it helps to have your head in the game, phone off, watch shooters that are better than you as they do the walk through and shoot their plan. I would also tape targets and would follow my plan on the way to do so, which gave me a few extra walk throughs.I try to learn something from each match. I guess if I do its a win.
There is a lot there to marinate on. The video could have been made in response to my question.
Ive only been at gun point a couple of times. I guess the fact Im the only one shooting and bullets are only going in one direction should allow me to relax.
I should have done this. I need to focus on a plan and a back up going in. This week on one stage my phone started ringing as I was drawing my gun. I answer my phone all day at work so reflex caused me to pause. I pushed through but it caused me pause. Next month my phone wont be in my pocket. Another round was shooting falling steel and Ive never shot larger falling steel. When the target didnt fall I had to readjust and come back to it. I should have had a plan going in for that what if.
the other part about falling steel is that you need to learn to call your shots. Basically that means you know where it's ending up based on your sight picture at the time the shot breaks. Not listening to hear it ping, not waiting for it to move. I deleted it but I took first person video of me running a falling steel stage and was unloading to show clear before the 2nd to last and last steel fell, because I knew where the shots were going to land as I made them.
Stick with a platform for a while. If you carry a glock, shoot with it or it's slightly bigger version. You need reps on what you carry and muscle memory is absolutely a thing. Don't mess with other guns for like at least a year. Learn how to run it, what it can actually do, and how it feels. I feel slide lock on 1911s and polymer guns but it's different. Know it.