Sunday Morning Training Group: Recent Episodes
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A group of friends who enjoy competitive shooting and podcasts. None of us are really good at either, so any advice given is for entertainment porpoise only.
Eli and Jason return from big matches. The rest shoot pinetucky with mixed results. Jonney grabs a gear and takes off.
After a total poop show in Florida, the group is back at Pinetucky. The group starts planning the year.
The girls return from Fall Fest. Jason dominates MCRC, Stef loves pistol now, and Nancy goes off and bangs steel. JDogg is attempting to create a new division and Travis is having revolver withdrawl.
Nancy and Eli crush it. Travis finishes another match. Jason has Nats coming up. Stef is venturing off to shoot swamp matches.
The crew shoots mcrc in the southern heat. Jason wins open. Nancy and Stef have the best rivalry ever. Travis finishes a match.
Eli goes dancing. Nancy, JDogg, and Jason go IDPA shooting. Stef and Trav head to Belton for USPSA and tragedy strikes again.
No Eli, as he may be off overlanding or whatever. Nancy is off with her "fun" friends. Stef crushes her first match in Lim Optics. JDogg gets wild with his shots. Jason and Travis manage to lose with style.
The Whole crew is present to hear Travis cry about his DQ. Nancy does a Steel Challenge desk pop. Jason pulls a good match out of MCRC. Stef stays quiet and consistent. Eli cries about an early morning match. Also, some USPSA stuff.
The show is going through some updates and we are now full time with Jason and Eli. This is the first all together and we are still finding our way but hang in there we will get our sh@t together.
If you shoot with Travis, "How to handle trash talk" should now be part of your mental game.
The crew is on a 2 week break and decide to drink on a Friday. We also talk about guns a little.
SC Section match in the books. Congrats to David, Jason, and Jonney! Travis is on to the dot. Stef is getting back into PCC and Nancy went two clicks to the right fighting the left blues.
Everyone's getting serious. Good but tough local match challenges Travis. Stef and Nancy are neck and neck. Both the girls are working on their grip. How much grip? ALL THE GRIP! Single Stack stage planning is fun!
Travis puts down the gauntlet with local revolver shooters and talks about the Pineland cheating scandal. Nancy has a one-on-one training session with Production Master Tyler Meisenheimer and is focused on working fundamentals in dry fire.
Changing up dryfire routines. Nancy and Stef getting some traction with Single Stack. Travis has his eyes on a TK Custom job for his revolver. We're shipping Eli some chili.
We discuss as much as we can without laughing. This is just us goofing around and having fun. We apologize in advance for any star fish that are offended. Have fun and explicit warning for language and content.
Stef struggles with hammer follow and an overall wonky gun her first time out in Single Stack. Nancy struggles with a busted shoulder while trying to learn target focused shooting. Jonney creams everyone and Travis sits out until January when he plans to get his training game up and running.
Nancy learns to stop, drop, and roll. Travis finds the magic bullet for his Ruger. Stef had the low left blues until she got her hands on a rebuilt TRP with a crisp flat trigger. Now all bets are off! She is liking the SS end of the pool.
Rifle Match! Fun times at Pinetucky's end of the year, big boom rifle match. Jonney ran a lightning fast, 21 MINUTE overall with his SKS. Travis's ear pro pulled out mid stage. Cam Newton's fashion show, Thundar the Barbarian, end of the year fun shoots, shooting podcasts, USPSA politics, and Stef's thoughts on what platform to shoot in the 2022 season.
Congratulations to David Lyell for HOA, Dewey Hutson for 2nd in Limited, Ronnie Staten, and Mark Sullivan 1st and 2nd in Production, Travis Crain 1st in Revolver, Jason Karstedt 2nd in Single Stack!
Nancy and Stef compete in the WAR Charity Match. Stef pushes past the pressure to get 2nd Lady in PCC.
Travis does some blue butt goofin and shares some of the art in round making. Then, drops a truth bomb about what's easy to skip doing when we dryfire reloads.
Nancy's kitchen counter is loaded up with belt, holster, mags, mag pouches and base pads. Its Single-Stack-set-up-Sunday over at her house.
The girls are back from Fall Fest. They finished 3rd in Team Pistol, iron sights division and Stef won 1st place Multigun PCC division!
After the Wounded and Recovering (WAR) Charity match, Travis will be back on Revolver. Stef is giving Carry Optics a run with her new Canik. And, Nancy is headed to Single Stack with her new Dan Wesson 1911.
The girls practice PCC prone.
Travis shot his first match after his thumb injury. Jason was on fire and too hard to beat!
Stef is looking to go Carry Optics and Nancy is going Single Stack Minor.
Stef and Nancy picked pistol back up.
Huge dumpster fire match at MCRC. Good times...good times...
Travis is back! His thumb is healed and the revo is being re-tooled for a comeback.
Travis broke his thumb. Never daunted, he is determined to find a new way to shoot. We'll have to see how things unfold. Is an offhand PCC game in his future? Stef continues to shoot solid matches week after week. She thinks her mental game is the reason why. Nancy took notes after each stage and walked away with a few gems.
Special guest star David Lyell joins us! Ollie the parrot is learning to "beep" to help with dry fire training. We talk about how work can get in the way of shooting, grips, and making them fit by reducing them or getting wider options. Enjoy!
We shoot the breeze talking local match performance. Stef finished strong. Pinetucky, Single Stack showdown is next week. Travis promises to be a dry firing machine. Watch out! And for some reason thinks Nancy is Miss Minutes at the TVA.
The Crains get hit by lightning. Stef blazes the plate rack...because setting it on fire is more fun than shooting it. Nancy experiments with double action draws and Travis offers pointers by yelling over the berm. Training with 2 guns, swapping slides, and pros and cons of various Single Stack manufactures. Enjoy!
Reigning single stack king, "sexy-legs" Jason joins us. Belton Gun Club puts on a good match. The problem with running older classifiers. We need to move more!
Travis explains how yesterday was "just a warm up."
Jonney takes out his Leatherman to work on a magazine DURING his run.
Nancy's Leadstar goes down and stays down.
...Single Stack it is!
SC section round up.
Adventures in RO-ing A class shooters. When the “A” in A class does NOT stand for “awesome.”
Complaining. Hurt back. Hurt feet. Shooting no shoots. Missing hidden targets. Shout out to all the new shooters. There seems to be a new influx. Awesome! Accuracy percentage and speed. SC State is 2 weeks away. Oy vey!
David Lyell joins us from his mountain cabin retreat; resting up for Area 6. We talk match performance and nutrition, easy pick-ins in CO and the quest for visual patience.
Nancy brings a PCC to an IDPA match, surprising other bistro diners with her magical napkin concealment powers. We witness the origin of the Revo Daddy jersey making its debut at SC section match. Stef schools us in practice. Starting positions need an exit strategy!
Stef is trying to get a magic ammo recipe for her MPX. Nancy's digging learning to be reactive to the dot. New, USPSA AIWP rules = T-Rex shooters can now play single stack! A3Gun Ladies Invasion Falling Steel Match - here we come!
Listen in for pointers on how to lose weight and get in shape while on a break! Find out how to save money on primers during the shortage. We are ALL itching to get back to shooting. Break time is over!
This is a real downer of an episode but we try to laugh.
The ammo is gone.
We discuss where we are and where we are headed.
Eli returns and says he won a stage.
Nancy and Stef have started individual classified training sessions.
We discuss the signature for score update.
PewPew is having Florida regrets.
The crew talks about their favorite stages and the highs and lows from the Toys for Tots match. Congratulations to our friend David Lyell for his HOA win! Travis wins Revolver and Stef gets high lady! Jonney gets one onion ring for dinner and Nancy breaks in her new Lead Star. Eli is analyzing his stage videos to see where he can get some speed!
The crew gets together with Eli to pre game the SC Toys 4 Tots match.
Also JDOGG shows off his submarine.
Travis reviews his stage being submitted to the state match in 2021. Big question: Should PCC shooters stay back to save time or run up to get Alpha's? According to Travis, the answer depends on how sexy your legs are. While Jason finds our podcast only mildly entertaining, dude beat EVERYONE by running forward all while shooting pistol. Nancy took a swan dive at the match and got DQ'd. Stef and Nancy talk optics and offsets for their PCC setups.
Nancy survived A Girl and A Gun Fall Fest in the midst of Hurricane Delta. Stef plans for trick or treaters and jams on her MPX. Travis is reunited with his beloved revolver and uses tiny dancer feet to get athletic with Dan. The crew outlines 2010 major match schedules and for some unknown reason decides to shoot Virginia state. Actually - they have champion's belts and he wants to go to grocery shopping while wearing his champion's belt. Sporty!
Stef burns it ALL down with her PCC prowess in Steel Challenge. Jonney gets the pipes clean and Nancy gets the Glock sweats. Eli endorses The Humble Marksman on his way to HOA in CO. Travis has second thoughts about his Ruger and winds up getting edited. Again. However, he maintains his guru status by insisting on 2 alphas at 25 yards to start off every practice.
Travis coaches Nancy on how to beat Stef. His wife has some things to say about that. The crew discusses what makes you faster on a stage. And, can you use matches to try out new things? Inquiring minds want to know.
Erik and Eli join the crew for a review of the WAR Charity Match
Stef dominates the Lady Division and comes away High Lady Overall
Nancy wins High Friend
TPew and JDogg go all Prod Bro at a local match
The crew is joined by 2 local sponsored PCC shooters.
Alan Coleman and Erik Jensen join the pod to share that PCC knowledge.
The crew gets together and talks about the ugly side of the shooting sports.
Nancy shoots her first Glock Match.
Stef and Trav sit around and bitch.
We forgot Eli.
CSRA monthly match was to be "challenging" and it got us in the feels.
We learn about ginger, bourbon, and sniffing coffee.
Basically we cleansed out shooting palate with Mikes and No Shoots.
Stef shoots a match
JDogg gets a tummy ache
Nancy and Travis practice with David and our hips and knees suffer
Stef hogs the mic
A new drinking game is available from us: Take a drink every time we mention David, you probably wont last long.
Your podcast heroes shot a match in the heat and comedy ensued.
Nancy shot at some clays.
Stef sleeps in after attempting some high end PCC moves.
Travis is getting his groove back and still racking up division wins.
Note: Stef does not know how a microphone works and we are currently thinking about getting her a headset.