doc roy l. pain

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Even top world athletes have off days or off extended periods. We’re gonna have days and matches like that. Hardest thing for me to do was learn to accept it and move on. If you dwell on it, it’s gonna make it that much harder to rebound from. Our mind is a complicated thing. Sometimes we have other thoughts come into our heads at the wrong time. I know I shoot my best stages when I have all positive thoughts on them. If I have doubts about a specific scenario or movement on a stage, it usually comes back to bite me. I’m a planner, so I’ve usually ran over the stage in my mind several times by the time I step up on it and stage my guns. Once the timer goes off, I try the best I can to just go into auto pilot and let things flow. Good or bad, once that stage is over, forget about it and move on to the next. Don’t allow your mind to start thinking about could have or should have.

I have guns that the springs have been compressed and stored on and off for 60+ years. I guarantee they will go bang the next time I use them

Yep, and that just a maybe!

The email tomorrow is so you can send in your seating group and request 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices of tables.

I got an email on that date also and it said they would send out an email on September 6 to give instruction on reserving your seats. Then I got another email on September 4 saying that the date was changed to September 7 to receive the instructions. Not sure how you got to reserve seats already. Butttt, if you were allowed to reserve your seats ahead of the rest of us, that’s gonna open up a Pandora’s box!

No tables are reserved until tomorrow except for a few up front for the club officials and their guests I believe. My email said that we would receive an email tomorrow telling how to reserve seating

100 degrees here at the house right now. I think I’ll wait till it warms up a little before I venture out lol

That’s good technique TW. By the way, did you get those little guns from Widder😎

Nothing wrong with that stage there. I assume you were shooting 45’s. Try going to a lighter bullet or back off the powder a little in your pistols and see if that will help speed things up.

Bout spit my coke out in my lap over that one lol

If you’re using them on Italian made guns, I think you’ll find the wheeler sets are more than adequate. The screw heads are softer than the driver bits.

At our distances, an ounce of shot is an ounce of shot. No noticeable differences at all.

Also a few years ago Anvil Al put together a compilation of Hair Trigger Hayes videos from stages he shot. An excellent resource for learning how to move and transition between firearms.

If you want to see some fast duelist shooting just Google Straight Arrow Hombre speed duelist run. I will say this. The man has paws like a bear lol