July Pistol Match, and preparing for the Great Plains Sectional...

Well, today was the July pistol match, and I should say right off the bat that I didn't win today. [sigh] I was second, with a score of 97.32%, so I was close---but I made stupid mistakes on two of the four stages, and had I simply only made one set of mistakes I would have won.

But two was too much.

Here's the video:

...and you can see the obvious mistakes on stage one. My paper targets were fine. Could have used a couple more A-zone hits, but overall just fine. But I didn't let myself settle down and AIM for the plate rack. Incredibly annoying since I've been practicing the plate rack lately, and my average time is now down to a little less than four seconds. Had I even relaxed and shot it in 5, I still would have had more than enough points to win.

I do think I have a sights problem, though---again on the long shots, they went left. That was that one miss on the distance targets in stage 4. Not only a little. Quite a bit. The miss was on the right target--and the left target had all of the extra shots I put out there--so my extras on the right target went all the way over to the left target! And I really did slow down and aim this time. This week I'm going to the range and trying some distance shots to see what is going on. I'm thinking that my sights are indeed off to the left, but not very much---just enough so that at longer distances, it gives me problems. At near distances, it isn't mattering enough to make a difference.

Or maybe my distance shooting is just bad. Always a possibility! I'll let you know after some range time this week.

Speaking of---the Great Plains Sectional Match is this coming Sunday, so that should be interesting. Don't know how many Production class folks are going to be there, but it should be interesting. The stages look pretty interesting--a couple are downright devious.

Still working on my reloading, and that distance aiming. We'll see how it goes.

Oh--and I'm shooting/working the Rock-Your-Glock match this Saturday, too. So more videos and commentary will be forthcoming after the weekend. (And hopefully some good results from practice this week!)