More USPSA Open Division Hosing

Great stages! High round count (211rnds) and very tight and varied positions. It was a good match but I got my head working against me again. Need to find a way to shutdown the noise and play. This is one of the Northwest Series matches where we all earn points and get a chance to earn slots to the Nationals (plus some cash). Can't wait for next one in Renton.

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What can I say. Bombed two stages and pretty much took me out of the race. I had 5 other great stages with three stage wins but the two setbacks cost me 100+ points.

I don't usually load up my magazines to 29+1 because I don't want to stress my plastic grip and cause another crack but it was definitely useful for me in the 30 round Stage 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNTInlSPs3s
 
The Northwest Challenge is a fabulous Level II USPSA match held by the Northwest Section at the Paul Bunyan Rifle Club in Puyallup, WA. It's been a while since we had a match like this. Thanks to the hard work put in by Scott Pries and his group of volunteers, we got to shoot one of the most fun matches in a while. You can find out more about the series of matches and clubs in the section here : http://northwestsection.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaEdsRpGIFU
 
Ahhh! I'm finally getting my mojo back. That and you know the popular saying, "When the cat's away, the mouse come out to play". The usual suspects are shooting the USPSA Nationals and that gave me the opportunity to get up there. Anyway, I'll take it!

Was a great match and shot with a fun squad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enaBcNew26U
 
Nice video, thanks for sharing.
Those open guns are really impressive.
Yours looks like it has about the same muzzle rise as a rimfire.
They are amazing.
Yeah, I always figured on getting the best score of the season when the really good shooters are off testing their skills at a major match. :p
Good for the ego, at least until the next time.
 
Much better. I tanked one stage (the barrels & ipsc targets) but managed to squeeze in 2nd. I shot with the match winner Nick and it was clear I was way-way behind on almost all the stages. I'm proud that I didn't let that get to my head though and I continued to shoot at my own pace.

Now if only I can remember to grip my gun tight. I keep forgetting to do so and my dot runs all over the place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwmZvI77aDU
 
Final match of the season for Marysville as they shut down for the winter. Had a great time with a bunch of funnies in the squad. Weather was great albeit cold as heck. I think I shoot better in the cold. Came in 2nd behind NickH of course.

Also tried out the new Polaroid Cube camera instead of my usual Contour+ camera. It's a very small and pretty handy camera. It's not big and nerdy like the GoPro, yet still retains usable video quality. Audio sucks though, I prefer the Contour+ for that. All in all, for $100, I can't complain.

The magnet makes it very useful and easy to mount. I'll be switching to this camera for now till I find issues with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qawtgozjdtY
 
Fun fun match! IDPA Scoring hurts like crazy though. This was a charity match setup by the DownZero club here in Seattle. It is to promote Prostate Cancer Awareness. Did you know that Prostate cancer affects 1 in 6 men? and it’s deadlier than breast cancer?

if you’re over 40, do yourself, and more importantly, your family, a favor and schedule an appointment to have it checked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX2n2hxsG2w
 
Finally have a few months of not shooting during the off season, I'm back at the range. It's rough as I haven't been very diligent at dry firing at home. At least I got to pull off a 2nd place performance. Great day for shooting I have to say. Excited for the rest of the 2015 season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQAKAwB5BbY
 
Pretty pleased with today's performance. I did choose to reshoot one classifier and it was definitely worth the money. I got a 100% on that one. So total haul today was two 100%, 98% and 95%. I think if my calculations are correct and if classifier calc is accurate, that would just tip me over 95% barely. 95.02%. we'll see what happens in a few weeks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg_MA0ahXpA
 
What can I say. It was raining for hours and we shot till almost 5pm! We were all soaked, tired and freezing. I couldn't feel my hands and for most of the stages, I couldn't even feel my trigger. Probably should have stopped for safety reasons. The stages were fantastic, the weather was not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGISCHyzMTo
 
Guess what, it rained again in the Pacific Northwest. What a surprise. I should get used to it by now. It wasn't as bad as last week's match but still pretty wet. My gun had a few malfunctions because I didn't detail strip and clean it after the Marysville match. Rust has formed in the lockwork and mainspring housing. That'll teach me not to clean my guns properly especially after getting it wet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M13ZDlOekys
 
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