First ICORE Match

[alfsauve]

There's no one running ICORE near me, so Saturday I drove to Augusta for a quarterly match they hold at Pinetuky GC.  Had a good time met some neat guys.   I did good accuracy-wise, but was slow and clumsy and should have practice with the Comp-3 speedloaders some more before I went.

Three of the stages had certain mental challenges.  One was a typical IPSC field course.  14 targets lots of hard cover hiding them.  I scored 27As and 1B.  I'm just amazed I shot at all of them.   I think my time was 30:23  (minutes:seconds)

We did 5 six inch plates at 11 yards.  Trick here was that, with 6 shot revolvers, if you missed a second shot, then take the 3 point penalty rather than spend 3+ seconds reloading.  If you missed a 3rd then reload, pick up the previously missed plate before the stop plate.   I think I averaged about 9.5 seconds. 

Then we had a simple 6 target 10 yard drill, but with varying engagement rules.  T1 3 shots, T2 2 shots, reload/move,  T3 2 shots T4 3 shots, reload/move, T5 & 6 3 shots each.   Aced the score, but time sucked again.

Now here the one that was really fun.  15 yds, 9 targets.   Real simple.  Shoot each target once and only once.  Then shoot them again, once and only once.  Only 18 rounds allowed, no extra shots.  All targets must have one hole in them before you shoot any target a second time.



I did the top four then the bottom left two.   Reloaded and started with the lower right, plugged the center twice and finished the upper left 2.  Reloaded then did the two lower left, upper right and lower right.

There was a USPSA Grand Master Revolver shooter there.   Nice guy.  Shooting the 627 with .38Short Colts.  More than willing to share his tricks and strategies.   

I'll post scores when they get them on-line.  I liked it in that the variety of the stages.  Some shooting steel, some simple/speed some IPSC.   It was good to know that my equipment was correct.  I had the right speed loaders, the right holders, etc.  My holster needs upgrading as I was using a paddle one you'd use for carry.  Got the competition holster on order Saturday night.  Good to talk to the GM about the Short Colt rounds. 

[alfsauve]

Got the scores: 

Understand this is a local match and somewhat informal, so it's not "real" competitive.   One guy didn't even have a holster.  He's listed as a "novice" class.   The DM shoot, of course wipe us all out.  About half my score.  My highlight?   Only was 4 points down for the WHOLE match.  Hey, shooting at a very slow pace will do that for you.  I won Classic, but one shooter would have easily beat me had he not left early.   Wheww-w-w.

         

March  2013 ICORE Central Savannah River - Pinetukey               

Name	Division	Stage 1	Stage 2	Steel Stage	CS 013	Total
Alfred Sauve	Classic	38.84	72.39	36.43	30.27	177.93
Tim Baucom	Classic	59.41	68.92	45.54	38.48	212.35
Larry Huey	Classic	44.78	86.31	75.17	37.17	243.43
Paul Beck	Classic	19.95	69.29	26.22	DNF
Devon Penrod	Limited	19.69	27.51	21.41	16.87	85.46
Mark Sullivan	Limited	33.35	38.74	25.02	26.25	123.36
Colin Kell	Limited	55.28	69.20	34.50	28.84	188.32
Bill Wah	Limited	40.84	69.84	60.67	35.93	207.28
Ed Filby	Novice	68.70	73.96	32.17	47.00	221.83

                        

What a beautiful day we had for our first ICORE match of 2013. In addition to the good weather , we had a good                         
little crowd of Revolver Enthusiast with us as well. Couple of notes about scores above. Stage 1 = LAX and Stage 2                        
was WIDEOUT, CS-013 was 2's & 3's Classifier.                        
Was very happy to have two out of town guest today. Alfred Sauve and Devon Penrod from Atlanta area. Guys it was                         
great having you , please come visit again. As seen by the scores, Devon showed us how it was to be done. It was                         
a treat watching Devon run the round gun like he does. It also should be noted that Alf only dropped 4 points for the                         
whole match, shooting mostly A's. Well done Alfred. As soon as Ed procures a holster, we will take him out of                         
Novice class.

[Magoo541]

You have to finish to win.  Good on you!  I don't have a revolver and if I did it wouldn't be suitable for ICORE (I WANT a 500 S&W) but any excuse to pull a trigger is good for me

[gunman42782]

Awesome!  I love shooting the revolvers.  When I first got into shooting most of the cops still carried revolvers, they where just beginning to switch to semi-autos.  So I kinda grew up shooting them, and if I say so, aint too shabby with one.  Not Jerry Michulek, but who is besides Jerry!