IPSC in Arkansas

[David E]

Anyone going ?

There's a 3-gun Saturday and their regular club match w/ 6 stages Sunday.

I'm taking a friend visiting from Colorado........:thumb:

Should be fun !

.

[ChrisC]

as in old fort gun club or somewhere else?

[David E]

Yes, Old Fort in Ft. Smith.

[olyeller]

nice place. Met my first pro-sponsored shooter there; Matt Mink.

[ChrisC]

i always enjoyed the toys they had there.... always made it challenging

[David E]

And challenging it was !

I talked my friend who was visiting from Colorado to shoot it. He borrowed my Glock which he'd NEVER fired until after the "beep" on the first stage. He was deliberate and made all the hits, even on that damn star. He'd never seen one before and it was his first target of the day.

Whilst I shot like crap.....

They had a "mine field" that consisted of clay pigeons......many, many.......MANY clay pigeons.

If you caused one to break, no matter how, it counted against you.

(They had this part of the stage set up Saturday for their 3-gun match and I heard someone dropped a loaded 12 gauge round right on top of one......it didn't break.)

But ME, I felt one crunch underfoot, so I knew I had a penalty. But I was told two had broken......"TWO?" I asked. "Yes, your EMPTY brass case hit one dead-on and broke out the center.....bummer, dude !" :nutkick:

Well, that's the kind of day it was for ME.....:(

But my friend had a blast and I want to take a moment to thank all of you there that made he and his Mom feel welcome. I think we have another one hooked!

:)

[MarkV]

The mind field sounds fun.

[David E]

What it did was introduce another element that required your attention, thus making you multi-task things of opposing nature.

IE, you needed to watch where you put your feet instead of watching for the targets. Once you thought you were where you needed to be, THEN you could look for the targets and engage them.

Due to the multi-tasking requirement, (and due to the many, many clay pigeons) it was a very demanding stage. :thumb:

My friend had never seen anything like this before, but he was able to negotiate it pretty well. Had all his hits, as I recall, too !

I liked it, even tho I got stung by a single empty .40 case breaking one.

Another stage had a split popper, each side activating a "flopper" target. I was first on this one. I decided to shoot each side of the popper and then shoot the floppers in the order they appeared. Naturally, I went to the wrong one first! But, I made my hits and was pleased with that part, altho my time suffered as a result. At least there weren't any mines on that one!

[ChrisC]

At least there weren't any mines on that one!

wait till next months match :D

[Helmut]

scores?

[Helmut]

3gun scores.....

December 16, 2006, 3-Gun
Match Date: 12/16/2006

Combined divisions - These are NOT official results.
Place Name USPSA Division Class Pistol Rifle Shotgun Total Match %
1 Raglin, Kelly TY42278 Tactical A 100.0000 77.0521 84.0209 261.0730 100.00%
2 Hunt, Ryan A48663 Tactical A 70.8335 100.0000 90.1436 260.9771 99.96%
3 Norwood, Fred TY47492 Tactical U 72.1819 96.1627 87.3880 255.7326 97.95%
4 Schwenhaussen, Khan TY50878 Tactical B 52.7853 69.0950 100.0000 221.8803 84.99%
5 Smith, Billy A42354 Tactical A 81.2138 76.8880 57.6194 215.7212 82.63%
6 Bowdler, Doug A42369 Tactical A 84.4916 67.3324 52.3736 204.1976 78.21%
7 Spruiell, Ken A39447 Tactical C 61.2587 58.6959 74.4039 194.3585 74.45%
8 Binyon, Clay L2448 Tactical A 64.0298 50.7550 74.4750 189.2598 72.49%
9 Quisenberry, Jerry A30136 Tactical B 57.0585 58.6037 70.5822 186.2444 71.34%
10 Hyden, David A13355 Tactical B 76.9779 41.1252 57.9067 176.0098 67.42%
11 Mackey, Sr, Jay A54207 Tactical A 92.0841 26.9248 54.8291 173.8380 66.59%
12 Armstrong, Shawn Pen Tactical C 45.0081 73.2526 46.8962 165.1569 63.26%
13 Pankratz, Dale FY34677 Tactical B 59.1898 48.1890 54.0948 161.4736 61.85%
14 Stephens, Troy A51047 Tactical C 62.1250 40.9860 55.6988 158.8098 60.83%
15 Koenigseder, Mark A32451 Tactical B 49.3931 27.1021 73.2144 149.7096 57.34%
16 Hillyer, Michael TY53953 Tactical D 39.9733 36.9678 63.2383 140.1794 53.69%
17 Elston, Rob A50326 Tactical C 77.1471 16.6006 42.3980 136.1457 52.15%
18 Bethell, Bruce TY45785 Tactical C 32.6819 25.3860 30.2173 88.2852 33.82%
19 Pankratz, Debbie FY42421 Tactical C 38.1060 19.3726 27.7723 85.2509 32.65%

[David E]

Open - James Broom

Limited - Doug Bowdler

Limited 10 - Frank Palmer

Revolver - Ken Spruiel

Single Stack - Eric Fuson