September 2009 Pistol Match...

Finally getting around to writing about other shooting things. In this case, the last monthly pistol match.

The September match happened on a beautiful day, and 40 people showed up to shoot. The stages were varied, with close shots and far shots, lots of run-and-gun, and some tricky moving targets here and there. (One swinger, one bear-trap, and two Texas stars.) And lots of ports!

Overall, I was happy with my performance. It wasn't perfect by any means, and on my first stage I flubbed a number of things. (Including once flinging a perfectly good new magazine a couple of feet. Whoops.) But overall, I paid attention to the front sight, my movement was pretty good, and half my reloads went well. The other half---were sloppy. Still need to work on those...

Speaking of working on things---I haven't had the time taken the time to do any dryfire practice in the last month. Pretty sad. My mental game seems to be working all right---I'm still getting better. But the increase in skill would be much higher had I been practicing. So, back to the "I must dry fire each night before going to bed" mantra. My reloads (especially moving reloads) need plenty of work.



Things went well, most certainly---2nd out of 40 against a number of very good shooters (including beating an A-class Production shooter). I can do better, however, with more practice...

Shooting a lot lately...

Actually, I'm about 4 shooting events behind on my commentary. Since the 3-Gun match, I've gone to the Illinois Sectional Match, went to the Close Quarters Tactics class in Kansas, and shot our monthly pistol match at ENGC. Plus just today I took a new person out shooting. So, lots to talk about.

But no time to write, thus far. :) So, as a placeholder, here is the video of the IL Sectional Match.



3rd B. Not too bad of a finish, but some really bad shooting on my part. Ben Stoeger mentioned that he hadn't ever seen me have quite so many shooting problems all in one day before. First stage: one miss, incredibly poor accuracy. Second stage: one miss, slow movement. Later stages: overall poor accuracy, and oddly enough all the speed in the world can't make up for that. Just---not good.

I'll post about the other stuff later, when I have time to write something worth reading.