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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: alfsauve on June 03, 2015, 07:13:15 PM
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Saturday, Miss Kitty and I drove over to Montgomery, AL for the Sweet Home Alabama Glock Challenge III.
I planned to get there at noon and avoid any crowds. Plans did not go well. For starters they're on CDT, so duh! It was 11am when I got there. Plus there were 619 entries. Not small by any stretch. Without an abundance of ROs they shut down some bays a lunch. So, it took three hours in some pretty heavy humidity to shoot through.
78.19 in Amateur Civilian and 95.41 in Competition. I shot my G17 in both divisions leaving the G34 in the bag. (Anybody want a G34?)
My goal is to get under 70. I've been improving, but not there yet. Based on last year's scores at this shoot I was hoping to be high Super Senior. Well it turns out to be the Battle of the Seniors, (no funny walker pictures please) with 8 Seniors and 5 Super Seniors on page one.
I place 14th overall but 3rd Super which means no prizes, unless I get lucky in the draw. Now just have to wait on the prize drawings.
Good practice though for the River Bend Ballistic Challenge VII in Dawsonville, Ga in July. I've scored my lowest there (70.27) and cleaned the targets. Maybe this will be the year to break 70.
FO sights really work outdoors. Especially mid-day, when you're standing under a tent but holding the gun out in the sun. Even the RO was commenting on how stunning all the FO guns looked even from his angle.
http://www.gssfonline.com/results/2015/2015cal.pdf
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Just because you asked and it's obviously causing you physical distress, I will come over there and remove the offending firearm from your premises. I won't even charge you as long as you throw in a couple of magazines. I have that much kindness in my heart.
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Just because you asked and it's obviously causing you physical distress, I will come over there and remove the offending firearm from your premises. I won't even charge you as long as you throw in a couple of magazines. I have that much kindness in my heart.
<wish I could deliever the following like Mary Louise Parker did in RED when she was captured by Karl Urban>
Wow! Such love and concern. I'm am deeply touched. Of course, what I really want to touch would be 23 twenty dollar bills. Then I would possibly be moved to include one magazine and the original box, but no lock.
And because of your deep thoughtfulness I would insist that we consummate this heartfelt exchange in person.
;)
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Okay, finals results posted. I'm 13/158 Am-Civ. NO PRIZES. Dag nab it. Page 1, of 34 shooters, was the battle of the seniors with 15 out of the top 34 being either Senior or Super Seniors.
Tomorrow, 7/11, I'm off to River Bend GC for their GSSF Match. Traditionally I've done my best shooting there. Shot the course clean in 70.27 last year. I'd be happy to break 70 win or not.
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Back from River Bend (Dawsonville, GA) GSSF match. Hot and tired.
Friday, messing around outside, I got stung by a wasp right between the 2nd and 3rd knuckles OF MY SHOOTING HAND!!
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It was uncomfortable and stiff. I couldn't make a fist, but I shot anyway. Good thing, too. I shot 68.24, my best score ever. Only down 2 points on Glock M stage. Should have been perfect. I shot the 5 by Glock last and was hot, tired and irritable. My hand was stiff, swollen and acked. I halfheartedly followed the RO downrange and couldn't believe it when he got the the far target and said "6 Alpha". I wanted to go back and have him double check. Surely there was a mistake. I took my score sheets and immediately started tallying them up. 68.24. WOW.
I could have done better on plates, my first three runs were under 5 seconds each, but I really choked on the 4th string with over 8 seconds.
Next goals, at the Nationals are: Score <20 seconds on plates and overall score of less than 65. By August first, I'll have a facility available where I can practice with real plates. That should help tremendously.
Scores should be on the GSSF site by Wed or Thur. I don't know how my competition, Mason Murphy, did. He typically out shoots me by a couple of points. Last year his score at River Bend was 64.xx.
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Good grief, Alf...you should NEVER leave the house!
mb
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Well this is embarrassing. My spreadsheet had a little error and I only scored 70.24. Dag-nab-it.
The scores are out for River Bend (Dawnsonville). But they have some errors, too. They have me at 70.15 and forgot my super senior. Also got my Competition score off by 10 points.
Nice thing is, you send them an email and they'll correct it.
So, baring other peoples scores being out of wack, I finished 17/274. 2nd place Super Senior. Mason Murphy really did well, to take first. Practice, practice, practice. High Amateur score was 57.08.
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Just received the Glock Report a few days ago come to find out they have a new Indoor match this year that is about a 1 hour drive away from me. But 2 of three matches have already happen. :(
But I just may shoot the last one next month in Westfield, IN. just for the heck of it.
I should be shooting the Match today in Atlanta, IN. but I the grandkids are here and want to go to the last day of our county fair.
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I've had grands hanging around all weekend. I have to remember it is important to spend time with them when I can now. Later, I'll be to senile or they'll be too busy.
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BIG NEWS ABOUT THE NATIONAL MATCH!!!
I didn't go. I wanted to go. I planned on it. Had the shooting bag loaded and on the counter the night before.
It was my wife's "fall break" from school. I was suppose to shoot 3 matches in 7 days.
First match was a local rogue action pistol match at my new club on Saturday, 9/19. CHECK. Did that. My first time out shooting my 627 with .38SC. Came in 4th (out of 4) revo shooters. It was fun and challenging, though. Some IDPA and some USPSA mixed together.
Second match was suppose to be during the week at Yulee, FL. We were vaca on Amelia Island and a local range was suppose to have a USPSA match mid-week. They changed the match date from mid-week to Saturday so that didn't happen.
We came back to Atlanta on Friday and I was suppose to shoot the GSSF National on Saturday, at SOUTH RIVER GC where it's always been held. I was feeling a little exhausted as the Friday drive proved to be long and tiring (rain and wrecks - not mine) for an old geezer. So Saturday morning I didn't go. GOOD THING. I didn't bother to read the match directions. South River had declined to sponsor the match and it had been moved to Griffin GC. Boy would I have been ticked to drive 90 minutes to the wrong range.
No tales of conquest this year. My Super Senior competitor Mason Murphy appears to have won that category with a 69.34. I have worked hard the last month on plates and I think I could have given him a run for his money. But given my exhaustion and the fact I would have been at the wrong range, it's as well I didn't try to go. On the bright side, my work calendar has been cleared for the February match in Griffin next year.
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Hey Alf;
Chris Edwards from Glock and I have been talking about my sad, pathetic inability to shoot Glocks the way they should be shot. During my rehab, I'm going to be working on a bunch of stuff, but in the spring (after the knee replacement), I'm going over to Atlanta to spend a couple of days with Chris with some pretty intense training. Something you might be interested in joining me?
mb
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I'd love to! I'm half way out the door now to meet you at their offices!
I have cleaned one GSSF match with my G17, but I can't shoot the G34 worth beans.
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Glocks feel funny to me, but I shoot them pretty well (at least, for my shooting skills, which are not impressive).
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Practice is paying off. Today was light only about 350 rounds, all on plates. I did practice some drawing from holster but mostly from low ready. Half of the practice is just on the first shot. Then about a quarter on 3 shots, then the last quarter on 6 shots. No make up shots for this practice. Generally I try to get in 5 or so run throughs where I will do makeup shots.
3 compete runs toward the end under 4.50 seconds! Yeah-h-h-h-h. Progress. Here's my best run. Also am very proud my first shot was under 1.10. Generally I've been running just under 1.5.
(https://sauve.smugmug.com/Gun-General/i-h5Xkc2f/0/X2/IMG_20151023_111018516-X2.jpg)
The next GSSF match in my area is in 3 weeks at CMP in Taledaga, AL. An inaugural match for them..
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Looking good Alf! Do you have any Steel Challenge groups in your area? I have never shot an actual Steel Challenge, but I find that steel shooting, like Rio Salado's Tuesday Night Steel and the Pro-Am, is good training and practice for improving smooth transitions and building speed.
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Hey Alf:
When you and Michael go to the Glock offices see if you can con them into letting you shoot a MOS model . I am hoping to get a G-41 MOS but am wondering about taller front and rear sights so they can be seen though the reflex sight.
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"The next GSSF match in my area is in 3 weeks at CMP in Taledaga, AL. An inaugural match for them.. "
Alf, are these open to public spectators? I might try to come watch if they are.
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I've never seen, at a match closed to spectators. I can imagine that there are some, maybe held on military bases.
I know nothing about this Taledega facility but I'm fairly positive GSSF would want as many interested parties in attendance, shooting or not as possible.
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It was raining this week, but I still got ~300 rounds down range. I managed to set the camera on top of a barrel with the trash can lid on top to keep it dry for my last couple of run throughs. Here's my best. Not terribly fast, but steady and smooth. Not with the G17 but with the 686 revolver.
If you listen you can hear the rain. My Pact timer quit working. I thought it was the battery, but when I got home and dried it out, worked fine. Must have been the moisture.
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This is what I am hoping for Santa to slip under the tree this year.
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This is what I am hoping for Santa to slip under the tree this year.
I hope you get it. Just be a really good boy.
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I know but being really good is not any fun ::)
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Off to Talladega CMP range for their inaugural GSSF match today. It's so new that Google maps doesn't even have an aerial view of it. Looks nice.
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Just saw a show on that facility last week. Can't wait to go and try it out.
Waiting for reports Alf - On both your success and the facility.
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Did poor. Some of the lowest total scores ever. No excuses just too many B&C hits. I'm starting another thread on the facility.
High point was plates. 20.30sec. A new record for me. Practice is paying off. Four strings of sub 5seconds. Just not all in one division.
Other high point is I did spend time with Mason Murphy and his wife Barbara. Mason is sort of the reigning Super Senior GSSF shooter for the south. Always beats me be a couple of points. Today he probably beat me by 20. Super nice couple. Picture of Barbara shooting and Mason coaching.
(https://sauve.smugmug.com/Gun-General/i-NcxVmCK/0/L/IMG_20151114_122515202-L.jpg)