About the Tips
This is the most exiting addition to the FAQ in a long time. This is a series of tips written by the top shooters in the sport of GSSF (Glock Sport Shooting Foundation). Although the tips were written specifically about GSSF almost all of the information is relevant to all your Glock shooting activities.

The four authors you are about to read are Bobbby Carver, Jim Costanza, Tom Costanza and Dale Rhea. Between them, they won an amazing 73% of the Master class GSSF events they entered in the 2000 season. At the 2001 Mesa, AZ GSSF match Bobby beat Rob Leatham in both the Stockmeister AND the Unlimited classes. I have competed against them several times and I can guarantee you they are the best Glock shooters anywhere. These tips were originally posted to the GSSF Section of GlockTalk.com and I would like to thank them for allowing me to reprint them here.

Taking Care of Your Body - Bobby Carver
How many times have you been at a match and when you were on the line, you felt weak, had the shakes or were light headed? It's possible that you were suffering from lack of water, low blood sugar or both.
These "tips" should be recognized as a "to do" for both practices and matches:

1. When you are competing in a match of any type, eat a balanced meal at least 2 hours before you go to the match.

2. To avoid a drop in blood sugar, carry granola bars, energy bars, candy or snacks to eat or munch on before you shoot. (fresh carrots are great munchies) When you are on your feet while waiting to shoot, you are burning energy that will be needed when you go to the line to shoot. Do not allow your body to run out of fuel. Snack while waiting.

3. Like your car or truck, your body needs plenty of water to help keep it from over heating. During the summer months, drink at least 8oz of water or juice every 60 minutes. Avoid excessive amounts of caffeine drinks. The caffeine could make your eyesight weaker and your body shaky. It's a good idea to sip on water or juice prior to going to the line to shoot.

4. When possible, sit down and rest out of the sun before you shoot. You will remain calmer when you get on the line because your heart rate will decrease from the rest.

Taking care of your body is as important as taking care of your Glock. Don't abuse it before a match by eating or drinking excessively and get a good night's sleep before the match.

Many of you only get the chance to compete in one GSSF match annually, don't miss the chance to let your skills excel.

The Importance of Practice - Tom Costanza
Practice is the most important part of the equation in obtaining good scores. Yes, the equipment, being in shape, good ammo, proper shooting stance etc., all play a part in good scores. But if one does not practice using all of the tools you might as well not have the tools to use.

You should approach a practice session like it was Saturday at the match. During practice use the targets that are utilized during the match. Buy the D-1's so that you get the feeling of where that X ring sits. Get at least 1 popper to shoot the M with. Set it so that it doesn't fall when shooting and you will save time in the resetting. If steel is not an option then trim down an IPSC target and turn it around showing the white side. Staple that to a target frame. To simulate the steel plates, set up 2 target frames with a connecting 1x2. Staple cardboard to it and put white paper plates on it. You will be able to see your hits on the cardboard as well as the plates.

Why do all this? Timing! You can not get good timing on the stages if you only go out and practice the 25 yd target. True, you may need extra practice on the 25 yd target but you need to shoot all of them for the timing. Even the 5 yd target is important. Without it in your practice session you are only shooting 4 targets and will not get the proper rhythm that you are looking for. The same goes for shooting 6 plates either paper or steel. It is nice to set up a single plate to practice hitting it at 11 yards. But you need to shoot the entire bank of 6 to get a comfortable speed for you to shoot 6.

When starting out keep in mind that hits are more important than speed. As we used to say in IPSC, speed will come. You can't shoot fast enough to make up a miss. In fact, if you slow down and get your hits your times will automatically come down,especially shooting the plates. It also holds true for all the targets and stages as well.

Remember, you don't want to just go practice, you want to practice well. If all you do is go shooting you are not practicing. You need to concentrate on all of the things that make a good shot. Hopefully, the tips that are being presented will help you do that.

Stance - Jim Costanza
At the Richmond GSSF match a couple of weeks ago, I actually observed one shooter use three different stances while firing the Glock "M". One for each run. Another shooter moved his feet while shooting. And yet another looked like a bullseye shooter from the 60's and 70's the way he was leaning back from the waist up.

Unlike IPSC or other disciplines, GSSF is a static or stationary shooting sport.

Whether you choose to use the Weaver stance, the isosceles or a modified form of either, choose one, practice it and stick to it.

My preferred stance is one that can be used with the handgun, shotgun, combat rifle or subgun. It is commonly referred to as the "Tactical Stance". It uses a natural fighting stance or a "Boxer's Stance".

The shooter's feet are slightly wider than shoulder width apart. The feet, knees, hips and shoulders are square to the target with a slight bend at the knees and a little weight transfer forward in the upper torso. The arms are fully extended.

This stance affords the best possible platform to absorb the most recoil and the best opportunity to control motion. Hence, the strong, stable foundation.

The stance is as important as the other fundamentals of shooting, grip, sight alignment, trigger control and breathing. Applying each will give the consistency required to achieve top notch accuracy and winning scores.

Grip & Stance - Dale Rhea
Shooting fast and accurately is a learned skill. You can learn it. You can go as far in this sport as you let yourself. The only barriers to your progress will be mental ones you construct yourself. If you say, "I can’t do that" or, "I will never be that fast," that will be true. However, all you need to do in order to be successful in this sport is to practice and to have a positive attitude.

If you are determined to improve, practice some part of your pistol craft every day. While practicing, make every shot count for something. Work on either your accuracy or your speed during each practice session.
Don’t over-practice. You may have heard about competitors who expend thousands of rounds in practice, but for a beginner, fifty rounds per session may be more than enough. If you get tired or lose focus, quit. Don’t just rattle off shots down-range because you have the ammunition. Practice ammo is not free: you want something more than spent brass to show for your investment. Save that ammo for tomorrow.

Grip, stance and balance are the foundation of success in shooting sports. If you are using one of those shooting-school stances with a fancy name, a stance that looks like it came from Mechanics Illustrated, forget it. I’ll show you how to build a personal stance and you can call it anything you like.

Grip
Start in a safe place with an empty pistol and a target.

Put the pistol in your strong hand, with your trigger finger pointing straight down-range.

Wrap your middle finger up tight under the trigger guard allowing no gap between your finger and the trigger guard, or between your fingers.

Place the heel of your weak hand as far back as possible on the pistol grip, laying it against the heel of your strong hand. Wrap your fingers over your strong hand fingers, with your index finger pressed tightly against the bottom of the trigger guard with no gaps between the fingers.

Place your weak hand thumb against the pistol just below and parallel to the slide. Place your strong hand thumb on top of your weak hand thumb.

If you are using an antique 1911-style pistol, place your strong-hand thumb on top of the thumb safety.

If you place your thumbs too high on the pistol, they may interfere with the action of the slide and cause the pistol to malfunction.

If you place them too low, they may interfere with your trigger finger when you are pulling the trigger.

With your strong hand, you should have a firm, but not tight, grip.

Your trigger finger should be somewhat relaxed.

Seventy percent of the total grip should be applied with the weak hand.

Rotate your wrists slightly down and forward, gripping the pistol as if to keep it from flipping up during recoil.

The Stance
In GSSF matches there is no movement so there is no excuse for not having a perfect stance.

Stand squarely facing the target with your feet shoulder-width apart.

Move your strong side foot 6 to 8 inches to the side and then 6 to 8 inches to the rear.

This should feel almost too wide, but it will give you a good base for resisting recoil and moving the pistol quickly from target to target.

Keep your arms slightly bent and almost relaxed, they will act as shock absorbers for your pistol, and allow you to recover from recoil very fast.

Apply pressure to the pistol from each side as if you’re trying to compress it.

Do not apply pressure from the front and back, as called for by the Weaver stance, this pushing and pulling with your hands interferes with your ability to control the trigger & restricts the side-to-side movement necessary to quickly acquire subsequent targets.

Now bend forward slightly at the waist, placing your shoulders a little in front of your abdomen and putting your weight on the balls of your feet.

This should be a very comfortable, natural stance. The pistol should come up and point at the target without any correction. You may have to make small adjustments in your grip and stance until the sights align naturally and you feel balanced.

If you have the grip and stance right, the pistol will come right back to the target after recoiling.

Trigger Control - Dale Rhea
Before you can compete effectively in a pistol match, you must be able to maintain a good sight picture until the shot breaks. In order to accomplish this, you must coordinate trigger pull with sight picture.

I am going to assume that you know what proper sight alignment is and how to achieve it. Developing proper trigger pull, which will enable you to maintain that perfect alignment, may not be as easy. Many shooters try to grab the shot as soon as they see the sight picture starting to develop. As you pull the trigger, the pressure of your finger tends to move the sights out of alignment. If you try grabbing the shot, you will jerk the trigger and the shot will go to Mexico. To prevent this, you must have a good, well-balanced stance and a strong grip, as described in my last article, combined with a smooth trigger pull.

The best way to learn trigger control, or to test whether you are jerking your shots, is by dry firing. Take a sight picture and pull the trigger normally. If the sights shift out of alignment, you need to work on trigger control. While dry firing, add pressure to the trigger slowly and smoothly. If the sights begin to creep out of alignment, stop adding pressure. Don’t release or back off the pressure, just hold what you have, bring the sights back into alignment, then resume adding pressure to the trigger. Continue this procedure, holding the pressure and bringing the sights back into alignment, until the shot breaks. Practice this dry fire drill until you can pull the trigger right through without disturbing your sight alignment. This drill is much easier if you have a strong grip and a light trigger.

Build on your dry fire practice with live fire drills. Place a target at 4 to 7 yards; close enough so you get instant feedback by seeing the holes as you make them. Mark a spot on the target to use as an aim point. Shoot at this spot, using the same techniques you learned in your dry-fire sessions. Try to put every shot in the same hole. Do not make any attempt to go fast at this time. Strive to be smooth and precise.

Once you are able to put every shot in the same hole, bring out the timer and see how fast you can put every shot in the same hole.

If you have perfected the dry fire drill but are still having trouble putting your shots where you want them, you may be flinching or blinking. You can train yourself not to blink or flinch. Recognizing that you have these problems is half the cure. Doubling up on ear protection, by using both plugs and muffs, will help reduce these reactions. Be aware of them as you practice and practice a lot.

The penalty for not having perfect aim in a GSSF match is from 2 to 10 seconds per bad shot. You can do a lot of aiming in 2 seconds.

Remember that ALL gun handling, with or without ammunition, must be done while obeying all the safety rules.

The First Shot - Bobby Carver
When practicing, spend at least 15 minutes working on your FIRST shot only. Here's how:
1. Working on either plates, Glock M or 5 to Glock, begin in your start position and concentrate on your first shot only.
2. Take your start position with finger out of the trigger guard, press your timer's delayed button and at the sound of the B-e-e of the BEEP, take your first shot.
3. Record your first shot.
4. Try taking your first shot again, following steps 1-3 above.

After a while, you will see that you can shave off 1.0 second of time by getting the first shot off faster!!! It's easier to shave off a few hundreds of a second than to shoot too fast from shot to shot and lose control by hitting C's and D's.

If you will focus on this drill, you will save at least 1.0 second each stage. How many times have you missed winning a class by 1-3 seconds.

You can work on your first shot time when dry firing, too:
1. Set your timer for a delayed signal
2. Set the timer in a par mode for 1.0 second
3. Take your start position and upon the signal raise your Glock and dry fire at a small dot on a wall.

(CAUTION: Make sure your Glock is unloaded and no magazine is used)

Once you feel comfortable with dry firing within the 1.0 second time and the front sight does not move when you squeeze the trigger, reduce your time to 0.90 seconds, etc.

Increased Target Distance - Tom Costanza
When setting up the stages to practice for an upcoming match try the following: Place your targets 2-3 yards further at each position than is required. This will force you to concentrate on your shooting skills more. Then when arriving at a match and the targets are closer, they will appear to be easier to hit.

Example: When shooting plates either a plate rack or simulated paper plate rack, place the targets at 13-14 yards instead of the 11 yards that they will be at the matches. When you get used to shooting and hitting plates at 14 yards they will seem to be right on top of you at 11 yards.

The same will occur with the other targets on the 5 to Glock and the Glock M.

Keep in mind that the basics of good shooting are always important for good hits. Correct sight picture, trigger squeeze, good grip and stance cannot be replaced when looking for good hits.

Also, speed will and should come after accuracy. You can not shoot fast enough to make up a miss. Concentrate on the basics to get good hits, using the above tactic for the targets and the speed will appear. Your GSSF scores will then start to go down which will mean your finishes will go up in the matches.

One caution in doing this is to always check your sights at the correct target distances. This is especially important when using reloads as the point of impact may vary some on the furthest and closest targets. The middle targets will usually be somewhat the same in regards to point of impact.

Shooting Double Taps - Bobby Carver
Have you ever wondered where the second shot of that double tap on a target went? The reason why the second shot didn't hit close to where the first shot scored is because of many factors:
**Your grip may have changed
**The front sight was not where you thought it would be
**You did not depress the trigger the same on the second shot as you did the first. In other words, you squeezed the first shot and jerked the second
**You were beginning to swing the weapon, anticipating the next target to shoot, before the follow through of the second shot
**The target moved?

Well, I think that we could say that all of the above except the last reason were probable causes that would cause the second shot to be elsewhere from where we planned.

How can you prevent large spreads between your "two shot" targets? Here's some points to ponder on and a drill to apply at the range. Perhaps from one or all of these methods, your double taps will become double hits.

Point #1
When you shoot double shots or double taps at a target, as we know, the objective is, "to shoot two shots at the target scoring the highest possible hits from the two shots". We put so much emphasis on fast shooting to lower our times that we sometimes overlook the importance of the hit. TJC, JimC and Dale have all pointed out in their "tips" the importance of control, slow down and shoot with control. Do you think you are shooting within the limits of your control?

Point #2
When shooting from left to right or right to left, it’s important to have a stance to begin with and to end with. The methods of taking an appropriate stance was pointed out in a previous "tip", so using those methods, think about your stance on the last target.

Try this:
When you are at the line and the RO gives you an okay to take a sight picture with an unloaded weapon, check your stance, take a sight picture on the first target, swing to the last target and see if you are in a natural position on the last target. If not, you may want to move your right foot back about a half foot, if shooting right to left OR move your left foot back about a half foot, if shooting left to right or the 'Constanza swing'.

Are you in a natural stance when you take the last shot?

Point #3
It's exciting to hear yourself shooting fast because of how "cool" it looks when you see someone shooting fast. Remember, if you are shooting and not hitting, you are "out of control". Make a point to see the front sight or dot on the second shot as clear as you did the first shot. The most common error when doing "double shots" or "double taps" is to see the front sight on the first shot and look at the target on the second shot. Are you doing that?

Point #4
The "double tap" should be called the "quick jerk" because most shooters will jerk the trigger to try and get that POW POW effect instead of two deliberate POW---POW shots. If you are not releasing the Glock trigger fully and are only releasing it enough to reset the hammer and sear, then your first and second shots will be administered with similar effort and technique. Remember, squeeze the trigger on the first and second shots. Are you jerking your trigger?

Point #5
In order to hit where your weapon is aimed, you "must keep your eye on the front sight or dot". It’s very easy to shoot the first sight with proper trigger control and a perfect sight picture then anticipate the swing to the next target, shooting the second shot real quick with your eyes moving to the next target. Never take your eyes off of the sight, move the weapon with the sight. Are you taking your eyes off of the sight?

After considering these points and evaluating your techniques, try this drill at the range:

Using the 5 to Glock target setup, place a 9-10" paper plate on a 4-5' stick or target stand at the 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 yard target placements for 5 to Glock. (Do not use the normal D-1 target.) Now, prepare to shoot the 5 to Glock match, shooting the paper plate at each distance, following these steps:

1. On the first run, you are only going to shoot the first, second and third targets in the order that you normally shoot them. Starting from left to right or right to left doesn’t matter. Engage each target with 2 rounds each, just like in a match. RECORD YOUR TIME.

2. If you did not get both shots on the paper plate, tape up the plate with some masking tape, and repeat the drill until you can get both shots on each plate. RECORD YOUR TIME

3. Once you have successfully completed #2, add another target to the scheme. Now you will shoot 4 targets or 8 shots, keeping all shots on the paper plates. If not, repeat until you can. RECORD YOUR TIME

4. Once you have successfully engaged 4 targets with 2 shots each, add the final fifth target and apply the same speed, techniques, etc. that you used to shoot the other 4 targets, shooting 2 shots on each target. Record your time and repeat until you can successfully shoot at least 3 complete 10 round runs with all hits on your paper plates. RECORD YOUR TIME

5. Now, take down the paper plates and replace them with your D-1 targets and run 5 to Glock, successfully making A, B and C hits. RECORD YOUR TIME

You will probably use several paper plates but what the heck, they are cheap. When you complete this drill, your run times maybe higher than normal, but, *your total penalties plus time will be less*.

Now that you have successfully completed this drill, get ready to move on up to Stockmeister and U/L with TJC, JimC, Dale and me because you will be shooting like the Masters.

Where did that shot come from? - Jim Costanza
Master or Amateur, we’ve all had them. Shots that we just can’t figure where they came from. Yes, we shot them at the target and our sights were aligned, or so we thought but why didn’t we hit the X ring like we thought we would?

A little exercise that we like to do just for this problem is set up the 5 To Glock as we would shoot it in a match, but fire a single round at each target in strings of lets say, five to ten rounds each.

We start in the ready position; a timer is great for this exercise. At the signal, we fire one round on the 10 yd. target. Repeat this five times and evaluate the target. As long as we are satisfied that our sights, optic or open are adjusted correctly, we can see where our mistakes are on the D-1. Repeat the exercise another five times and evaluate again.

Most likely we will find that our mistakes become more obvious as the distance to the target increases. Maybe our sight(s) are not adjusted correctly. Are we dropping the muzzle evident by consistent but low shots? Or, if we are using a red dot sight, are we allowing for the distance from center bore to the actual point on the target where we see the dot?

This becomes a big problem at 5 and 10 yds. We have had groups at these distances that could be covered with a half dollar but they "located" themselves smack dead center at 6 o’clock in the C zone! We forgot to hold a little high at the closer distances.

Are we grouping to the left at 9 o’clock? Possibly too little trigger finger on the trigger is the problem. Are we pulling our group to the right, nice group but outside the B or C rings at 3 o’clock? Maybe too much finger on the trigger is the reason.

Very possibly we just need to spend more time and ammo at the further targets?

A more complete evaluation and correction chart can be found in the Improving section of Sportshooter.com. This is a very valuable tool and can be printed out for your future reference.

We use this same exercise on the Glock M. One big mistake that we make is trying to go too fast on the M. We usually swing right past the popper or our shots on the D-1 target just after the popper are to the direction that we swing. We have to slow down and align the sights on the target before going to the next one. Making a conscious effort to slow down a tad on the 20 yd. D-1’s is hard but we practice to do just that. Additional speed will come with practice.

A very good exercise that we have found for Glock The Plates is to use 7" white paper plates affixed to a brown cardboard background, usually about 12" high and sufficient length to accommodate all six plates with sufficient space between each plate. By doing this we can see our "missed" shots on the background. We then tape the misses and try again. Usually we find that our misses tend to be right or left of the "plate" all according to the direction that we fire. We have a tendency to not stop or pause at the plate when we squeeze the trigger. This will definitely cause a miss. Low or high shots can be sight adjustment of us breaking our wrist down or up. At the 11 yd. plate distance, even the most poorly sighted Glock pistol will be able to group somewhere on an 8" circle so, the misses are most likely us, not the gun or ammo.

Combining this tip along with the previous ones, we should be able to improve our relationship with the three Glock courses of fire.

Shooting The Plates Faster - Bobby Carver
Of course we know that in order to shoot the plates faster, we must hit each plate with one shot. The tips that I'm going to offer should be in CONJUNCTION to the tips offered by TJC and JIMC the past couple of weeks. Your stance is VERY important and the distance that you train shooting plates will build your confidence, too.
TIPS:

1. Make sure that your STANCE is correct.
2. Make sure that your GRIP is correct.
3. If you have access to an electronic timer that will record your shots, shoot a rack of 6 plates, and then record on a piece of paper the following:
A. Time for first shot
B. Time for second shot
C. Time BETWEEN the first shot and second
D. Time for third shot
E. Time BETWEEN the second and third
F. Time for fourth shot
G. Time BETWEEN the third and fourth shot
H. Time for fifth shot
I. Time BETWEEN the fourth and fifth shot
J. Time for sixth shot
K. Time BETWEEN the fifth and sixth shot
(We're assuming all plates were hit with one shot one plate)

Now, let's analyze what you've done. The time for the first shot is telling you how fast your reaction time, sight alignment,etc. is for the first plate. We've already discussed the importance and the method to reduce this time, let's talk about the remainder. The shot BETWEEN each plate are what we want to analyze. These shots are what we are going to work on.

DRILL:
1. Using your timer, shoot the first plate and second plate, record your time for each shot and the time BETWEEN. (Example = 1.6 seconds)
2. Set an achievable goal, for example at 1.4 seconds. Reshoot until you can achieve the 1.4 seconds with 2 shots for 2 plates.
3. Once you have successfully done step #2 above with ease, then shoot plate 1, 2 and 3, record your time and work on shooting plate 3 with the same spread that you achieved between plate 1 and 2, setting a goal on paper and recording your attempts until you achieve your goal.
4. Once you have achieved your goal for plate 3, then shoot plates 1, 2, 3 and 4, recording your time and spreads BETWEEN each shot, attempting to keep the spreads the same,meeting your goal.
5. Once you have completed your goal for the first 4 plates, then shoot plates 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, recording your times and spreads, setting your goal and shooting until you achieve it.
6. Finally, shoot all 6 plates applying the same drill methods that you have done on the previous plates and be WOWED at your time.

Using this method, you can methodically reduce your plate times, while improving your focus on the plates and your techniques. If you are currently shooting a run of plates at 4.0 seconds, your spreads may look like this:
1st shot = 1.0
2nd shot = 1.6
3rd shot = 2.2
4th shot = 2.8
5th shot = 3.4
6th shot = 4.0

As you can see, you have a first shot within 1 second and you have a .60 second spread between shots. IF............you reduce your first shot by .1 seconds and reduce the spread between each shot by .1 seconds,as I've described, you will NOW shoot your plate runs in.........3.4 seconds!!!! WOW

Watching the plates fall is a common habit that all of us has to work hard on breaking. I have to remind myself not to watch the plates fall, too. If you practice the steps that I described, shooting 1 shot 1 plate progressively until you can shoot all plates within 6 shots, you will overcome the habit because you will be thinking about getting your sights on the next plate,etc. I would suggest that you shut your non-dominant eye and focus ONLY on the front sight and the plate you are shooting with your dominant eye.

Like all habits, watching the plates is hard NOT to do. It will take practice to overcome this. After shooting all plates with one shot each plate, it is a good habit to re-survey the rack before lowering your weapon, just in case one did not fall.

5 to Glock and Glock M - Jim Costanza
At the matches we spend a lot of time watching how shooters "attack" the 5 To Glock and Glock M. We fully understand that many shooters have "their way" of shooting, but we think some need to re-evaluate what they are doing by using their results as a measure compared to other shooters. We re-evaluate our results all the time after practices and matches.
As we all know, or should know by now, it is not required to shoot the Glock stages in any "tactical order". However, we have constantly seen shooters who zig zag their way across, over or down the 5 to Glock. Some even pick their heads up to see which targets they have not yet fired on.

We have tried several ways to shoot this stage but in reality, we have come to the conclusion that shooting the targets from right to left, 10 yd., 20 yd., 25 yd., 15 yd. and 5 yd., is the most economical as far as ease of movement. Remember, time is what is added to your final score. This may change for a left hand shooter, we are not sure.

Start with a double tap to the 10 yd. target. If you are not comfortable with a double tap, try a controlled pair or just two shoots as fast as you can accurately fire them. Slow down a tad for the 20 yd. target. For the 25 yd., take your time and watch those sights. Be it your stock gun or your unlimited gun with a red dot; watch the sight(s). On to the 15 yd. with an increase in speed and then, double tap that 5 yd. with all you accurately have.

We try to shoot the 5 to Glock at practice in less than 25 sec. clean with the stock gun and between 18 and 21 sec. with the unlimited guns. This doesn’t always work but we try.

The Glock M is one of our favorite stages. We practice this one from right to left also. We used to shoot the first two runs from right to left and the final one from left to right. After examining this procedure, we could not figure why so we decided to stick with right to left for all three runs.

When we practice we don’t have ready access to full size poppers so we use 3-8" plates positioned atop 4x4’s, 2 feet tall. Shooting this small target at practice makes the full size poppers seem rather large at the actual match. Almost like we could not miss them.

Begin by double tapping the right side 10 yd. target and immediately hit the popper as quickly as you can get your sights on it but GET YOUR SIGHTS ON IT. Here is where we can throw shots out to the left on the 20 yd. target if we swing too fast from the popper to it. We need to slow down and get our sight(s) on the 20 yd. target before we pull the trigger. The same goes for the second 20 yd. target and then end up the run with another double tap on the left side 10 yd. target. Repeat three times of course.

We have heard all sorts of ways to shoot this also. One being to leave the steel for last. We have observed that when this is done, the time it takes to go back for the steel is longer than if it is taken in order. We believe that is why it is called the M. Also, if we do happen to miss one, we can always pick up the next one and not break our stride.

We like to run the M in about 18 to 21 sec. with the stock gun and under 20 sec. with the unlimited gun. We say again, we like to.

We hope this little suggestion will help you in your practice and at the matches. Remember; shoot the match as you do your practice. It makes no sense to practice one way and then go to a match and change your game plane because you see someone else do something different.

Ammo - Tom Costanza
Let's talk about the ammo we use to shoot GSSF. While this will not be a reloading course we will talk about some things to do that may help your scores. You can have a stock Glock or one of the super-duper unlimited guns. No matter what your taste is, you need to feed it. What you feed it can have as much affect on your score as how you shoot it.

With your time being your score in GSSF it is important to shoot not only accurately but quickly. We have previously talked about how to get to a comfortable level of speed and accuracy. But you can also help that by using quality ammo that does not recoil as much as others.

To do this you may have to buy a few boxes of different ammo in different bullet weights. Try them for accuracy in your guns as well as felt recoil. USUALLY, the lighter bullets have a bit less felt recoil. This will help you with a faster recovery time for the next shot. Remember, what works for one may not work for another. You need to try each brand and bullet weight in your gun for both recoil and accuracy.

Reloaded ammunition:
Some important points with regards to reloads. Assuming you have chosen the bullet you intend to use, you should load it in the same brass that you will use in the match as well as with the same powder lot and primers. While the primers may not be as important as long as they are the same brand, it is nice to keep everything the same.

It is important though that you use the same brand brass when working up the load you intend to use. Brass manufactured by different companies can vary greatly in thickness. This will affect the pressures and velocities of your loads. When working up reduced loads for reduced recoil, this may become very important. What will work in your Winchester practice brass may not work in your shined up Federal match brass at the match. Also, shooting a mixed bag of brass brands may vary the recoil greatly from shot to shot.

Keep your brass separated by brands, use the same powder lot and make sure you practice with the same ammo you will shoot in the match. It does not pay to practice with say lead bullets of one weight because they are cheaper and then buy nice new ammo with jacketed bullets for the match.

Your ammo selection and how it works in your gun can mean the difference of a few seconds. That may mean the difference of winning or a lesser finish in the standings.

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