The Trap Of "easy" Stages

[Navy Joe]

Right now I love "easy" stages. Probably because I didn't blow the last one up. Shot one last week that was pure simplicity. 7 yds., 3 paper. T1 had T2's edge laid to the right edge of the A zone. T2 and T3 were A to A covered by one lonely no shoot. Start with fingers interlaced under either leg. Draw and put two on each weak hand only. I heard the stage described as "cheesy" several times. Well, when it was all done eight shooters zeroed the thing and 11 more had Hfs of less than 1. I shot it clean which was the only highlight of an abysmal match. Don't let easy fool your brain into not engaging.

1 Deel, Paul 3 A Limited 27 0 4.31 6.2645

2 Gaskill, Kert 49 GM Limited 23 0 4.64 4.9569

3 McDonald, David 36 B Limited 10 26 0 6.20 4.1935

4 Thompson, Chad 4 A Limited 10 27 0 6.55 4.1221

5 Jarrett, Todd 14 GM Limited 28 10 4.42 4.0724

6 Swartout, Henry 40 A Limited 10 27 0 7.07 3.8190

7 Rudder, Bill 10 A Limited 29 0 8.14 3.5627

8 Grimes, French 37 B Production 30 0 9.01 3.3296

9 Bradshaw, Council 12 GM Open 29 10 5.97 3.1826

10 Hughes, Mike 32 C Open 28 0 9.41 2.9756

11 Burns, John 2 B Limited 22 0 7.47 2.9451

12 Cecil, Randy 8 C Production 22 0 7.63 2.8834

13 Hopping, Dan 21 C Limited 23 0 8.00 2.8750

14 Craig, Jack 48 C Open 28 0 9.83 2.8484

15 Low, Byron 7 C Revolver 28 0 10.35 2.7053

16 Giambattista, Pete 29 B Open 30 0 11.22 2.6738

17 Tilley, Chris 46 GM Open 29 10 7.57 2.5099

18 Link, John 17 C Production 20 0 8.00 2.5000

19 Webb, Jimmy 15 B Limited 27 10 6.98 2.4355

20 Cates, Kevin 11 U Production 26 10 6.69 2.3916

21 Crowell, Mike 9 B Limited 26 10 6.96 2.2989

22 Roupe, Tom 50 B Limited 10 29 10 8.62 2.2042

23 Chemelli, Ben 51 U Open 27 0 13.00 2.0769

24 Schwartz, Jason 23 D Limited 10 18 0 9.70 1.8557

25 DiMattina, Valentino 31 M Open 27 10 10.09 1.6848

26 Barfield, Travis 30 M Limited 20 10 6.28 1.5924

27 Jones, Dean 44 U Limited 20 10 6.95 1.4388

28 Sadler, Bill 35 C Limited 23 10 9.19 1.4146

29 Scarlata, Paul 42 C Limited 10 24 10 10.27 1.3632

30 Gammons, Eddie 47 M Limited 17 10 5.82 1.2027

31 Fritz, Peter 19 D Revolver 22 0 18.67 1.1784

32 DenBleyker, Bob 18 C Revolver 30 0 26.90 1.1152

33 Burke, Tim 53 U Limited 10 29 10 17.28 1.0995

34 Denney, Lee 38 B Limited 19 10 11.12 0.8094

35 Little, Martin 45 B Open 28 20 11.07 0.7227

36 Hendrix, Paul 6 M Production 15 10 7.11 0.7032

37 Ramsey, David 52 U Limited 25 20 8.18 0.6112

38 Rosenfeld, Jarred 27 U Production 15 10 10.94 0.4570

39 Fritz, Matthew 20 U Production 12 0 29.08 0.4127

40 Earles, Irvin 28 B Limited 23 20 12.31 0.2437

41 Hughes, Mary 33 D Open 18 0 100.40 0.1793

42 Guseman, Jason 5 U Limited 10 22 20 18.62 0.1074

43 Hopping, Albert 22 C Limited 10 21 20 11.20 0.0893

44 Pulley, Paul 24 U Limited 10 21 20 20.04 0.0499

45 Silva, Mark 16 A Limited 17 20 6.65 0.0000

Tie Benton, John 13 M Limited 24 30 6.55 0.0000

Tie Kanas, Tom 25 D Limited 19 30 12.74 0.0000

Tie Pawlak, Steve 26 C Production 17 30 9.39 0.0000

Tie Stivers, Ben 34 D Limited 18 30 8.19 0.0000

Tie Crafton, Don 39 A Limited 18 40 8.70 0.0000

Tie Webb, Lin 41 U Revolver 14 30 7.60 0.0000

Tie Jones, Lew 43 U Production 7 50 8.79 0.0000

[Ron Ankeny]

I have tanked my fair share of "easy" stages. BTW, I envy you for the company you keep. Wow...

[DogmaDog]

Interesting how classification doesn't correlate with stage standings. There are several M class shooters down pretty low, and several C shooters up near the top, GMs liberally interspersed through the top half, and the winner was a A class. Hmmmm.

DD

[downzero]

The interlaced fingers served no real purpose. I thought it was a goofy way to unnecessarily complicate a stage. There was a lot of conversation about the stage, and I agree we're in some fine company.

David Ramsey

Just have to add that I put two rounds into the middle no shoot, they were, however, touching.