Big Shots Practical Shooters - September 3, 2014

We started the practical shooting league at Big Shots Indoor Range again last night.  Matches will be held each Wednesday evening with set-up at 7:00 pm and shooting starting around 7:30 pm.

The stage had 12 paper targets for a total round count of 24.  The stage description required that you engage at least 1 target from each side of the barricade and then you could either go prone and shoot the 4 targets from there or there was another shooting box at the back corner of the range that you could shoot those targets from if you didn't want (or weren't able) to go prone.

I think it was a good stage, but then I designed it so I am probably biased.  I shot quickly but ended up with 5 mikes.  I apparently need to practice my prone position shooting.

If you get a chance come on out and join us some night.  It is lots of fun and we would love to have you.

Big Shots Practical Shooters June 25, 2014

Last night was the final night of our Wednesday night league at Big Shots Range.  We will be starting up again the first Wednesday of September.  

The stage had 16 paper targets with 4 firing points.  I enjoyed the stage even though I shot horribly.  Good thing I have fun with this sport.

Some of the target were further away than we are used to shooting and you could see the results of that in many people's scores.  I had 5 mikes and 2 no-shoots.  Certainly not my best performance.  I just need to slow down and focus more on my sight picture and trigger pull.  More practice needs to be in my future if I hope to perform decently at the upcoming USPSA National match.  

I shot the stage in 26.76 seconds and earned 95 point of a possible 160 points before I deducted the 70 points of penalties.  My hit factor was 0.9342.  Yikes!!!

I finished 5th out of 5 in production and 16 out of 21 overall.  I will be working on some dry fire drills and live fire practice on targets at 25 yards and further.

Have you been to any great matches lately?

Big Shots Practical Shooters June 18, 2014

We had a fun stage last night at our Wednesday night league.  8 paper targets with the best 3 hits per paper scored.

I got 96 out of a possible 120 points.  I had way to many D's, but at least I didn't miss anything.  My time was 19.80 seconds.  I earned first place in the production division and 5th overall.  Those open guys are really fast.

Let me know what you think.

Big Shots Practical Shooters June 11, 2014

Here is the video of the match on June 11, 2014 at Big Shots Indoor Range.  We have weekly matches there on Wednesday nights.  We use the USPSA rulebook for these matches and have quite a variety of stages each week.

Stage 1

Four paper targets and a plate rack.  The "plate rack" had 6 clay pigeons on it.  So that means those were 4 inch targets at about 9 yards.

I finished 1st in Production on stage 1 with 62 out of 70 points and a time of 15.28 seconds.  I could certainly have done better if I hadn't had so many misses on the clay pigeons.

Stage 2

Eight paper targets.  I had a miss on one target and that hurt me.

I finished 2nd in Production on stage 2 with 56 points out of 80 possible (10 point penalty for the miss) and a time of 11.11.

Let me know what you think in the comments below.