Dropping one shot

[Rideandshoot]

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.

[RJH]

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.

[kevin c]

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.

[HI5-O]

Yeah, what these guys said.

or,

"it's a double"

[benos]

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.

[Nimitz]

^{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

[HI5-O]

^{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?

[Nimitz]

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 ...

[Rideandshoot]

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.

[Hello]

Probably a double.

[macgulley]

"it's a double"

My thoughts exactly.

[Moltke]

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?

[lawboy]

You did not call the shot. You think you did but you did not.