The day began walking Piper at 0600. I swear, she has an alarm clock in her butt, as she's up like clockwork. As I walked her, fog began forming until visibility dropped rather impressively.
I then walked Jett and after that had breakfast and headed out in the fog to Wayne County Racoon Hunters for what is likely the last outdoor match of the season.
The fog had pretty much blown out by the time I arrived, and it was sweater weather with the last stage getting some rain.
Our squad was a little small as we had two last-minute cancellations. Kept us busy pasting targets, and I was scorekeeper for a fair bit of the match which is fun to do.
Two Master-class shooters were in the squad, and to say they were good is an understatement. Very neat to see how they analyzed stages and figured out the most efficient way to shoot them. Both were super nice and helpful, and gave lots of good advice on analyzing and shooting a stage.
Happy to note I did well, at least for me, in this match. Certainly the pre-stage coaching helped, as did observing how the Master-class shooters tackled the stages.
There were certainly some fun stages, such as this unloaded table start with two separate shooting boxes:
Still, I put in a C-class performance but I felt I improved.
On the last stage I got as re-shoot due to range equipment failure. Someone had setup the popper that triggered one of two swingers but had installed the stick backwards. Instead of the popper pulling the stick when it fell, the stick kept the popper up and stopped the swinger from swinging. Oops. Good thing I had brought enough ammo. On the upside, getting to shoot that stage again did improve my performance with the first one acting as a live fire practice as the swingers were the last targets in that stage. So, that worked out well.
A very fun match and I learned quite a bit. Still an absolute ton to improve on.
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