South Mississippi Practical Shooting

The rain has once again won. A large band of rain moved through the range this afternoon and washed away any chance of shooting on Sunday. So, the match for Sunday, April 8, 2018 is cancelled.

We will try a make-up match this Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 2 PM. The registration link will be posted shortly.

The rain is over for the weekend (hopefully) but the range condition is still in question. We will be checking the range this afternoon to see how it is and will post an update after 6 PM on Saturday evening. All registered shooters will also get an email through Practiscore tonight with the latest. As of now, the match is still on, but please check your email and right here for any updates later on today before coming out tomorrow.

Online registration is still available by clicking the giant button below. Please sign up if you plan on attending.

The South Mississippi Practical Shooting Association will host the monthly USPSA Pistol match this Sunday (April 8, 2018) at the range in Poplarville. The match will begin at 9 AM.

Online registration is available by clicking the giant button below. Please sign up if you plan on attending.

Rain on Thursday didn’t dampen either the road or the spirits of the shooters as April came early for the Poplarville 3-Gun match. Since the normal first Sunday match date is Easter, we decided to hold the match a day early on Saturday to accommodate as many people as possible. It worked out, because we had 20 shooters for picture perfect weather all day. We started an hour later than normal, due to setup constraints in the morning, but things moved along pretty well and we were still done around normal time for a 3-Gun match.

The stages today featured a mix of close rifle here, and long range rifle there. Them that can shoot long range, do. Them that can’t, well, they know the costs. It was pretty heavy on the shotgun as well, at least on the three stages where it was shot. Each required at least one reload for most people, and it showed who practices loading and who doesn’t.

The winner today made a clear statement. It was something to the effect of, “I am here to win and there isn’t anything you can do about it!” OK, maybe he is too nice a guy to call everyone out like that, but he sure showed the rest of us how to do it by winning all four stages outright (if you don’t count the PCC guys, and they didn’t have to shoot the clay pigeons). A few of us were musing that there must have been some scoring mistake as he just can’t be that fast. But he is. Congratulations seems to be getting awful familiar for  Read more…

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.

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…

The South Mississippi Practical Shooting Association USPSA pistol match for Sunday, March 18, 2018 in Poplarville has been cancelled due to the rain.

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.

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…

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!