ErikW Posted March 22, 2004 Share Posted March 22, 2004 I won my first Richmond Hot Shots Limited match in a couple years today, as one of a field of six Limited Masters duking it out for the win. (My previous win was March 2002, against a very small field in the rain. My previous win against a full field prior to that was October 2001.) It has been difficult since the rise of the Brazilian Juggernauts; Brazilian #2 was less than three match points behind me... one D hit away! I would like to express my gracious appreciation of ong45 for crashing and burning on stage 4 and taking himself out of the running. More thanks go to David Benzick for humbling us on the DDD stage (9 hardcovered partial IPSC, 3 square 6" plates, 66& of it from an awkward position) and having such a higher fit factor than the next guy (17% below) that my competition got a lot fewer match points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessej Posted March 22, 2004 Share Posted March 22, 2004 Really cool Erik! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Merricks Posted March 22, 2004 Share Posted March 22, 2004 Thats great Erik. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loves2Shoot Posted March 22, 2004 Share Posted March 22, 2004 Aren't you an "open specialist?" Not bad, congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted March 22, 2004 Share Posted March 22, 2004 When you shoot in a club with several really good shooters, it is always gratifying to pull one out. Don't think that the others crashed and burned, it was yo who did not, and thus deserved the win. Way to go... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted March 22, 2004 Author Share Posted March 22, 2004 >Aren't you an "open specialist?" Only when I'm not a top IDPA shooter. Somebody mentioned he was surprised that I won because I wasn't going fast, just my usual slow pace. OK, he tried to be more tactful than that, but he had a point. You are what you are; you do what you do. You can't push yourself into making a change on a stage or in a match. After I got whooped 25 seconds to my 27 on the difficult stage 3, I was thinking I needed to dial it up on stage 4. But doing my final walk-though, I realized how silly that was. What am I going to do? All of a sudden I'm going to launch out of each position? I'm going to shoot killer splits on the move? I just did what I do and it was good enough for a stage win. BTW, check out the winning hit factors on stages 1 and 5... 1 Benzick, David 1 M Limited 103 0 19.15 5.3786 105.0000 100.00% 1 Warren, Erik 17 M Limited 144 0 10.72 13.4328 150.0000 100.00% Who says you have to balance DVC on the same stage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave Posted March 22, 2004 Share Posted March 22, 2004 Great job Erik. Thats a tough crowd you run with. Yesterday I too had my first Limited match win. People like 3QT, Twix, Rhino and D-Lo push me, so it felt good. They make me earn it. I was warned, however, not to get to cumfy. I won't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted March 22, 2004 Share Posted March 22, 2004 BITCHIN'...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffro Posted March 23, 2004 Share Posted March 23, 2004 Erik, GREAT STUFF!!! Congratulations. Like a "good ole' boy" friend of mine always says, "Don't it feel good when you have to work hard for it and it happens??". Good going, Jeffro (Jeff) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDean Posted March 23, 2004 Share Posted March 23, 2004 1 Warren, M Limited Major No No No No 692.4294 100.000% 2 Filho, M Limited Major No No No No 689.7675 99.616% 3 Ong, M Limited Major No No No No 668.1576 96.495% 4 Benzick, M Limited Major No No No No 657.2213 94.915% 5 Garcia, B Limited Major No No No No 606.0888 87.531% 6 Turrin, A Limited Major No No No No 574.2798 82.937% 7 Wakida, M Limited Major No No No No 552.2229 79.752% 8 Cambre, B Limited Major No No No No 546.6971 78.953% 9 Daudet, M Limited Major No No No No 540.3868 78.042% 10 ILarina, B Limited Major No No No No 520.9097 75.229% Wheeeww!! That's a tight match. Good job bro. Next one, put 2nd place at 95% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Larry Cazes Posted March 23, 2004 Share Posted March 23, 2004 Congrats Erik! There were some really great stages and the weather was ideal. Stage 4 seemed to have your hallmarks on it, was it your design? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted March 23, 2004 Author Share Posted March 23, 2004 Stage 4 was lcambre, short round, me, and Billy. Oh yeah, then John B. came and helped. It's awesome having that much help; we finished by 3:15 or so. By myself, I'm usually there until 5. We used the practice stage as a general idea, making the on-the-move targets visible over a wide range of real estate without a sweet spot. The awkward start was all lefty Louis. I had a lot to do with the final six targets and I lobbied hard to keep the port open. Louis surprised me with the upper AB target in the morning, though. Seeing it in several walk-thrus didn't stop me from plugging it in the blackened lower A zone transitioning off the previous target. I am still disgusted with myself for that. Just shows I'm not looking for the A zone, I'm remembering where it should be. Honestly, I was borderline nauseous from doing that, even though I immediately realized my error and quickly plugged two upper AB shots. That was a neat bit of muzzle back and forth we don't get much of. I came immediately off the last shoot-on-the-move target to engage the two on the right, reloaded down the hall, got the one straight ahead before the next one on the right became visible, got that one, then blew my plan. I was supposed to get the one through the port, then swing right, then finish up back through the port for the upper AB. Maybe blowing the plan was what made me rush and shoot the D, at least one C, and then transition into the black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted March 23, 2004 Author Share Posted March 23, 2004 TDean, you think that was close? June 2001 1 Erik A36569 M Limited Major No No No No 665.4691 100.000% 2 Steve L2191 A Limited Major No No No No 662.2376 99.514% 3 Nolan A11898 M Limited Major No No No No 641.7090 96.430% May 2001 1 Erik A36569 M Limited Major No No No No 658.9178 100.000% 2 Steve L2191 A Limited Major No No No No 649.2774 98.537% 3 Rod TY21696 M Limited Major No No No No 639.7247 97.087% April 2001 1 Erik A36569 M Major 681.9457 100.000% 2 Rod TY21696 M Major 675.1935 99.010% 3 Nolan A11898 A Major 670.5145 98.324% February 2001 1 Alex TY37481 A Limited Major No 530.4242 100.000% 2 Nolan A11898 A Limited Major No 529.7247 99.868% Janurary 2001 1 Erik A36569 M Limited No 562.4530 100.000% 2 Alex TY37481 A Limited No 561.6646 99.860% 3 Wayne A3855 A Limited No 554.3314 98.556% 4 Nolan A11898 A Limited No 550.9732 97.959% 5 David TY31091 A Limited No 534.7476 95.074% Ah, the good old days. Those were some knock-down, drag-out brawls! Half a point in a 600 or 700 point match is just inconceivably small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
short_round Posted March 23, 2004 Share Posted March 23, 2004 Actually you guys did most of the work, I just swung the sledge hammer around and spent a good bit of time scrounging for brass. There definitely was no sweet spot. Not for shooting the arrays and most disturbingly not for reloading for limited. The array engagement was such that the round counts were right on the edge between multiple arrays. Just so if you didn't reload you would only have two or three extra shots and if you did reload you ended up dropping a mag with ten to twelve bullets still in it. You had to choose to be aggressive or conservative. Furthermore this totally depended on how you did on the 2nd steel plate array. They were close enough to make you want to go really fast and far enough that you really couldn't. The next problem was the target that could be shot from the middle array position or down the hall. I'm sure more than one person put four holes in this one. I want to think that the Limited 10 guys had an easier time at this stage because they HAD to reload between each array. For limited you could come up with two great plans and another two or three good contingencies. If you didn't keep them straight you could run half of one and half the other and find yourself in trouble. Stage 3 had similar issues. All in all it was a good match. We had a speed shoot, an accuracy stage (which apparently someone forgot to tell Dave B. during the walk-through because he turned into a speed shoot before going only 2 points down), two stages that required a reasonable amount of shooting position and round count management, and the classifier. I think I'm going to start designing field courses more like 3 and 4. I'm going to start interpreting free-style stage design to mean that it's not going to be obnoxiously obvious where you should reload. Great effort on everyone's part really, and congrats on the win Erik! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
short_round Posted March 23, 2004 Share Posted March 23, 2004 OBTW ... whoever is posting the results of the RHS matches THE DAY AFTER! the matches needs to come see me after the next practice or match. I'm buying you beer! WAY TO GO! and THANK YOU! (I'll stop now before this gets moved to "What I Like") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ong45 Posted March 23, 2004 Share Posted March 23, 2004 Ha ! i thought i would shoot more like Eric and look where it got me "Your'e not supposed to beat me at limited" (Eric to me at steel challenge 2001) Guess he was right James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wide45 Posted March 24, 2004 Share Posted March 24, 2004 I think I'm going to start designing field courses more like 3 and 4. I'm going to start interpreting free-style stage design to mean that it's not going to be obnoxiously obvious where you should reload. YES! See the light! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted March 24, 2004 Share Posted March 24, 2004 Way to go! Great talent pool too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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