tackdr1ver Posted October 5, 2010 Share Posted October 5, 2010 I had a royal screwup this past weekend which probably dropped me out of the top 2 to 6th. Apparently I felt the need to reshoot targets that already had holes in them not once, not twice but THREE times. On ONE stage!!! Doh. I need a better system of keeping track of the stages. That was embarrassing. Total waste of time, total blunder. After that stage I had a mic as I was so wrapped up in making up for them I tried to rush a reload I jerked a shot off to perform a mandatory reload. Needless to say, felt pretty dumb about it the whole ride home.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B_Seehawer Posted October 5, 2010 Share Posted October 5, 2010 Snowball effect..... Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calishootr Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 stagesthat have always given me fits are the multiple aspect stages where you see targets you already engaged from another port, yeah, and as you follow the RO you realize they have 4 andsomtimes 6 holes in em....hate those stages... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hi-Power Jack Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 It's all in the planning phase - looking at the COF before you shoot, and deciding what to shoot from where. Pick your 3 or 4 shooting positions and decide which targets to shoot from each position so you don't shoot the same target twice (or thrice?). Sometimes it takes longer than 5 minutes to figure them out - hate that. And, as I get older, it seems to take longer and longer. There's one COF in Frostproof that I never did figure out how to shoot properly, even though I was looking at it for a half hour the day before the shoot:( Talking it through with a buddy is helpful, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClutchUSMC Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Talking it through with a buddy is helpful, too. I have found that since moving back to KY and going to matches with my cousin that this really helps. We can game it together, and figure out the best way to attach a stage. Also, several times one or the other of us has shot a stage and then looked at the other and said that didn't work try this. This led us to figuring out the best way to run a shotgun/pistol stage a few weeks back and shaving about 3 secs off the rest of the fields time. Two heads are always better than one, besides I like to bounce my crazy ideas off someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Tompkins Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 stagesthat have always given me fits are the multiple aspect stages where you see targets you already engaged from another port, yeah, and as you follow the RO you realize they have 4 andsomtimes 6 holes in em....hate those stages... ... and some with 0 hits! Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tackdr1ver Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 stagesthat have always given me fits are the multiple aspect stages where you see targets you already engaged from another port, yeah, and as you follow the RO you realize they have 4 andsomtimes 6 holes in em....hate those stages... ... and some with 0 hits! Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Amen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
challenged Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 tackdr1ver, love the avatar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul-the new guy Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 stagesthat have always given me fits are the multiple aspect stages where you see targets you already engaged from another port, yeah, and as you follow the RO you realize they have 4 andsomtimes 6 holes in em....hate those stages... ... and some with 0 hits! Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. had a stage like that 2 weeks ago in uspsa... then I had to shoot it again last week in 3 gun and they had added a few targets.... id did badly both times multiple engagements on some targets and no engagement on others... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueridge Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 One thing about shooting revolver is that I know how many reloads that I have to make. Therefore I have never had the problem of engaging targets 2-3 times that you speak of fortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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