I was competing in an IPSC Level III competition today. As I was using factory ammo I didn’t take the time to barrel drop it all beforehand. A shooter a few places in front of me had a clearly underpowered round go off which caused the bullet to leave the case just far enough to engage the rifling, jamming his pistol.
The R/O them made the mistaken call that he was allowed a reshoot and failed to score the stage. In fact the shooter’s few shot targets should have been scored, but by failing to score them the reshoot became warranted.
When it was my turn on the line I was shooting well. On a course of fire the top shooters were completing in around 22-25 seconds I found myself firing the first of 2 rounds on a paper target, with another 3 paper targets to go, at what turned out to be the 16 second mark. The factory round went off but the next round failed to go into battery. When I tried to eject the stuck cartridge I couldn’t open the slide and after struggling with it had to stop shooting
Now, all things being equal, the R/O would have treated me the same way as the previous shooter. But someone had had a word to him about proper procedure so my run was scored and I received the 7 misses and 3 procedural for failing to engage. This resulted in a 0 stage for me with a time that, all being equal, should have resulted in a time of around 26 seconds (I had to move back 10 meters to engage the last two targets taking 4-5 seconds time).
I want to make it clear, the R/O made the right call for me. But the previous shooter benefited from his earlier mistake. So no sour grapes on my part but it still hurts that a factory round was somehow out of spec enough to jam my pistol.
Lesson learnt? Barrel drop even factory rounds for completion use.
The R/O them made the mistaken call that he was allowed a reshoot and failed to score the stage. In fact the shooter’s few shot targets should have been scored, but by failing to score them the reshoot became warranted.
When it was my turn on the line I was shooting well. On a course of fire the top shooters were completing in around 22-25 seconds I found myself firing the first of 2 rounds on a paper target, with another 3 paper targets to go, at what turned out to be the 16 second mark. The factory round went off but the next round failed to go into battery. When I tried to eject the stuck cartridge I couldn’t open the slide and after struggling with it had to stop shooting
Now, all things being equal, the R/O would have treated me the same way as the previous shooter. But someone had had a word to him about proper procedure so my run was scored and I received the 7 misses and 3 procedural for failing to engage. This resulted in a 0 stage for me with a time that, all being equal, should have resulted in a time of around 26 seconds (I had to move back 10 meters to engage the last two targets taking 4-5 seconds time).
I want to make it clear, the R/O made the right call for me. But the previous shooter benefited from his earlier mistake. So no sour grapes on my part but it still hurts that a factory round was somehow out of spec enough to jam my pistol.
Lesson learnt? Barrel drop even factory rounds for completion use.