Bullet Boy on Shooting Sports

If you have been following me on Twitter for awhile you know that I have been absent.   Since about the first week of April until today I have been wide open with bits of time in between that I used to catch up on living.

I started off in April planning to work 7 – 10 hr day’s a week   for 1 month and then move to 6 10′s for 6-7 weeks.   Well that didn’t work out exactly as planned.   In the world of Carpentry contract work the job only lasted 4 weeks before labor cut backs.   So then I got day jobs a couple times a week in the same place for other companies for the next few weeks. Then without notice I got offered a really good job doing electrical work with a commercial construction company. Since being laid off from the initial job back at the first of March I have made a couple one day trips up and down the East Coast.   At the electrical job I have managed to work quite a few hours and been very busy on the weekends catching up on things I missed during the Spring Work triathlon.

Speaking of triathlon I managed to loose about 10-15lbs and started to get some muscle tone back after having office jobs for the last few years.     Work seems to be leveling off now and I have what I hope is a job for the summer and possibly even further with a good company.   Things should be returning to normal around here for me soon.

The end of the week I will be shooting in the Alabama State Tactical Carbine Championship.   Since I have not been practicing or even fired a weapon in a couple months I’m not sure I will be ready. After this weekend I’m sure to have plenty of ideas for post and catch up in all the goings on in the world.   The debate over 2nd Amendment rights is heating up recently with the attachment of carry laws in national parks to a credit card bill.   So the summer is looking pretty good from where I sit as a blogger but kind of rough and action packed as a 2nd Amendment Supporter. I am sure I will have more on that in the future.

Wish me luck as I get back in the saddle again.

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This past Saturday I competed in a Tactical Rifle Match at Brocks Gap.   The match went great and the weather was good.   Needless to say I didn’t shoot all that well.   In fact due to a a couple bad mistakes and weapon failures I came in next to last.

This is how my performance went

My first stage of the day was Stage 7 which was the very location of my first round in shooting sports competition was fired and my first equipment failure.   I don’t remeber really doing anything wrong except being really slow and walking past a target.

My second stage, Stage 1, has proven to be nemisses in the past.   Saturday was no different.   When installing my JP Trigger I managed to damage the oversized anti-walk pin…   So the orginial trigger pins I used walked out and caused failures.

Stage 2, I dispute my score and penalties.   In the morning safety meeting it was stated that there was not going to be a penalty for failure to engage because of the stage setup.   So my stratgey to beat the time was to engage the targets as they became visible.   Since some the the targets I apparently walked past or didn’t see. The score keeper was off on that stage.   I kept score on that stage and did not give out penalties for un-engaged targets.   Somebody’s score is wrong, might be others!!!

Stage 3,   weapon failures plaged me again.

Stage 4, double feed rounds into chamber after slamming my magizine into the ground dropping to prone position.   Weapon failure is the shooters fault, as it should be,   and I didn’t finish after only taking about 3 shots.   This stage did my weapon the final failure for the day.

Stage 5, used a weapon I had never shot with.   The optics on the weapon where lower on the weapon than mine which I was no prepared for and my ear muffs where in the way.

Stage 6, another weapon but this one was my buddies which I had fired several times.   The only problem was a squib load I had made.   But all in all this was the stage I felt best about.

So from my narration of each of these stages it wasn’t my best outting.   Enough excuses and complaining.   Next competition my weapon will be ready and I will have learned from my mistakes.   Reguardless I had lots of fun, met new people, and got to see some old friends.

If you haven’t ever been to a match, you are missing out.   Find a local club or match and go out.   You wont regret it.