{"id":1032,"date":"2012-04-03T12:12:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T17:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2012-04-03T12:12:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T17:12:42","slug":"my-first-idpa-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"My first IDPA match!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday I participated in my first IDPA match. It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a while, and I finally decided it was time when I out shot everyone else in the NRA instructor course<\/a>. Like I said then, “[t]hat\u2019s probably because all I practice is slow, aimed hits at a known distance against a stationary target with no stressors present.”<\/p>\n

I headed down to the match with oddball and New Shooter Drew<\/a> (who, by the way, has logged over 6,000 rounds since he shot a pistol for the first time 8 months ago–what’s your excuse?) as my entourage. I had four goals. In order of importance, they were:<\/p>\n

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  1. Don’t shoot myself.<\/li>\n
  2. Don’t shoot anyone else.<\/li>\n
  3. Don’t get disqualified<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. Don’t come in last place.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m happy to report I met all four goals. Sort of.<\/p>\n

    See, there was a match and<\/em>\u00a0a classifier. I came in second to last (of 25) in the match, but I was the worst performer in the classifier. I actually told the Safety Officer, “I swear I’ve shot a gun before today.”<\/p>\n

    I want<\/em>\u00a0to blame the poor performance on the fact that I was running a Glock 23 instead of a larger 9mm like a Glock 17 or an M&P9 Pro. Several times during the day I entertained the thought of buying a new pistol, but I think the real answer is just to get better with the one I have been carrying for years<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    Although I do hear that the kool-aid is delicious<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Last Sunday I participated in my first IDPA match. It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a while, and I finally decided it was time when I out shot everyone else in the NRA instructor course. Like I said then, “[t]hat\u2019s probably because all I practice is slow, aimed hits at a known distance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}