ENPS 2007 Banquet...

Last night we had the Eastern Nebraska Practical Shooters yearly banquet. Each year we keep track of the statistics from our shooting matches, and give awards at the end of the year for placing in the various divisions. In general, the awards are divided by type (USPSA Pistol, Steel Challenge, 3-Gun, and Ironman) and then within each type, by division (Open, Limited, Limited-10, Production, etc) and class (U, D, C, B, A, and so on).

Things applicable to me:

• USPSA Pistol Production Division, B class
  
• Steel Challenge Production Division
  
• 3-Gun Standard Division
  
• ...and everyone is in the Ironman competition, where we total all points earned throughout the year in all matches.
  

Julie participated in the Steel Challenge also, in the Production Division. She was only able to make it to three matches out of the 5, however.

How did it go?


Pretty well! 5th in 3-Gun, 2nd in Steel Challenge, and 1st place in B-class Production for USPSA. (Note: the medals are actually all the same, the lighting just makes them look like different colors.)

But even better:

I won my entire Division in USPSA for the year! (On the local level, that is--we aren't talking any higher than local.)

Plus, when we added up all of the points attained by everyone for the entire year---23 matches worth of USPSA Pistol, Steel Challenge, and 3-Gun...

I won the Ironman, too!

Julie won 5th place in the Steel Challenge (she should be putting a picture of her medal up on her blog at some point in time) --which is excellent for someone who has never done it before, and only made it to three matches out of five!

I also received one of the many gag awards for the evening---remember back at Area 3 when I got booted from Production division to the Open division? I received this welcome mat from the other shooters to "Welcome" me to Open division. [sigh]

It was a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to more shooting this year, and hopefully some improvement also.

One of the things that Julie and I have been talking about it attending a pistol class at the Chapman Academy. I really like that it is extremely live-fire oriented, and I have heard from some other shooters around here that it is an excellent class---so perhaps this summer...