Ep. 191 - Sam Elam - Multi-Division Master Class IDPA Competitor - USPSA

Well, Hey, I think it'd be, let's go into kind of some fun stuff here.

Some red meat gear stuff.

Okay.

So, so I, um, I've got enough of a history shooting with, with Sam that I've seen him again, probably a different gun every match, but in all seriousness.

So, so when I met you, um, you were running the LTT 92s, you know, doing the, doing the, um, bread, a 92 thing.

And you did that for quite a while.

And then I know you've dabbled in at least, um, shot staccatos quite a bit.

I'm assuming.

Have you run shadows too?

Did I did have a, everybody shoots USPSA has to have a shadow character arc,

right? Or, or you'll get, you'll get put in jail.

Um, But then, so I'm saying all that to say something that, you know, near and dear to mine and Eric's heart is this piece of Tupperware.

Right.

So, so last time I saw you, you're like, I'm shooting, I'm shooting Glock and you, you kind of acted ashamed of it.

And, um, and then, but you told me an interesting reason why you were back to shooting Glock.

Can you, can you explain what brought you back or why you're at least taking a stint with the plastic pistols again?

Yeah.

So I noticed for me personally, and you guys are about to learn that I have autism.

Um, like the heavy gun, I can get away with fundamental errors and it doesn't punish me as much.

So like I have a problem where I want to flex my firing hand as I'm pulling the trigger and I'm left-handed shooter.

So a lot of times that leads to the low right hits.

Right.

Um, with a, with a 50 ounce shadow, you know, if I'm doing that at speed, yeah, that might give me a Charlie.

It's not really punishing me for something, you know, it was, it was hard to fix.

But if I put a 30 ounce plastic Glock in my hand, I found that when I do that now it's like a Charlie Delta line.