March Multi-Gun

Multi-gun match out at ENGC! It was a beautiful shooting day, and of course lots of fun. We had four stages-- I set up the shotgun one. :) I don't have video right now, but Dan was nice enough to video with is camera so video is forthcoming.

Shotgun Stage Probably my best stage of the day. I reloaded slowly, but that is the nature of the beast with shotgun. I also had some jamming problems and didn't get low enough (thus the shotgun moved me backwards and caused feeding problems). Especially at the end I was shooting pretty quickly.

Pistol Stage Under these rules you only have to shoot each target once-- as long as its an A hit. I think that if I had just shot two on each target I would have done better. I was so worried about betting my A hits that I looked at each target after shot, and it caused me to be really really slow. This was the second stage of the day, so I got another chance on the rife/pistol stage. The stage was simple, really, I just had a hard time breaking old habits-- not reloading after 8 rounds and not shooting two shots on each target.

Rifle/Pistol I did fairly well on this stage-- I decided just to put two shots on every target (both rifle and pistol). Looking back this might not have been the best move. I had a hard time with my rifle sights because I didn't know where precisely they were sighted in, or if we ever did. Ooops! This was actually not exactly necessary-- as my sights seemed to be right on. They're more accurate than I am at any rate. I picked up a couple penalties on this stage on rifle targets, but otherwise did well (if not slow). I also had a hard time seating the magazine because I had loaded too many. Technically my mags are 30 round mags, but they seat poorly if load them all the way up. My mag kept falling out on me. Wasted a lot of time there, but lesson learned.

Rifle/Shotgun I got another chance to do well with the rifle-- and I did well on all the targets except for the four half-size targets about 50(ish) yards. I got four misses and two no-shoots on those. Ugh! On the other hand the rest of the stage went pretty well. I think I only had to make one shot with the shotgun and one shot with the rifle-- so much better!

Overall, I finished 7/10 in my division and 28/36 overall.