Very close to home for me right now.
Good luck with the surgery.
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Memory being a fucked up thing, and talking to George off-line, I went and looked up my final scores at the last big match I was at since one does not want to misstate stuff like this. My memory of the final match results, vs what we were talking about at the match before I left are not the same, I was not there for the final posting that was official.
I did OK IMHO against a field of guys from all over who came in for the match, especially considering that the match staff shot the day before, in the rain and while sliding through the mud while the "real" match was shot in sunny weather and after the ground had dried or after we put hay down to get the mud under control.
Anyway, scores here for anyone interested;
http://www.capitalcitygunclub.com/id...2014-10-11.htm
After going to Rangemaster Conference I have come to the conclusion that I need to do a lot more Force On Force Airsoft practice, role-playing scenarios, hand-hand combat tactics (Taking Krav for that) and still continue to work as hard as I can to compete in both IDPA and USPSA. Also, practicing Shoot/No-shoot using the DVD's and pepper-spray practice (with water). If you compete and don't carry, well would not matter, but if you compete and carry, seems to me we all ought to have basic fundamentals so that we can defend ourselves and others (if you so choose). I am looking for more places I can do FoF and role-playing scenarios with airsoft.
Let me know if anyone knows of places in the Mid-Atlantic.
While the trigger safety discussion is valuable, I will continue to expect IDPA shooters to keep their fingers out of the trigger guard unless they have initiated their aim and are in the final stages of pulling the trigger. But getting FoF and role-playing is much more likely to save my skin than being 0.1s faster on the trigger.
Cody
Chuck,
I applaud you for getting out there and getting after it. It's a rare day when I can drag one of my coworkers out kicking and screaming to one of our local USPSA or IDPA matches. I mostly don't even bother trying to get them to buck up and travel to State/sectional/regional matches. :-(
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I tried for years to get cops at my job to come out and shoot. Got lots of excuses.
IDPA is better attended by guys from my old job than USPSA was, but we are talking a 300 man department and like 6 dudes that compete. I totes get how cops act about this stuff.
I really like this quote;
"You can't go as deep training as in a race or a fight. If you don't compete it's easy to convince yourself you're going hard. You're not." Mark Twight
State matches might be asking a bit much financially and travel wise, but a club match with decent shooters is a great barometer of your performance under simple pressure. Some people take that and use it as drive to improve, some simply don't like what they see and ignore the problem.
My first taste of competitive shooting came when I got hired as a patrol cop 15 years ago; one of my Sergeants at the time dragged me along to a local USPSA match. Another of the guys on my shift in subsequent years was a GM (although I didn't really understand what that meant back then) who traveled all over the place shooting.
I guess this is perhaps why I have had a hard time buying into the "games will get you killed" type mentality. My experience is that competition can be used to *help* forge some pretty steely eyed MFers.
That's a favorite quote. Twight is quite the twisted fellow. :-). Having a bit of an alpine climbing background, I'm more than familiar with some of his antics/achievements. He's done a pretty great job of parlaying his mindset into the fitness world too. A couple buddies from our local CF gym took a Gym Jones seminar last year and confirmed he has not changed much. ;-) Hard as woodpecker lips, as they say...