managed to make the monthly Georgia Mountain Tactical Shooting Club today and shot my G17.
It was a light turnout with only 19 shooters. I came in 6th. The top two guys were shooting race guns. The top guy was in my group. His pistol is a custom built job with an SVI wide body frame with a Caspian slide, sort sort of compensator, and optics. It's a 9mm. He is an IPSC shooter and pretty good at it. I didn't get a good look at the number two guy's pistol as he was in another group. Less than one point separated spots three through six. Five points separated spots one and two with the shooter in third coming in a point behind #2.
The top guy was my squad's RO. He also designed the courses for today's match. One stage was written to have the stage start with the pistol and mags for reload on a table. This is how our group shot the stage. We later learned that at least one other group decided that they wanted to shoot it from the low ready instead. I don't know how much this impacted the overall results.
This is a club level match with its own rules. I enjoy it because it is a low key match and will continue to attend when time allows, but some of the guys that I shot with today whom I also shoot with at other places are getting more and more frustrated with the cliquish nature of this match and the constantly changing rules to favor a select few. This is only my second time making this group's regular match; so, I don't have enough of a frame of reference. I was a little perturbed that our group shot the one stage as designed while another squad simply decided to change the stage in the middle of the match.
They keep a running classification and divide shooters into four divisions based on their average score. A shooter must shoot three matches in order to be classified, and the most current three scores are used to determine classification. The four classes in ascending order are Novice, Tactical, Pro Tactical, and Competitor.
The top guy from today's match is now the top rated shooter. The #2 guy from today is now #5 overall.
There are currently 75 shooters classified. I won't be classified until after my next match. Based on my average from the first two matches, I would be a Pro Tactical, but it is hard to get a read on it. The two matches I have attended involved a lot of movement. I missed last month's match, and it had no movement in it at all. I very much enjoy how low key these matches are, but I would like for the rules to be more stable and for the matches to be more consistent as far as design. However, I do fully recognize that there is an averaging effect in play for a shooter that makes a majority of the matches. Three months ago, one of the stages had a smallish steel target at 35 yards that gave a lot of shooters trouble. I didn't make that match.
It was a light turnout with only 19 shooters. I came in 6th. The top two guys were shooting race guns. The top guy was in my group. His pistol is a custom built job with an SVI wide body frame with a Caspian slide, sort sort of compensator, and optics. It's a 9mm. He is an IPSC shooter and pretty good at it. I didn't get a good look at the number two guy's pistol as he was in another group. Less than one point separated spots three through six. Five points separated spots one and two with the shooter in third coming in a point behind #2.
The top guy was my squad's RO. He also designed the courses for today's match. One stage was written to have the stage start with the pistol and mags for reload on a table. This is how our group shot the stage. We later learned that at least one other group decided that they wanted to shoot it from the low ready instead. I don't know how much this impacted the overall results.
This is a club level match with its own rules. I enjoy it because it is a low key match and will continue to attend when time allows, but some of the guys that I shot with today whom I also shoot with at other places are getting more and more frustrated with the cliquish nature of this match and the constantly changing rules to favor a select few. This is only my second time making this group's regular match; so, I don't have enough of a frame of reference. I was a little perturbed that our group shot the one stage as designed while another squad simply decided to change the stage in the middle of the match.
They keep a running classification and divide shooters into four divisions based on their average score. A shooter must shoot three matches in order to be classified, and the most current three scores are used to determine classification. The four classes in ascending order are Novice, Tactical, Pro Tactical, and Competitor.
The top guy from today's match is now the top rated shooter. The #2 guy from today is now #5 overall.
There are currently 75 shooters classified. I won't be classified until after my next match. Based on my average from the first two matches, I would be a Pro Tactical, but it is hard to get a read on it. The two matches I have attended involved a lot of movement. I missed last month's match, and it had no movement in it at all. I very much enjoy how low key these matches are, but I would like for the rules to be more stable and for the matches to be more consistent as far as design. However, I do fully recognize that there is an averaging effect in play for a shooter that makes a majority of the matches. Three months ago, one of the stages had a smallish steel target at 35 yards that gave a lot of shooters trouble. I didn't make that match.
