Spent the day at KR Training.

I started out helping with the Basic Pistol 1 class. As always, the class was full. The demographics ran the gamut, as it tends to. I will say there were more women in today’s class than usual, including some younger women (mother-daughter combos, which was cool). The class ran well.

The afternoon was AT-6: Advanced Training Pistol Workout. There were only a few people signed up for the class, so Karl didn’t need any help with it. Instead, he suggested I shoot the drills, which was a good suggestion. I took AT-6 a few months ago, but there’s certainly no harm in extra trigger time. Some of the drills were the same, some were different. For instance, we started off shooting the FBI Qualification test, then moved on to 25 yard group shooting. A lot of strong-hand-only and weak-hand-only shooting. Shooting on the move. You end up working things that you may not like to work, but the only way to get to be the best and a well-rounded shooter is to not just practice the things you like, but to practice the things you don’t like and practice them until you like them (thank you, Brian Enos).

Reading my assessment of the first time I took the class, I’ve certainly improved. In fact, while I was shooting today I was generally pleased with myself. I was calling my shots and knew when I screwed up a shot. One thing I continue to have trouble with is my eyes at 25 yards and finding and holding that solid and repeated point of aim with each shot. My trigger control was alright (we did ball and dummy and I wasn’t seeing any dipping of the front sight when the ball went off), it’s my eyes and what I’m (not) seeing. Speaking of eyes and triggers, I’m still not getting on the trigger soon enough… rather, I distinctly found times where I should have been on the trigger sooner but instead was like: present, find front sight, OK it’s aligned, now press the trigger. But I’m feeling it and knowing what it is. It was only a few days ago that I worked the “fast shooting” to learn what a sight picture with 0.20 second splits would look like, so it’s all just not ingrained in my head… still need to work on learning that and allowing myself to do it. Overall, happy with how things went, I know what I need to continue to work on.

In related news… for today I used my XD-9 with the Springer Precision trigger kit in it. Probably 400-ish rounds today and the gun ran like a champ. It’s still not 100% like the other gun with the really tight trigger, but it’s rather close. I know my head was focused in part on the trigger wanting to see how it felt and how it worked, and I think it did fine; if anything, my focusing on the trigger took my focus away from shooting. It’s one of those “just shut up and shoot” things… “mind no mind” and so on. Just shoot, forget about the rest. And that works out well for me. I’m pleased with the results of the trigger kit. I’ll keep shooting this gun for a while.

Good day. No sunburn. Stayed hydrated. Got some good trigger time. Good day. 🙂