So when are we going to get together and shoot?
Geez guys this is M4C not OSA. I thought ya’ll liked to shoot…
Dude you know we don’t go shooting around here, we just like to post pictures in the “shiny new guns” thread and see which new piece of gear we need to buy to look like Costa this week. 
Seriously though - like we talked about last week, I think heading out to OKCGC on a weekday evening may be our best bet. The weekends seem to be just too full lately.
Any particular day of the week that works better than others?
Maybe if we let people know that Costa has shot on our range people would come just so they could say they’ve shot on the same range? lol
My days off rotate every week. I get off at 3pm though and could be there jock’d up at 330. Fridays would prob. be best since the wife won’t have to worry about getting ready for work the next day and take care of the kiddo while I’m gone.
I’m (supposed to be) off every other Friday - those work well for me and I can be out there anytime then. The 28th will be my next one.
I guess we’ll just have to set a date to go out and then see who else we can get to show up…
Further thoughts:
Would it be worthwhile to plan ahead and provide some more structure to the sessions? Say one week we work through drills related to reloads with the rifle. Or malfunction drills. Or drawstroke and pressout with the pistol.
Honestly I wouldn’t claim to be qualified to teach a brick how to sink (actually if you’ve seen me attempt swimming that’s probably the one thing I am qualified on) but if we have a few pairs of eyes we can help each other work through our issues.
Everybody – what would you like to spend an afternoon working on?
Yeah I think it should be more structured. I have some ideas. We just need to set a date and whoever shows up shows up. I work the 28th but could be there by 330.
Fridays usually will work for me depending on how many brownie points I’ve used up on other stuff. I get off at 11:30 on Fridays so afternoons shoud be available to shoot.
The 28 is probably no good for me but maybe next time.
What kind of ideas?
I say we go for it. We’re not going to get anything going if we don’t just do it… I don’t see anything else on the calendar that would interfere that day. It is the day after that Tom Givens shotgun class, if you’re going to that still. I should be off all day so I can even get out there early to set up targets or something if needed so we can start shooting quicker.
I was thinking if we started doing something just once a month hopefully we could get something good going. We could structure it to be pistol only one month then rifle only then maybe a combo day. I have compiled a decent folder of various drills I’ve been working on for almost a year. Most are around the 50 round range and can be used for rifle or pistol. I searched for drills that would give me about an hour of training (by myself) and not cost me a lot in ammo. I can afford 50 rounds of ammo to burn a month. If we can get a steady program going we can do more if we want too or less and fo a tactics based training day maybe.
Forgot to add… Most of the drills only require one target. Some use two or three though. They also are to be used on idpa/ipsc style targets. I also have charts that go with just about all of them too so you can track your progress. Only thing i don’t have is targets. I’m out.
Next Friday - we still on?
Pistol sounds good. I think I’ll have a new AR doo-dad to try out, and get your opinion on, but that can be a side-bar.
Don’t know if I could make it by 3:30 but I’ll try… I’ve got a bunch of target stands that I can bring.
Does anyone have some pistol dummy rounds or snap caps? I have a neat drill that makes you do a t/r/bang.
I’ve got 9mm and 40’s don’t have man but proly enough.
How man do you think you’d need?
Just one would work. I think we all shoot 9 too.
I have a bunch of homemade 9mm dummy rounds too…
Ok then. Y’all come up with a round count and I will organize the drills around that. I’m thinkng with three or four people 100 rounds is a good target to work around. That would leave us some play time at the end before we split.
100 rounds is a good number. It’ll be easier to shoot more if we want than to figure out what to skip if we’re moving slow.
I don’t have any clean IDPA/IPSC targets left, but I’ve got a ton of cardboard saved up for target backers, and 2 stands I can bring.
I can also run off targets at work (ssshhh) if they fit on a 8.5x11, 8.5x14, or 11x17 size (I use the .pdf’s from Todd’s site a lot).
If we have backers or some shot up idpa targets I guess we can use Magpul targets. I still have a lot of those. I modified most of the drills so that only a zone hits count to make it easy to score and stress accuracy.