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Long ago, in a galaxy far far away, I wrote a series of posts about how to get started in competitive shooting. As time went on, the information contained in those posts lost relevancy, and some of it was downright wrong anymore. The good news is that I’ve recently updated those posts. You can check them out here: Part 1 – How to Get Started in Competitive Shooting Part 2 – Holsters Part 3 – …

Saturday, March 8, 2014: GSSF at Caswell Ranch IDPA at H2O Fowl Farms ZSA Steel Challenge at The Range Sunday, March 9, 2014: GSSF at Caswell Ranch ZSA USPSA at ENC Firing Range IDPA at The Range Steel Challenge at Ant Hill Ben and I mentioned on episode 71 of the podcast that we might head down to H2O Fowl Farms, but that was before our friends at ZSA announced their new Steel Challenge match, …

Snooker is a game that is much more obviously about a good leave than 8-ball. By the same token, USPSA is a game much more obviously about speed than IDPA. But of course, in both sports, accuracy and speed (and power, DVC) are important. Let me back up for a second. After playing APA competitive 8-ball for a few months, I stumbled on snooker, another “cue sport” played with many more balls on the table …

In the past week I’ve received a couple of emails from podcast listeners who have recently tried competitive shooting for the first time. They both said they had a great time, and that’s really what it’s about. Todd wrote in first, and he had this to say about his first competitive shotgun “flurry” match. I’d never heard of a flurry, but it sounds like a LOT of fun (emphasis mine): The lessons I came away …

So the Day-Night-Day is tomorrow, and I’ve got my gear just about squared away. Which is to say, I’ve figured out which gun to shoot and I already have enough stuff on hand that it should be a breeze. Gun and gear Around this time last year, I’d had my 1911, a Springfield TRP, for a few months but wasn’t quite ready to shoot my second D-N-D with a brand new gun (smart or scared? …

Makes perfect sense. My reload is very close, but modified just a bit for my bigger flashlight.

I’ve been shooting competitively in this area for 4ish years, and finally the stars have aligned, and I’m going to be able to shoot the Day-Night-Day match at The Range in Oxford, NC. This match consists of 3 IDPA matches: the first match shot Saturday afternoon, the second after dark Saturday night, and the third Sunday morning. Info at The-Range.com Flashlight: The night portion of the match is the reason that I’m so excited about …

Saturday was a heck of a day! The stars aligned and there happened to be 3 matches that I was able to shoot consecutively on the same day. A podcast listener was nice enough to lend me an XDs 9mm magazine, so I headed out for the day with the intention of shooting the XDs 9mm in all three matches. I started my day out H2O Fowl Farms for their monthly IDPA match. We shot …

You may have noticed that I’m shooting a lot more USPSA recently than I have been in the past. This isn’t because I dislike IDPA, but because I’m trying to improve as a shooter. In almost 4 years of shooting IDPA, I’m to the point where I’m almost an IDPA Master, which is, in my opinion, a little misleading. My first USPSA classification just came in a couple days ago, and I classified C class …

As happens occasionally, someone recently asked me a question to which I didn’t have answer. The question, as I recall, was “Now that you’ve decided you don’t like your 1911, are you going to sell it?” I had to take a moment and unpack the question because it boggled my mind in two ways. The first was the idea of “not liking” my 1911. My 1911 is a stainless Springfield TRP which is, it must …