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 Frazzled wrote:
We had three kids at the IDPA competition this weekend. Even children are better then I am. And why exactly are nonthreats a penalty when you hit them? They should have ducked!

You sound like a CERT team member I know.....

Hey its why I have wiener dogs. They come pre-ducked!

I love to shoot but don't actually get to a range very often. Hopefully ammo supplies are going to catch back up soon.

I am most proud of my 300 Blackout I built from parts on my dining room table.

My favorites would be my Winchester model 94 Trapper in .45 Colt, and my Springfield M1A Scout Squad.

 SickSix wrote:
I love to shoot but don't actually get to a range very often. Hopefully ammo supplies are going to catch back up soon.

I am most proud of my 300 Blackout I built from parts on my dining room table.

My favorites would be my Winchester model 94 Trapper in .45 Colt, and my Springfield M1A Scout Squad.

Do you have a can for that 300? The 300 performs exceptionally well when it is suppressed......

I am so madly jealous of both your .300 BL upper and your M1A. I'd want a full size wood stock national match with a classic style scope mount instead of a scout squad, but I'm old school like that.

So, I was watching Covert Affairs today on Hulu and guess what I saw.



It's so awesome seeing your piece in the movies/TV.

See Im going to be buying a Ruger SR9 in the next few months. Thats a boring everyday pistol. You go and buy a weirdo and you know youll see your gun on TV

 Breotan wrote:
So, I was watching Covert Affairs today on Hulu and guess what I saw.



It's so awesome seeing your piece in the movies/TV.

How does that Rhino shoot? Did you find a holster for it?

 Breotan wrote:
So, I was watching Covert Affairs today on Hulu and guess what I saw.


It's so awesome seeing your piece in the movies/TV.

You know that could be misinterpreted, and I'm just the one to do it!


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 KingCracker wrote:
See Im going to be buying a Ruger SR9 in the next few months. Thats a boring everyday pistol. You go and buy a weirdo and you know youll see your gun on TV

SR9 or SR9c?

 Breotan wrote:
What's that bottom pistol?

It's just a Glock 19. It does have a threaded barrel in it, because once I save up several hundred dollars and a year's worth of patience, I'd like to get a can to put on it. I guess I could have taken it out of the holster for the picture...

And Frazzled, I'm in the same boat as you. Why are child shooters great in competition right off the bat? What sort of magical elixers are their parents giving them?

 Frazzled wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
So, I was watching Covert Affairs today on Hulu and guess what I saw.


It's so awesome seeing your piece in the movies/TV.

You know that could be misinterpreted, and I'm just the one to do it!


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 KingCracker wrote:
See Im going to be buying a Ruger SR9 in the next few months. Thats a boring everyday pistol. You go and buy a weirdo and you know youll see your gun on TV

SR9 or SR9c?

SR9.

 CrashUSAR wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
What's that bottom pistol?

It's just a Glock 19. It does have a threaded barrel in it, because once I save up several hundred dollars and a year's worth of patience, I'd like to get a can to put on it. I guess I could have taken it out of the holster for the picture...

And Frazzled, I'm in the same boat as you. Why are child shooters great in competition right off the bat? What sort of magical elixers are their parents giving them?

In actuality, I've never seen a bad shooter under 12 in comparison to, well everyone else.

Ive got one daughter who is a right hand shooter left eye dominant. Working on her to settle her shooting. The rest are able to do the dueling tree like it's nothing.

I really want a Chiappa Rhino... to be accurate I really really want a Mateba Unica 6 (5" barrel, .357 Mag) but since I don't have 3-5k to drop on a very esoteric handgun I'll stick to ONE DAY getting a Rhino. Those bad boys still run about 1k when I see them in stores, and for that price I'd rather keep saving towards a Tavor or M1A

 Spacemanvic wrote:
Ive got one daughter who is a right hand shooter left eye dominant. Working on her to settle her shooting. The rest are able to do the dueling tree like it's nothing.

Yea my oldest brother is the same. Right handed left eye dominant. He shoots rifles and shotguns just fine as he shoots lefty, but his pistol he says it feels too weird shooting left, so he has to basically look at his right shoulder with his face so his eye lines up properly. Works well for him






On a side note, Im looking up holsters for our next purchases. The wife and I are wanting outside waistband holsters (mainly because we wont go for our CCW stuff till after we have the pistols a bit) and Im laughing at some of the negative reviews people give some of them on Amazon. Its kind of a "well no gak, its meant for a fullsize, not a compact" moment most the time. I was looking at one for the SR9 and it was MEANT for the SR9, not the compact version. So common sense would tell you that the holster will be to large for the compact version, and this guy is bitching and complaining about how he is soooo mad that he bought this holster and the bottom sticks out from under his shirt and is totally not what was advertised......when it clearly says "fits ruger SR9 and SR40 full size holster People

 Spacemanvic wrote:
Ive got one daughter who is a right hand shooter left eye dominant. Working on her to settle her shooting. The rest are able to do the dueling tree like it's nothing.

As someone that is right eye dominant, but left handed... your daughter is better off learning how to shoot right handed. You can do a little bit of visual adjustment with something like archery, but with shooting it's a little different.

I dont totally agree. Like I said, my brother shoots pistol weird, but rifle and shotgun he just shoots left handed. The pistol he just crooks his head more than normal and has no real problems shooting other than needing more time to goto the range and practice

 Frazzled wrote:

 CrashUSAR wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
What's that bottom pistol?

It's just a Glock 19. It does have a threaded barrel in it, because once I save up several hundred dollars and a year's worth of patience, I'd like to get a can to put on it. I guess I could have taken it out of the holster for the picture...

And Frazzled, I'm in the same boat as you. Why are child shooters great in competition right off the bat? What sort of magical elixers are their parents giving them?

In actuality, I've never seen a bad shooter under 12 in comparison to, well everyone else.

its so true, scouts took all of us to the boy scouts range... back in the day before they closed the range because, you know, guns are bad mmkay?

anyways, the RO was actually doing a lot of research on young shooters, how sex, eye color, glasses, ect affected the shooting.

He always told me the reason why all the young starters shoot so well, is that
A: they havnt developed a flinch yet, and if trained properly, esp with a .22 to start, never will
B:they have not developed enough bad habits from being self taught
C:kids are just better at learning everything then adults.

Id agree with that. My son is a crazy good shot already and hes 8. And The Giants son is 11 and that kid can outshoot me.

Anybody have a good place to look at for learning more about proper pistol stance? Everyone in my area seems to do it differently and I really don't want to learn any bad habits.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
Anybody have a good place to look at for learning more about proper pistol stance? Everyone in my area seems to do it differently and I really don't want to learn any bad habits.

www.pistol-training.com

ToddG's an experienced trainer who knows his gak and is well recommended by other serious trainers. The forums are pretty free of the usual 'enthusiast' bs and focus on the important stuff.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
Anybody have a good place to look at for learning more about proper pistol stance? Everyone in my area seems to do it differently and I really don't want to learn any bad habits.

Some options:
1. Look up classes in your are via the NRA
2. Look up shooting groups in your area. They may have connections to instructors.
3. Cal/ask where you shoot at, if there are any instructors or cards.

Guys who run CHL classes typically also offer shooting instructino classes. These are excellent.

Also DVDs can be helpful. The NRA used to run these dvds to people and I thought they were very good.
http://www.icetraining.us/

Also don't get hung up on stance. Get hung up on proper two and one hand grip, sight picture, and squeezing the trigger. Get that right and and stances or "who cares just shoot."

We did a lark string that was great. You had to step-shoot one foot-step-shoot on one foot- three steps and finish the string on one foot.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Fatman baby!

Since I just cannot accept the idea of getting a "normal" gun, I saw a NRA advert for a Tavor B16 from IWI US.



Anyone had a chance to try one of these?

 KingCracker wrote:
I dont totally agree. Like I said, my brother shoots pistol weird, but rifle and shotgun he just shoots left handed. The pistol he just crooks his head more than normal and has no real problems shooting other than needing more time to goto the range and practice

I've found it's just easier to adjust to the eye dominancy, my rifle shooting improved vastly after I got used to it.

 Breotan wrote:
Since I just cannot accept the idea of getting a "normal" gun, I saw a NRA advert for a Tavor B16 from IWI US.



Anyone had a chance to try one of these?

It does look sweet. Reviews are good for it. Real expensive though.

A friend of mine has an airsoft Tavor, and it shoots really well...I know that doesn't really help, but figured I'd throw it out there

Man, I hate the Tavor.

 Seaward wrote:
Man, I hate the Tavor.

Seriously?

 Breotan wrote:

 Seaward wrote:
Man, I hate the Tavor.

Seriously?

Yup. I don't like bullpup after hearing how much the Brits hate them, then seeing for myself.

tavors are awesome, if you like bullpups, I would highly reccommend one if your wallet is feeling a bit too heavy.

that being said,

can you guys get the t97 in the states? we have those coming in up here by the boatload, and they seem to do everything the tavor does (cept look as pretty) for only 850$