It’s been a several months since I shot in a USPSA match. I practiced a bunch in the previous two weeks but I completely forgot to practice one handed shooting. I remembered this as I was driving to Idaho to work on the weather station but then it was too late to do much about it. I had an extremely busy weekend and I was suffering from a lack of sleep and decided sleep had a higher priority than even a few minutes of dry firing.
Two of the stages had some one-handed shooting and I did okay on them (in fact, I won one of the stages). Overall I felt I did okay but not great (especially the classifier). When I looked at the overall results (Limited Division) I was surprised:
Lewiston Pistol Club USPSA-May 2017 – 2017-05-14
Match Results – LTD |
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Place | Name | No. | Class | Div | PF | Category | Match Pts | Match % |
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1 | TY29386 | B | LTD | Maj | 339.3213 | 100.0000 % | ||
2 | A95272 | C | LTD | Maj | 330.5290 | 97.4089 % | ||
3 | A88114 | U | LTD | Maj | 294.2301 | 86.7114 % | ||
4 | L2544 | B | LTD | Maj | 273.4669 | 80.5923 % | ||
5 | A102929 | U | LTD | Min | 262.6431 | 77.4025 % | ||
6 | U | LTD | Min | 205.7575 | 60.6380 % |
Wow!
What happened?
It turns out that, as in most of the other matches I have done well in, I get the best results when I don’t try to do my absolute best. Not making really bad mistakes yields better results than having a mixture of awesome and catastrophic stages. This was a mixture of mediocre and good. My fellow competitors had a mix of catastrophic and good:
Six Chickens (03-02) Stage Results – LTD |
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Place | Name | No. | Class | Div | Points | Pen | Time | Hit Factor | Stage Pts | Stage % |
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1 | C | LTD | 57 | 0 | 14.66 | 3.8881 | 60.0000 | 100.00 % | ||
2 | U | LTD | 50 | 0 | 17.00 | 2.9412 | 45.3877 | 75.65 % | ||
3 | B | LTD | 50 | 10 | 15.25 | 2.6230 | 40.4774 | 67.46 % | ||
4 | B | LTD | 49 | 20 | 11.72 | 2.4744 | 38.1842 | 63.64 % | ||
5 | U | LTD | 53 | 20 | 17.76 | 1.8581 | 28.6736 | 47.79 % | ||
6 | U | LTD | 42 | 50 | 10.15 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.00 % |
May Flower Mayhem Stage Results – LTD |
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Place | Name | No. | Class | Div | Points | Pen | Time | Hit Factor | Stage Pts | Stage % |
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1 | U | LTD | 136 | 40 | 18.11 | 5.3009 | 160.0000 | 100.00 % | ||
2 | C | LTD | 155 | 10 | 30.46 | 4.7603 | 143.6828 | 89.80 % | ||
3 | U | LTD | 160 | 0 | 37.94 | 4.2172 | 127.2901 | 79.56 % | ||
4 | B | LTD | 146 | 20 | 30.60 | 4.1176 | 124.2838 | 77.68 % | ||
5 | B | LTD | 152 | 10 | 34.60 | 4.1040 | 123.8733 | 77.42 % | ||
6 | U | LTD | 156 | 10 | 40.02 | 3.6482 | 110.1156 | 68.82 % |
Paper Plates 2 Stage Results – LTD |
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Place | Name | No. | Class | Div | Points | Pen | Time | Hit Factor | Stage Pts | Stage % |
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1 | U | LTD | 106 | 0 | 15.93 | 6.6541 | 115.0000 | 100.00 % | ||
2 | B | LTD | 109 | 0 | 19.45 | 5.6041 | 96.8533 | 84.22 % | ||
3 | C | LTD | 105 | 0 | 20.03 | 5.2421 | 90.5970 | 78.78 % | ||
4 | B | LTD | 110 | 0 | 21.34 | 5.1546 | 89.0848 | 77.47 % | ||
5 | U | LTD | 113 | 10 | 31.93 | 3.2258 | 55.7501 | 48.48 % | ||
6 | U | LTD | 100 | 20 | 32.57 | 2.4562 | 42.4495 | 36.91 % |
Brave You Are? Stage Results – LTD |
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Place | Name | No. | Class | Div | Points | Pen | Time | Hit Factor | Stage Pts | Stage % |
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1 | B | LTD | 69 | 0 | 19.36 | 3.5640 | 80.0000 | 100.00 % | ||
2 | U | LTD | 54 | 0 | 23.80 | 2.2689 | 50.9293 | 63.66 % | ||
3 | C | LTD | 70 | 30 | 24.77 | 1.6149 | 36.2492 | 45.31 % | ||
4 | B | LTD | 57 | 40 | 19.05 | 0.8924 | 20.0314 | 25.04 % | ||
5 | U | LTD | 55 | 40 | 17.51 | 0.8567 | 19.2301 | 24.04 % | ||
6 | U | LTD | 48 | 40 | 23.01 | 0.3477 | 7.8047 | 9.76 % |
I forgot to turn on my camera for the first stage we shot (May Flower Mayhem) but here are the other stages:
You have mentioned it, before, I am sure, but I would like to know what camera you use to film your shooting runs, where you attach it, how you attach it (does it ever loosen or fall?), and where you got it, etc. Thanks.
All your questions should be answered with one link (video sunglasses).
Well done sir!