{"id":4494,"date":"2018-01-16T20:40:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T01:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2018-01-16T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T02:19:12","slug":"theres-something-to-this-practice-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/theres-something-to-this-practice-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"THERE\u2019S SOMETHING TO THIS \u201cPRACTICE\u201d THING"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m going into the last week of my six-week teaching sabbatical, and in between writing assignments and such I tried to live up to my New Year\u2019s resolution to get some trigger time for myself.\u00a0 Several hundred rounds went downrange in high speed drills.<\/p>\n

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Glock 19 Gen5 proves shootable for really old guy in IDPA match. Spent 9mm case has just left ejection port, muzzle still on target for next shot, as range officer in foreground holds timer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It seems to have been helpful.\u00a0The second weekend of the year I was able to shoot a couple of matches, which my schedule has kept few and far between and will again this year.\u00a0 At the Little River Gun Club\u2019s Tier One IDPA match\u00a0 in Valdosta, GA (International Defensive Pistol Association, www.idpa.com<\/a>) I managed to get through the ten stages in unseasonably cold weather and win CCP division, and also come in first place Distinguished Senior (translation: \u201cleast slow REALLY old fart\u201d), and place second for most accurate shooter.\u00a0 CCP stands for Concealed Carry Pistol, requiring the sort of compact guns most folks actually carry concealed in public. I used a Gen5 Glock 19 9mm, which I like very much.\u00a0 I think these new Gen5s have the best \u201cstreet triggers\u201d Glock has put on their popular defensive handguns yet.<\/p>\n

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Itty-bitty Glock 42 kept all its itty-bitty .380 bullets inside the X-ring of close range target (left) and inside the 10-ring of the longer range target, right. Sights are geezer-friendly AmeriGlo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The following day the Evil Princess and I were able to shoot an indoor league Glock Sport Shooting Foundation match (www.gssfonline.com<\/a>) at the Tallahassee Indoor Shooting Range. The shooter\u2019s mark is a single D-1 target, 50 fixed-time shots with 9mm and larger calibers, and 25 with the Pocket Glocks, the .380 G42 or the 9mm G43 models.\u00a0 I managed to shoot a clean 250 out of 250 possible with the little gun, which I\u2019m told is worth a cool patch.\u00a0 Couldn\u2019t break out of the 490s to get a 500 out of 500 patch with the bigger guns, though.<\/p>\n

Guess I need more of that there \u201cpractice\u201d bidness…<\/p>\n

Ya know, when you\u2019re the guy who said \u201cFriends don\u2019t let friends carry mouse guns,\u201d it\u2019s a little embarrassing when you shoot a .380 better than a 9mm. Of course, the late Jeff Cooper would probably have said that a 9mm is <\/em>a mouse gun, so it may just be a matter of perspective.<\/p>\n

My high point of the weekend was watching the Evil Princess shoot. After her first string, with every shot in one small, ragged hole, our range officer Brian said dryly, \u201cWell, that <\/em>target\u2019s gonna be easy to score\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m going into the last week of my six-week teaching sabbatical, and in between writing assignments and such I tried to live up to my New Year\u2019s resolution to get some trigger time for myself.\u00a0 Several hundred rounds went downrange in high speed drills. It seems to have been helpful.\u00a0The second weekend of the year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-competition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}