South Mississippi Practical Shooting

Since quite a few shooters thought the last stage of the March match had been cancelled, the official scores show a four-stage match. However, if we were to drop the last stage (unofficially), then the scores would look a bit different. The winner would still be Bryant, but the rest of the order would change. The scores here are totally unofficial, but just reflect the three stages that everyone shot.

Click here for those scores.

For the official scores, you can click here, to see all four stages.

**Results updated** Mike Christensen’s score for the hilltop stage was corrected, because of a scoring error he wasn’t given credit for hitting the bonus target. This affected the overall scores. It has been corrected and the new results posted.

Great weather produced a great turnout. We had 22 shooters today, which is a high for quite some time. Thanks to all the shooters that came out today to shoot some really challenging stages. The hilltop proved to be a challenge to over half the shooters, who timed out and were unable to complete the course. Long distances are challenging enough, without the spring loaded platform. It actually appeared quite challenging, but if you didn’t rush, it wasn’t all that bad. Many shooters succumb to the lure of the bonus 500 yard shot. If you hit it, you scored a 25 second deduction to your stage time, but far too many competitors spent way more than the 25 seconds banging shot after shot after shot at that really small target. It ended up costing them big time. Read more…

The Poplarville club will hold the monthly 3-gun match on Sunday, March 4, 2012 at the range in Poplarville at 9:00 AM. The weather should cooperate so brings lots of ammo! Rumor has it the long-range rifle targets will make an appearance. If you don’t know where your long gun shoots at 400+ yards, figure it out or bring even more ammo.

The rifle match was a quickie today, because we had just 5 shooters. We shot three of the pistol stages from the USPSA match (minus the steel) and were done in probably 30 minutes. Our match winner was Wayne Alcock, mostly due to his quick work in the pistol classifier (and the fact that he shot a major gun).

The results are here.

The match scores have been updated to reflect a mistake in the classifier score for Bo Gray. The match results did not change in Production division, but the percentages did.

If you wussed out and didn’t show up because it was “too cold”, you should be ashamed. It was a bit breezy, but by the time the Sun came up, it had warmed up to almost 40° and by the time the match ended, it was 50°. We did have 17 shooters who did think it would be worth it and we had a great match. We shot 5 stages, with lots of steel and the new MGM Whirly-Gig target (aka: Texas Star).

Things went pretty smoothly with no real hiccups in the stages or the scores. There were no bottlenecks or DQ’s. So, it was a great day. Let’s get to the results. Read more…