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Rule #1. If you have a really bad cold, don't expect to shoot good.
Rule #2. The match director always manages to screw up stages that he designed.
What a day. Great match. Lots of fun. Great turn out. Some super competitors.
I had a horrible cold. Coughing, stuffy head, watery eyes, twitchy, tired, grouchy, but still would you rather lay in bed sick, or go shooting? Easy answer to that one.
I started out on stage 9. A rifle stage with shots going out to about 180 or so yards. Lots of movement from barricades to a torn up van, shooting from various positions. I was just to shakey, and had the hardest time getting a good sight picture. Sucky time on that one.
Stage 1. Shotgun o'rama. 22 shots. Lots of movement, slicing the pie, piles of targets just around the corner, and then a plate rack. I won this stage, showing that the shakes don't matter as much with a shotgun.
God put shotguns on this earth for people like me.
Stage 2. Pistol & shotgun speed shoot on a bunch of plates. 4th overall. Did pretty good. Could have been a bit faster. Sight rail came undone on my Saiga. Not a big deal shooting at plates with shot as I don't use the sigts, I look at the targets, but more on this later when I had to shoot slugs.
Stage 3. Rifle stage. Once again discovered that you can be shakey with a pistol and a shotgun, but you can't with a rifle. WAY to slow.
Stage 4. A very fun stage. Pistol on a mover, with multiple targets and a random hostage. String 1 and string 2, good times, all perfect hits. String 3 promptly shoot the hostage, miss one of the other bad guys totally. Oh yea, thats the ticket.
Stage 5. Rifle out to 100 yards, tons of shoot positions while leapfrogging from barricade to barricade. My grandma could have shot this one better. Had to stop between strings to puke.
Stage 6. Pistol & shotgun. Did okay, 6th overall. Should have won the damn thing, but there was a select slug drill. Remember me mentioning my sight rail coming loose on my shotgun earlier? Just barely managed to hit the slug targets, and that was after having to go back and shoot them again after totally missing the first time around. (thank goodness for Vickers!)
Stage 7. All 3 guns. This one was a modified El Prez, first pistol, then rifle, then shotgun. I won this one. Could have went a bit faster, but I was hopped up on pain killers.
Stage 8. Pistol. I'm a hostage killing machine. Thats all that I'm going to say, and I'll leave it at that.
For those of you who haven't shot 3 gun, I would encourage you to go do so. Even on your worst day, it is still the most fun you can have with a gun.
Rule #1. If you have a really bad cold, don't expect to shoot good.
Rule #2. The match director always manages to screw up stages that he designed.
What a day. Great match. Lots of fun. Great turn out. Some super competitors.
I had a horrible cold. Coughing, stuffy head, watery eyes, twitchy, tired, grouchy, but still would you rather lay in bed sick, or go shooting? Easy answer to that one.
I started out on stage 9. A rifle stage with shots going out to about 180 or so yards. Lots of movement from barricades to a torn up van, shooting from various positions. I was just to shakey, and had the hardest time getting a good sight picture. Sucky time on that one.
Stage 1. Shotgun o'rama. 22 shots. Lots of movement, slicing the pie, piles of targets just around the corner, and then a plate rack. I won this stage, showing that the shakes don't matter as much with a shotgun.
God put shotguns on this earth for people like me. Stage 2. Pistol & shotgun speed shoot on a bunch of plates. 4th overall. Did pretty good. Could have been a bit faster. Sight rail came undone on my Saiga. Not a big deal shooting at plates with shot as I don't use the sigts, I look at the targets, but more on this later when I had to shoot slugs.
Stage 3. Rifle stage. Once again discovered that you can be shakey with a pistol and a shotgun, but you can't with a rifle. WAY to slow.
Stage 4. A very fun stage. Pistol on a mover, with multiple targets and a random hostage. String 1 and string 2, good times, all perfect hits. String 3 promptly shoot the hostage, miss one of the other bad guys totally. Oh yea, thats the ticket.
Stage 5. Rifle out to 100 yards, tons of shoot positions while leapfrogging from barricade to barricade. My grandma could have shot this one better. Had to stop between strings to puke.
Stage 6. Pistol & shotgun. Did okay, 6th overall. Should have won the damn thing, but there was a select slug drill. Remember me mentioning my sight rail coming loose on my shotgun earlier? Just barely managed to hit the slug targets, and that was after having to go back and shoot them again after totally missing the first time around. (thank goodness for Vickers!)
Stage 7. All 3 guns. This one was a modified El Prez, first pistol, then rifle, then shotgun. I won this one. Could have went a bit faster, but I was hopped up on pain killers.
Stage 8. Pistol. I'm a hostage killing machine. Thats all that I'm going to say, and I'll leave it at that.
For those of you who haven't shot 3 gun, I would encourage you to go do so. Even on your worst day, it is still the most fun you can have with a gun.