South Mississippi Practical Shooting

For the first time since November 2017, we managed to shoot a match without being rained out. Rain had cancelled 4 of the last 5 matches in Biloxi and we thought we’d never get back to shooting, but we finally got a decent day, and ended up with a decent turnout. A total of 51 shooters began the day under slightly overcast skies and pleasant temperatures. There were 5 challenging courses of fire today which evoked quite a few comments, both positive and “negative”. Of course, no one ever has anything *really* negative to day, but were a few directed towards the plethora of unloaded starts and the head-scratcher, also known as Stage 2. But at the end of the day, most appreciated the challenges presented and found they had some practice to do before the next match.

Although the squads were larger than normal, the match moved along quite well. Most squads finished by 12:30 or so. Only four shooters shot a clean match, so that speaks to the difficulties presented. The top spot went back and forth all morning, until a winner emerged over the last two stages they shot. The winner today had the quickest total stage time and also shot clean. Congratulations goes to Roger Henn, for High Open and High Overall wins! His performance was convincing with almost a 6% margin over second place Steven Sanders, who took the win in Limited. The top Production shooter was Michael McDonald, George Jones, Jr. scored the Carry Optics win, and Roger Follette took the PCC title. Rounding out the winners was William Davenport, who took Single Stack.

Thank you to everyone for coming out to support the club, and for the great help getting everything picked up at the end of the match. Your match team appreciates your efforts. We’ll be back next month with even better stages.

For the complete match results, click the score computer at the right.