Monday Match #9

Al took the Pink Spurs for the Monday Match Number Nine.  Aided by a blazing fast reshoot of the Bandido Stage #2, Al's final total time came in at 83.10.  Al also took the honors for Most Accurate Shooter, logging a mere 7 Points Down.  Congratulations and WAY TO GO, Al!

Everyone shot very well during Match Number 9.  Each and every shooter had both great stages and some awesome targets within each stage.  Brad gets the Most Improved Award for the reshoot of Stage #2, dropping his time by a whopping 16.77 seconds!  Al took runner up in Most Improved by shooting 9.84 seconds faster on his second attempt.

Such great leaps faster in shooting times are proof positive that practice pays off.
Al, Brad and Tony get extra mention because they each put at least two shots onto target of the Texas Good Ol' Boy Stage.  Tony and John were a mere .76 one-hundreths of a second apart on the BBQ stage and both scored zero Points Down.

Tom harked back to his rootin' tootin' Dance Hall Days by taking first place in the Texas Two-Step.  That was HOT shootin' Tom!

In keeping with our match traditions, we used the lowest time in two attempts of Stage #2 to calculate the Match Total Time.

Although it is not on the spreadsheet below, here are the times for the first shot in the Texas Good Ol' Boy:
Al--4.82
Tony--6.66
John--6.84
Tom--7.88
Brad--9.27
Michael--9.46

Thank You all for making this Match so much fun.  Thanks also for your $20 in donations.  We will try to get some new target tape delivered prior to the next match.

There are only two more matches for this season--April Fool's Day and April 15th.  We look forward to your participation in the final upcoming matches.  Happy Shooting & Many Cheers, jp

As always, you can click on the graphic below to see a larger, more readable version.

Yellow Rose of Texas Two Step

Greetings, Montezuma Marksmen!  You already heard we were planning a Mystery Stage called "The Yellow Rose of Texas Two Step" for our "All Texas" Monday Match #8 on March 18.

We call it a Mystery Stage because it's a Mystery to us, too, at least until we get it designed. Today on March 15, it's no longer a Mystery Stage--it's put together and ready to go.

First, allow me to introduce you to Bearverly, your date for the Big Dance in Lubbuck, Texas.

You are in the Elk's Lodge doing the Two Step as the South Side Locos perform a stirring rendition of "The Yellow Rose of Texas."  It's your and Bearverly's favorite song!

Suddenly, the revenge-minded Brazos Boyz burst through the Elk's Lodge front doors intend on wrecking havoc and causing much mayhem.

You cannot let your date down and must hold Bearverly tight while continuing to do the two-step as you engage the Brazos Boys.

Facing downrange, shooter loads with eight rounds and makes ready.  The Safety Office then hands Bearverly to the shooter. Shooter must hold Bearverly's hand as shown above.

At the buzzer, shooter must take to steps to the left for left-handed shooters or two steps to the right for right handed shooters.  After second step, Shooter will stop and then fire two rounds at T1.  Shooter then takes two more steps, stops and fires two rounds at T2; two steps, stop and two rounds at T3; two steps and stop and two rounds at T4.  Targets are spaced at 5-7-10-12 yards from the "two-step-line."

(NOTE:  Range will be marked so that targets can easily be moved left or right according to the "left or right handedness" of the shooter.)

Foot fault lines will be clearly marked. The shooter will receive a procedural for doing the two-step procedural incorrectly or for dropping Bearverly.

At this time, the shooter holds their pistol in the low ready position while Safety Office removes Bearverly from the shooter's grasp.  Then and only then may the shooter show clear, etc. according to the Safety Officer's instructions.

This is a Limited Vickers stage.  If Nancy comes with her revolver, everyone will load with six rounds and we will use three targets instead of four.

Monday Match #8

There's a New Winner of The Pink Spurs!  Gary will be the proud custodian and wearer of the coveted Pink Spurs after his razor thin win of Monday Match #8.  Congratulations, Gary, you were shooting "in the zone" during that match and reduced your Points Down.

Gary edged out John by .28 one-hundredths of a second to lay claim to The Pink Spurs.

It was a very fun and interesting match.Michael totally smoked everyone in the Support Hand Shooting.  His raw average shooting time for five shots was an incredible 1.36 seconds, well over a half second better than the next nearest shooter. (See scoring note about Stage #1 at end of post.)

For Stage #2, we used the 2nd attempt at this stage with the six targets.  This equalized everyone's shooting on this stage.  Gary finished first in this stage, edging Tony by 42 one-hundredths of a second.

Gary really leaped out ahead on Stage #3, shooting it in 17.43, more than seconds faster that Tony's 19.78.  Tony was the only shooter to record zero Points Down on Stage #3.

As you know, we shot Stage #4 twice.  For the purposes of the match score, I took each shooters best time whether it was recorded on Attempte #1 or #2.  Everyone shot this stages very accurately.  Three shooters managed to shoot this stages with zero points down and the other shooter only had one point down.

Stage #1 Scoring Note.  For the purposes of the individual stage, we used the fastest average time.  For the purposes of the total match score, we used the total time of all five attempts, plus the total points down.  WHY?  Well, the points down were accumulated during five shots so they should be added to the total time.  Adding them to the best average presents a somewhat skewed perspective of the time.  The match standings remain the same no matter which way we added the scores for Stage #1.  We just thought that using the full shooting time was more representative of the overall match, however, the results are the same.

We may not be able to process the GoPro video footage because of the camera setting we used.  The file sizes are too large.  One file, for example, is over 1,5 GIGS!  The smaller file was 200 Megabytes!  Next time we will set the video down to a lower resolution and hopefully produce files that won't crash our computer.

Thanks for making Monday Match #8 such a great success!