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STEEL SHOOT COMP

CURTIS B
13.11 Stage1
11.96 Stage2
14.88 Stage3
14.49 Stage4
54.44 Final.

Finish 5th overall in Iron sight div. out of 12 IS Shooters.

Pueblo IPSC on sunday.

Also starting a new project. Gonna convert my Ruger 10/22 into a PS90 bullpup setup, more on that later.

IPSC results

Stage 1
6th Production / 15th Overall
Curtis 17 U Production 66 0 18.15 3.6364 55.0914 61.21%

Stage 2 "classifier" = Times Two
4th Production / 13th overall
Curtis 17 U Production 54 0 13.46 4.0119 29.8801 49.80%

Final.
6th Overall production / 15th overall out of 34.
Curtis 17 U Production 66 0 18.15 3.6364 55.0914 61.21%

Ok, apperently focusing only on speed became my short coming. Gotta get more dry fire exercieses done. Though the dry fire practice I did earlier this week helped out on Stage2

Offday

Well also twisted my ankle, and re agrevate an old injury that just wont go away. I believe they shoot a horse if this happen to them sigh...

Whistling Pines IPSC shoot tomorow with Classifer tomorow, Will be the 3rd classifer, with one away from getting a raiting.

Off day / Drill day

Nothing.

Conditioning Swimming and Dry Fire Sprint Drills

Swam for 45mins. Fastest 25meters so far has been 25.44 secs, Average about 1min per 25meters, at normal rock speed.



Did Some speed work during Dry Fire.



---Layout---

Placed six paper targets about 10yards away, grouping them in 2s and separating them about 5 feet from each set. Used 2 shoot boxes at each end of the targets.

---Plan---

From Shoot Box 1, draw from holster and "shoot" targets across with 2 shots a piece, then target closest middle target with 2 shoots. Sprint to Next Shoot box, performing a reload, engage next three targets.

---Execution---

Did this exercise for 30 mins strait. At First I timed myself with my stopwatch, from starting in box 1 and ending in box 2. Average was about 6secs. Then around 15mins of doing this, I started to do it 3 consecutive sprints. Averaging 13secs. Biggest focus here was coming from a dead stop just before my foot hit the box, line up my sight picture, and as my right foot hit the box, have trigger squeezed at point of fire, and pull the trigger as my left foots leaves the ground just outside of the box. Then stabilizing that foot to a shooting position to finish up and get ready to do a "Hard Takeoff" to the other box.

Doing this Right to left was pretty easy as my lead foot was my right foot every time and the extra momentum while swinging my left foot in the box was easier to plant in a shooting position. Not quite so Easy going left to right. As I plant my lead foot (Right foot) and had my sight picture, the momentum of my left foot would some times go right behind my right leg putting me in a funny position to shoot. I was able to maintain sight picture on all 3 targets, but it put me in such a bad position that i couldn't get a good leap off to run back to the other box. Plus I'm not sure how well I would had shot if using live rounds. All in all Good practice, I need to work on my reloads a little more while I'm doing a dead sprint. To many times the mag wouldn't completely eject by the time I had "dumped" it, grabbed a new mag and ready to put in. Gotta work on tilting the gun against direction of movement to help the mag drop faster. Also about 1/3 of the time I miss grab the mag with my thumb, instead of my index as lead, so it put my load hand in weird position to reload, I'd get the reload lock, but I can just see wasting alot of time trying to re straiting my sight picture and rotating my offhand back into a pistol support hold.

Match Results for Shotgun Only match in Pueblo Last week.

Stage 1 - Speed Course, 6 plate knock down, Texas star, Standing Pidgeons
10 B, Curtis 17 U Standard 85 0 15.23 5.5811 49.2810 57.98%

Stage 2 - CQB with 4 30yard Slug shots, note: Slug shots in the neck don't count as a score.
10 B, Curtis 17 U Standard 90 10 98.17 0.8149 38.8944 40.94%

Stage 3 - Everything that could go wrong, probably did.
12 B, Curtis 17 U Standard 130 0 177.55 0.7322 52.9223 40.71%

Overall - Could had done better
10 B, Curtis U Standard Major N N 141.0977 45.52%

Not bad for being a first Shotgun only match 10 out of 20 shooters. Will add pics when I can put my hands on them.

Practice Pistol

Well 4 days from WPGC IPSC shoot on Monday, so I gone ahead and practice transition drills between 2 25yard bulleyes targets, wasted probably 150 rounds of 9mm, but what can you say.