u/thegodsofwheatstreet

It's been a while since I've seen this discussed here, so I wanted to revisit it now that the shooting season is in full swing.

How's everyone feeling about the G17 Gen 6 vs. the G47? Early on, it seemed like a lot of people were unhappy with the Gen 6's recoil impulse, amongst other things. For those who stuck it out and kept shooting it, how are you feeling now?

I mainly shoot a 47, but picked up a 17.6 through Blue Label pricing to give it a fair shot. Personally, I'm not a fan of the Gen 6's recoil impulse. On paper — and during dry fire and general handling — it feels like it should be the better gun. But the moment I shoot them back-to-back, I find myself preferring the 47. I genuinely can't tell if that's just familiarity, or if the 17.6 is actually worse.

I shoot CO and I've been in B class for a while. I have been putting in the work, with a healthy dose of dry fire daily, as well as attempting to do one live fire exercise per week. The frustrating part isn't just that I haven't crossed the threshold, but rather, it's that my classifier results genuinely don't seem to reflect how I shoot the rest of a match, and I can't figure out why.

Today's match will be my example. Across five non-classifier stages I had one delta total and zero mikes. I placed well on those stages against a field that was A class and above. On the classifier, I hit multiple deltas and a mike. My time was fine, and what i mean by that is I dont feel like i was rushing. I feel my pace wasn't meaningfully different from any other stage. I ran my stage plan as intended. My fundamentals just quietly fell apart, and I didn't even feel it happening until I saw the hits.

Even with the bombed classifier (~40%), I finished 11th overall, which makes the inconsistency harder to ignore. The part I can't reason my way out of is that it doesn't feel like a speed problem or a planning problem. Something in my process seems to degrade specifically when I know my classification is on the line, and just telling myself it's "any other stage" clearly isn't working.

Has anyone dealt with this specific pattern and found something that actually helped? Looking for real mental frameworks, pre-stage routines, or really anything that made a difference.