Today I shot in my first Glock Sport Shooting Foundation match. It was a great deal of fun and I intend to shoot in as many more as I can. The course of fire is not difficult the targets are large and the times are generous. The purpose is to get people who have never shot in a match involved in competitive shooting.
Here is the course of fire:
10 rounds at 12 feet in 15 seconds.
10 rounds at 25 feet in 15 seconds.
10 rounds at 50 feet in 15 seconds.
10 rounds at 75 feet in 30 seconds.
5 rounds at 25 feet in 15 seconds.
5 rounds at 50 feet in 15 seconds.
Oh, you'll be wanting to know my score. 404 out of a possible 500. Not great, but nothing to be ashamed of either. If I had shot as well in the match as I do in practice I would have shot a much higher score. The stress of shooting against a timer with an audience takes a toll. This is why competitive shooting is good practice for a gunfight. The stress of competition simulates, albeit imperfectly, the stress of a life or death encounter.
Not bad at all, hoss. Ever try a Vampire-Match?
ReplyDeleteNo. Sounds interesting though.
ReplyDeleteThey call the blood bank to have one of those huge ass buses arrive at the range. You donate a pint, then go shoot. Supposed to simulate your response if wounded and not up to snuff.
ReplyDeleteThere's also these morons...in Iowa at least...who'd jack themselves up on cold medications in order to create a make-believe adrenaline rush, then run the usual GSSF, or whatever gamut. The cops tried to stop them, but there isn't any law against taking a pint of one of the Tussin's as long as you don't try to change it into something else.
So what Glock did you use?
Vampire match sounds like something worthwhile. Having lost a good deal of blood once I can testify that it does take a toll. Knowing that you can still hit the target in spite of it would be a confidence builder.
ReplyDeleteI used the Glock 23. I've shot it more than any other gun I've ever owned.
Really like my 23 as well. Accurate, reliable, fires a good sized round. Terrific combat sidearm. I would have given a lot to have had the use of one during the first fracas in the sand box. As a senior NCO I could pretty much carry whatever handgun I wanted but Glocks were scarce as hens teeth back then. Now a lot of the guys have one and they sing it's praises over the easily-jammed Italian fiasco.
ReplyDeleteI know that the service is looking for a new sidearm and that they have never been really satisfied with the Beretta. However I didn't know that it had a reputation as a jamamatic.
ReplyDeleteSand. It hates sand. Even the Glocks over there are equipped with grip-plugs. During my last journey to the Mess in Potamia the Germans were selling P-38's to anyone who had the cash. I own one, and like the style, but it holds only 8 in magazine, can't shoot +p, and you better feed it hardball and hardball only. But they tolerate fine particled sand better than the Beretta's, and ANY gun that did was of a premium. Our tunnel rats refused to go down a hole with a Beretta and I never blaimed them. We kept some particularly loose-fitted .45's for those boys, and, rumor has it, some evil bullets too.
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