Practice locations

nknacd · Mar 10, 2017

Where do you guys practice at for IDPA or USPSA? I know a lot of place do not allow drawing from a holster which is why i ask.

Racinready300ex · Mar 10, 2017

Most of my practice is in my living room with dry fire. But, for live fire I am a member of two clubs on the eastern shore.

gpfan · Mar 10, 2017

Great question! My holster practice is only dry fire, too, and go to as many IDPA competitions as my limited schedule will allow. I spoke with the guys at Heritage in Frederick last weekend about it. One of the managers said they are considering holster work in the future. Not sure of the details, though.

knightindullarmor · Mar 10, 2017

IIRC, Freestate in Middle River allows holster draw but you need be LE or pass their training/qualification for it. One other nice thing about freestate is they allow rapid fire.

bitterkenny · Mar 10, 2017

I would I say in general, I dry fire 200 times for every 1 real shot. I also practice reloads without live rounds. When actually shooting, the NRA range in Fairfax is where I go.

Blaster229 · Mar 10, 2017

bitterkenny said:
I would I say in general, I dry fire 200 times for every 1 real shot. I also practice reloads without live rounds. When actually shooting, the NRA range in Fairfax is where I go.

So. If you went to the range this weekend and fired 100 rounds, you would have dry fired 20,000 times before or after the range day?
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bitterkenny · Mar 10, 2017

Blaster229 said:
So. If you went to the range this weekend and fired 100 rounds, you would have dry fired 20,000 times before or after the range day?
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Yeah, I don't get too many chances to draw from a holster and fire live shots. I just don't. So almost all of it is done at home. And to be clearer, it's presentations from the holster vs. live round fired most of the time.

Blaster229 · Mar 10, 2017

bitterkenny said:
Yeah, I don't get too many chances to draw from a holster and fire live shots. I just don't. So almost all of it is done at home. And to be clearer, it's presentations from the holster vs. live round fired most of the time.

Just to be clearer, if you fired 400 actual rounds last month, you dry fired/drawn out of a holster in your living room, 80,000 times?
80,000?

bitterkenny · Mar 10, 2017

Blaster229 said:
Just to be clearer, if you fired 400 actual rounds last month, you dry fired/drawn out of a holster in your living room, 80,000 times?
80,000?

No. Last month, I didn't draw and fire a single round at all since I didn't go to any matches or even get the range. But I drew from my holster as much as I could, and dry fired as much as I could.

I maybe do 1-2 IDPA matches a month at AAFG. At 6 stages a match, even though the total round count maybe 100+, there's usually only 6 changes to draw and fire. If I can get to the range and practice once a month, I usually focus on followup shots, so I maybe draw and fire 10 times. So that's only 6-22 actual rounds a month for a shots fired from the holster for me in a good month. Usually it's only 6.

Clearly, you are calling me out on my use of numbers and/or poor writing for not spelling out that this is all from a holster. Ok, it's fair to say 200:1 is an exaggeration. So yeah, it's BS. And you win.

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OP, please don't let us distract you from your question. I apologize for this turn. What I'm trying to say, and clearly not very well, is that you can get a lot of practice done at home without firing an actual shot.

Blaster229 · Mar 10, 2017

bitterkenny said:
No. Last month, I didn't draw and fire a single round at all since I didn't go to any matches or even get the range. But I drew from my holster as much as I could, and dry fired as much as I could.

I maybe do 1-2 IDPA matches a month at AAFG. At 6 stages a match, even though the total round count maybe 100+, there's usually only 6 changes to draw and fire. If I can get to the range and practice once a month, I usually focus on followup shots, so I maybe draw and fire 10 times. So that's only 6-22 actual rounds a month for a shots fired from the holster for me in a good month. Usually it's only 6.

Clearly, you are calling me out on my use of numbers and/or poor writing for not spelling out that this is all from a holster. Ok, it's fair to say 200:1 is an exaggeration. So yeah, it's BS. And you win.

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OP, please don't let us distract you from your question. I apologize for this turn. What I'm trying to say, and clearly not very well, is that you can get a lot of practice done at home without firing an actual shot.

Not "calling you out", just trying to understand your numbers. Because if my numbers are your numbers, then I'll call bs. Lol

gpfan · Mar 10, 2017

Blaster229 said:
Not "calling you out", just trying to understand your numbers. Because if my numbers are your numbers, then I'll call bs. Lol

...so do you have any constructive recommendations that pertain to the OP? Because other folks are interested in places to do live fire holster work as well.

Guderian · Mar 10, 2017

I go to PA for my practices.

gpfan · Mar 10, 2017

Guderian said:
I go to PA for my practices.

Where? is it public range or private property/club?

BUFF7MM · Mar 10, 2017

gpfan said:
...so do you have any constructive recommendations that pertain to the OP? Because other folks are interested in places to do live fire holster work as well.

You just have to understand there's a couple of people on here like that, I'm sure there's a term for it, but if I get it wrong I'm sure a big deal will be made of it. :rolleyes:

kraftyone · Mar 10, 2017

Damn I was hoping there was a real answer in this thread

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gpfan · Mar 10, 2017

kraftyone said:
Damn I was hoping there was a real answer in this thread

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So far we have Freestate Gun Range in Middle River (with proficiency testing) and lots of dry fire.

Heritage in Frederick is a possibility for the future.

bitterkenny · Mar 10, 2017

gpfan said:
So far we have Freestate Gun Range in Middle River (with proficiency testing) and lots of dry fire.

Heritage in Frederick is a possibility for the future.

NRA Range in Fairfax, VA. No proficiency testing.

kraftyone · Mar 10, 2017

If you can find a member of New Holland rifle and pistol they allow draw from holster

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gpfan · Mar 10, 2017

kraftyone said:
If you can find a member of New Holland rifle and pistol they allow draw from holster

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Is that east of Lancaster, PA? Cool! I go up in that area once in a while.

gpfan · Mar 10, 2017

bitterkenny said:
NRA Range in Fairfax, VA. No proficiency testing.

Where is that "Like" button.... oh, found it.

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