SDPS NEWSLETTER – Oct 2009

The Oct 4th match was the Annual IDPA “Postal Match”, where the COF is designed by National and all clubs are given the opportunity to shoot the match and the results are sent to National and posted on their website so you can see how you do against others in your classification across the country. This year the match must be shot between Aug 15th and Oct 31. The results should be posted on www.idpa.com in mid-November. The next regular match is Sunday Oct 31 …. Happy Halloween!

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

 

KPDT Self Defense Course

One of our shooters, Craig Hokama teaches a self defense system called KPDT. It consists of 7 solutions / techniques that are used to defend yourself without a gun. Craig is offering 8 hour seminars for a cost of $100. Craig and one of his students will be giving a demonstration at the shooters meeting in November. For more information contact Craig at (916) 524-6085.

 

Gold Country FNRA Raffle

Gold Country Friends of the NRA are having a special drawing on Nov for a Kimber Stainless Pro Carry II .45acp. Tickets are $20 and only 100 will be sold. Contact Norm at write_norm@yahoo.com if you are interested to see if there are any tickets left.

 

Oct 4th Match Summary

The Match Directors for the Postal Match were Jerry Lee and Norm Caler. There were a total of four stages, but the first stage had 3 strings, so it took two or three times as long to shoot as the other three stages which made for lots of waiting for the bay to open up. Several squads shooting the stages out of order because other stages were sitting idle while they waited for Stage 1 to come available. Since we also have 8 bays available, the match was set up twice to allow squads to shoot in parallel, so we were done a little after 1:00 but we only had 77 shooters one of the lowest turnouts for the past year.

 

 

 

 

Stage 1 was “Table Games” which consisted of three separate strings. In string 1 you were seated holding “playing cards” in your hard. At the signal you engaged T1-T3 in tactical priority and tactical sequence with two rounds each, then preformed a tactical reload / reload with retention and re-engaged T1-T3 with one headshot each. (9R)

String 2 started seated with the gun on the table and hands in surrender position above shoulders. At the signal, snatch gun and engage T1-T3 strong hand only. (3R)

String 3 started seated with the gun on the table as well. In this string you engaged T1-T3 with 2 shots each support hand only. (6R)

 

 Stage 2 was “Bangin’ in the Hood”.  From P1 you drew and engaged T1-T3 in tactical sequence while moving backwards to cover, performed a reload, then engaged T4-T6 in tactical priority from cover. (12R)

 

Stage 3 was “DEA Combat #11”. From P1 with you back to the targets, you drew and engaged T1 & T2 while moving to cover. Next engage T3-T5 from the left side of the barricade, then engage T6 – T7 from the right side, reloading as necessary. (14R)

 

Stage 4 was “Brain Fade”. You started with only 2 rounds in your gun. At the signal you drew and fired six rounds while retreating, reloading as necessary. (6R)

 

 

Not much to say about this match, except that I personally would have done much better if my gun had not malfunctioned on Stage 2, costing me about 10 seconds. There is a rumor that I hadn’t cleaned it in a while, but I dispute that, I think it was the Militec1 lube gathering dust!!

The Division winners were CDP:  Wayne Johnson with a 57.63 (1); ESP Brian Gonsalves with a 61.14 (24); SSP was Chad Case with 50.62 (8), the best score for the match; ESR was Robert Sharp with a 79.71 (10); and SSR was Gary Morgan, again, with 98.79 (16). Top ladies score was Donna Rolls with a 116.01 (14) and top Junior was Mark Combs with a 90.49 (35).

 

This month the best stage scores were:

Stage 1:                       16.51 (3)      Brian Gonsalves

Stage 2:                         7.97 (0)       Chad Case

Stage 3:                     12.30 (5)        Allen Lowe

Stage 4:                        4.02 (0)        Chad Case

 

Adding those up, we would get a Fantasy Shooter match score of 40.80 (8) so nobody came very close again this month.

 

The complete results are available at our website at www.sdps-idpa.org  and follow the link to Oct 2009 Match Scores.

 

Till we shoot again…..

Bob Peake

SDPS Newsletter Editor