Quintin Likely
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Whatever your game is, IDPA, IPSC, 3 gun, smallbore, highpower, trap or skeet, cowboy action, how'd you get started? What kinda gear did you use starting out? Where do you stand now as opposed to when you first started out? We all started out as newbies at one time or another, I figured other people relating their first timer experiences might ease some worries that other newbies may have. Any tricks or tips for whatever your game is to help someone start out? The more people we have putting rounds downrange, regardless of the game, the better, right?
I do an impersonation of a highpower shooter from time to time. My first match is somewhere in this forum, but I'll go first anyways. From reading posts by people like Steve Smith, Jon Coppenbarger, the Bling Rat, and a few others, I decided I had to give highpower a shot. I drove down to a 300 yard reduced match, which isn't but about ten minutes away from my house to watch, but like any other shooting sport, you don't go to watch, you gotta get in there. About a year later, I got the oats up to go and shoot. I bought a Rock River National Match A2 upper from a gunshow and a few 20 round mags, a cheapy Uncle Mike's 1907 style sling from WalMart (which absolutely sucked, BTW) and a few hundred rounds of Black Hills reman ammo from a friend of mine. I used a beach towel as a mat, I had no spotting scope or shooting jacket.
I was lucky enough to have Bert Medina helping me get started my first time out. An awesome shooter and super patient all around good guy too. He helped me get my sighters on paper at 200...first one was a ten. It would have been great if it was on my target though. What was that about crossfiring...? I think my score was something like a 290-1X, with a whole bunch of misses. I'll be the first to say, seeing that itty bitty 600 yard reduced target at 300 yards with a post sight is an intimidating thing, especially if you're like I was, used to shooting off a bench with sandbags and a scope. After getting over the first match, everything else seems simple now. The second match I shot, I picked up over 100 points, I wanna say I had like 405-1X next time around.
So now I'm trying to drag everyone I can along with me to go shoot. I'm hooked...I wanna go distinguished, I wanna go to Perry someday, I want a Garand so I can shoot Garand matches, I want that high master card (someday...), I wanna dabble with the match rifle someday, then there's F-Class and Palma too...
So, what's your story?
I do an impersonation of a highpower shooter from time to time. My first match is somewhere in this forum, but I'll go first anyways. From reading posts by people like Steve Smith, Jon Coppenbarger, the Bling Rat, and a few others, I decided I had to give highpower a shot. I drove down to a 300 yard reduced match, which isn't but about ten minutes away from my house to watch, but like any other shooting sport, you don't go to watch, you gotta get in there. About a year later, I got the oats up to go and shoot. I bought a Rock River National Match A2 upper from a gunshow and a few 20 round mags, a cheapy Uncle Mike's 1907 style sling from WalMart (which absolutely sucked, BTW) and a few hundred rounds of Black Hills reman ammo from a friend of mine. I used a beach towel as a mat, I had no spotting scope or shooting jacket.
I was lucky enough to have Bert Medina helping me get started my first time out. An awesome shooter and super patient all around good guy too. He helped me get my sighters on paper at 200...first one was a ten. It would have been great if it was on my target though. What was that about crossfiring...? I think my score was something like a 290-1X, with a whole bunch of misses. I'll be the first to say, seeing that itty bitty 600 yard reduced target at 300 yards with a post sight is an intimidating thing, especially if you're like I was, used to shooting off a bench with sandbags and a scope. After getting over the first match, everything else seems simple now. The second match I shot, I picked up over 100 points, I wanna say I had like 405-1X next time around.
So now I'm trying to drag everyone I can along with me to go shoot. I'm hooked...I wanna go distinguished, I wanna go to Perry someday, I want a Garand so I can shoot Garand matches, I want that high master card (someday...), I wanna dabble with the match rifle someday, then there's F-Class and Palma too...
So, what's your story?