Wow, it's been a long time since I thought about Roy and his 50 yard sitting position. I shot IPSC with him in San Diego for a few years, and did some of his classes at the SDPD range for fun.
Roy scared the snot out of a few people when he dropped into that position at the 50 yd. line-he dropped so fast, you'd think he AD'd and shot himself, or hat a heart attack.
Gotta get him to write down his stories-the man is a walking history book of IPSC, in addition to being a smart guy and a real student of shooting overall.
TJ
Roy and I shot together for years and had some time to travel together as well. We had one hysterical evening with Albert Nichols and his wife at one of the major restaurants at the Bazaar Del Mundo in Old Town in San Diego and that was really a lot of fun. I was an assistant for Roy when he taught the Basic and Advanced Firearm Safety classes at the Police Range in San Diego and remember taking the class out to Kitchen Creek one year for a weekend of shooting and camping.
We set up the courses of fire, mainly steel, and put everyone through them with good range etiquette, timers, etc. I remember the look on the campground manager's face when I came in to make some reservations complete with speed holster and .45...it was priceless. One of our shooters was a Navy Captain in the Dental Corps and an excellent shooter. He brought out his large and very gracious motorcoach to which people gravitated after dinner in the campground and we tallied the day's shooting scores. That was wonderful weekend, mainly shooting steel but with some paper courses like the [polically abhorrent] Mexican Standoff. Roy generally won that won on time....
I remember spending a day out at Kitchen Creek with Roy shooting steel in the snow. Another great, great, day, but man, difficult to retrieve the shells from the little snow holes they created as they melted into the snow drifts.
Dropping and shooting prone: Roy told me he created that particular shooting position (which is very solid) and named it the Rhodesian Prone - not sure why, but it was catchy.
I'm sorry to hear he's no longer shooting; he's 78 now and I think living in Pine Valley, east of San Diego.
Thanks for letting me share some of the memories.
Mary Hart
