IDPA Match
I shot with the TTG group at Larry's tonight. We had four courses of fire and a reasonable turnout.
First course was a simulated home invasion. Shooter was sitting in a chair facing uprange, leaned back with hands behind head and ankles crossed. On buzzer, shooter moved to a barrel, ~10 feet behind and retreived unloaded handgun and ammo, stowed spare ammo and loaded. There was a barricade ~10 from the barrel. Three hostiles on each side and one non-threat each side. Three rounds were required on each hostile, pieing from cover.
I shot this one slow (32.46 RAW) with total 6 points down. I did a tac-reload when I should have run the gun to slidelock and had a failure to battery.
Second course was a simulated robbery in public and started with the shooter facing the right side wall of the range with hands against the wall. There was a plastic flopper ~3 feet to the left. On the buzzer, shooter had to hit the flopper with strong hand and then draw from concealment. Engage four hostile targets downrange with a non-threat in front while moving to left to cover. On the left of the cover point, there were two more hostiles with a non-threat in between to be engaged with 3 rounds each, pieing the cover.
I shot this one fast... Too fast. (16.18 RAW) with 21 points down. One miss on #3 of the first 4 hostiles counted for 5 of these points.
Third course was a simulated store robbery and shooter started facing uprange with concealment. On buzzer shooter turns and engages 4 hostile targets while advancing to counter with three rounds each. There is a non-threat between two hostiles.
I shot this one a little more reasonable but went for headshots. (16.02) with 5 points down. I dropped the mag when I reloaded which cost a little time. If I had shot for center mass hits, I might have cleaned the stage. Some of the "head" shots dropped into the upper chest costing me 2 down on 2 targets each and 1 down on another.
Fourth course was walking the dog. Shooter facing uprange with dog leash in strong hand. On buzzer, advance to cover on right while shooting a hostile 6 times. Pieing past the cover on right side, engage 2 hostiles (one with non-threat) with three rounds each.
I shot this one pretty well but felt very flatfooted at the beginning of the stage. I shot once or twice on T1 and had to remember to keep moving and shooting. T2 got center of mass hits and T3 with the non-threat got headshots. (11.94 RAW) 6 points down (5 T1 and 1 on T2)
All totalled I shot a 96.60 which was good for 6th of 12 in SSP.
I think I've been treating these IDPA stages as "burner" stages. The courses are short and the ranges are pretty short. I want to slow down however long it takes to see the sights instead of indexing and just get the hits. Oh, well, there's another match in two weeks...
First course was a simulated home invasion. Shooter was sitting in a chair facing uprange, leaned back with hands behind head and ankles crossed. On buzzer, shooter moved to a barrel, ~10 feet behind and retreived unloaded handgun and ammo, stowed spare ammo and loaded. There was a barricade ~10 from the barrel. Three hostiles on each side and one non-threat each side. Three rounds were required on each hostile, pieing from cover.
I shot this one slow (32.46 RAW) with total 6 points down. I did a tac-reload when I should have run the gun to slidelock and had a failure to battery.
Second course was a simulated robbery in public and started with the shooter facing the right side wall of the range with hands against the wall. There was a plastic flopper ~3 feet to the left. On the buzzer, shooter had to hit the flopper with strong hand and then draw from concealment. Engage four hostile targets downrange with a non-threat in front while moving to left to cover. On the left of the cover point, there were two more hostiles with a non-threat in between to be engaged with 3 rounds each, pieing the cover.
I shot this one fast... Too fast. (16.18 RAW) with 21 points down. One miss on #3 of the first 4 hostiles counted for 5 of these points.
Third course was a simulated store robbery and shooter started facing uprange with concealment. On buzzer shooter turns and engages 4 hostile targets while advancing to counter with three rounds each. There is a non-threat between two hostiles.
I shot this one a little more reasonable but went for headshots. (16.02) with 5 points down. I dropped the mag when I reloaded which cost a little time. If I had shot for center mass hits, I might have cleaned the stage. Some of the "head" shots dropped into the upper chest costing me 2 down on 2 targets each and 1 down on another.
Fourth course was walking the dog. Shooter facing uprange with dog leash in strong hand. On buzzer, advance to cover on right while shooting a hostile 6 times. Pieing past the cover on right side, engage 2 hostiles (one with non-threat) with three rounds each.
I shot this one pretty well but felt very flatfooted at the beginning of the stage. I shot once or twice on T1 and had to remember to keep moving and shooting. T2 got center of mass hits and T3 with the non-threat got headshots. (11.94 RAW) 6 points down (5 T1 and 1 on T2)
All totalled I shot a 96.60 which was good for 6th of 12 in SSP.
I think I've been treating these IDPA stages as "burner" stages. The courses are short and the ranges are pretty short. I want to slow down however long it takes to see the sights instead of indexing and just get the hits. Oh, well, there's another match in two weeks...
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