SDPS NEWSLETTER – January 2007

What’s this you ask…A Newsletter? Well, think of it as a New Years Resolution of sorts. A few months ago I volunteered to be the newsletter editor for SDPS, took some pictures, got some contact information from a few of you then “life got in the way”! So, here it is a new year and a fresh start….

MATCH SUMMARIES:
I plan to do a short “Match Summary” after each monthly shoot which will go out to the mailing list and will also be posted on the SDPS website (www.sdps-ipda.org) To keep the email sizes to a minimum I will not include any pictures in the email, but there will be pictures posted on the website for the match.

MEMBER PROFILES:
I will also be starting a section on website called “Member Profiles” which will be interviews with some of our shooters that sheds some light on questions like: How did you get started shooting? How long have they been shooting with SDPS? Do you actually practice? What do you do in real life? It’s fun to come out and shoot once a month, but there are usually at least 29 more days you need to fill up between matches… so let’s find out who are fellow shooters are and what else they do!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
If you’ve had to leave a match early before the results were announced, or just got distracted and forgot to pick up your award badges YOU ARE IN LUCK! Ben Norman has kept records of the award badges for the matches for the past THREE YEARS and if you contact him at 530 681-2222 he can get you your missing award!!

Jan 7, 2007 SDPS Match Summary

It was a very cool and crisp morning, 37 degrees, but with no wind and a nice fire in the fire pit in front of the registration table. It must have been all those New Years resolutions to “shoot more in 2007” or lots of people got new toys and ammo for Christmas because we had 10 new shooters and a total of 70 shooters for the match… that’s the biggest turnout since last January!

Wayne ended up being the de facto match director due to some scheduling conflicts. We had five scenarios and the shooters were spread across 13 different classifications. The largest class by far was SSP Unclassified with 16 shooters…hey guys (and girl) Mark Leiser has several Classification shoots scheduled in the next several months, so bring an extra 90 rounds and get classified to even out the classes a bit and make it more fun for everyone.

We’re also seeing more ladies come out and shoot and hope they will keep coming. We have turned on the “Ladies Sub-Classes” in the results so we can recognize their accomplishments easier. This month the best scoring lady was a new shooter Melissa Gosvico in SSP Unclassified with a 138.16 (49), and Cindy Tucker, who has been shooting with us for over 6 months, won SSP Novice with a 151.30 (65) beating out two guys and Dani Brand in that class.

The top shooters for the day were the usual suspects: Chad Case in SSP Masters with a 63.31 (14), Scott Yu in ESP Expert with a 64.69 (25), Wayne Johnson in CDP Expert with a 68.38 (4) and Bart Hightower in SSR with a 125.73 (10)….in the original results Bruce Fitch was shown as the SSR Champ, but Bart and his little 2.5” revolver had been accidentally mis-classified in SSP, sorry for the mistake Bart, great shooting… 10 down with a 2.5 inch barrel and several targets at 12, 15 and 20 yards on the stages this month!

Best stage scores were:

Stage 1: 7.83 (1) Chad Case

Stage 2: 15.09 (3) Scott Yu

Stage 3: 5.78 (3) Chad Case

 

Stage 4: 14.94 (1) Wayne Johnson

Stage 5: 13.87 (1) Wayne Johnson

So the “Fantasy Shooter’s” score for the match would have been 57.51 down 9.

Since I don’t want to bore everyone describing all the stages in detail every month, I am just going to pick out one or two that “stand out” for one reason or the other…

This months Stage 5 was “Assault on the Throne” (I guess bathroom humor is a guy thing?) You had to put on these HUGE shorts, pull them up over your knees, and sit on the Acme Toilet Company Throne, with your elbows on both knees and chin in both hands, at the “Lucky P Gold Mine” in Ecuador with your weapon and mags laying on the table in front of you. When the Bandito’s came to jump your claim, you stand up (drop your drawers) and engage 6 targets from 3 to 20 yards away…. you have to be really creative to figure out a way to work a toilet into a SDPS scenario, I can hardy wait to see the next “excuse”…. or maybe I can wait???

 

Speaking of waiting, while we were waiting for the results to print out, George Norton set up a new “gravity powered moving target” that runs on 20 or 25 feet of small railroad tracks that he built. Several people had fun shooting at it and suggesting different ways to use it that might be fun. George is planning on using it somehow in one of the stages of the March 4th match…you’ll definitely want to be there to try it out!

Till we shoot again…..
Bob