Last month, When The Balloon Goes Up ran a Black Friday Weekend Special. A variety of items were put on sale for discounts between 15% and 20% off. Having been in the market for an Apex Tactical Duty/Carry Action Enhancement Kit (DCAEK) for my Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm, I decided to take advantage of the deal. The shopping didn’t stop there. Ron Larimer, the man behind When The Balloon Goes Up, was kind enough to combine my orders throughout …
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On Saturday, I piled on the layers and prepared to walk out the door for the last Lower Providence IDPA Match of the year. I wasn’t sure what to expect of the match but I knew two things. The first, it was easily the coldest weather in which I would be shooting a match. The second, the wind was whipping pretty hard and there was potential for props to go airborne. When I arrived at Lower Providence, I was a …
Analysis Paralysis was a product of my imagination. I’ve never been a big fan of memory stages (primarily because I struggle to remember which targets have been shot and which require my attention), but I wanted to create one of my own. The objective was to position targets in such a way that shooters would see them from multiple positions, but never be able to shoot an entire array from one position. To throw a wrench into each shooter’s plan, …
Southern Chester USPSA was in full swing. Our first stage of the day was in the books and we began the hike to the rear of the property. Around back are two relatively small pistol pits that generally hold fast, condensed, courses of fire. After setting our gear down, we got a closer look at Stage 6 – Up The Ante. This course of fire had shooters hugging the left side of the pit, shooting to our right. As we …
As I mentioned in the USPSA at Southern Chester – May 2012 Match Recap, the turnout was a little on the light side due to an area match. As a result, some of the regular volunteer crew was out of town and extra help was needed. I talked to my fellow Team Custom Gun Finishes Shooters and made arrangements for all of us to help. Our day started early as we took on the task of setting up the 50 …
May was a very busy month for me for a variety of reasons, the most time consuming of which was a car accident. As a result, I’ve goteen behind on posting stage breakdowns. For this match, I’ve decided to do things backwards, in an attempt to speed up the process. At the moment I only have video finished for the match as a whole and not each stage broken out. Those individual videos will come later, but for the time …
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