River Bend
04-17-2005, 07:42 PM
Action Pistol Competition
Saturday April 16, 2005
Ah April, everything a blooming, dirt road a dusting, Pollen Pollinating & gunpowder burning, a favorite River Bend Spring Saturday combo, Aroma Therapy at its finest, not a better stress reliever made. The Action Pistol shooters got to experience nature’s gifts and even got to experience a rare spring occurrence, a pollen shower and everyone inhaling the breathtaking snout full of the yellow flowing gold. Then they got to experience Bruce Perry’s latest possessed arrangement of targets and daring movements awaiting the first shooters chance at the challenges. Never one to bore the shooters, or fail to utilize a Range Directors method of Shock & Awe, Bruce Perry & Co. pulled another great match from the bag of stages to entertain the competitors gathered for the spring rituals.
To try and explain how a very simple, normal looking bay 1, with its usual array of steel targets, and only one paper target thrown in, can be the origin of such a wide range of emotions going from anxiousness to fear, disgust, & defeat to euphoria, jubilation, triumph and for some a feeling of total victory, why, is beyond me so here is what the innocent Enigma of a stage looked like.
Innocent looking but this was the most dreaded stage of the day due to the deeper meaning of its title, “Yes Virginia”, and Virginia, being the key word as in Virginia Count, that’s IPSC talk for one shot only for the required number of 30, you miss, too bad, that’ll be a –5 points for each. Would you like fries, desert or maybe a scoped handgun & bench rest with that? This usual know what to expect, stage had a minimum 30 hits required and that meant the 2 steel silhouettes got 5 each and the lone spinning paper got 3, one for each brief appearance the target made on its downward spiral. Everything else got 1 hit, or 1 miss, that was up to the shooter. I saw the results vary from 0 misses to 15, ouch, that popper just wouldn’t fall. This stage is usually a shoot till they’re all down stage with no limitation on the # of rounds fired, not this time though.
Bay 2 got the heart pumping again with “Feeling Like Kneeling” the name was familiar but not exactly like some remembered it. The kneeling part only was the same, as the shooter had 3 chances to kneel & fire at targets, some so far away they were barely visible and each of the 4 at that range had hard cover to make the hits even more difficult. This one started at the table where you got to choose kneel stand or whatever and the 4 far away IPSC’s. The zig zag forward movement, then started, to barrels on both sides of the bay and from each you had to fire from the kneeling position only and each position had 4 more IPSC targets needing 2 hits each. A quick stage requiring 32 rounds total and times varied from a quick 21 seconds to over 2 minutes to complete.
“You Are The H.R.T.” was bay 3’s challenge, with the shooter assuming the roll of a Hostage Rescue Team member with 6 hostages being held captive & waiting for you to save the day. This one required the shooter to first take out 5 sentries (IPSC’s) from behind both sides of a barricade, with 2 hits each. Then you ran up to a fault line & wall where you had another 4 IPSC sentries to take out before charging in to rescue the hostages. The 6 IPSC hostages were being held & partially covered by another 6 bad guy IPSC’s and each baddie had to be double tapped without nicking a hostage. Most of them made it out but a few shooters accidentally sent a couple to the “collateral damage” hospital for a little taping up. This was another fast stage with times here going from a rapid, determined 18 seconds up to a slower, but accurate minute or so to get all 30 shots fired in the right places. The hostage hits cost the shooter a –5 points each plus a –5 for the miss unless they made that shot up.
As Always, O’ Obie-Wan Perry, The force was with you and its might drives you and your faithful crew to continue your unrelenting masterpieces for the shooter’s delight. Thank you and Jill for hosting us all again and building the sport of Action Pistol shooting to its highest. We also thank all those that helped coordinate the match as Range Officers and those that helped by pasting & scoring then helping put it all away till next month. Remember, Webmaster Ben Franklin posts the scores and a few pictures from the match on the RBGC.org, web site under Action Pistol, and we also thank him for his efforts to bring RBGC into the future. Dramatic interpretations by roving range reporter Denny Moore.
April Match Winners
Limited PP Revolver
1st Gene Gammill 1st Bruce Perry 1st Bruce Perry
2nd Guy Goolsby 2nd Tony Skindzier 2nd Art Thompson
3rd Tony Skindzier 3rd Guy Goolsby 3rd Lee Jones
Limited A class PP A class
1st Scott Turner 1st Howard Beers
2nd Jeff Hamlin 2nd Conor Perry
3rd Chris Barber 3rd John Wade
Limited B class PP B class
1st Todd MacLean 1st Matt Connolly
2nd Josh Levetan 2nd Dan (The Man) Graham
3rd Russell Smith
Saturday April 16, 2005
Ah April, everything a blooming, dirt road a dusting, Pollen Pollinating & gunpowder burning, a favorite River Bend Spring Saturday combo, Aroma Therapy at its finest, not a better stress reliever made. The Action Pistol shooters got to experience nature’s gifts and even got to experience a rare spring occurrence, a pollen shower and everyone inhaling the breathtaking snout full of the yellow flowing gold. Then they got to experience Bruce Perry’s latest possessed arrangement of targets and daring movements awaiting the first shooters chance at the challenges. Never one to bore the shooters, or fail to utilize a Range Directors method of Shock & Awe, Bruce Perry & Co. pulled another great match from the bag of stages to entertain the competitors gathered for the spring rituals.
To try and explain how a very simple, normal looking bay 1, with its usual array of steel targets, and only one paper target thrown in, can be the origin of such a wide range of emotions going from anxiousness to fear, disgust, & defeat to euphoria, jubilation, triumph and for some a feeling of total victory, why, is beyond me so here is what the innocent Enigma of a stage looked like.
Innocent looking but this was the most dreaded stage of the day due to the deeper meaning of its title, “Yes Virginia”, and Virginia, being the key word as in Virginia Count, that’s IPSC talk for one shot only for the required number of 30, you miss, too bad, that’ll be a –5 points for each. Would you like fries, desert or maybe a scoped handgun & bench rest with that? This usual know what to expect, stage had a minimum 30 hits required and that meant the 2 steel silhouettes got 5 each and the lone spinning paper got 3, one for each brief appearance the target made on its downward spiral. Everything else got 1 hit, or 1 miss, that was up to the shooter. I saw the results vary from 0 misses to 15, ouch, that popper just wouldn’t fall. This stage is usually a shoot till they’re all down stage with no limitation on the # of rounds fired, not this time though.
Bay 2 got the heart pumping again with “Feeling Like Kneeling” the name was familiar but not exactly like some remembered it. The kneeling part only was the same, as the shooter had 3 chances to kneel & fire at targets, some so far away they were barely visible and each of the 4 at that range had hard cover to make the hits even more difficult. This one started at the table where you got to choose kneel stand or whatever and the 4 far away IPSC’s. The zig zag forward movement, then started, to barrels on both sides of the bay and from each you had to fire from the kneeling position only and each position had 4 more IPSC targets needing 2 hits each. A quick stage requiring 32 rounds total and times varied from a quick 21 seconds to over 2 minutes to complete.
“You Are The H.R.T.” was bay 3’s challenge, with the shooter assuming the roll of a Hostage Rescue Team member with 6 hostages being held captive & waiting for you to save the day. This one required the shooter to first take out 5 sentries (IPSC’s) from behind both sides of a barricade, with 2 hits each. Then you ran up to a fault line & wall where you had another 4 IPSC sentries to take out before charging in to rescue the hostages. The 6 IPSC hostages were being held & partially covered by another 6 bad guy IPSC’s and each baddie had to be double tapped without nicking a hostage. Most of them made it out but a few shooters accidentally sent a couple to the “collateral damage” hospital for a little taping up. This was another fast stage with times here going from a rapid, determined 18 seconds up to a slower, but accurate minute or so to get all 30 shots fired in the right places. The hostage hits cost the shooter a –5 points each plus a –5 for the miss unless they made that shot up.
As Always, O’ Obie-Wan Perry, The force was with you and its might drives you and your faithful crew to continue your unrelenting masterpieces for the shooter’s delight. Thank you and Jill for hosting us all again and building the sport of Action Pistol shooting to its highest. We also thank all those that helped coordinate the match as Range Officers and those that helped by pasting & scoring then helping put it all away till next month. Remember, Webmaster Ben Franklin posts the scores and a few pictures from the match on the RBGC.org, web site under Action Pistol, and we also thank him for his efforts to bring RBGC into the future. Dramatic interpretations by roving range reporter Denny Moore.
April Match Winners
Limited PP Revolver
1st Gene Gammill 1st Bruce Perry 1st Bruce Perry
2nd Guy Goolsby 2nd Tony Skindzier 2nd Art Thompson
3rd Tony Skindzier 3rd Guy Goolsby 3rd Lee Jones
Limited A class PP A class
1st Scott Turner 1st Howard Beers
2nd Jeff Hamlin 2nd Conor Perry
3rd Chris Barber 3rd John Wade
Limited B class PP B class
1st Todd MacLean 1st Matt Connolly
2nd Josh Levetan 2nd Dan (The Man) Graham
3rd Russell Smith