Headed to Romulus this morning for a USPSA match. WCRHC always puts on a challenging match, and this was no exception.
Got caught in traffic on the way there as they had closed 96 and 275 was down to a couple lanes and was a mess.
Managed to get through the mess and got there ok, checked in, paid the match fee and got ready.
First stage was a difficult retreat stage. You started up range with the gun on a table and shot the 4 targets arrayed in front of you and then there were two sets of angled arrays behind you of two targets on each side per array and then a final array behind you of a single target on each side of the range right at the rear fault line. Breaking the 180 was a concern.
I had a plan, did the plan and it went pretty well.
Next stage was pretty challenging with quite a few targets only visible from very fine angles. Had the plan and at port 2 planned to shoot two targets. Shot two targets. Wrong targets.
I had moved in just a bit too much and missed the two in the array I should have shot and shot other targets twice so they had 4 alphas each but that doesn't help. As a result learning occurred.
I did mess up another stage by missing a target in a similar-ish fashion which didn't help any. One of the more experienced shooters said it happens and that was a very challenging stage, and otherwise I was doing quite well.
Other stages did go quite well. Still need to improve a lot.
Overall I'm decently accurate but I made these dumb mistakes which cost. Only had one D the whole match, 20 Cs and all the rest of the 175 rounds were As. Still not fast enough. If I can just stop doing the dumb, I'll be in much better shape, need to figure out why I do that and how to track and ensure I hit the right targets better.
There was a very good bunch of shooters in my squad, also they're a very good bunch of people. Even messing up shooting during a match is better than not shooting at all.
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