Here's my view of the PB match on Sunday. Silly, stupid mistakes. My dot was too bright on Stage 4 - Pushy and what I thought was my dot was actually the reflection artifact from having the dot too bright shining on the lens. That's why I missed that headshot from such a close distance.
So bloody wet!! Rain came down on us like crazy today and we all got really wet. Shot a pathetic match today making lots of dumb mistakes. From light primer strikes, to being over confident with close shots. I think 30-40% of the time I didn't even bother looking at my dot. I need to work that bad habit out of my system. The only time I practiced good dot discipline was on that one stage I won.
Nothing is better than shooting a match for Charity. Toys for Tots is a great one to be able to support. Had a great time but it was super-cold and I'm totally blaming my lackluster performance on weather.
Even my camera refused to work on four of the stages.
Most wore rain gear; a few tried umbrellas but the wind was too strong.
Guns and gear get soaked.
Hands are wet and cold, and sodden handwarmers don't work.
Targets are bagged, and difficult to paste.
As noted, I shot from concealment.
And of course, it was our special Classifier match, with four Classifier stages and one field course.
Heavy rain means scores suffer.
Every year one club in our section will run an all classifier match just before the season gets underway so folks can get classified for the big Area & National matches.
I only had one good stage, the rest were really sucky. Looks like I'm stuck at M
I thought I did pretty good in this match. I shot with TimR who pushed me a little bit. I just need to get used to this ragged speed so I can be more consistent. I won a number of stages but bombed two which made me lose 50-60 points. Overall, I'm happy.