After shooting El Presidente, we remained hot and took a short stroll over to the next stage. Here we had a series of steel that needed to be shot from within a shooting box. To keep shooters from going nuts with speed, a steel popper on each side of the array had a penalty target situated directly behind it. A miss on either one of these targets would be painful, multiple misses could lead to a disaster. The Plan: My …
Month: May 2012
Pre-News: Reminder about the May Contest for a Signed Copy of SHOOT by Julie Golob My brother received his gun back from Taurus My Gun Database has gone mobile in the form of My Gun DB Go Back to Podcast Listening in my Car – Christened it with Episode 62 of Gunfighter Cast Tom from Fill Yer Hands responds to my previous podcast In The News: Modified Water Guns Pose Danger Changes to Gun Law Proposed Try a Dog not …
If you’ve been shooting USPSA for more than a few months, you probably recognize this stage by the photo above. Chances are good that you’ve probably even shot it once or twice in the last couple of months. There is no mistaking it, it is El Presidente and it is a frequently used USPSA Classifier Stage. The Plan: For as often as this stage is used at local matches, you would think I would spend some time practicing for it, …
This particular stage actually started out different than when I shot it. Initially, shooters were to start in the far box, draw and fire one round at each target, perform a mandatory reload, then race to the near box and do it all over again. At some point during the first stage, a shooter went down in the mud and swept himself. The Match Director decided to make a change to the course of fire and have those that shot …
Pre-News: Reminder on the contest to win a signed copy of SHOOT by Julie Golob Update on MagTech Ammo Review (Ammo courtesy of LuckyGunner.com) Email from a listener regarding my Taurus comments In The News: No hard feelings for boy jailed because of fake gun Gun Safety Class Aims To Empower Women Homeowner shoots intruder: “It came down to either me or him” Featured Content: Comments on the differences in post and notch style sights from When The Balloon Goes …
As the day went on, the sky became a little less gloomy and spirits seemed to brighten. The standing water on a variety of the stages was getting tracked out and drying. For a minute or two, the sun shone through the clouds and it looked like we might catch a break at the end of the day. The Plan: I was feeling loose and ready to shoot Stage 2 when a misunderstanding of the rules made me a little …
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