I've wanted to post a pic of myself holding my precision bolt gun with the match homo technique to illustrate the absurdity of it. :D
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I understand what you're trying to say but this is a bad example. You can practice something with shitty technique and it won't make you that much better no matter how many rounds you send downrange. Think quality over just quantity. 15,000 rounds of "cup and saucer" shooting will lead to slower split times and shittier groups than what the same person could achieve with a better grip and better training even if it is less total rounds downrange.
We always said "practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect."
I've also shot with guys that were using good technique and shot thousands of rounds a year, but they just were not that great of shooters. I know other guys that don't shoot very often but can pick up a gun and spank everybody because they have all the fundementals down and can apply them correctly.
Back to the OP:
I used to hold an M4 by the magwell. Now I can't stand to hold it that way. I like getting my support hand out as far as possible. The funny thing is that I was taught to hold the support hand forward as early as 1995 by John Shaw. I just didn't like doing it at the time. Now i find that I can shoot faster and more accurately with my support hand out further.
Everything I learned in BCT AIT at Ft Benning back in 83' is now just about turned upside down. I am relearning the AR.
it's been a few more years since the OP. i'd like to hear what you've changed lately.
personally, i'm stuck in 2-point sling land, hating it, thinking there has to be a better way. my carbine handling has been influenced heavily (and in unexpected ways) by all the time spent on precision/sniper matches. and my practice in the past two years has been 80% after dark. i've also switched from suppressed 6 yrs ago to brakes 3 yrs ago and now back to suppressed. and from 18" to 10" bbls.
I cut my guns to 4, an alloy 9mm commander for practice and it's the wife's CCW gun. A Sig P938, in my front pants pocket holster, A 10.5" AR and a .22 that will remain vague. If it's ever time for the rifle, I'm staying underground during daylight hours. That's much safer and more practical than any long range bs. If people are unaware of my presence, I"ll be happy to leave things that way. If the are aware of me, they wont be holding still, fully-exposed in daylight anyway. If they are attacking me, I'm not wasting any of my ammo by firing at dodging men beyond 300m and very little of it beyond 200m. I want to have plenty of ammo left for when the maximum amount of effective fire is likely to occur and be needed, which is well inside of 100m mostly inside of 50m. That's where several hits per second can be had and that's what's most likely to make the attackers break and run. I dont need a lot of practice to be able to do such things with a suppressed rifle in daylight. I've needed a pistol half a dozen times, and i've never once needed the rifle. So my training reflects that reality. 5m cover using heads are at least as hard to hit as 15m fully exposed torsos. That's extremely long range when you'r being shot-at and all you have is a pistol.
tellum - you can stop with the necroposts.