We also award medals and plaques to shooters based on their standings for the year, and at the end, some extra "awards" are given to people for their antics during the past year. For example, two people received the "Pistol Retention Deficit Award" for dropping their guns (sometimes in a spectacular fashion). Doug received a roll of duct tape...
...to help his gloves last another year. Other people received the infamous red "DQ" shirt for being disqualified during a match this past year. (They go to Dairy Queen and buy red shirts with the DQ logo for that.) A good time was had by all.
As for me---well, it was a good year for shooting. I got pulled up several times for awards, luckily just for the ones you WANTED to get. (No DQ shirt thus far.)
I ended up getting three medals---you get medals for places other than High Overall for your division.
I did also manage to get two plaques---one for High Overall in Standard 3-Gun, and one for High Overall in Production Pistol.
It is just a lot of fun to shoot with these people. This year should be interesting---we've had some people fade in and out, several are out on active duty, and some new shooters are beginning. The Steel Challenge matches that we will be holding this year include a .22 division, and I think that if we talk it up correctly, we'll end up with a number of new shooters. More people interested in shooting sports is a good thing! Even kids can shoot .22s with no problem---perhaps Emily can shoot steel after training this summer...? We'll see.In the meantime, I need to put my reset trigger back into my Glock 34, and get to dry-fire practicing! (Have to see if I can beat Dennis and Chris this year in Steel Challenge...) Probably should also work on my draw from the new holster before the Steel match next Sunday...
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