USPSA Action Pistol Match at the Southwest Shooting Center in Clovis, NM with the Southwest Performance Shooters club. I was shooting my new V6 ported Bul Armory TAC 4.25 in the Open Division from concealment (AIWB). Surprisingly, there were several other people competing from concealment at this match, so maybe I am inspiring people to be "cool" like me. 😂 The weather was really good for January and the new gun ran great (and fast), but I did have some issues...
(new for 2025... individual stage breakdowns)
Stage 1: 4 shots per target = dumpster fire. I had a failure with one of the magazines with an aftermarket base pad and spring/follower kit. The spring had bound up on the base pad retention plate inside the mag tube and wouldn't feed rounds up into the gun after the first three shots (base pad installation error on my part), so recovering from that and the confusion that it caused me wasted an additional 10 seconds on a stage that most people completed in under 10 seconds. 😖
Stage 2: The first four up close but tight targets were slower to engage than I thought they would be, but I still managed to execute my stage plan as desired and I got A-zone hits on all the targets.
Stage 3: A fast close-up stage with some good shooting on the move. My stage plan was solid and I got A-zone hits on all the targets. I could've easily used one of my 21 round mags and ran the stage about 2 seconds faster without a reload, but I forced myself to do a reload because I need to practice them. 😏
Stage 4: "Can You Count" classifier. All A-zone hits, but my concealment reloads just don't stand a chance against those running competition gear. I did notice in the video that my gun appeared to have a failure to feed malfunction during the reload of my second string, but it fixed itself when I slammed the mag into the gun. 😳
Stage 5: This would've been another all A-zone hit run, but I transitioned between two targets a little too aggressively and got one D-zone hit. Otherwise, it was a great run with a lot of shooting on the move.
Unfortunately, the damage was done on Stage 1 and I ended up in 9th place Overall out of 24 total.
