Outlaw Action Pistol match (IDPA Scoring) at the Amarillo Rifle and Pistol Club. I was shooing my non-ported Springfield Prodigy from concealment (AIWB) in the Optics division. It was so cold and windy that they decided to only run three of the four planned stages, which I had no complaints about as I don't really enjoy shooting in really cold weather. I normally would've chosen to sit this one out due to the cold weather, but it's been several months since I shot a match and I really wanted to get back to it.
Stage 1: I placed 3rd on this stage. Nothing bad about my performance other than I couldn't feel my mag release button during the reload and I fumbled inserting the fresh mag into the gun because my hands were so numb from the cold.
Stage 2: I placed 1st on this stage only because I was only two points down total, whereas most of the faster shooters were several points down on a lot of targets because they chose to shoot the first two arrays on the move quickly. I also shot those targets on the move, but at a little slower pace and I sent several make-up shots when I realized that my hits were not as accurate as I wanted them to be.
Stage 3: All was going good until I got to the Texas Star at the end of the stage. The last plate became dislodged from it's mount when I hit it, but it got caught on the base of the target stand and still hung in place. Rather than risk it getting called a miss, I decided to take another shot at it, which took way too much time thinking about what to do and landed me in 5th place on the stage.😒 I was also a bit distracted by a bird walking around behind the targets that was apparently unaffected by all the gunfire. 😂
The stage that they removed was a "standards" style stage with three positions that included strong hand only and weak hand only. I'm confident that I would've done well on that stage as I practice strong hand and weak hand shooting every time I do live fire practice. I ended up in 3rd place Overall out of 25 total, so it was definitely not too bad of a day for me.
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