April Pistol Match...

It's a little later than I normally post--but hey, my computer is disassembled and strewn about, so that isn't surprising. That is why it is taking awhile for the video to show up, too.

Anyway---this month's pistol match went pretty well! No, I didn't get first. However, I did get 99.907% of the top score. :) Overall, it went well. Smooth shooting (for the most part), decent accuracy, not top speed but decently quick.

One of the things I think I need to work on has to do with how much I trust myself at various distances. I know people always say "shoot only A hits, and the speed will come" but there comes a point when the "A" is going to happen, but you still slow down, check, make sure it is perfect, then squeeze the trigger---and you didn't need to take that long.

My shooting was nice and smooth--but the downside of that is that sometimes when the targets were closer, I could have sped up my shooting and still easily gotten "A" hits. However, I had a "smooth cadence" in my head from the prior sequence of shots, so that speed and cadence is what happened the entire stage. That isn't a bad thing necessarily--but I'll do better if I match my shooting speed to my accuracy level for that target--and maybe it'll be different for the next. "Smooth cadence" sounds good---but the cadence isn't the point. Human minds like repetitive timing, though, so I need to shoot, not time myself.

It was a good match, and I thoroughly enjoyed it---two longer complicated stages, and two short-but-technical stages. I am capable of doing better---but I am not unhappy with how it went.

Three-Gun match in a couple of weeks (well, one week now) and I'm designing the pistol stage. It is probably going to look something like this:

...but not necessarily. I'm probably going to try to alter it so that people have more choices with regard to how they decide to shoot it. (This version---it is pretty straightforward as to what happens. Good stages, though, I think, give some other openings occasionally. So, we'll see what happens.

Still waiting to hear about my new AR-15 from Fulton Armory. [sigh] I hate waiting.