South Mississippi Practical Shooting

The rain didn’t impact us from overnight, but it did turn COLD! It was cold all morning and the Sun didn’t come out until after the match was all but over. A total of 32 shooters made the trip today to Pearlington to try to beat the cold. A few did and a few, well, just didn’t. We also had one die-hard shooter drive all the way from Pensacola. He said it’s always warm in Florida.

The 5 stages were great, but pretty challenging. There were more than a few misses recorded today. When the smoke cleared, there was a clear winner, though. The overall match winner was… Read more…

The Pearlington match is still on for Sunday, December 15, 2013. The rain has passed and was a non-event. It might be a bit chilly, but it should not be a problem. We are planning on 5 stages.

The rain held off and another great match goes down in the history books.  We had 36 shooters show up to shoot 5 great stages including a brand new classifier. The overall match winner was… Read more…

YIKES!!!! More gremlins have struck!!! It was discovered that another squad also had their steel not counted for hits on Stage 2. We discovered this with one squad at the range and corrected it. The first results posted earlier this evening reflected these incorrect results. I have now corrected squad 1’s score to reflect their steel shot on stage 2. If you were in squad 1, then your scores have gone up and others may have had their position changed because of this. his didn’t change the division winners, but did rather dramatically alter the overall and division results for everyone else. 

I’m not advocating a return to paper, but I really need to figure out what went wrong today. My apologies for the scoring delays and the mistakes.

The **UPDATED** match scores can be viewed by clicking the score sheet at the right.

The weather has finally turned and it was beautiful this morning. A light chill filled the air and this brought out the shooters in droves. We had 47 shooters today. We can thank Bob Brandt for most of the stage design today, but Bob wasn’t there to enjoy his creations. What wasn’t so nice were some behind the scenes computer glitches. For some reason, everything that could have gone wrong with the Nook scoring, did go wrong. In the end, we got it sorted out, but it took quite a while. And without further ado, lets see who won. Our overall match winner was…

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Aside from someone forgetting to tell the weatherman that Summer is supposed to be pretty much done, it was a great match today. It was hotter than normal for this time of the year but we had 39 shooters with a pretty good mix in the divisions. Today was a go-fast day with lots of stages where you just needed to squeeze the trigger, fast and often. If your gun or ammo didn’t work perfectly and you couldn’t execute perfect reloads, then it was not your day. Four of the five stages were won with a hit factors of 10.0, 12.5, 10.5 and 11.5. Only the classifier was under 10. If you saw the front sight a lot, then you were probably too slow.

The overall winner took the match by a reasonably comfortable amount, but after that, they bunched up pretty well. The Overall match winner was Robert Jones who also won Limited. In Open, Bill Jackson beat the rest of the field and took second overall. Steve Lasavia was fourth overall and first in Single Stack. Once again, Production was highly competitive where Steven Mosher managed the most consistency and therefore won that division. And finally, Gerald won Revolver.

As always, your match staff appreciates the help in match setup and tear-down. We couldn’t do it without you. Next month, we are back to the normal schedule with Biloxi the day before Poplarville and Pearlington a week later.

The match scores can be viewed by clicking the score sheet at the right.

Weather was the big story in August. With Harrison County flooding from all night rain, many of the regulars from the East decided we weren’t going to shoot. But we did. And we had a darn good match, to boot. We didn’t get any rain during the match (at the range), and the temperature was moderated by persistent cloud cover, so it was pleasant by August standards.

We had 16 shooters show up to shoot four great stages. The overall match winner was… Read more…

Once again, the weather threatened, but it was an idle threat. Most everyone had rain at home before coming out or on the way to the match, but other than a one minute shower at the range, the rain held off. It helped the temps but the humidity was right on up there.

The turnout today was just average (probably because of the weather), with 33 shooters competing and we had a great match. We shot 4 stages and were done shooting by about 11:45 AM. With the electronic scoring, we are able to process everything much quicker and get stages taken down as soon as the last group finished there. Our match winner today was… Read more…

The weather turned really hot all of a sudden, so we shot only 4 stages today. We finished shortly after Noon which made it a little better. Today was also our first match with electronic scoring on all stages. It went off without a hitch (mostly) and enabled us to be done with the scores shortly after the last shot went off.

Our match winner today was… Read more…

Great weather once again resulted in a nice turnout. There were 36 total shooters and five stages of competition. The overall scores printed at the end of the match today appear to have been in error, so please check the overall results here. Our match winner was… Read more…