Mat Price

[Mat Price]

OK! Well first post.

My name is Mat Price, I have been shooting precision rifle since I was a kid various form silhouette, F class ect… I had never owned a hand gun until about 3 months ago. I come from a long family line of LE and the only Pistol shooting I ever did was with my family and was never very good at it, in fact I have never shot open sights on anything before about 3 months ago. I was introduced to USPSA by a friend and I was addicted that day.

I am 35 and love the aspect of the athletic part of the sport. I will say this NOTHING that I have found yet transfers from the long range rifle game to this one. Its like learning to crawl again. So I went out bought the most inexpensive rig I could, being that I wasn’t sure this was a game I wanted to play for any length of time and started working with a few local guys…

With a glock 17 in hand stock sights and a mat price trigger job I was off to our local range. First 20 shots @ 10 yards never hit the target… moved in @ 5 yards got a few on the paper and was really frustrated. Fast forward to 85 days later working with my local shooters.. @ the grand opening of the new indoor range I am a member of and help out at Blake miguez ( a local shooter to us) gives me 3 pointers. Stop dipping my head, make a more stable base, and put more break in my weak hand.

So yesterday made the 90 day mark. How have I improved?

Well my glock now totes target sights and still rocking the mat price trigger job and it works really well btw LOL!

So I said to myself “ SELF today we are going to do something” special break through plateau . That being, needing to gain more speed out of the holster and follow up accuracy. So I pull up to our outdoor range and one of our “better” local shooters happens to be at the range with a buddy doing a lesson. Yeah Max Michel is one of our local shooters… Great now I have to perform in front of this guy lol. Well I went and hid on furthest part of the range and decided today was going to be my fastest most accurate bill drill.

I fired a couple of warm up strings at bowling pins and plates. Then had my partner grab the timer.

Best time ever @ 10 yards all alpha shots 3.5 seconds. Yesterday after tons of practice drawing my new best time 10 yards all alpha 6 shots 2.20 flat. With .15 splits. Needless to say I was happy! My draw is still slow first shot 1.38 but these are the things I need to work on. I thought about and started kind of beating myself up and getting frustrated again. Until my buddy pulled out my first target from 90 days ago with no hits on it.

After that session I was able to go talk to max for a few min with something to brag about lol! I watched him teach his guy and run drills and even learned more yesterday.

A great day at the range thanks Max for the help.

I am not sure what I want to work on today I think its going to be multiple target drills I have to be at the indoor range all day so maybe when its slow I can setup some no shoots and work that. I will post a video today so you guys can help me out as well.

I am lucky to live on the mississipi gulf coast and new orleans area there are some GREAT shooters here.

Mat

Edited November 9, 2010 by Mat Price

[Mat Price]

my third match was last sunday 11/7/10 and this was my best stage. Shot @ Cajun action shooters club in thibodaux La. I am happy with this right now full stage points just a bit slow time. not bad at all for my third match ever i think!

Stage: 4 Turn Around

Place Name No. Class Division Pts Pen Time Hit Fact Stg Pts Stg %

1 Esterly, Michael 14 B Production 30 0 4.24 7.0755 30.0000 100.00%

2 Moreau, Gerald 33 D Production 30 0 6.12 4.9020 20.7844 69.28%

3 Thibodaux, Chad 3 C Production 28 0 5.76 4.8611 20.6110 68.70%

4 Ellis, Hank 26 C Production 30 0 6.65 4.5113 19.1278 63.76%

5 Sparks, Robert 25 U Production 28 0 6.72 4.1667 17.6667 58.89%

6 Price, Matt 41 U Production 30 0 7.46 4.0214 17.0507 56.84%

7 Brandt, Bob 42 C Production 28 0 6.97 4.0172 17.0329 56.78%

8 Wright, Ben 39 C Production 23 10 6.55 1.9847 8.4151 28.05%

9 Jones, Jonathan 17 U Production 30 0 17.63 1.7016 7.2148 24.05%

[Mat Price]

Shot the second sunday match today didnt to well over all but i am constantly improving.

here is my best stage

Stage: 2 Three Times the Fun

Place Name No. Class Division Pts Pen Time Hit Fact Stg Pts Stg %

1 Michel Sr., Max 13 M Open 96 0 12.92 7.4303 100.0000 100.00%

2 Benton, Josh 10 C Limited 92 0 14.04 6.5527 88.1889 88.19%

3 Alcock, Wayne 5 U Limited 96 0 14.66 6.5484 88.1310 88.13%

4 Willett, Bryant 8 B Limited 88 0 14.03 6.2723 84.4152 84.42%

5 Price, Mat 9 U Limited 100 0 20.88 4.7893 64.4563 64.46%

6 Switzer, Hale 14 U Limited 92 0 23.33 3.9434 53.0719 53.07%

7 Cuevas, Junior 12 D Limited 99 0 25.43 3.8930 52.3936 52.39%

8 Jackson, Bill 1 B Limited 94 0 25.44 3.6950 49.7288 49.73%

9 Thornton, Eric 2 C Limited 90 0 24.78 3.6320 48.8809 48.88%

10 Benton, Gerald 11 B Revolver 90 10 29.41 2.7202 36.6096 36.61%

11 Brandt, Bob 7 C Production 85 10 35.29 2.1252 28.6018 28.60%

12 Berges, Darren 6 U Production 96 10 41.14 2.0904 28.1335 28.13%

13 Russo, Russ 3 U Limited 93 0 49.29 1.8868 25.3933 25.39%

14 Jones, Eric 4 U Limited 69 10 36.90 1.5989 21.5186 21.52%

I was the only shooter to score all A's on this stage.

I hope soon to be @ the top of this list.

This was also my first matc husing my new limited gun a glock 24. I had a few malfunctions on my part not the gun a high primer and an unseated mag in a few stages.