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Old 06-22-2020, 09:28 PM
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I competed in our IPSC Handgun Nationals back in November.

The first weekend in December I shot day 1 of a 2 day IPSC/Speed Steel event (day 2 was a torrential downpour so I stayed home). I had been shooting my Kimber 9mm 1911, which I had been playing with for several months with a peep rear sight. It hadn't worked as well as I had thought it would so after the comp I changed it back to the original sight and over a couple of weekends I resighted it in out to 32 meters (just under 35 yards). That took me through to Christmas week.

After Christmas I decided to sight in my .45 1911's to the same 32 meters instead of 25. By then it was almost the middle of January and my range time was taken up constructing stages for our first Level 3 comp of the year.

Morning of the comp I went out to my "mancave" to get my pistols from the safe to find I had been burgled. Along with a lot of my rifles they had taken al but one of my competition holster/belt rigs. The lone exception was the one I had been intending to use that weekend, which was locked in the rear of my car with my range bag and ammo.

It took almost a month to get over the feelings of anger and sort out the insurance claim. By then we were into the Covid-19 lockdown and our range was closed.

We were allowed to shoot again just after the middle of May. I made several trips to the range with my pistol and ammunition, but each time some club business came up (I'm Club Captain) and by the time it was sorted out I was no longer in the mood to shoot. Last Sunday week I ran our club's entrants in a National Postal match. I shoot my 686 in this event, a modified 90 round version of PPC, but still didn't have a holster for my pistol (it is still somewhere between St Louis and NZ, many thanks again Garystl). I considered shooting rimfire but my Buckmark is currently wearing a dot sight and that's not allowed in the rules.

On my way home that afternoon I decided enough was enough! It was time to shoot again.

This past Sunday I loaded my .45 1911, 100 rounds and my range bag into the car. On arrival I set up an upper half IPSC target. I have an old drill I used to shoot regularly and decided to go back to basics, so instead of setting up at 12-15 meters I set up at 7 1/2 meters.

This is an accuracy drill, not a speed exersise, although there are some time presures they are not great.The whole aim (pun included) of these excersises are to get all A zone hits. If you don't get 5 A zone hits in a string you repeat the string until you do!

I believe though that you need to keep score to gauge progress so the first run in every string is recorded.

Firstly, after setting up, were 5 draw, present and dry fire at the target in no time. This was to reset mucle memory.

Next repeat with five rounds in the magazine. All Alpha's so 25 points scored.

String three is to draw and fire 5 rounds with no time restriction. I always use the timer just to get some sort of score, especially the hit factor. First run, 4 Apha's and one Charlie for a HF just over 3.1.

The next run was five Alpha's with a better time and a 3.5 HF.

String four: 5 times draw and fire 1 shot. The "official" time according to the training program is 3.5 seconds. At the 12-15 meter mark I had gotten down down to 3 seconds for each shot so stuck to that. Again five Alpha's.

String 5: 5 draws this time firing 2 rounds each time. The "official" time is 4 seconds. I had been down to 3.5 seconds before the hiatus so reset the timer to that. 9 Alpha's and another Charlie.

I recorded the string then relaoded my mags for another run. Second 2 shot series I pulled a Charlie so reset and started again. This happened once more until I finally ran a string of 5 Alphas.

Recorded score for first runs was 123/125 possible, but I had shot clean runss in all four strings. Only a little over 50 rounds fired but I was happy with that.

Next time it is back to 10 yards, then 10 meters, 12.5 yards/meters and finally back to around the 15 yard mark.

In between range visits I will work on dry fire practice and that trigger control. The muscle memory still needs some work.
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