tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:32:17 +0000VideoMatch ResultsMental GamePractice DrillsCrossFitTrainingFitnessMusingsRecommended ReadingEquipmentGoal SettingCalendarToolsvinco contendohttp://re-gun.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)Blogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-5911953907660423670Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:42:00 +00002009-08-08T14:46:34.723-07:00I now have Practice Decks in stock in the DR Performance website store! Retail price on them is $19.95. If you need to pay by check, drop me an email ;)Also, look for the decks showing up at several of your favorite retailers soon! Burkett Video, Brazos Custom, Freedom Gunworks, and DoubleAlpha Academy will all be stocking these in very short order.http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2009/08/dr-performance-practice-deck-10-has.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-8291327541165274895Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:06:00 +00002009-08-05T20:08:09.618-07:00I recently filmed a tutorial for a buddy of mine on how to set up a CR Speed holster for USPSA / IPSC competition. Check the vids out on the DR Performance Shooting site!http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2009/08/setting-up-cr-speed-holster.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-6897866601207633642Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:26:00 +00002009-08-05T14:31:53.958-07:00Match ResultsVideoI've shot the Double Tap Championship 4 times now, and the match has never failed to be a fun and challenging experience. It didn't hurt that I had one of the best performances of my career, too. The theme this year was "Indiana Jones", and was a 13 stage, 348 round contest that was mostly more straight up than most matches. Sure, there were the usual Robert Porter embellishments, based on the http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2009/03/match-report-2009-double-tap.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-8038078118085366015Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:41:00 +00002009-03-30T08:00:00.134-07:00CrossFitIf you just landed here from reading my article on the CrossFit Journal, welcome! If there's anything I can do for you, or any questions I can answer about Practical Shooting, shooting in general, or how to apply CrossFit training to firearms applications, feel free to send me an email at dave@drperformanceshooting.com.I'm on the road, heading back from Wichita Falls and the 2009 Double Tap http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2009/03/welcome-crossfit-journal-readers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-6886692639258463124Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:36:00 +00002009-08-05T14:28:41.204-07:00Match ResultsMusingsVideoLooking back, I think I could've at least partially predicted my 2008 season. Coming out of a pretty good 2007 season, I achieved a life long goal... making Grand Master in USPSA's Open division. It was the culmination of a lot of investment (hard work, money, mental energy, you name it). Achieving that goal comes pretty easily to some folks, less easily to others. My improvement was gradual, buthttp://re-gun.blogspot.com/2009/03/2008-year-in-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-4935508883506396117Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:33:00 +00002009-08-05T14:19:59.288-07:00VideoPhoenix in November is a beautiful thing, no doubt about it. The Area 2 Championship (aka, the Rio Salado Desert Classic) has a strong reputation for being a quality match with a superb prize table. This was my first year attending the match, and I can tell you that, for the most part, it lived up to the hype. First, the vid - then hit the DR Performance Shooting site for the rest!http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/12/match-report-2008-area-2-championship.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-5610582093797605574Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:01:00 +00002009-03-20T16:28:57.593-07:00MusingsYeah, unfortunately, the blog has been dormant a while. When you start thinking about all the things you'd like to see and do in your life, make sure one of them is "free time"! Otherwise, you start getting what you asked for... in spades... and you have no notion of this "free time" thing anymore!So, what's on tap? I should have Area 2 video up today, along with a match review. I may add in somehttp://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/12/long-time-coming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-2073586861639455847Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:17:00 +00002008-07-23T10:21:49.028-07:00Recommended ReadingTrainingJake Di Vita is a Grand Master out of Fenton, Michigan - he's also a major contributor over on the Benoverse. Jake has been been posting a "dryfire WOD" (WOD = Workout Of the Day) on his blog. If you need some ideas or inspiration for dry fire practice, check out Jake's blog and hook up on the WODs. You can post your par times to the comments as a way of getting involved and providing a little http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/07/dry-fire-drills.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-5294594206119734364Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:37:00 +00002009-08-05T14:01:34.327-07:00CrossFitFitnessMental GameVideoStill wondering how fitness is important to this shooting sport? At the 2008 Area 1 Championship, we got a solid demonstration of why having a broad, general, inclusive fitness program is an important part of any well rounded shooting program. Stage designer Chuck Anderson threw us a curve ball on stage 9 in the form of a Breaching Technologies, Inc. Ram Breaching Door. Check out the vid - a few http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/07/into-breach.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-1152465081112887109Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:06:00 +00002009-08-05T13:57:10.102-07:00Match ResultsVideoHeld in late June, near Portland, OR, the 2008 Area 1 Championship was hot... damn hot... and full of the types of stages that really demanded you exercise the "Diligentia" aspect of the sport (that's accuracy, of course). Several folks asked about adding in some video commentary and descriptions of the stages, so that they could what in the heck I'm shooting at in the videos - I tried to that http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/07/match-report-2008-area-1-championship.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-6225893034449984819Fri, 23 May 2008 19:26:00 +00002009-08-05T13:54:12.086-07:00The 2008 Texas Open was held May 9-11 in Waco, TX at the Central Texas Rifle and Pistol Club. This match hadn't been held in several years - and apparently may not happen again very soon, for various reasons. But, the match offered a rather significant prize table ($1000 cash to the winner of Open and Limited divisions, and cash back to 1st through 3rd in all classes in each division), and http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/05/match-report-2008-texas-open.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-8546857987748401512Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:26:00 +00002009-08-05T13:51:17.947-07:00EquipmentMusingsI mean, really... Are you? I'm not. I'm fairly handy with tools - even the dreaded Dremel. I can read plans and specs, and I have a pretty mechanical mind, so I can grasp how most of our competition guns actually work internally. But when it comes to taking a set of parts and making a properly working, accurate, reliable firearm out of them, I know better than to delude myself about my abilities.http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/04/are-you-gunsmith.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-38034375578079462Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:39:00 +00002009-08-05T13:47:21.740-07:00Match ResultsVideoAnother road trip, another big match! Area 6 is known for putting on a high quality championship match, and this year did not disappoint. The match was full of testy, challenging stages that bit back if you didn't pay attention. It was everything you expect an Area match to be, in the end.Here's the video - visit the DR Performance Shooting site to read the rest!http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/04/match-report-2008-uspsa-area-6.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-3900326622500448975Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:54:00 +00002009-08-05T13:42:45.337-07:00Match ResultsVideoThe last weekend in March, March 28-30, marked the 4th annual Double Tap Championship held at the Double Tap Ranch in Wichita Falls, TX. The DTC is generally considered to be the exact polar opposite of the Florida Open match. Whereas the Florida Open contains solely "Classic" style targets (with no upper A/B zone - that's the "head"), and generally has a lot of long shots on wide open targets. http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/04/match-report-2008-double-tap.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-4770914818559892161Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:09:00 +00002009-08-05T05:53:57.772-07:00Mental Game...man who aim at published stage descriptions, miss.It seems like a discussion periodically appears on the Benoverse around someone trying to determine the best way to shoot the stages of a major match solely based on the information presented in published courses of fire. The latest one at the time of this writing occurred in the thread for the 2008 Area 6 stages. Usually, the discussion is http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/03/confucious-say.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-2404535496197923115Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:52:00 +00002009-08-05T05:48:32.068-07:00CrossFitFitnessWell, faithful reader, its been a while since my last post. I apologize for the delays - its been a busy couple of weeks over here. I've been thinking about the subject of this post for quite a while. I'm making a semi-controversial statement here, and only sharing my experience - not the results of some massive, scientific study I've undertaken, or anything insane like that. Well, this whole http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/03/shoot-better-with-no-practice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-8264065303270440320Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:49:00 +00002009-08-05T05:43:42.249-07:00EquipmentWe spend a lot of money on this sport, and if you're active at bigger matches, a decent portion of that budget goes towards match entry fees, hotel, gas, rental cars, airfare, food, etc, while attending those big matches. We all want to go to a big match and do well, don't we? Why else would we spend that time and money, and do things like, I don't know.... practice? And yet, many of us travel tohttp://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/03/match-ammunition.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-8218473008257238352Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:00:00 +00002008-03-04T07:27:09.263-08:00Match ResultsVideoLast Sunday I shot the Alpha-Mike match in Bulverde, TX. It took me a bit to get the video finished - I didn't have the scores on hand, and then had to go out of town for a funeral. I prefer to get these things up while they're still fresh in my head, but, as the prophet Jagger said... You can't always get what you want ;)Ok - I won high overall at this match, and Open division. There were a http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/02/match-report-alpha-mike-2172008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-2737890574531093989Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:42:00 +00002009-08-05T05:39:25.018-07:00Match ResultsVideoWow, what an intense match. The 2008 Florida Open was shot over the weekend of February 8-10 at the Universal Shooting Academy, in Frostproof, FL. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, this match is the traditional season opener, and is known for its trademark stages where there aren't any no-shoots or hardcover targets, but the shots are generally long and sneaky difficult. This year was http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/02/match-report-2008-florida-open.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-2854421672032440992Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:10:00 +00002008-02-13T13:53:56.252-08:00TrainingI put up several client testimonials from my training/coaching alter-ego, DR Performance. Check 'em out!http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/02/coaching-testimonials.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-3218022829138681047Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:41:00 +00002008-02-13T13:53:23.281-08:00Match ResultsVideoWell, sorry folks, no video on this one. I got the range and found my camcorder battery totally flat... D'oh. That's OK, though - not much to show you this time. I didn't really connect with my performance on Saturday. I could make excuses, etc, but heck, its not worth lying to either of us. Just wasn't a good match.However - I got about 500 sharp rounds of practice in following the match, and http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/02/alsppc-uspsa-match-222008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-8109805509406333360Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:37:00 +00002009-08-05T05:34:45.971-07:00Practice DrillsTrainingVideoI'm not one of those folks who can stand and do 10 million draws in a row. I get bored, lose focus, and start working bad habits, instead of refining technique. Its just one part of my mental temperament. Here's one of the ways I keep things more interesting - note that I left a couple of key points out when I shot the vid, so check out the comments following it...For the comments, hit the DR http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/01/creative-dry-fire-field-courses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-3514900718368863203Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:21:00 +00002008-02-13T13:53:23.282-08:00Match ResultsVideoThis was the first match with the new gun, and the first monthly match of the year in Waco. Arthur Brown runs a fine match! I won this match, even with some difficulties. Here's the video - comments follow...Here we see one example of why its not a good idea to take new equipment to a big match. Obviously, this was just a local match - I use local level matches as match practice, so its an http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/01/ctrp-january-18th-2008-uspsa-match.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-5679793788809252731Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:20:00 +00002009-08-05T05:30:17.487-07:00EquipmentIn addition to introducing you to the new machine, let's chat a bit about evaluating new equipment. This subject has come up in recent conversations - seems to be a theme.First, the new "toy"!! Back in late 2006, shortly before the Open Nationals, the range where I practiced was shut down, leaving me without a venue to hone skills for the impending match. I was bummed pretty seriously. A couple http://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/01/test-driving-new-equipment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756464142220052485.post-7905478854620754569Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:38:00 +00002009-08-05T05:23:23.366-07:00Goal SettingMental GameSpecificity. That's what this really comes down to. High level performers set specific goals that give a clear direction to their efforts. In a solid goal setting program, there are no vague, directionless goals - the goals become like a ladder, pointing a constant, straight, unwavering upward path.Goals set in this fashion will be appropriate and attainable, and will mostly be "performance goalshttp://re-gun.blogspot.com/2008/01/goals-appropriate-and-attainable.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DaveRe)1