around the farm, plus it was summer and hot as crap. Haven’t shot since June and am having serious withdrawals. Now my foot is messed up and I’m scheduled for surgery the first of Dec, so I’m just screwed. I’m glad someone else is out there carrying the torch. Keep up the good work. Good job! -but not in a Whiplash sort of way. If you haven’t seen the movie Whiplash, it comes highly recommended, and you won’t get the reference without it!

 

[502Chevelle]

@Not a Sniper , We need to start a thread on the marmalade challenge. You can post a simple thumbs up or down.

 

[nso123]

I've shot 29 USPSA matches in 2021 to date including the following level II and III matches:

• Buckeye Blast
• Mitten Match
• Michigan Sectional
• Battle For The North Coast
• Area 5

I also took a one-day class from Matt Pranka and two-day classes from Mason Lane and Tim Herron. Went from low B class at the beginning of the year to 79.1% in Carry Optics and have a good chance of pushing into Master class before the year is over.

Fuck the ammo shortage

PS, I've shot less ammo this year than ever before in practice. I've shifted from about 50/50 live/dry fire to 90/10 dry/live fire. And I've become a better pistol shooter than I've ever been before.

Dang, and I thought I had been busy with 25 Steel Challenge matches, including World Speed Shooting Championship. Well, I am shooting two divisions in each, so maybe I have been busy too.

 

[mahlv]

Good job! -but not in a Whiplash sort of way. If you haven’t seen the movie Whiplash, it comes highly recommended, and you won’t get the reference without it!

Whiplash cracked me up. Perfect character choices for that flick.

 

[308pirate]

Dang, and I thought I had been busy with 25 Steel Challenge matches, including World Speed Shooting Championship. Well, I am shooting two divisions in each, so maybe I have been busy too.

I'm addicted to the process

 

[308pirate]

@308pirate, you go man! I shot real hard last year getting ready for Uspsa National 2 gun match. Shot it and did ok. I told the Ms that I’d back off a little to catch up around the farm, plus it was summer and hot as crap. Haven’t shot since June and am having serious withdrawals. Now my foot is messed up and I’m scheduled for surgery the first of Dec, so I’m just screwed. I’m glad someone else is out there carrying the torch. Keep up the good work. Good job! -but not in a Whiplash sort of way. If you haven’t seen the movie Whiplash, it comes highly recommended, and you won’t get the reference without it!

I DQ'd myself at the Buckeye Blast and Area 5.............so there's that

 

[308pirate]

You, sir, are a committed muthafucker! Congrats!

If'n folks cannot participate in these ways...

Y'all may want to check out the TACO conversation some German dude (@TheGerman ) started. It took ALL my damn self-control NOT to post the PBJ Taco recipes I found. Just sayin'. PS: they were SOFT! Ask and the DuckDuckGo ears hear....

PS: I want the follow up to that Marmalade challenge. Asking for a friend.

I'm addicted to the process of getting gooder

 

[502Chevelle]

I hate it when I do that! (DQ) Never done it at a big uspsa match, but have done it at a PRS match. Shit happens!

 

[308pirate]

I hate it when I do that! (DQ) Never done it at a big uspsa match, but have done it at a PRS match. Shit happens!

The one at Area 5 was a bonehead move going uprange. I've since practiced that move in dryfire to make sure I never get it wrong again.

The Buckeye Blast DQ was an accident. I tripped on a fault line moving into the last position I needed to hit and started falling fwd onto gravel. I made the split second decision to let the gun go to keep the fall from being worse. Losing physical control of your pistol (even fumbling to hold on to it): DQ

 

[nso123]

The one at Area 5 was a bonehead move going uprange. I've since practiced that move in dryfire to make sure I never get it wrong again.

The Buckeye Blast DQ was an accident. I tripped on a fault line moving into the last position I needed to hit and started falling fwd onto gravel. I made the split second decision to let the gun go to keep the fall from being worse. Losing physical control of your pistol (even fumbling to hold on to it): DQ

At least you weren’t the one who fell and ripped a round off through the bay behind him. That turned into some internet gold on social media

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Glad to know I ain't the only one using airsoft/paintball for indoor and break-time warehouse pallet area practice.

Got a real old spring-air pistol paintball shooter I ordered from Cabelas way back in 2004 for indoor target practice and balloon shredding. 1:1 configuration with a real Beretta 92 with orange muzzle cap. Everybody in the shop can have their fun with it off hours or on break in the area where all of the broken pallets sit waiting for pickup. There are at least 3 pallets in the area which have been COMPLETELY covered in paint over time and they might actually qualify for submission as works of modern art.

 

[502Chevelle]

That’s cool that they let you do that. My company would flip their shit if I asked to do that.

 

[308pirate]

Glad to know I ain't the only one using airsoft/paintball for indoor and break-time warehouse pallet area practice.

I use real guns for dry fire. So does virtually anyone who is serious about competing in USPSA.

Airsoft pistols don't weigh the same, don't balance the same, don't have the same trigger press, and many aren't even dimensionally identical to the real thing. I have a Glock 17 airsoft that fits in holsters that my real 17 won't.

 

[308pirate]

At least you weren’t the one who fell and ripped a round off through the bay behind him. That turned into some internet gold on social media

LOL yea that wasn't me. I shoot carry optics. He was shooting an Open gun and those things have awfully light triggers and many don't have a firing pin block.

Don't know if he fell, held on to the gun, and ripped one or if he dropped the gun during the fall and it fired when it hit the ground.