allen-1
NES Member
We started shooting USPSA matches at my club here in Georgia last year, and we run them every other month. I'm gone part of the year, so I only shoot maybe four of them a year. The rest of the year I shoot IDPA matches and "contact" matches at my club in CT, (where "contact" are informal USPSA format matches).
Saturday we had 59 shooters and five stages including a classifier stage. Most of the match went about as I expected. I shot some of it well and some of it poorly. I ended up about in the middle, which is okay. I'd like to do better, but that's on me. We had some new shooters, and we had some guys that are seriously ranked competitors.
So - that's the background.
This was the first time I've shot a USPSA classifier stage. This one was labelled cm-03-03 "Take 'em Down". There's a diagram here: http://www.classifiercalc.com/classifier_diagrams/03-03.pdf
Basically, you start in a box, the beeper goes off, you shoot two paper targets from one side of the barricade, then two paper targets from the other side of the barricade, advance to the second barricade and shoot three poppers.
All paper gets two rounds, all steel must fall. It's Comstock rules. You can fire as many rounds as you want, the best two on paper count.
Loaded to division capacity, I shot "Production", which is 10+1.
If you do it right, you need 11 shots - if you do it wrong - well.
Unlike every other stage I shot, all of the shooting here was from a static position, and it's all pretty close up, 25 to the paper and 35 to the steel.
I shot it exactly as I planned it. I'm right handed, so I drew and shot to the left of the barricade, the outside target first, then the inner one. Pulled the gun in slightly, pushed it back out and shot the inner target on the right, then the outer target and as soon as I fired the second shot I moved to the second barricade. I basically "pied" the steels, working from the right to the left, one shot each.
I didn't hurry, but I shot the stage in 6.49 seconds. I KNEW I'd shot it well. I didn't realize I'd shot it that well until I RO'd the rest of squad and nobody came close.
This puts me way above my skill level. I'm good at shooting while standing still. That's not USPSA.
Saturday we had 59 shooters and five stages including a classifier stage. Most of the match went about as I expected. I shot some of it well and some of it poorly. I ended up about in the middle, which is okay. I'd like to do better, but that's on me. We had some new shooters, and we had some guys that are seriously ranked competitors.
So - that's the background.
This was the first time I've shot a USPSA classifier stage. This one was labelled cm-03-03 "Take 'em Down". There's a diagram here: http://www.classifiercalc.com/classifier_diagrams/03-03.pdf
Basically, you start in a box, the beeper goes off, you shoot two paper targets from one side of the barricade, then two paper targets from the other side of the barricade, advance to the second barricade and shoot three poppers.
All paper gets two rounds, all steel must fall. It's Comstock rules. You can fire as many rounds as you want, the best two on paper count.
Loaded to division capacity, I shot "Production", which is 10+1.
If you do it right, you need 11 shots - if you do it wrong - well.
Unlike every other stage I shot, all of the shooting here was from a static position, and it's all pretty close up, 25 to the paper and 35 to the steel.
I shot it exactly as I planned it. I'm right handed, so I drew and shot to the left of the barricade, the outside target first, then the inner one. Pulled the gun in slightly, pushed it back out and shot the inner target on the right, then the outer target and as soon as I fired the second shot I moved to the second barricade. I basically "pied" the steels, working from the right to the left, one shot each.
I didn't hurry, but I shot the stage in 6.49 seconds. I KNEW I'd shot it well. I didn't realize I'd shot it that well until I RO'd the rest of squad and nobody came close.
This puts me way above my skill level. I'm good at shooting while standing still. That's not USPSA.