sturmruger
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This weekend I shot at my Club's monthly USPSA match. I shot the first two stages very well for a action shooting newcomer. Got over to the third stage, I was the very last shooter of the day. Everyone else was done shooting so they were all sitting around watching the last of our group shoot. It was a simple stage that had 7 steel poppers, and 8 paper targets. We were to engage all of the targets from inside a shooting box.
The trick to this stage was we were supposed to load our gun, place it on a table in front of us, then when the buzzer sounded we were supposed to spin around three times then grab our gun and start shooting. I decided that I was going to shoot all of the steel and then move on to the paper. I shot all of the steel and started reloading. While I was reloading someone asked if I was planning on spinning around any time soon. I was stunned how could I forgot something so simple as to spin around 3 times before I started shooting. After the comment from the peanut gallery I decided to just keep shooting. I don't know why I kept shooting I was so mad at myself I couldn't hit . When it was all said and done I was PISSED it was so simple why couldn't I remember to spin around. I got a procedural for each shot I took. I got like -230 for that stage if I understand the scoring properly. The good news is they lowest score you can get is 0. So when the match results come through that will be my score for the stage.
Oh well mistake happen, I am just glad I wasn't shooting a classifier. Oh ya, I have yet to make any safety snafus.
The trick to this stage was we were supposed to load our gun, place it on a table in front of us, then when the buzzer sounded we were supposed to spin around three times then grab our gun and start shooting. I decided that I was going to shoot all of the steel and then move on to the paper. I shot all of the steel and started reloading. While I was reloading someone asked if I was planning on spinning around any time soon. I was stunned how could I forgot something so simple as to spin around 3 times before I started shooting. After the comment from the peanut gallery I decided to just keep shooting. I don't know why I kept shooting I was so mad at myself I couldn't hit . When it was all said and done I was PISSED it was so simple why couldn't I remember to spin around. I got a procedural for each shot I took. I got like -230 for that stage if I understand the scoring properly. The good news is they lowest score you can get is 0. So when the match results come through that will be my score for the stage.
Oh well mistake happen, I am just glad I wasn't shooting a classifier. Oh ya, I have yet to make any safety snafus.