USPSA Handgun Match This Sunday, Feb. 6th at Magnolia Rifle & Pistol Club In Byram, MS....

This match is part of the Super Bowl weekend double-header that includes the OutLaw Steel match the day before. We will have you out in time for your Super Bowl parties!

At least 4 courses of fire and 125 rounds or so. Bring extra just in case. If you've ever wanted to try that Glock or whatever you carry in a match, this is a great place to do it. You need a gun, belt, at least 5 mags, holster, mag pouches, eye and ear protection and ammo.

If you don't have all of the above, pm me and we'll round up loaner gear. There's no match fee your first time out.

Set-up begins at 7am...match starts at 9am.

Magnolia Rifle and Pistol Club next to the Swinging Bridge.

Come give it a try!

No online registration for this one?

So due to poor planning I now have a sunburn everywhere except for where my earpro covered. Being bald and being red everywhere except a band across the top isn't something I want to have to explain to everyone. Next time I'll actually read the weather report.

On top of the sunburn I decided to run for an hour after the match. Again due to poor planning I now have road rash between the legs. Yeah, that's comfortable. I've got pictures if anyone is interested. Should have worn underwear...

EWWWWW Way more than we needed to know.

Looks like ya'll had an excellent crowd there today!!

nothing wrote:So due to poor planning I now have a sunburn everywhere except for where my earpro covered. Being bald and being red everywhere except a band across the top isn't something I want to have to explain to everyone. Next time I'll actually read the weather report.

On top of the sunburn I decided to run for an hour after the match. Again due to poor planning I now have road rash between the legs. Yeah, that's comfortable. I've got pictures if anyone is interested. Should have worn underwear...

Go get some "bag balm" from Walgreens or your nearest dairy farm supply!

PhillipM wrote:
Go get some "bag balm" from Walgreens or your nearest dairy farm supply!

Got some, I've been using it since I went to Benning School for Boys. So much better than Vaseline. So am I to assume there will be no takers on the photos?

Nothing -- When were you enrolled at the Benning School For Boys? Graduated from there in April '77 (51st Company)?

Captain -- October 2004... a little after your time. (<-born in '77) -

So why is it the better I do the sloppier it is? This was my 4th match so I decided to try pushing the speed a little bit. On one stage I actually ran dry twice because I screwed up my game plan and still came out 75%. It's the first time I shot above the 60%'s. I'm thinking it might be because I stop over-thinking everything after the fist screw up and it all just kind of becomes a perfunctory motion.

Well, I was back looking like a fool with my camera on my head, but I wasn't the only one this match. I forgot and left the waterproof back on this time, so the sound is a little more muffled than before.

The weather was great; started out a little cool but became really nice shortly after the match started. I didn't shoot a great match, but I had a great time. Really enjoyed shooting with the Cenla guys, some good friends, and a couple of forum regulars. A special thanks to Will_M for pulling significant duty behind the timer RO'ing.

Our squad started on Stage 3, the dreaded (to some, anyway) classifier. This one was a classic skills test that has been a part of USPSA pretty much since its inception. "El Presidente" (stage diagram available here) was developed by Jeff Cooper in the 1970's and published in the January/February 1979 issue of American Handgunner magazine. 30+ years later, it is still a popular benchmark, since it requires both a draw and a reload, and requires good transitions and control. In the early days, a time of 10 seconds was considered good. Top shooters today are sub 4 seconds. I was first up in our squad and was about a half second off of my personal best. 4.88 seconds and decent points was enough for my only stage win of the day, however. The angle of the sun caused a little difficulty with the smoke, even though I was shooting jacketed bullets:


Forum member mhead came up shortly thereafter. This 7.86 second run was good enough for 4th Production (out of 24):


Stage 4 was one that I ripped off, err "designed". I borrowed the basic layout from a stage at the first Nationals I ever attended. This version was pretty heavily modified though. Although I was pretty happy with how it turned out, designing it definitely didn't give me an edge shooting it. My run was fast but several penalties knocked me down to 4th Limited (out of 17):


I also got video of mhead on this one. This was good enough for 7th Production:


Stage 5 had a lot of potential for disaster with penalty targets scattered all around. I was fast again and managed to avoid the no-shoots, but I still pulled a miss which left me in 2nd and cost me a stage win:


Forum member Will_M was 2nd Open on Stage 5 (shooting a Limited gun, no less) with this run. It would have been 3rd Limited had he signed up in that division:


Stage 1 was another of my designs. What can I say, if you don't like the stages, let me know and I will take it into consideration for future submissions. Better yet, submit some of your own! John is almost always looking for stage ideas. I thought this one was fun and liked the concept, but it was a bit of a "hoser" stage. Nevertheless, there were some areas that could cause problems if you weren't careful, so it wasn't about all out speed. I proved this fact by again being fast, nearly 3 seconds faster than anyone else in the match, but not penalty free. This was 3rd place Limited:


mhead had a nice run on Stage 1 and came in 3rd Production:


Our final stop, Stage 2, was an interesting stage. I looked at reloading once, after the second array of targets (16 shots), but there wasn't much room to make the reload, so I considered doing two reloads, once after the first array (8 shots), and once after the third array (16 shots, leaving 8 to finish the stage). Not settling on a mental plan can cause problems, and it did for me here. I forget to reload completely and ran the gun dry. Embarassing, but it happens. 2nd place Limited:


Will_M had a nice run and was 2nd Open again. In Limited, this would have been good enough for 3rd place:


That's enough of my long-winded match recap. Hope to see everyone in March.

B, thanks again for the vids.

Will_M wrote:Thanks for the videos Bryant! The recap was great too. I'm just glad you didn't get my classifier on here.

Well I do have the classifier run, but it wasn't much to look at... I thought I had you on another stage but apparently the camera was rolling and I stopped it when I thought I was starting it so it didn't record.

Gale B wrote:B, thanks again for the vids.

You're welcome. It's been fun messing around with them. One of these days I'll get some swanky editing software and learn how to use it. Until then, I'll continue to take the easy way out and just trim and post them.

man, looks like i missed some great stages.

quick question, are these noshoots between those targets?

Anyone have the diagrams for those stages? (I don't need El Pres or Stage 5 since that one's mine).

spanky wrote:man, looks like i missed some great questions.

quick question, are these noshoots between those targets?

You meant great stages, right? It was another solid Magnolia match, I have to say. John does a great job of putting together matches, and he "borrows" your stages quite often.

To answer your first question, yes, those were noshoots between the targets in the screen capture.
As to the second question, I have the hand drawn diagrams for stages 1 and 4 that I can send. PM me an email address. John would have Stage 2. I honestly don't remember where it came from. It put shooters close to the 180 in both directions (notice where I was standing to RO Will_M at the second array), but it was a good, fun stage in its own right.