USPSA Action Pistol Match at the Southwest Shooting Center in Clovis, NM with the Southwest Performance Shooters club. I was shooting my new Staccato HD P4 2011 from concealment (AIWB) in the Limited Optics division. I was really excited to shoot this gun at a match, because it had really impressed me during my weekly practice sessions with how soft shooting it is. Other than trigger tuning and some texture on the grip module, I felt like nothing else was needed on this gun... until I shot it at a match. 😕While I didn't experience the issue in my practice sessions prior to the match, I kept inadvertently flipping the safety back on while shooting the gun on 3 of the 5 stages. Each time it happened, it cost me quite a bit of time. Not sure why the issue started after I had already put more than 750 rounds through the gun, but I'll have to thin down the safety levers and refinish them as I've had to do with all of my 2011 guns due to how high I grip the gun and how large my hands are. It made for a very frustrating day for sure.
Stage 1: Nervous, low confidence with a new gun, AND I engaged the safety while shooting, which surprised me and was a definite time suck. 5th place with six C-zone hits
Stage 2: Good run, but engaged the safety while shooting. 3rd place with only one C-zone hit
Stage 3: Decent run, but the reload took me longer than expected. 4th place with two C-zone hits
Stage 4: This would've been an excellent run for me, but I fumbled the reload bad. 5th place with only one C-zone hit
Stage 5: "The Roscoe Rattle" classifier. Engaged the safety AGAIN, and caused a malfunction. The HD does not return to zero as consistently as my other 2011s, so I dropped a lot of points as well. 9th place with six C-zone hits and one D-zone hit.
I ended up in 4th place Overall out of 14 total. Not too bad of a result considering all the issues I had, but I was utterly disappointed with the HD P4.
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