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April 2018 Poplarville 3-Gun match reminder (one day early)
It’s 3-Gun time again in Poplarville. The normal Sunday date (April 1st) is also Easter, so we will shoot on Saturday, March 31th instead. Hammers go down at 10 AM, instead of 9 AM to allow your setup crew to complete everything before the match. Normally, we are setting the day before, but with that now being Friday, it doesn’t work for everyone on the crew.
Cost is only $10 for SMPSA club members and $15 for non-members. If you want to know what you should bring, check it out here. Sign up now. Additionally, April is membership renewal month. For just $25, you get a $5 discount on both pistol and 3-gun matches for one year, and use of the range on non-match days. Plus, you help support our club for another year.
March 2018 Biloxi (DSSA) pistol match results
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 Read more…
March 2018 Poplarville *AFTERNOON* pistol match results
The streak of bad weather luck was broken this past Thursday afternoon, when a couple of the retired folks decided to shoot an afternoon match at the Poplarville range. Stages set up for the regular match that was rained out earlier in the month were used. What started out as just a couple of guys going out to practice turned into a decent size full-on USPSA pistol match.
With almost no advance notice, we managed to get 29 people out on a Thursday afternoon to do a little shooting. Thanks to social media, the word spread quickly. For those of you who didn’t hear about it, we apologize. It didn’t start out to be such a big deal, but we found out that when given the opportunity, most people will pick shooting a match over working! Several competitors even shot multiple divisions.
By allowing folks to start shooting whenever they arrived, it let some people who still work for a living leave work a little early and enjoy some of the nicest weather we have seen in years at the range. The first shooters started at 2 PM, and the last shooter didn’t finish until a bit after 6 PM. But it worked out just fine for everyone.
Even though this was just for fun, the competitive juices were still flowing. In the end, it was Read more…
March 2018 Poplarville USPSA Pistol match **CANCELLED**
The South Mississippi Practical Shooting Association USPSA pistol match for Sunday, March 18, 2018 in Poplarville has been cancelled due to the rain.
March 2018 Poplarville USPSA Pistol Match Postponed One Week
The monthly USPSA Pistol match in Poplarville has been postponed one week due to a schedule conflict with the Alabama Sectional Championship this weekend. The match in Poplarville will be held on Sunday, March 18, 2018, and will begin at 9 AM.
Online registration is available by clicking the giant button below. Please sign up if you plan on attending.
The 2018 Mississippi Classic still has slots available for Friday shooting schedule
Registration for the 2018 Mississippi Classic and Section Championship, sponsored by LimCat Custom and Precision Delta, has filled up for the Saturday/Sunday schedule but still has spots open for the all day Friday schedule.
You can click the big button here to get more information about the match, including the location, dates, costs, match details and the actual registration page. NOTE: Squadding will not open until early April. You will be notified before squadding opens for the match.
Registration for the 2018 Mississippi Classic is now open for everyone!
Registration for the 2018 Mississippi Classic and Section Championship, sponsored by LimCat Custom and Precision Delta, is open for all shooters.
You can click the big button here to get more information about the match, including the location, dates, costs, match details and the actual registration page. NOTE: Squadding will not open until early April. You will be notified before squadding opens for the match.
March 2018 Poplarville 3-Gun match results
After a miserable month for shooting in South Mississippi, where rain cancelled most of the matches, we finally caught a break and had great weather for the March edition of 3-Gun. Today’s match also feature some deceptively hard stages. Each stage feature either a bunch of close-range rifle shots or a few long to really long-range rifle shots, where the latter tormented many of the shooters. There was also heavy shotgun on two stages, with quite a bit of reloading. And, not to be ignored, was the pistol which wasn’t really stressed unless you couldn’t hit the target.
With 17 shooters competing today, you would have thought at least one shooter could have shot the match clean, but you’d also be wrong. It really came down to who messed up the least. Most every shooter was heard to mumble something about how tough these stages really were. And they were. The winner’s total time, with penalties was over 249 seconds. And, shooters in second through fifth were all within 3.5% of the winner, which says it was close all the way to the end. One more penalty here or one less there could have changed the entire top 5 spots.
But someone always has to win, and the top shooter today was no stranger to the podium. With only one stage win but consistency everywhere else Read more…
Registration for the 2018 Mississippi Classic is now open!
Registration for the 2018 Mississippi Classic and Section Championship, sponsored by LimCat Custom and Precision Delta, is open for Mississippi residents. It will close at 7 PM on March 1st, and then reopen on March 4th at 7 PM for anyone.
If you are not a resident of Mississippi, please do not register during the first open period. If you do, you will be removed from the match and have to re-register during the second open period.
You can click the big button here to get more information about the match, including the location, dates, costs, match details and the actual registration page. NOTE: Squadding will not open until early April. You will be notified before squadding opens for the match.
March 2018 Poplarville 3-Gun match reminder
It’s 3-Gun time again in Poplarville. The match date is Sunday, March 4, 2018. Hammers go down at 9 AM. Cost is only $10 for SMPSA club members and $15 for non-members. If you want to know what you should bring, check it out here. Sign up now!
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