Quote Originally Posted by CHA-LEE View Post
Yes, failing is part of learning and competing. Thus why I keep diligent in practicing the things I have challenges with and learning what I have challenges with is best discovered under the pressure involved with competition shooting. If I had an over inflated ego why would I even post a video of me failing for everyone to see? It would be much easier to only post the stage runs where I knocked it out of the park to pump up my ego, but that isn't who I am. I use these videos to observe what skills are failing so I can formulate a training plan to fix them. If I only posted the stage runs where I was executing my skills properly then it wouldnt be a very useful training tool would it?

The stage in question is a plate rack of 6 inch plates set at about 30 yards down range. This is by no means, an "Easy" shooting challenge but it was a fun stage to shoot at the match. The majority of my misses were only about 1 - 2 inches low hitting the frame of the rack just below the plates by the evidence of the dirt being kicked up just below the plate rack. When I got back home after this match, I setup this same shooting challenge in practice and shot it using different points of aim on the plates and different types of trigger presses to figure out what the best solution is for this type of target scenario. The way I see it, this video of me failing to hit the plates was a perfect tool in identifying a weakness in my shooting skills, formulating a training plan to over come the issue, and incorporating the solution into my future practice sessions. I could care less if others choose to leverage it as a "See how much you suck....." point they are trying to make. For the "Haters", I would suggest you setup this exact same shooting challenge the next time you are at the range for practice and see if you can shoot the plates one for one at an aggressive pace. After you give it a try and eat a big slice of humble pie you may want to rethink your judgement of others performance in the shooting challenge in question.
I wasn't calling you out on your shooting ability. You're a good shooter, and yes that's a hard stage. I've shot USPSA - it's a fun game.

Your hit percentage on the poppers was 50%, and yet none of those were through a windshield? Weird. Maybe you just needed to slow down, execute the fundamentals properly regardless of the situation, and get the hits the first time. Oh wait it's a hard stage - I forgot. You getting the point yet???

"Carrying more ammo daily so you can continue to fail in executing the shooting fundamentals is a retarded strategy if you ask me. " Wow
"Carrying more ammo only promotes failure to aim at the thing you are shooting at." Now that is dumb.
"He would be better served with daily carrying a reasonable amount of ammo but instead improving his firearms training and practice to a point where he can execute the fundamentals properly regardless of the situation. " - Based on your tireless weekends at the USPSA match. Awesome.

Plink away partner.