March Pistol 2011

Well, the March Pistol Match out at ENGC was this weekend. It's finally starting to warm up out there! It's still a bit nippy, but we had a surprising 40 shooters out on the range Sunday. A lot of new faces, and of course the hardcore shooters that will shoot in any weather.

We had four stages and a classifier.

Here is a video of me shooting the match:



Annnnnd, some commentary:

First, you like my shirt there? Goes with the website mighty well, doesn't it? :)

The Good: The good thing was that in general I shot a solid match. I didn't plug any hostages, nor did I gather an Mikes. Overall, I finished about where I would expect to, if not slightly better.

As for the goals that I'm working on, I really tried to keep my weight down for the match. If I stand up high, the recoil rocks my shoulders and makes it more difficult to stay on target. While I was certainly too high in some places, you can see me methodically trying to get low in some places, and I'll call that an improvement.

That was a really solid run for a classifier. I got a 58%-- almost B class. I don't plan to make B class by the end of this year, but by the beginning of the next shooting season I would like to be.

The Bad: My number one time waster at the moment is my draw to first shot. For some reason, when targets are far away, I draw slowly. I also need to generally move faster, but unless I can also reload faster, moving faster will do little good.

My reloads are good given my limitations. My hands are too small for me to hit the mag release with my thumb on my G19. I have to hit it with my off hand before going for a new mag.

My percentages weren't quite what I'd like them to be-- I believe I had 4 or 5 Ds for the day and several C's, but it wasn't too bad.

You know what really killed me today though? All those jams on stage five! It's almost painful to watch, isn't? My gun jams up every 3-5 shots. I took it apart after that stage with the help of Chris and cleaned it a bit and the rest of the match went fine. I also started clamping down harder after that, in case it was simply my grip.

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Overall, I'm happy with how the match went.

Next match is a 3-Gun in a couple weeks! :)

February Steel 2011

I unfortunately couldn't attend the January Steel match out with everyone-- I was quite sick that weekend. However! I did make it out to the February Steel match (Feb. 6th). I didn't get any videos, but I do have a couple things to say about it---

I really only did horribly on one stage, and it was a long distance accuracy stage. I just couldn't hit the targets! I really think I zero-ed at least two of my five runs. It cost my some serious overall time and a few places in the standings. Others stages went decently well or pretty good, but that one stage just killed me!

Overall I finished 24th out of 30 shooters. In production I finished 8th out of 9 shooters. It wasn't my best day, but have certainly seen worse.

As always I need to work on long-distance accuracy. Usually, my accuracy is pretty good, but it was cold and I was yanking the trigger a bit. Not enough trigger-prep on my part, besides pulling it a bit off to one side.

January Pistol 2011

Here is the video of the match:



First-- I don't you like the hat? It's my zombie hat and it's very cute.

Anyway, not the best shooting day ever. I racked up some penalties and just plain old didn't shoot well on a couple of those stages there. It was my birthday that day too! D:!

You can see me turn around and look at Sabumnim, my instructor (but also the RO) on Stage 2 there. A steel fell over that wasn't supposed to fall, and I was confused. I shouldn't have stopped, shooters can't stop themselves.

Just not great focus for the day, some silly mistakes. I should have finished above 15th or so on pretty much all of those.

Next time!