{"id":2020,"date":"2012-11-21T08:19:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T14:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2012-11-21T08:19:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T14:19:01","slug":"quick-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=2020","title":{"rendered":"Quick note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to an open shooting competition with Wizard this weekend (think IDPA + ISPA + some steel challenge thrown in for good measure).<\/p>\n<p>Interesting match to participate in considering I&#8217;d only done one IDPA match before (way back in March).  Instead of using the Beretta Px4 that I took last time, I decided to take my Bersa Thunder 9 Pro, and I think I will continue to do so.  Don&#8217;t know why, I just like the feel and weight of it better than the Px4.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I did succeed in the same goals I had last time and didn&#8217;t come in dead last! (someone got DQ&#8217;d)  I might have even beat Wizard if I hadn&#8217;t gotten excited and let my fundamentals go out the window on one stage.<\/p>\n<p>Quick notes:<br \/>\nI&#8217;m still in awe at the speed and accuracy of many of the guys that compete on a regular basis.<br \/>\nI move like a glacier compared to everyone else.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s very tempting to run up and kick a steel target that decides to rotate when shot instead of fall down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to an open shooting competition with Wizard this weekend (think IDPA + ISPA + some steel challenge thrown in for good measure). Interesting match to participate in considering I&#8217;d only done one IDPA match before (way back in March). Instead of using the Beretta Px4 that I took last time, I decided to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-guns-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","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=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}