3rd and 4th!!!

Today was my 4th time doing an action/IDPA style pistol competition. Well my oh my, but at the end of the day today I was 3rd overall in the Postal match and 4th overall in the total IDPA match!! And not out of like five or six people either. (I saw you smirking over there!!) It was out of 22 shooters!

A lot of beginner's luck. Also a small pool of shooters. But still!! Can you tell I'm happy about it? The way things are measured are that you have a skill class for how well you shoot and then a class for the type of pistol you shoot. I shoot a SSP or stock service pistol gun. Very very few modifications allowed.

For skill level I am what is called 'unclassified'. To accurately rank people accross the USA there is a a course that is uniform for everyone called 'the classifier'. How well you do there determines your skill ranking. As I have not shot it, I am unclassified.

The ranking order from least to greatest goes like this: unclassified, novice, marksman, sharpshooter, expert and master. Today out of the 22 people only the people ranked expert or master out-shot me. And I definitely had the least competition style gun of the people ahead of me.

I have a huge list of things to change improve and learn. So I'm very happy to see some improvement even in what I've done in this short time. It is a larger goal for me to be shooting at expert level by this time next year. Go me!!

btw-I did a 'go big or go home' commitment to this sport and bought a competition gun, a Glock 34. I'll be able to shoot it by the end of the month, so just two more competitions with the Sig Sauer. Now of course I need a new holster and mag carriers. Man, this is NOT a cheap sport.

Here is video of each stage. Not very impressive on film but it will give you an idea.