Fun in the Sun

Bkreutz · #1 05-11-2014, 07:58 PM

It was a beautiful day, sun was shining so I had fun at a Steel Challenge match today.

Bkreutz · #2 05-18-2014, 06:13 PM

Another (partly)sunny day (2nd weekend in a row

) USPSA today.

Bkreutz · #3 07-05-2014, 10:35 PM

Long day today, 12 hours, 2 ferry rides, some sun, some rain, all fun.

brucev · #4 07-05-2014, 11:00 PM

A day at the range is always good!

BobR1 · #5 07-08-2014, 08:50 AM

Lets see:

07 June Reactive Steel Challenge Handgun Match
08 June ICORE Revolver Match

12 June Club Board Meeting

Skip a weekend

21 June and 22 June I was Match Director for the Missouri State 600 Yard IBS Bench Rest Match.
21 June was also the Clubs Hamburger Fry. We cooked 100 hamburgers and a case of 1/4 pound hotdogs. I about forgot 2 each 16 Inch Dutch Ovens of Baked beans.

28 and 29 June we had our Club 3 Gun Match
29 June Multi Range F Class Rifle Match

5 July Defensine Handgun Match
6 July ICORE Revolver Match

Skip a weekend

10 July Board Meeting

19 & 20 July 3 Gun Again.

My schedule is like this all year. I have been Club President almost the entire 30 years the wife and I have been together, so she is used to it by now.

Did I mention Trap & Skeet on thursday evenings?

Nothing like plenty of range time to keep you Happy, and Reloading. That is on the schedule for today. Making a pile of 38 Special brass back into loaded ammo.

Enjoy that range time, and offer to help.

Bob

Bkreutz · #6 07-08-2014, 12:03 PM

People sometimes ask how I get the time to shoot 4 days of practice and 2 matches every week (except the 5th weekend). My answer is that:
1. I'm retired
2. I don't like golf
3. I don't own a motor home
4. I don't like cruises

With 2 artificial hips, an artificial shoulder, and coronary disease, I certainly don't expect to come close to the "young bucks" but it's still fun. I do help as much as I'm physically able. I think I've got enough pictures of myself in this post(same grey bearded old guy

), maybe I'll start taking pictures of the stages themselves (I'm sure that certainly would be more interesting).

Bkreutz · #7 07-13-2014, 04:44 PM

Steel Challenge today, this stage is called Accelerator (figured you guys had seen enough pictures of the old fat guy with a beard

)

Bkreutz · #8 07-20-2014, 07:43 PM

Not so much "sun" today, but it was still "fun" The picture is half of one stage, pretty easy moving down the lane shooting targets on each side, at the far end the stage turned right and there were 2 Texas stars at 20 yards

.

novalty · #9 07-22-2014, 07:26 PM

Love the pics Bkreutz! Keep the press running, and ringing that steel.

Bkreutz · #10 07-27-2014, 07:28 PM

Sun shining, 80 degrees, and not a cloud in the sky, perfect day for USPSA

The first two pictures are the same stage (my phone didn't have a wide enough angle

)

Bkreutz · #11 08-10-2014, 12:44 PM

Well, I didn't have a match last weekend (took my Utah non resident CC class), but I made up for it yesterday. I left the house at 5AM, the registration started at 6:15 with shooting starting at 7:30. This was a Level II USPSA match so there were over 160 shooters. I pulled into my driveway at 8PM, made for a long day, but it was a lot of fun and I got to shoot with a bunch of shooters that I don't see very often in one place. The first picture is one my wife took on the way to the match. The second picture was an interesting stage, there were sonotubes (cardboard barrels) attached to a pivot, all the shots had to be through the tubes and you had to swing the tubes to get all the targets. The challenges were that it was very loud and then the tubes filled with smoke making it more difficult

The next picture is of the targets that had to be shot through the left tube. The next picture is a stage I took a chance on. I used a 28 round mag with one in the chamber, I shot the Texas star last and my pistol went to slide lock when I knocked the last steel off the star. I didn't have to do a reload (sometimes a plan works, and sometimes they don't

) I did have a major screw up though, we had a 30 point classifier, 6 targets, 1 shot each and for some reason I neglected to shoot at one of the targets

, I'm claiming the senility defense, so after the FTE procedural, the miss penalty, and the non score for that target, I ended up with a 0.00 hit factor, oh well, life goes on. The last picture is of the classifier. (much as it pains me to include it)

Bkreutz · #12 08-19-2014, 12:16 PM

IDPA State championship match last weekend. No pictures because they had official photographers so picture taking was not allowed. The weather was good, I finished around mid pack, the prone positions really slowed me down, (more so than my normal "geezer" pace

) But it was a fun get together.

Bkreutz · #13 08-25-2014, 02:13 AM

Another sunny weekend but I didn't shoot a match. Had a Range Officer seminar that lasted most of the weekend. It was useful, but I'd rather have been shooting. A friend sent me a photo from the level II match 2 weeks ago so I'm putting it below. This stage had 20 targets shot from above and below the shelf in the picture, all shots were upper panel (head) only, 1 shot each. If you look close, there are packages of Twinkies on the shelf. This was my last stage of the match and I was tempted to grab a package, but I resisted.

Bkreutz · #14 09-08-2014, 12:15 PM

Well, the weekend weather was another stunning sunny day, temp topped out at ~80, but sadly it wasn't a fun day. I had a very strange day, in 3 of the stages at a local USPSA match, I forgot to shoot some of the targets, no excuse, just didn't shoot at them. Admittedly the stages were complex, but it's not something I normally do. After the match I decided that the reason I shot this poorly was due to a medical condition. The official name is a "Cranial Rectal Inversion" or CRI, CRI is caused by the high pitched sound that emits from the timing device and apparently will affect every competitive shooter at some point in their shooting life. Man I hope that I've now built up some kind of immunity to CRI. We shall see. I have a match Tues night and then going on vacation so I won't be shooting for a couple of weeks. Maybe I can completely recover from CRI during this break.

Bkreutz · #15 09-28-2014, 06:24 PM

Well fall is here, the sun did shine a bit but mostly it was cloudy. Had an interesting USPSA match today, interesting because most of the top shooters were at the USPSA Handgun Nationals so a lot of the participants were old duffers like me.

AGoyette · #16 09-29-2014, 11:19 AM

Bkreutz,
I enjoyed reading you match posts. I shot our clubs last outdoor USPSA match for the year. I have started shooting my husbands old (early 1990's model) 1911 45 for the extra points. I have been having magazine issues with this gun. The gun overall have been fine. Well yesterday it was not fine. It choose a 5 stage match, to have the firing pin go out. I was able to baby it and finish the match, but it was not fun pulling the trigger, watching the hammer fall and nothing. The pin and probably the spring are just worn out. While I did finish last, I just keep telling myself that I was competing against a Grand Master, the caption of the S&W shooting team, and numerous others who are just as good. I have looked at the M&P 45 and I hear good things about it, but it does not hold as many rounds as the Para Ordnance I am currently shooting (the extended mags hold 16). I was shooting my 5" Pro in 9mm, but once my youngest daughter shot it, it was no longer mine. lol I think I will shoot my 9c on Tuesday nights BUG gun match. I used it to shoot a PPC match on Wednesday night and it was fun.
Keep up the good work!

Bkreutz · #17 09-29-2014, 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AGoyette

Bkreutz,
I have looked at the M&P 45 and I hear good things about it, but it does not hold as many rounds as the Para Ordnance I am currently shooting (the extended mags hold 16).

Taylor Freelance makes a 140mm mag base for the M&P 45 that you could use in Limited,http://taylorfreelance.com/shopping/...g9nnevh681lt56 I haven't seen a 170mm if you wanted to shoot open (but then I haven't been looking since I don't have a M&P 45

) I haven't shot a 1911 since the mid '70s when I was wearing green clothes.

Bkreutz · #18 10-05-2014, 08:19 PM

It should be raining in the Pacific NW this time of year, but we got another dry one in

, actually was a bit on the warm side.

Bkreutz · #19 10-13-2014, 02:35 PM

Another non rainy day yesterday. I shot Steel Challenge but didn't get any pictures. I was the RO and my wife did the scoring. Neither one of us thought to take any pictures. Having too much fun I guess.

Bkreutz · #20 10-19-2014, 06:53 PM

Another sunny day in the Pacific Northwest, this can't go on much longer

. Rain is supposed to move in tomorrow, but today was a good day for USPSA. Got to love those uprange starts.

Bkreutz · #21 03-23-2015, 04:34 AM

Yesterday was my second match since my surgery in January (story about that I'm on the sidelines for a while) And I really screwed the pooch. First stage, 20 round count, I load 23 round mag, put in a Barney round for extra insurance, shooting very well (probably since there wasn't a lot of movement, just shooting though a bunch of slits. Shot #19 and my gun goes to slide lock, ***?, reload and finish, lost a couple of seconds or more because of reload and wondering what just happened. Figured out the edge of the mag extension were catching the legs of the follower only allowing 18 to be loaded instead of 23, (and of course I didn't count them loading the mag, lesson learned). Next stage was a classifier and of course I shot the white guy.

. next two stages were pretty good considering my hobbling around with a bum leg. Next stage I didn't get a full seat on a mag and it dropped after my shot with the round still in the chamber, but I always carry a spare mag for this situation. Wait, I'm still not done

next stage is a 24 round stage with a couple of steel, so I put a 28 and a 22 round mag on my belt, the 22 is a backup. Load and make ready, stand by, beep, off I go. Doing well, got to the end and you guessed it, slide lock after shot 22

, I reloaded and as I did I noticed I was putting the 28 mag in. I had loaded the wrong mag at the start.

. All in all, a learning experience. My mind was just not there. Been a while since I've shot outdoors, I broke my hip in December (had that joint replaced 18 years ago and it finally failed) so I've been on the mend, but I didn't break my head and that's where the problems came from yesterday. Thought you guys might find this amusing. It was so screwed up I had to laugh it off.

Magload · #22 03-24-2015, 09:25 PM

Thanks for the pictures they are great. I have not gone to a match yet and seeing your pictures gives me a idea what I will be looking at. I am working on a Open gun and getting my shooting up to where it needs to be. Lost a lot since I qual'ed in the Navy in the 80's. These M&Ps are so nice compared to the junk worn out 1911s we had to qual on that my shooting is coming along fast. More pics please.