Rideandshoot Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 I'm looking for suggestions At several consecutive uspsa matches I have had a stage or two that felt perfect. No misses on the steel and all A zone hits except one off target. At the last match I shot I went thru a fairly long stage... 3 poppers, 6 std uspsa paper targets with two require hits. I shoot SS so I shot the steel first, clean, then engaged the paper targets. I was seeing well enough that I correctly called and made up two shots that were no As. When we scored the targets I had 11 a zone hits and one complete miss that I didn't see. Both shots looked good. If the miss had been on paper I could understand it but a clean miss really bugs me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJH Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Usually when this happens to me it is because I've looked to the next target before I've finished shooting at the one I'm on. It spells alpha-mike almost every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin c Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Lots of possibilities, but, at least for me, a common error is "pulling off the target". Impatient to move to the next target or next shooting position, you may get the sight picture you want on the target, but don't maintain it as the shot breaks. Your vision goes off the target, elsewhere, and the shot goes with it. Try to make a deliberate point of seeing the FS rise off the last target before going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HI5-O Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Yeah, what these guys said. or, "it's a double" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Yeah, what these guys said. x2. It's easy not to notice that you lost track of the front sight for just a fraction of a second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimitz Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 (edited) hmmm .... just curious, why do you think a CoF that has 6 targets and 3 poppers is "a fairly long stage"? That's only a 15 rd count stage by my math. Not counting the level II & III matches I've been too I can't remember ever shooting a non classifier stage at a local match in the last 1 1/2 years that had only a 15 rd count ... am I missing something? Edited September 12, 2013 by Nimitz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HI5-O Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 hmmm .... just curious, why do you think a CoF that has 6 targets and 3 poppers is "a fairly long stage"? That's only a 15 rd count stage by my math. Not counting the level II & III matches I've been too I can't remember ever shooting a non classifier stage at a local match in the last 1 1/2 years that had only a 15 rd count ... am I missing something? maybe they're shooting in an indoor range? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimitz Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Is that typical for an indoor range? Glad I don't have to shoot indoors, I'd hate to be limited to short stages all the time. Half the fun of USPSA is figuring out how to shoot a complicated 30 rd field course ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rideandshoot Posted September 13, 2013 Author Share Posted September 13, 2013 They are all long for a Single Stack You're right. it wasn't particularly long. Well maybe one required hit too long Thanks for the tips. What you have all said makes sense because the shot looked good. That normally wouldn't mean that much but I was seeing things good enough to notice the the shot broke bad twice and made up each one of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hello Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Probably a double. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgulley Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 "it's a double" My thoughts exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moltke Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 I'm looking for suggestions At several consecutive uspsa matches I have had a stage or two that felt perfect. No misses on the steel and all A zone hits except one off target. At the last match I shot I went thru a fairly long stage... 3 poppers, 6 std uspsa paper targets with two require hits. I shoot SS so I shot the steel first, clean, then engaged the paper targets. I was seeing well enough that I correctly called and made up two shots that were no As. When we scored the targets I had 11 a zone hits and one complete miss that I didn't see. Both shots looked good. If the miss had been on paper I could understand it but a clean miss really bugs me. Since you're calling shots - Which metric in the array was your "miss" on? What did you see while shooting that target? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawboy Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 You did not call the shot. You think you did but you did not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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