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Local IDPA match yesterday. I took my 16-year-old girl along for her first of three allowed IDPA "try it out" matches. She has shot about 3 non-IDPA handgun matches with me before, shooting a ruger 22/45 and starting from the 45-degree position, but this was her first match drawing from a holster, using concealment or cover, or shooting a centerfire pistol in a match. She had shot maybe a few rounds through this M&P CORE 9L at the range but not for more than a year, and she shot it very accurately, with lots of down zeros. It was a beautiful, clear day, with 10 stages of typical IDPA strangeness, holding babies in one hand, shooting pickup guns (LCP), drop-turners, swingers, shooting through barrels, 180 traps, etc. but she navigated all of it with aplomb and said she loves IDPA. I guess we'll have to get her a legal belt setup now.
I registered her in NFC division due to the optic but she found it confused her and basically ignored the dot, so after a couple of stages, and confirming that she indeed was not using the dot at all, I removed the RMR and she pretty much ended up shooting ESP all day.
I shot my German P226, slowly but pretty accurately (I won most accurate overall, but placed second in SSP Expert, a laughable 50 seconds behind the winner, who had 41 points down. I had 12 points down but he still beat me because he averaged 5 seconds a stage faster and still shot pretty accurately. Plus I got a couple procedurals because I have a hard time not dropping a mag with one round in it when I have time to reload, and I forgot to retreat while shooting on one stage; I just stood there and blasted away. LOL. I need to speed up but I have a hard time shooting paper quickly. I'm used to steel and can shoot it fairly quickly because you know when you hit.
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I registered her in NFC division due to the optic but she found it confused her and basically ignored the dot, so after a couple of stages, and confirming that she indeed was not using the dot at all, I removed the RMR and she pretty much ended up shooting ESP all day.
I shot my German P226, slowly but pretty accurately (I won most accurate overall, but placed second in SSP Expert, a laughable 50 seconds behind the winner, who had 41 points down. I had 12 points down but he still beat me because he averaged 5 seconds a stage faster and still shot pretty accurately. Plus I got a couple procedurals because I have a hard time not dropping a mag with one round in it when I have time to reload, and I forgot to retreat while shooting on one stage; I just stood there and blasted away. LOL. I need to speed up but I have a hard time shooting paper quickly. I'm used to steel and can shoot it fairly quickly because you know when you hit.
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