I have to say thank you to Rich for sponsoring us on this. It was a truely outstanding time! I learned alot from it all and will be back next year(if ask of course) and plan on breaking the top 100
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I think I did pretty well on the rifle lanes considering I was using an off the rack M16 that I grabbed from the vault the day before we left. I saw a Seargent shoot it the week before and he did pretty good so I figured it was zeroed fairly well. But I have to concure with Rob here. KNOW YOUR GEAR AND TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED! Larry and I both learned a few valuable lessons here. Mine being, get a new shotgun and actually shoot it more. Larry's being 2 is 1, and 1 is none. Always have a back up ready to go. Be it ammo, mags, or weapons, always have a back up of some sort. I know alot of us are shooting on limited budgets, but we need to make plans for the worst possible senarios. As we both found out, if something will go wrong, it will happen during a competition!
Larry may think I am a bit of a ringer because I shoot for the Army. Well I am just a small fish in a big pond there too. The biggest upside is that I get free ammo. I brought home about 4k brass to turn in, so you guys better get your rifleman game down! After all that ammo, I may actually place in a match next season.
The team score was from the night shoot. We had some problems there and learned a few really good tactical lessons. I know we would have done much better if they had let me use my illumination flare! But SWAT did a good job on that one for sure. I drilled a no shoot on the pistol stage and could not seem to get the RO's to believe that it was a colaborator.
I had an excellent time at the shoot, and look forward to hopefully shooting and working with everyone in the future!
BTW, the cumulative team scores from all scores combined were:
SWAT=1110.71
TFL=1179.49
So as you can see the teams were fairly close in overall score. I think it made for a good competition between the two and look forward to spanking you all again next year.
Shoot safe!