Dixie Open Schedule
The range will be open Friday for final setup, Some Staff Shooting, early check-in and your inspection from 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm.
The range will open again Saturday morning at 7:00 and match check in will be between 7:30 – 8:30. Shooters meeting at 8:30 and the shooting will start at 9:00 am. If you are selected as a range officer- squad leaded please check in and be ready for a RO stage briefing By 7:45 am Saturday.
Sunday we will start shooting at 9:00am
We are using the Palm scoring system at this match if you are familiar with the Palm scoring please be ready to help as we move through the match. The following link will help you familiarize yourself with the Palm scoring system. http://www.southernutahpistol.com/?s=palm
Shooting Schedule:
If you haven’t signed up yet for the Dixie Open, you can sign up here.
I noticed a link to a Todd Jarrett video in the Leatham video just posted. Of particular interest, to me, was this segment when Todd ran forwards UP RANGE without breaking the 180:
Wow – slick. I’d recommend practicing that dry quite a bunch before trying it in a match. Fast, but a DQ is just a slip away.
The entire video is below. These are stages from the 2006 Florida Open. One thing to note is that Todd moves in quick SMALL steps through stages. This is fast to run and also helps speed up the presentation and first shot after movement.
Watch Rob Leatham shoot this short course:
Note that he didn’t wait for the swingers, nor did he chase them. He shot them at their transition point, and at that point shooting them is pretty much like shooting a still target.
His sequence was this:
Shoot the back plate, then the activating poppers, then back to the first swinger just in time for it to reach its lull point, then to the other swinger at its lull point and finally the final plate.
Most course designers will give you other things to shoot while waiting for a swinger to hit the turn around point (where it is largely still). How much you bite off is up to your risk reward calculation.
You should know how long it will take a timer from activation to lull point. Then you can sort out what else you will shoot before aiming at the lull point to shoot it when it is moving the least.
The next match will serve as a shakedown for some of the Dixie Open stages. Come give us your feedback…
Setup 0800
First shots: 0900
Stage 1: Oh, Shoot !!, 18 Rounds
Stage 2: Bad Night, 20 Rounds
Stage 3: Wedgie-2, 24 Rounds
Stage 4: Step Back Jack 2, 22 Rounds
Stage 5: Are you being served, 18 rounds
Notes:
Cheaper signup for the Dixie Open ends this month. So make sure to let Jim or Jon know if you are shooting it. The form is here.
There will be a Range Workday on Saturday, 30 January. Bring your tools, workgloves, and strong backs and help us build walls, paint the shoot house and other range improvements.
The boy is a blogging fool… here he reports on his Steel Challenge match from the weekend:
http://briankevinnelson.com/steel-challenge-1242010-50
Summary: Pretty good in spite of a seriously jamming gun.
Note – We are still getting costs and other data on steel challenge targets. But we should have a report to present to the members by next match.
The Nelson’s have a new family member today… a Glock 35 kitted up to be a USPSA Limited Class race gun…
You will recall that I have a custom STI 2011 that many consider to be the best Limited race gun available. That pistol is now Brian’s. We’d made an agreement that when he got better than me, he’d get the best pistol. Right now we are about even, but he is moving up fast, so I went ahead and handed it over.
About this Glock… It pretty much checks the box on improvements over a standard Glock 35:
- Mag well to speed up reloads
- Dawson fiber-optic front sight
- Dawson adjustable rear site
- extended magazine release button
- squared trigger guard to prevent slippage
- notched back of trigger guard to permit higher grip
- race tape gritty grip
- Zev trigger and connector. A smooth and crisp 2 lb trigger
- titanium striker, mainly smoothes out the trigger pull and reset
- lighter IMSI recoil spring
- T.H.E. tungsten guide rod which puts weight up front to minimize recoil
- grip backstrap plug – again for weight
The only things left to do, perhaps, would be a KKM or Bar-sto, match barrel. And perhaps more slide lightning (it already has a ported slide).
So I’ll compete with this or a Springfield XDM configured similarly going forward. Which ever I like better, I’ll use. The other will either be sold or used as a backup gun.
BTW: I’ll try to remember to bring some white backdrop material to matches. Then we can photograph your gear and describe it here similarly.
SFC Travis Tomasie on shooting on the move:
He makes it look easy. His tips:
- bend your knees
- small steps
- feet in direction of travel – shoulders square to target
- focus on sights even harder than normal
- if you can’t hit A zone or steel 80% stand still
He doesn’t mention it, but other instructors suggest moving the gun in closer. The longer your stretch the more impacts during movement leverage out to your gun. Bringing it close (but don’t get smacked by the slide) steadies it out quite a bit.
I used these techniques, including moving the gun in closer, in a recent steel match in Las Vegas and was pleased with how many steels I nailed on the first shot while “on the go”.
Our last match, and many classifiers in general, test reloading speed. Here, SFC Travis Tomasie of the Army Marksmanship Unit covers the “Speed Reload”:
Here he puts it into use on a 4.54 second El-Presidente:
Brian, Daniel Evans, and I made a field trip to Las Vegas today to examine how they run the Steel Challenge. Of particular interest was how their targets are put together.
Here is a typical Steel Challenge stage, in this case “5 to Go”.
Continue reading “One way to build Steel Challenge targets”
Brian & I were in Vegas today for the 1st Annual SHOT Show 3-Gun Match. I didn’t shoot it due to back trouble, and frankly it was about all I could do to occasionally tape targets and run the scoring clipboard. Brian did shoot it and he posted his summary at his new blog:
www.briankevinnelson.com
He was a bit negative about his performance, but I (and the other shooters) thought he did very well for a 12 year old on a set of complicated stages. And he didn’t finish last… so a few other folks had a worse day (-:
A highlight of the day, BTW, was meeting Kay and Jerry Miculek, who stopped by to try out some slick SAIGA shotguns our squad mates R&R Targets manufactures.
