Bringing this thread back from the grave! I recently shot the IPSC Nationals and put up my best IPSC/USPSA finish to date. I only made three real mistakes all match:
1. Mike on a swinger from hell, it was mostly blind and covered by no shoots and hard cover. I had a terrible time figuring out when to pull the trigger - My round actually did hit the paper, but it was outside the perf
2. Poorly timed another swinger and sat there like an idiot waiting for it to come around again, I had plenty of time to shoot it in the first place, but just wasn't ready to do so. It was a co-located bay and we went right from one stage to the next. I didn't pay enough attention to the swinger timing when the 1st shooter was up, I was the 2nd shooter in queue.
3. Short stroked the trigger on one target, luckily it was an early trigger pull on that moon clip and didn't cost much time to cycle it 1-2 more times.
Overall, I shot a little slower than I should have, but it was pouring rain and I was concerned about controlling the gun and getting my hits. Rich pulled out a nice win, and it appears we shot nearly identical points, he was just ~1 sec faster on every single stage. Better luck next year!