Commentary forthcoming. That being said, I won High Overall in Production, plus Great Plains Sectional Champion for Production division. Ardi won 1st D Class, and High Female Production.
Tons o' fun!
Commentary posted on 07/18:
Not a whole lot to say, but did want to mention a couple of things that went well. It occurred to me that if I consistently focused on what I did badly (in order to improve) I would tend to forget what I do well---and that is important to remember also, particularly since tactical plans for stages should play to one's strengths.
So, strengths:
As shown on stages 6 and 7 (the classic/metric identification stages) I really don't have a problem with target identification, and can snap to new targets quickly and easily. Matter of fact, I believe I could have run that quite a bit faster if on the first run-through I had trusted myself a bit more. (I also could have been faster on the second run had I continued my movement at each port instead of stopping.) So, strength 1: close target and quick snap shots work well for me---out of 44 rounds (both stages put together) at that speed, which was 5th out of 76 shooters, I only had 8 C hits. The rest were all A hits.
Stage 9 (Out For A Jog) was all about shooting on the move, and still running faster between shooting areas. I switched speeds well, and shot on the move without stopping while still getting A hits on both straight-ahead shooting, and diagonal shooting. Apparently the work on shooting on the move has paid off---my stage time was 11th out of 76, and that was with only 6 C hits out of 32---the rest were A. (My overall HF was 9th.) Strength 2: Fluid shooting on the move is working well.
In general, reloads look better. While I did flub up a couple (notably on stage 1, at the end of my day) most of them were quick and smooth, and I was ready to shoot by the time I made it to the next position--and better yet, most of the time I was done reloading by a step or two, so the rest of the time I could concentrate on the movement, not reload-and-movement.
Accuracy was not bad. With one notable exception (Stage 8, The Wall, where I had 16 A and 16 C!) most of the time I had a solid run of A-hits. There were a couple of D hits here and there, but at the speeds I was shooting I still had very good accuracy---for my level, at least.
This match wasn't exemplary in that I shot amazingly well, in my opinion. What makes me happy about this match is that I shot the majority of it (not quite all, but close) at my level of ability. It wasn't a match where I'd shoot well for awhile, then blunder something. For the most part, I consistently shot to my level of ability. (The first and last stages of the day didn't go as well as the others, and weren't what I would have wished. Nonetheless, they were acceptable.)
If I can consistently shoot to my level, I'll be happy.
Off to practice (and clean my magazines!) for Area 3 in two weeks.
2 comments:
Holy Smokes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kirk???????
Yeah, that was a scary picture wasn't it?
I really did tell him what I was going to do prior to running the stage!
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