Hitch's Training Blog

"Life has a way of making the foreseeable never happen, and the unforeseeable that which your life becomes."  Everett Hitch, Appaloosa. One week and 150 rounds into my new draw, my new draw seems to be about 20 milliseconds slower and more accurate than the thumb roll draw.  This is just the opposite of what I expected. I may be slower because the draw is not fully committed to the subconscious and therefore I am shooting from the frontal lobe.  Any thought slows you down.  Most of my shots during a match at Rio were within a few milliseconds of each other and generally about 20 mls slower. The increased accuracy may be coming from the fact that my muzzle height is now higher and less angle is required to the center of the target.  Most of my variance at Rio was horizontal although I did have one match where I walk the hits vertically. At Rio I started the event at 1.33 (.58+.75) and finished the only shooter clean at 1.56 (.56+1.0).  Unfortunately ...

I started my new draw December 2. Hopefully, it will be a little quicker.  Today, I started my bucket work.  I setup my portable target. Since I changed my draw I needed to recalculate my target height. My new height was 46 inches.  (47-45=2/15=.13*5=.66+45=45.66 rounded up to 46)  Two lines one 2.5 inches low and one 2.5 inches high. This the same as shooting at 15 inch target at 15 feet. First five shots: Next five shots: First 25 rounds on my new draw. A little low but I am not concerned it will come up over time. I am chunking data and learning how to move the new draw up into the target zone. I got 2950 more rounds to go.  I am a high shooter normally in an event so starting low is better: After this Shady and I did a Shady/Ruah Speed run. I hit 14 of 15 shots but grouping was poor. It will get better. The point of the training system is to get your draw finalized and to get you to shoot from the subconscious. Once you get there, the menta...