SDPS NEWSLETTER – Sept 2009

Just another Sunday in Shooting Paradise, better known as Ione? OK, maybe that is a slight exaggeration, but you have to admit the weather was great and we had another fun match! We had 78 shooters come out, including four Ladies, two Juniors, and 8 shooters who had never shot with SDPS before.

The Oct 4th match is 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. Last year there were over 3000 scores reported.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

 

Information on Score Sheets – Must be READABLE

I know this is a “repeat” from the last newsletter, but it is important, so in case you missed it last time… Duane and his team MUST be able to enter the right numbers into the computer and match it with the name of a person who is registered in the computer for the match.

PLEASE … PRINT your first and last name on the score sheet so it is readable. Also, when you are done shooting each stage, you initial your score sheet, please make sure the time and points down are correct and also easy to read. You are responsible, if the scorekeepers can’t figure out who the shooter is, or what the score is supposed to be; it will not be entered into the computer and you will get a DNS for the stage and a DNF for the match. You only deal with one score sheet for each stage, but scoring gets a score sheet for every shooter for every stage … this match there were only 468 score sheets to enter and the less “guessing” the better!

 

New Shooters Clinic

Thanks for your inputs. The first schedule clinic on Sept 5th had to be canceled because there were only 4 shooters signed up by Sept 3rd. But we have over a dozen signed up for the Oct 3rd clinic so it will happen.

 

Sept 7th Match Summary

The Match Director for this month was Sherman Gardner assisted by AMD John Prall. There were a total of six stages all of which seemed to have the “shoot and move” theme in common. We also had a little confusion about the stage numbers and bay numbers, and the order, since scenario 7 wouldn’t fit in bay 7 it got moved to bay 2, before stage 3 in bay 3, but after stage 8 in bay 8.…. I think we should just go back to Stage / Scenarios numbers and forget about the bay numbers……

 

 

        Lawrence preaching “penmanship”

 

                   Shooters Meeting

 

Bay 2 was Stage 7 “Cabin Fever”. You started at a table, then engaged 4 targets through the window, then moved to the doorway and engaged 4 more targets. (16R)

 

 Bay 3 was “Never Give Up”.  You are standing in the open, so when the buzzer sounds you engage T1-T3 while moving to cover. Once behind cover you engage three additional targets. (12R)

 

Bay 4 was “Heads?” Simulating an ambush in a parking garage, you engage T1-T4 with 2 rounds each while moving to cover, and then engage T5-T7 from behind cover. (14R)

 

Bay 5 was “Wrong Time, Wrong Place”. Facing downrange, at the buzzer you again engage two targets while moving to cover, then moving from left to right engage six additional targets in Tactical Priority while using proper cover along the way. (14R)

 

Bay 6 was “Low Cover Nightmare, Again”. Facing up range with a BBQ fork in hand, at the signal you turn, draw, take a knee and engage T1-T4 with two rounds each. Next move to P2 and engage T5-T6 with two rounds from behind the “tree”. (12R)

 

Bay 8 was called “Biker Gang”. I can’t find the stage description, but I think it was 2,2,2 at the three targets holing the hostage from behind cover, then 3 long range targets for a total of 12 rounds. (12R)

 

 

We had a total of 79 shooters, including 4 ladies and 8 shooters who were new to SDPS. The Division winners were CDP:  Shane “the kid” Felts with a 101.55 (35); ESP and top time for the match was John “smoking fast” Prall with a 89.56 (31); SSP was “Bad Chad” Case with 91.33 (41); and SSR was Gary Morgan, again, with 169.11 (7). Top ladies score was Irina Ionescu with a 143.33 (18).

 

This month the best stage scores were:

Bay 3:               9.35 (2)         John Prall

Bay 4:             13.66 (3)        Chad Case

Bay 5:             11.38 (2)        John Prall

Bay 6:             13.82 (4)        John Prall

Bay 2:             17.22 (9)        Chad Case

Bay 8:             10.12 (6)        Chad Case

 

Adding those up, we would get a Fantasy Shooter match score of 75.55 (26). Even though Chad and John both had top times on three stages, they were both about 15 seconds off the fantasy score… so they traded off beating each other by 5 seconds per stage, average…….

 

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

 

Till we shoot again…..

Bob Peake

SDPS Newsletter Editor