A-ha! Good the YouTube "button" works.
How is competition going for me?
Wellll...
It's not.
I will try to make a long story short. I promise.
I was the volunteer, non-paid USPSA and Steel Challenge match director for a year and a half at the World Shooting Complex in Sparta, IL.
Key words being volunteer and non paid.
The Shooting Complex is run by the IL DNR.
As you have probably heard, the state of Illinois is billions in debt mostly due to retirements/pensions.
So the people at the ILDNR decided to contract out a married couple to do whatever. In the process, the IL DNR booted me out of my unpaid/volunteer match director slot, and made them the match directors.
I figure the state was paying the husband and wife...oh...probably somewhere between $30,000 and $60,000 each to do whatever at the Shooting Complex.
There were some other shenanigans going on mixed with drama llama bullshit that made me feel unwelcomed in the St. Louis metro area "action pistol" community.
So I shot my last match in April 2012.
For a spell sometime between April 2012 and say 2018, the state was so short on funds that they actually closed/shuttered the Shooting Complex.
It has been open for at least a couple of years now and is under new management. That married couple has long since moved on.
Now, with different leadership, they actually hold "tactical two gun" matches out there:
And they even open up the pistol berms to the public. It costs $15 and they let me shoot their steel targets:
and:
Soooo...I guess you could say I could still hold my own even though I haven't shot any competitions in 7 years.