1911onr

I noticed in the Matt Burkett IDPA video that his gun slide doesn't stay open on the last round. During the classifier chapter where a mandatory slide lock reload is specified, he had to rack the slide back to load the chamber.

I had a ND last night at an IDPA classifier. There were serveral contributing factors (read excuses). The bottom line was that I was trying to shoot faster than my ability with that gun. It happened during a slide-lock reload and I allowed my trigger finger inside the guard. As I released the slide with my weak side thumb, I pressed the trigger and boom! The gun was pointed downrange, so thankfully there no injuries or property damage. I stopped, turned my head to the RO/SO and said "I'm done, right?" He said yes, unload and show clear, slide forward, hammer down. I appologized, packed my bags and went home to reflect on the incident. I have been shooting actively for about 3 years and competing in IDPA for 1.5 years and USPSA for about a year. The gun in question was a full size steel 1911 with which I had not recently practiced. I'm a high SS in SSP with my Sig and decided that I was going to up my classification in CDP without a whole lot of practice/dry fire/gun handling. Poor decision. My goal for this year is EX in SSP and B in production. Once I achieve those goals, I may go back the 1911 platform and with a lot of practice use it for competition.

Julie Goloski posted on idpaforum.com that the results will be posted by Monday morning on the S&W website. I shot Thursday PM SSP/SS. I hung around Friday for the Doug Koenig seminar. They had posted interum results - just your stage scores, no total or rank.

Busted! Just tried this at a special classifier shooting production. Nailed one, above average on another and average on the two remaining stages. My overall match placement was about the same as if I shot accurately. The procedure works to up your classification, but I'm just fooling myself that I'm really getting better.