Steel Challenge

[kraigwy]

Don't know if this should be here or in the Sigma Sub Form.

Sunday I'm gonna shoot a steel Challenge. I want to shoot it with my Sigma but I only have two mags and don't see how I can get more ordered and delevered by this weekend.

Would 28 rounds (two 14 rd mags) get you through the stages or should I use my Gold Cup? ( I have lots of mags for it).

 

[OKFC05]

Steel Challenge scoring is simple: your time is your score. There are five targets, commonly referred to as plates. Four are primary plates, and the fifth is designated as the stop plate. Each of the primary targets must be hit at least once during each string of fire,
followed by the stop plate, which must be hit last to stop the time. Competitors may fire as many rounds as they deem necessary for each string of fire.

If you have to change mags on a string, you are so screwed already. Changing mags between strings is off the clock.

 

[imashooter2]

Time plus penalties (extra shots,missed plates and procedurals).

You need to shoot 5 five shot strings. Two 14 round mags will let you do that, but you have no contingency for misses on the last magazine. (Two 5 round strings off the first mag with 3 extra shots available. Reload keeping one in the chamber. Three 5 round strings to run the 2nd magazine dry with no extra shots available.)

Someone is sure to point out that if you are taking extra shots you aren't going to win. But there are a lot of spots between first and last place.

 

[kraigwy]

OK Thanks,

I think that answered. The Two 14 round mags will get me through, if I need more then that per stage, I should stay home.

Not like ICORE which in some stages require 30 Plus rounds.

 

[imashooter2]

OK Thanks,

I think that answered. The Two 14 round mags will get me through, if I need more then that per stage, I should stay home.

Not like ICORE which in some stages require 30 Plus rounds.

Your choice of course, but I would go with the 1911 and 5 mags. Having no room for a single miss in 3 strings is bad juju for a new shooter.

 

[OKFC05]

Your choice of course, but I would go with the 1911 and 5 mags. Having no room for a single miss in 3 strings is bad juju for a new shooter.

+1
More guts than I've got to start a string with 5 shots in the mag.
I like a full mag for each string.

Some club matches will let you top off a mag with loose rounds before the next string; I don't know where you shoot.

 

[minconrevo]

A designated mag stuffer can keep the 2nd 9mm mag fully re-loaded as the competitor shoots his five strings.

The .45 ACP will be fun too; bigger "ding" sounds on the metal.

 

[kraigwy]

The decision has been made for me. In a good long practice session I decided to go back to my Series 70 Gold Cup. I can get more hits faster with 7 rounds out of it then I can with 14 rounds out of the sigma. I think it has to do with 30 plus years of shooting the gold cup in Bullseye and other matchs. . Plus I have about 20-25 1911 mags

Maybe a couple thousand more rounds out of the sigma will fix that but I shoot the match Sunday.

 

[S&W WHEELNUT]

Steel............

Just get some one to reload them .... and switch it out every round. You will have a AWESOME time. My son and I did are 1st match back in April .... can't get enough. We are shooting USPSA and having a good time, we have 10 matchs this month and my reloading bill is growing and growing..... that's ok with me I'm spending Q time with my son. At 13 he is becoming a awesome junior shooter.

 

[kraigwy]

OK, I shot the match, I had enough mags, but I shoot slow, and reload slow. But I shot well.

What supprised me, was people were more interested in shooting fast, hoping to hit something, missing more then they hit.

One thing that got to me, one of the competitiors was an FBI agent. Don't know what he was shooting, but it had at least a 15 round mags. He missed more then he hit. He was faster then me I agree.

Maybe its the cop in me, but I would think a police officer would be more concerned about where those missed rounds went. Fine at a steel match but I tend to believe you shoot like you train. SCARY.

Anyway, I had a lot of fun, almost as much fun as ICORE. I'll keep shooting. I got a set of targets to practice. I'll start out slow, getting faster with practice, but when I start missing, I'm going to back off and start hitting, regardless of how slow I am.

Thanks for the advise.

 

[imashooter2]

Steel Challenge isn't training, it's a game. Only final score matters...