April Pistol Match

Another great match out at Easter Nebraska Gun Club. This past weekend was our April Pistol match. As usual it was a blast and here I am doing my review of the match.

We had an RO class out at our range this time around-- congrats to those who participated and good luck on the exam! Anyway, because of the class we only had four stages today, but still definitely a ton of fun.

Stage 1: I designed this stage! Sabumnim helped me quite a bit, especially with making sure it was all good and safe/legal. This was my first stage of the day and as such it went alright but not great. I tend to be somewhat slower on my first stage. I finished 39/54.

Stage 2: This was Doug's stage. I did pretty well on it, I was happy with my time and with my accuracy. Both on this one and the last one I was hesitating too much. For instance, I would hesitate about putting a third shot on a target. I should either shoot and move on, or just move on, sitting there staring at the target is the worst thing to do. I bet I lost at least 3 or 4 seconds that way, maybe more. I finished 32/54.

Stage 3: I could have done this stage more accurately. I pulled two D's on this stage. I think I had three total D's for the match. In Production, I really don't want any, and as few C's as I can manage. Anyway, there were two targets at the back of the bay, and I was transitioning from extremely close to far and I yanked the trigger a couple times. Overall, I was happy with my time and was reasonably smooth, but I need to work on my trigger control. I finished 38/54.

Stage 4: This was the “Towers of Pain” stage. Targets are inside these pillars and when you shoot the popper they fall out. You know, by itself that isn't too hard to shoot-- but we had some technical difficulties with the activation system. I restarted this stage three times. The first time, the popper fell but didn't activate all of the targets. The second time, the popper wouldn't fall. I hit it about three times, center of mass. See... I can't stop myself for equipment malfunction and I didn't want to go on and call for calibration because if it went down in calibration that would mean three whole targets worth of penalties. Eventually they stopped me. The the third and final time around I got through it without error and actually did pretty well! :) I finished 29/55. (Making it my best stage of the day.

Overall, I did pretty mediocre. I mean, I didn't monumentally screw up-- but I also didn't do extremely well on any one stage. We took video, but the video I took got corrupted so I can't go back and really see what I'm doing. (Silly technology!) I think I'm probably losing the most time in new target acquisition and in various kinds of hesitation. On the good side, my draw was faster this time!

Overall I finished: 37/55

In Production: 16/22