{"id":3780,"date":"2010-06-06T23:32:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T04:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2010-06-06T23:36:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T04:36:32","slug":"irc-surviving-standards-using-the-pickett-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/irc-surviving-standards-using-the-pickett-method\/3780\/","title":{"rendered":"IRC: Surviving Standards Using The Pickett Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Surviving the dreaded Near &amp; Far Standards in ICORE is, well, tough. This stage is the make-or-break stage for many shooters, and the road to IRC victory is littered with the bodies of those that took the &#8216;break&#8217; path. However, there is one full-proof method to success on the Standards: <em>The Pickett Method<\/em>. This approach consists of two very important steps&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Step #1)<\/strong> Put total faith in your gun. Below Vic Pickett demonstrates (and Yamil Sued illustrates) this by kissing his prized competition revolver, making the shooter and gun &#8216;one&#8217; on the range.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"highslide\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Vic-Picket-good-luck-kiss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Vic-Picket-good-luck-kiss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Vic-Picket-good-luck-kiss.jpg 793w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Vic-Picket-good-luck-kiss-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Step #2)<\/strong> Put total faith in your R.O. Vic demonstrates the proper way to let the R.O. know you believe him to be the best R.O. on the range.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a class=\"highslide\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Vic-Pickett-payoff1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Vic-Pickett-payoff1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Vic-Pickett-payoff1.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Vic-Pickett-payoff1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Next time you find yourself up against a difficult, make-or-break stage, like ICORE&#8217;s Near &amp; Far Standards, use <em>The Pickett Method<\/em> and watch as your fellow shooters go down the &#8216;break&#8217; path while you travel the road less traveled and take the &#8216;make&#8217; path.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vic Pickett demonstrates his full-proof method, The Pickett Method, for surviving a make-or-break stage in a shooting match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[559,9],"tags":[407,408,491],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-icore-news","category-paul-erhardt","tag-icore","tag-irc","tag-vic-pickett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}