Pistol Safety

[Agent Blue]

22 years ago I used to think I was a good shot, then I joined a USPSA/IPSC club and learned I would not make a pimple on a good shots.... Anyway I started shooting under stress, several times a month and had friends come over between matches and we started practicing. I got better, notice I did not say I got good.. I have shot with world champions, they are good. I learned that when the timer went beep, sometime your abilities and plans go beep too! but anyone can get better if they practice. Some of the people I shot with, some of you would not believe what they can do.. The shooting sports are the only sport I know of where you can rub shoulders and shoot with some of the best athlete's in the world. I can't think of any other sport you can do that.

James K0UA

Try shooting in the rain. At a pistol match I was lucky enough to be in the last relay when the clouds opened up. My friend said to just shoot normally, drop the speed loaders, concentrate on the X ring. I shot my best score in the worst conditions. I didn't tense up when the whistle blew and didn't think about what the other shooters were doing. I was in a world all my own for what semed an hour long.

 

[k0ua]

Try shooting in the rain. At a pistol match I was lucky enough to be in the last relay when the clouds opened up. My friend said to just shoot normally, drop the speed loaders, concentrate on the X ring. I shot my best score in the worst conditions. I didn't tense up when the whistle blew and didn't think about what the other shooters were doing. I was in a world all my own for what semed an hour long.

I have shot many matches in the rain. I don't mind the rain, but the plastic bags over the targets really suck. I have shot in sleet and snow too!. When we shot at Ozark Shoots, the shotgun range was about 150 200 yards up the hill, and sometimes the "rain" was 7 1/2 8 and 9 shot:shocked:

James K0UA

 

[TripleR]

We qualified in the rain and extreme heat cold often, no guarantee of good weather, sometimes had the instructors yelling in our ears etc. too, not to mention hot brass bouncing off of you and on one range backsplash from rocks. The introduction of stress into practice is helpful, never shot in competition though.

 

[RadarTech]

We qualified in the rain and extreme heat cold often, no guarantee of good weather, sometimes had the instructors yelling in our ears etc. too, not to mention hot brass bouncing off of you and on one range backsplash from rocks. The introduction of stress into practice is helpful, never shot in competition though.

The competition aspect has rules but can be stressful in itself....

 

[TripleR]

The competition aspect has rules but can be stressful in itself....

I'm sure it does, we had Officers who competed, I just never did.

 

[k0ua]

I'm sure it does, we had Officers who competed, I just never did.

TripleR, there is nothing more "exciting" than a big match where you have paid a big wad of money to enter, and have maybe 50 people watching your when you step up to the starting box, and the horn on the timer goes off... you do what you do.. It is all up to you, good run, bad run, or somewhere in between. But it can be a little stressful. Sometimes the difference in winning you classification in a match can be a few hundredths of a second, or a bullet hole on one side of a line or another.

James K0UA

 

[RadarTech]

TripleR, there is nothing more "exciting" than a big match where you have paid a big wad of money to enter, and have maybe 50 people watching your when you step up to the starting box, and the horn on the timer goes off... you do what you do.. It is all up to you, good run, bad run, or somewhere in between. But it can be a little stressful. Sometimes the difference in winning you classification in a match can be a few hundredths of a second, or a bullet hole on one side of a line or another.

James K0UA

And ya got to be sure there are no Mikes and no procedural penalties... The sneakiness of e no shoot target placements!!!

 

[TripleR]

TripleR, there is nothing more "exciting" than a big match where you have paid a big wad of money to enter, and have maybe 50 people watching your when you step up to the starting box, and the horn on the timer goes off... you do what you do.. It is all up to you, good run, bad run, or somewhere in between. But it can be a little stressful. Sometimes the difference in winning you classification in a match can be a few hundredths of a second, or a bullet hole on one side of a line or another.

James K0UA

Oh, I believe you, I'm just not physically able to compete.

 

[RadarTech]

Oh, I believe you, I'm just not physically able to compete.

I'd challenge you to just go and watch...
We have shooters in their 70's and some I their teens...
Some are fast and some are just accurate..
It is as much a competition as it is a fellowship opportunity..

 

[TripleR]

I'd challenge you to just go and watch...
We have shooters in their 70's and some I their teens...
Some are fast and some are just accurate..
It is as much a competition as it is a fellowship opportunity..

I use to go to them when I was younger.