Thank you for the fantastic videos and answering questions. How do you feel about the variety of the flat faced triggers for glocks? I know you love the agency glocks, but what about the variety of after market triggers, like the apex, royal arms, agency, etc drop ins?
My POV is both have a lot to offer no matter your focus. The only problem I have is that there are a lot of bad habits that can be picked up shooting comps if you aren't a solid tactical shooter before hand. If it's all speed, speed, speed with no other considerations, then training scars (in the tactical world) can develop pretty quickly. IMO, get good at defense shooting and then use competitions to get better, faster. and more refined.
Good video Aaron, great information. When I began competitive shooting (a local plate rack league, IPSC, and bowling pin) my main focus was defensive-based and I thought I was "okay." After getting my ass handed to me at a couple of matches, I began to breakdown stages, learn the angles, etc., which greatly helped. The biggest takeaway for me was weapons handling – one learns to run one's pistol.
Two instructors immediately come to mind that are USPSA Grand Masters, and who are also accomplished combat shooters – Frank Garcia, and Frank Proctor.
Wow, excellent perspective. I agree completely. I have done both competition shooting and "tactical" training. I shoot competitively far more often, frankly because it is vastly cheaper and is still fantastic skill development. Yes some of the rules intended to make competition safe are "anti-tactical," but it is easy to think (and practice) past that. There are necessary and separate skills to be gained from both, and the infighting is just silly.
I mainly agree with you. What is strange is, I found most competition shooters tell me they'd give up their guns if the govt told them to. That surprised me. Defensive shooters see the 2nd Amendment for what it is. Again, not 100%, but overall.
Where competition shooting blows it for me is that I asked and asked that the rules be changed that if someone misses the target, they zero out the stage rather than getting minus 10 points. Granted, -10 points is nothing to sneeze at, but how many times do you see people (pros, amateurs, me sometimes) rush the shots so much because how time in competition figures into winning. Those missed shots could be killing innocents and it's a bad habit. When I stopped shooting competition after several years of doing it intensely, when I shoot I MUST hit what I'm aiming at. I don't want the habit of feeling so rushed for time that I can sacrifice a miss.
Great answer. Anyone who believes themselves to be too tactical to at least occasionally participate in competitions is allowing their ego to get in the way of their development as a shooter.
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Very well said.
Thank you for the fantastic videos and answering questions.
How do you feel about the variety of the flat faced triggers for glocks?
I know you love the agency glocks, but what about the variety of after market triggers, like the apex, royal arms, agency, etc drop ins?
My POV is both have a lot to offer no matter your focus. The only problem I have is that there are a lot of bad habits that can be picked up shooting comps if you aren't a solid tactical shooter before hand. If it's all speed, speed, speed with no other considerations, then training scars (in the tactical world) can develop pretty quickly. IMO, get good at defense shooting and then use competitions to get better, faster. and more refined.
Good video Aaron, great information. When I began competitive shooting (a local plate rack league, IPSC, and bowling pin) my main focus was defensive-based and I thought I was "okay." After getting my ass handed to me at a couple of matches, I began to breakdown stages, learn the angles, etc., which greatly helped. The biggest takeaway for me was weapons handling – one learns to run one's pistol.
Two instructors immediately come to mind that are USPSA Grand Masters, and who are also accomplished combat shooters – Frank Garcia, and Frank Proctor.
Wow, excellent perspective. I agree completely. I have done both competition shooting and "tactical" training. I shoot competitively far more often, frankly because it is vastly cheaper and is still fantastic skill development. Yes some of the rules intended to make competition safe are "anti-tactical," but it is easy to think (and practice) past that. There are necessary and separate skills to be gained from both, and the infighting is just silly.
Very well said.
Neither is better than the other, they're just different.
Both can be used in conjunction with each other to become a better shooter.
I mainly agree with you. What is strange is, I found most competition shooters tell me they'd give up their guns if the govt told them to. That surprised me. Defensive shooters see the 2nd Amendment for what it is. Again, not 100%, but overall.
Where competition shooting blows it for me is that I asked and asked that the rules be changed that if someone misses the target, they zero out the stage rather than getting minus 10 points. Granted, -10 points is nothing to sneeze at, but how many times do you see people (pros, amateurs, me sometimes) rush the shots so much because how time in competition figures into winning. Those missed shots could be killing innocents and it's a bad habit. When I stopped shooting competition after several years of doing it intensely, when I shoot I MUST hit what I'm aiming at. I don't want the habit of feeling so rushed for time that I can sacrifice a miss.
Great answer. Anyone who believes themselves to be too tactical to at least occasionally participate in competitions is allowing their ego to get in the way of their development as a shooter.
Well said brother.
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great input.. thanks Aaron.