{"id":1339,"date":"2012-06-04T12:02:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T17:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2012-06-04T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T17:02:13","slug":"my-first-idpa-match-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"My first IDPA match!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After watching Wizard at his first IDPA match<\/a>, I decided to give it a go this month.\u00a0 I pretty much went with his initial goals in mind (don’t shoot yourself, don’t shoot anyone else, don’t get DQ’d, don’t come in last).\u00a0\u00a0 Well, the “don’t come in last” part was more of a “it would be really nice if, but I’m not going to kid myself” kind of thing.\u00a0 Oh, and avoid procedural deductions.\u00a0 The better shot placement and moving\/getting set up in a hurry are hard things to work on, but I’m an adult and should be able to follow directions.<\/p>\n

I took the Px4 along so that I could shoot in the same class as Wizard with his Glock.\u00a0 My XDm is a true SA pistol, and therefor in a different category, and I still haven’t obtain the extra mags required for my Bersa.\u00a0 Conveniently, I was at the range Saturday morning with Naienko’s father and got some last minute trigger time with the Px4, which was a good thing.<\/p>\n

I have to admit, I was slow at just about everything.\u00a0 This was partially intentional since I had little clue what I was doing.\u00a0 I wish I could say that this meant that I was dead on target with all my shots, and that I didn’t hit any non-targets, but I’d be a liar.\u00a0 I’m definitely going to need more practice, but what else is new.<\/p>\n

I did have two malfunctions while running the stages.\u00a0 The first one (on the first shot of the first stage, no less) was purely operator error.\u00a0 I failed to disengage the safety when I reholstered the gun after “make ready.”\u00a0 You guessed it.\u00a0 Timer went off, I unholstered, aimed, and nothing… not even a click.\u00a0 After a second or so I realized what had happened, cursed myself, flipped the switch and went on.<\/p>\n

The second one actually saved me from what would have been my only procedural of the day.\u00a0 I was supposed to shoot two targets twice in sequence (hit one once, then the other at least once).\u00a0 I shot the first one, then tried to shoot it again when I had a failure to feed.\u00a0 I think I didn’t slap the magazine in all the way, since the round wasn’t even stripped out of the mag.\u00a0 In the time it takes me to do a tap and rack, I hear someone yelling “right!” (I had shot the left target).\u00a0 I quickly engaged the correct target and went on.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, the two stages where I had mechanical or operator problems were the two that I did best compared to everyone else.\u00a0 Not sure what that means.<\/p>\n

Obviously, I failed to put any extra holes in anyone (including myself), and I also failed to get DQ’d (although, one of the regulars did for turning the wrong way).\u00a0 Oh, and the not coming in last?\u00a0 I actually beat somebody!\u00a0 Go me!\u00a0 I was second to last!\u00a0 Third to last if you include the guy that got DQ’d!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After watching Wizard at his first IDPA match, I decided to give it a go this month.\u00a0 I pretty much went with his initial goals in mind (don’t shoot yourself, don’t shoot anyone else, don’t get DQ’d, don’t come in last).\u00a0\u00a0 Well, the “don’t come in last” part was more of a “it would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}