Last month I had the pleasure of shooting the May USPSA Match at Lower Providence Rod and Gun Club. Like the April Southern Chester Match, I’ve broken each stage out into its own post. I still have mixed feelings about this method but it certainly does create more ‘bite sized’ posts for ease of reading/viewing. Despite the range being as wet as a swamp, I had a lot of fun. As usual ted Murphy, the Match Director at Lower Providence, …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
After the morning shooter briefing finished, squadding commenced. A small group of shooters, myself among them, stood off to the side, muttering to ourself “Anyplace but squad one…. anyplace but squad one…. anyplace but squad one….” I hadn’t seen Stage 1 for myself (where Squad 1 would be starting their day) but a couple of people made mention that a portion of the shooting area was underwater. My hope was that a squad, or two, or three, would run through …
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