Friday, February 4, 2011
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Fun Match - Ft. Myers River Rats
This weekend I went back down to shoot with the Ft. Myers River Rats and had a great time. This match was, by far, the most fun set of stages that I've shot yet. I heard the same statement from quite a few other more seasoned shooters as well...to me, that is saying alot. If you are in the area, you NEED to get over one weekend and shoot with these guys!
Since this was a fun match, I decided to shoot Meine Panzer in Limited 10/Major. Since I don't have my reloading equipment right now, I went to Walmart and bought two boxes of Winchester White Box 165gr FMJs.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Match - Ft. Myers River Rats
Today I shot the a USPSA match with the Ft. Myers River Rats at the Hansen Range in Charlotte.
I took out my old-style XD9 since I didn't feel like shooting full-power .40 with the Sig. Overall, I'm extremely happy with my shooting today. I had alot of AA and AC, a couple Ds, and ZERO MISSES.
I finished 12th out of 20 shooters, but I was the only person shooting in Production Division.
The most notable stage was the classifier; which was also my first classifier. We ran CM 99-42 Fast'n Furious (see above).
Unfortunately, our squad was selected to shoot the classifier as our first stage overall. Which meant that it was the first time I had shot the XD9 in about 3 years. I'm not really happy with my accuracy (2 A, 5 C, 1 D, and 4 Steel), but my time was about what I have come to expect (13.06); for a Hit Factor of 3.5249. According to the Classifier Calculator, this ranks me at 38.73%, or just a smidge under C class. This is right where I expect to be-upper D/lower C class. If I had hit 2 more As instead of Cs I would have been at 42%...or lower C, where I expect to be for States in March.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
MPPL October Nightmatch
Well, the results from Saturday's Nightmatch came out and I couldn't believe it when I saw them. I finished 1st out of 8 shooters in Production division and 10th out of 19 overall.
I took out Meine Panzer with its new modifications and Minor Power Factor reloads to see how it would run...and did it! The lighter trigger and recoil spring with the light loads made it a dream to shoot. The SIGLITE Night Sights made getting a good sight picture extremely easy under the low-light conditions. The gun was definitely able to shoot faster than I was able to control it accurately. Although I took more misses than I would have liked, I wanted to see how fast I could pseudo-accurately shoot since that is something that I haven't had a chance to do in several years.
I took out Meine Panzer with its new modifications and Minor Power Factor reloads to see how it would run...and did it! The lighter trigger and recoil spring with the light loads made it a dream to shoot. The SIGLITE Night Sights made getting a good sight picture extremely easy under the low-light conditions. The gun was definitely able to shoot faster than I was able to control it accurately. Although I took more misses than I would have liked, I wanted to see how fast I could pseudo-accurately shoot since that is something that I haven't had a chance to do in several years.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Monday, September 6, 2010
Match #1 Critique
It's time to sit back and do a little self-critique on the videos from Saturday's match (see yesterday's post below). The two constants that remained the same throughout all three stages were that I was going to make my own plan and stick to it; there will be plenty of time later to dig into the heads of the top shooters and learn from them. Secondly, I tried to focus on moving slowly and worry more about procedure and accuracy than on speed.
Stage #3:
First ever competition stage. The nerves weren't as bad as I was expecting, but watching the video it becomes painfully obvious that they were affecting my shooting. First, notice at 0:18 when I run dry and pull the trigger; LOTS of muzzle drop from snatching at the trigger. Then I flubbed the reload: I didn't seat the magazine fully so when I racked the slide it didn't chamber a round. Followed by all kinds of sloppy trigger control as I went after the first star. I also flubbed the reload at the 0:44 mark as I didn't seat the magazine properly, again. Although this time I noticed it before I punched back out and started engaging the targets. One thing to note on the reloads, this was the first time I've ever pulled magazines from that position (I've always trained with them at around 10 o'clock on my waist) which is why I had to continuously look back to orient my hand to their position. At 1:05 I gave myself the only "mike" (miss) of the stage; except it wasn't actually a miss...I simply never fired the second round at the target; I had fired one round into the target, conducted a reload and then FORGOT to fire the second round into the target. I would've had the highest point total of all competitors for this stage if I had simply put that round on the target. So much for a clean run, but all in all a decent first effort.
Result: Points - 132; Penalties - 10 pts (from the "miss"); Time - 1:10.6; Hit factor = 1.7330 (based on the USPSA online calculator as the online score card from the match shows the incorrect time.)
Stage #1:
First, I don't know why I was holding the gun to my chest as I was moving to engage the first three targets. I need to work on finding the sights as I'm moving into position. This was a common thread for all three stages. The second reload was very slow, I can't really see what happened on the video. I shot terribly on the final three targets: I had two "A" hits and four "D" hits. At least when I didn't jerk the trigger when I went dry before the final target. Running dry really cost me alot of time on this stage. I have to do a better job making a plan that includes reloads BEFORE I expect to be empty.
Result: Points - 123; Penalties - 0 pts; Time - 55.65 (3rd slowest out of 40 competitors); Hit Factor - 2.2102 (32 out of 40).
Stage #2:
I was very frustrated after this run. What a cluster$*$%! I made a plan, walked through it numerous times, but screwed the pooch right out of the gate. First, I forgot to shoot the steel target after engaging the first two paper targets. Then on the reload (which was fairly smooth) I racked the slide and sent a round flying, a nice little waste of time there. This happened because in my plan I was supposed to shoot the steel guy which would've accounted for that round. Then I wasted several rounds trying to hit the steel target on the left. The second reload was extremely slow and nonchalant, AND I sent another round in the chamber flying. At 0:38 I remembered to shoot the steel on the left that I had neglected, on the plus side, that only took 1 round. The best news about this stage was that I threw down FOUR mikes. F-O-U-R. I don't really know what caused all of the misses. I know 2 of them went into the "hard cover" portion of the targets relatively close to the "A" zone, but 2 of the others were misses completely off of the paper...what a sad, sad showing to finish off the day.
Result: Points - 106; Penalties - 40; Time - 45.45 (4th slowest); Hit Factor - 1.4521 (2nd to last).
All in all, the match was very fun, albeit long, and gives me plenty of stuff to work on in the coming weeks and months. Thanks again to David for his guidance and Genaro for the videos!
Stage #3:
First ever competition stage. The nerves weren't as bad as I was expecting, but watching the video it becomes painfully obvious that they were affecting my shooting. First, notice at 0:18 when I run dry and pull the trigger; LOTS of muzzle drop from snatching at the trigger. Then I flubbed the reload: I didn't seat the magazine fully so when I racked the slide it didn't chamber a round. Followed by all kinds of sloppy trigger control as I went after the first star. I also flubbed the reload at the 0:44 mark as I didn't seat the magazine properly, again. Although this time I noticed it before I punched back out and started engaging the targets. One thing to note on the reloads, this was the first time I've ever pulled magazines from that position (I've always trained with them at around 10 o'clock on my waist) which is why I had to continuously look back to orient my hand to their position. At 1:05 I gave myself the only "mike" (miss) of the stage; except it wasn't actually a miss...I simply never fired the second round at the target; I had fired one round into the target, conducted a reload and then FORGOT to fire the second round into the target. I would've had the highest point total of all competitors for this stage if I had simply put that round on the target. So much for a clean run, but all in all a decent first effort.
Result: Points - 132; Penalties - 10 pts (from the "miss"); Time - 1:10.6; Hit factor = 1.7330 (based on the USPSA online calculator as the online score card from the match shows the incorrect time.)
Stage #1:
First, I don't know why I was holding the gun to my chest as I was moving to engage the first three targets. I need to work on finding the sights as I'm moving into position. This was a common thread for all three stages. The second reload was very slow, I can't really see what happened on the video. I shot terribly on the final three targets: I had two "A" hits and four "D" hits. At least when I didn't jerk the trigger when I went dry before the final target. Running dry really cost me alot of time on this stage. I have to do a better job making a plan that includes reloads BEFORE I expect to be empty.
Result: Points - 123; Penalties - 0 pts; Time - 55.65 (3rd slowest out of 40 competitors); Hit Factor - 2.2102 (32 out of 40).
Stage #2:
I was very frustrated after this run. What a cluster$*$%! I made a plan, walked through it numerous times, but screwed the pooch right out of the gate. First, I forgot to shoot the steel target after engaging the first two paper targets. Then on the reload (which was fairly smooth) I racked the slide and sent a round flying, a nice little waste of time there. This happened because in my plan I was supposed to shoot the steel guy which would've accounted for that round. Then I wasted several rounds trying to hit the steel target on the left. The second reload was extremely slow and nonchalant, AND I sent another round in the chamber flying. At 0:38 I remembered to shoot the steel on the left that I had neglected, on the plus side, that only took 1 round. The best news about this stage was that I threw down FOUR mikes. F-O-U-R. I don't really know what caused all of the misses. I know 2 of them went into the "hard cover" portion of the targets relatively close to the "A" zone, but 2 of the others were misses completely off of the paper...what a sad, sad showing to finish off the day.
Result: Points - 106; Penalties - 40; Time - 45.45 (4th slowest); Hit Factor - 1.4521 (2nd to last).
All in all, the match was very fun, albeit long, and gives me plenty of stuff to work on in the coming weeks and months. Thanks again to David for his guidance and Genaro for the videos!
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