Yearly Archives: 2011

TASC: Third Again

Competed at The Action Shooting Club Saturday. We had a great turn out with over 40 competitors. I think Top Shot has sparked some interest in our sport. It was a beautiful day and the stages were a lot of fun. I definitely need some practice if I’m going to ever be competitive in Production class. I ended up third again behind the usual suspects.

Stage one is ‘Mixed Nuts’ which is paper and steel targets on each side of a barricade. The start is with an unloaded gun. I took my time on this one and managed to get all the steel targets with my first shot.

Stage Two is ‘Bendit Len’ which is designed I imagine with one of our lefties in mind. Most stage designs favor right handers so this one has us all contorting to shoot around the left hand side of barricades. Also starting with an unloaded gun. I stumbled a little on the start of this one and then rushed the finish which gave me a couple misses.

Stage Three is nice maze of mostly close shots that ends with a series of paper and steel. No-shoot and hard cover targets on this stage force you to slow down a little a little to make your shots and avoid penalties. I shot this one clean although a little too slow.

Stage Four: ‘It’s Not Brain Surgery’ is the classifier. A new one we’ve not shot before. Start with loaded gun on a table and then engage three targets two shots each all head shots. I missed once on the last target even making up a shot. It had so much tape on it I thought I saw two holes.

Book Buck!

I was finally able to get my November 5×4 officially scored for Boone & Crockett and he makes the all time record book with a net score of 137 2/8″

So happy to hear that he makes the all time record book even with his fifth point that is deducted from the net score!

I brought both last years racks to Steve and we scored them in his garage which is an incredible display of world class trophies. My large non-typical falls short of the record book threshold netting 149″ but he still even makes awards on his typical frame alone even after deductions at 127″.

One interesting highlight was a corner of the garage with a mound of abalone shells and some incredible large ones hanging above. He has a framed picture commemorating a day he took three 10″ and one 9.5 back when you could pull four in a day. He also has a great recreation of abalone in their environment.

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Back to TASC

Back to The Action Shooting Club match this weekend. My last time shooting handgun was at the very wet Bay Bridge Charity Classic back in October. I felt pretty good for having not shot in so long taking third in production behind the usual suspects.

I was pleased to shoot the classifier really well, probably my best classifier score to date.

Stage one is ‘Namby Pamby Land’ designed by Len to ease us all back into the competition with what is supposed to be a simple stage. I focused on accuracy and although I took second in this stage the slow time really hurt me overall.

Stage Two is ‘Clear The House’ a nice straight forward stage with some steel. I took third in this stage for Production.

Stage Three ‘Can You Count’ is the Classifier. I shot this very well and took first in Production for this stage.

Stage Four “Limited Point of View’ I had some issues with this stage, hitting the last steel but not putting it down so hitting it again. Then didn’t seat them mag properly on the following reload and had to clear a stovepipe during the last array.

New Bow: Hoyt Carbon Element

I bought a new bow over the holidays. I had originally planned on getting the Mathews Z7 after shooting it over at Archery Only and being impressed with how easy it was to shoot. Also it shot my same arrow 15 fps faster at 60 pounds than my PSE Enforcer was shooting at 70. When I finally came back in to buy, Wayne had me also try the Hoyt Carbon Element. I didn’t expect to like it and thought it’s design was a little strange, kind of organic, like twisting tree limbs. I was really surprised. I liked it much better than the Z7. It’s lighter and just felt right. I also shot the one he had set up much better than the Z7.

I finally was able to take it to Kings Mountain this afternoon. It was a little wet and foggy but I shot better than I ever have with the new bow. At times I could barely make out the 60 yard target but tried to just hold in the same place and did a pretty good group. I have the bow set to 60 pounds so it’s a pleasure to shoot and I don’t end up rushing my shots.

I’m really looking forward to practicing with the new bow and taking it hunting this summer.