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RESULTS: IDPA Nebraska Indoor Match, November 8
Lorimor:
My feelings are, if I want to enjoy this sport (or SC or Zombie shoots or RYG's or whatever), I need to help out, not only to speed up the shoot and keep it rolling but to perpetuate its existence.
Therefore, if I make the commitment to attend a shoot, I'm there for the duration. My personal time is precious to me too. Call me a hardass, call me selfish, but I don't believe anyone else's free time is more important than mine. Frankly, I think it's selfish to "shoot n' scoot." If YOU want to keep this sport alive, YOU need to make the commitment.
Dare I say it? No one is special??
I've seen too many of these shoots end with just a handful of shooters left at the end of the match. Having said that, I was happy to see there were still a good number of shooters present at the end of Saturday's overtime, hard cover riddled event. :)
On a side note, if you are having trouble finding black spray paint in eastern Nebraska, I have a few cans stashed away I can sell at just a few dollars above market value. :)
abbafandr:
--- Quote from: Lorimor on November 09, 2014, 12:58:29 PM ---My feelings are, if I want to enjoy this sport (or SC or Zombie shoots or RYG's or whatever), I need to help out, not only to speed up the shoot and keep it rolling but to perpetuate its existence.
Therefore, if I make the commitment to attend a shoot, I'm there for the duration. My personal time is precious to me too. Call me a hardass, call me selfish, but I don't believe anyone else's free time is more important than mine. Frankly, I think it's selfish to "shoot n' scoot." If YOU want to keep this sport alive, YOU need to make the commitment.
Dare I say it? No one is special??
I've seen too many of these shoots end with just a handful of shooters left at the end of the match. Having said that, I was happy to see there were still a good number of shooters present at the end of Saturday's overtime, hard cover riddled event. :)
On a side note, if you are having trouble finding black spray paint in eastern Nebraska, I have a few cans stashed away I can sell at just a few dollars above market value. :)
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I agree with this. Except for the black spray paint extortion thing :laugh:
mott555:
As one of the new shooters there yesterday, I have to say I really enjoyed it and thanks to everyone who made it happen! Once I understood the rules I told my self I'd be happy if I didn't get last place and if I didn't get any procedural errors, and I managed both.
I was also pleased with how the SO's ran things. Nothing's perfect and it was a long match, but only one person spoke out against doing all of stage 1 and then all of stage 2 and he said while he'd prefer to do the original arrangement it wasn't a big deal to him. Everyone was given the opportunity to speak up, if they chose not to and then complained after the fact, well, what do they expect?
Clearly I have a lot of room for improvement but I've found things I need to work on. That never would have happened had I continued shooting at stationary paper targets without any kind of pressure. I REALLY need to work on my accuracy at 10 - 15 yard ranges especially if I intend to compete with the LC9 again. As for that one hit non-threat, well he shouldn't have been standing so close to the terrorist :P
Extra thanks to the SO's and to some of the other participants who pulled me aside to let me know of any issues they noticed during my runs. I have no ego in this sport and greatly appreciate it.
I look forward to future matches.
mott555:
What was everyone using for ammo/bullet type? One of the problems I had was I couldn't really see the holes made by my 9mm FMJ's and so I was never sure if I had my 2 hits in or not. But with some of the other shooters I had no problem seeing their target holes even from the back of the crowd. I assume many of those were .45's but I'm curious if anyone was using wadcutters or hollow points, something that cuts a larger hole than what I used.
JTH:
--- Quote from: mott555 on November 10, 2014, 08:56:10 AM ---What was everyone using for ammo/bullet type? One of the problems I had was I couldn't really see the holes made by my 9mm FMJ's and so I was never sure if I had my 2 hits in or not. But with some of the other shooters I had no problem seeing their target holes even from the back of the crowd. I assume many of those were .45's but I'm curious if anyone was using wadcutters or hollow points, something that cuts a larger hole than what I used.
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124 grain Montana Gold FMJs. :)
In that lighting, you just aren't going to see 9mm at any real distances. .40, perhaps, .45, mostly---but in general, you just won't be able to see 9mm hits well.
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