What I Did This Weekend

This weekend, I was working with lead in a different form. I shot an International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) match sponsored by the Oak Ridge Sporting Association (ORSA, IDPA page). I just found out that had started-- it's one of a couple around Knoxville, and fortunately closer than Greenville and Chattanooga. It's been about a year since I last participated in IDPA, and I was pretty rusty but glad to be back in it. We spent a very nice Saturday morning running through seven stages. I then beat my head against the wall for several days figuring out how to embed the video in my website.


My overall score for seven stages was 120.63 seconds, 92 points for accuracy (each point is a half second penalty), and 10 seconds in penalties (two failure to neutralize). That was 17th out of 34 people, but my accuracy really hurt me. I'd have to go back in check, but I had one really bad stage I rushed through too quickly. I'll update this post with my scores on the individual stages once I get those again.
The Bill Drill. Draw and put six shots in the target as fast as you can. Since it was a drill and not a stage, you could elect to not use concealment (my jacket), but I chose not to. Man, watching the video, my draw seems soooooo slooooooooow. In my defense, like I said, I hadn't shot outside of a static range in a year, and I was taking it a bit easy.

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El Prez. Turn and shoot three targets twice each, reload, and shot twice again.

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Bill Drill variant. I placed 4th on the day here, my best showing. Draw, shoot furthest target 6 times, reload, shoot middle target 6 times with strong hand, reload, and shoot closest target 6 times with weak hand. The first 15 seconds of the vid are lenscapped, though, but all the shooting is there.

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Walking the dog! What kind of bad guys jump you when you're walking the dog?

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Shooting while seated. This is the stage I rushed and had really poor accuracy on. The video looks good, though, except for the slow draw and my coat sleeve getting snags on my mag pouch. Again.

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A fun stage with a door and a moving target (which you can't quite see...you can see the rails once the door is open). I was pleased to get the popper on the first shot, one handed.

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Another moving stage. Apparently, the other groups shot the last target through the window, but we went around the side.

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