So I got myself in a local Action Pistol group about 4 weeks ago. Today was the first match for the group in Bozeman, about 180 miles away. It was a three gun event. I learned a few things, mainly not to ever shoot low recoil target shells to knock over steel targets. It worked for the close ones, but nothing more than 7 yards out. Also, nobody else had the berries to shoot an M1 Garand .30-06, the vast majority had ARs, one Mini 14, one Thompson .45, and two SKS's. So out of 50 competitors, I was the only Major Rifle shooter. That means I got first place. With the ammo problems I had in shotgun, I did terrible. I did okay on the 3 pistol stages, but two stages required 4 magazines, luckily somebody else was shooting the same handgun I had and loaned me one magazine so I didn't totally embarass myself there.

The main thing was that even though it took 8 hours to shoot all the stages, it was a lot of fun. Even though I was shooting the M1 and limited to 8 rounds per reload, and the guys with the ARs had 30 round magazines, I actually beat a couple in my squad.

Good....sounds like you had fun and gained experience.

Dan

Sounds like a lot of fun. Way to use the heavy hitters!!

Good....sounds like you had fun and gained experience.

Dan
Definitely +1 on experience. You'll be better prepared and will probably do much better on the next one. It sounds like you had a lot of fun though, and that to me is a large part of what that kind of thing is all about.

We had practice Monday night, just shooting one stage. I started at 30 seconds the first time through, the next time through I shot it in 21 seconds, then I shot it in 17 seconds. The top shooters in our group were shooting it in 12-14 seconds.