June Rock-Your-Glock match, plus general practice...

So today was the first Rock-Your-Glock match this year, and Julie and I said we'd help Zeeb out with it. So we showed up at around 7am (ug---early!), helped set up, then ROed pretty much all day. Julie shot her XD-9, and I shot my Glock 34 and my Glock 26. (Stock division and subcompact division). As usual, it was a lot of fun. I managed to get an all-time low score (low is good, by the way) on the plates today with my G34. 15.21 seconds---that was the total time for four strings of shooting, each string knocking down 6 plates. In other words, from a bell-tone start, firing at least 24 shots in 15.21 seconds.

I'm pretty happy about that. :)

Julie had problems on her first plate run---and then for the other three runs, just mowed down the plates. Never took her more than 8 shots to drop them all, and mostly it just took 7. Her last run dropped them all in 10 seconds, which is EXCELLENT.

I didn't get my all-time lowest score overall today, but it was pretty close. I managed to win the Amateur/Stock division today (out of 34 people), so that made me happy. If I had been in the Master/Unlimited class, I'd have gotten second by only a couple of seconds. I got third in the SingleStack/Subcompact division, which I can live with since I got beat by Les and Dennis, both of whom were shooting single stack firearms. Here's a link to the results.

That is the third time I've won my division---won it twice last year, and now once this year. I think that means I have to be in the Master's division from now on. [sigh] Great. I liked winning my division. Maybe Zeeb will let me stay in Stock class since I haven't won three times this year... (Additional note: talked to him today---[sigh]. Master division from now on.)

Here is video from the match today. We forgot to film the 5-to-25 stage, but we got the rest of mine. I got Julie's Glock 'M stage, but she didn't want me to film her plates stage---which is too bad. Her last three runs were outstanding.



In other news, I took my AR out the other day and practiced a bit with it. We have a 3-Gun match tomorrow, and in our last match I won my division because my rifle stage went so well---and I'd like to keep that going. :) I really should have also practiced my shotgun reloading, but that hasn't happened yet. Rifle shooting went pretty well---I've figured out how to be stable while holding the rifle, and moving, and transitioning, so it is working fairly well. (We'll see if I still say that after tomorrow.) For me, for this type of match, I hold my AR-15 in an entry/assault-style manner, instead of a more typical rifle manner--and it works much better for me. The aperture sight is easier to see through, the rifle doesn't move much when I shoot it, and overall I transition better from one target to the next. My ability to hit center-mass consistently at all ranges just goes up when I hold the rifle in a more frontal fashion--near and far targets. I tried going back to standard rifle pose, and the recoil change made it difficult to stay on target.

Pistol will be okay. Shotgun? Well, we'll see. Haven't practiced, so I don't think it'll have gotten any better. On the upside, it shouldn't be any WORSE than normal.

We'll find out tomorrow...