on November 8, 2009 8:46 AM
I had been wanting to try out some of the "practical" shooting sports. It just so happens that ALSPPC shoots out at the range near my house now, so I decided to shoot their match this weekend.
I was really in full bore adrenalin dump mode right before the start of the first stage. I could feel my heart pounding. Fun stuff.
IPSC scoring is kind of foreign to me. You can shoot everything perfectly and still lose to someone who shoots less accurately but faster. This kind of goes against my self-defense training and I decided to just concentrate on making good hits and forget the scoring.
My actual shooting was good on some stuff, bad on others. The steel gave me the most challenges, and I love shooting steel. So I'm not sure what was up with that.
My gun, my favorite gun, my Wilson Combat CQB gave me all kinds of fits. Very frustrating, since it has run like a clock for about 2,000 rounds or more. I made the mistake of using some ammo that I had never ran in it before. The ammo was Winchester White Box 230 grain FMJ, which is not in Wilson's recommended list, but it's also not in their NOT recommended list.
I kind of expected it because it failed my home ammo test. (My home ammo test consists of loading up a full magazine and hand cycling every round.) The last round would be flopping around in the chamber and the slide would lock back. So why did I shoot it anyway? I'm not sure, I guess I just wanted to shoot it up, but sure enough I had the 8th round flopping scenario happen 4-5 times at the match.
It also is undercharged, in my opinion, and my CQB really doesn't like undercharged ammo. The brass comes out blacked on the outside (usually just one side) because the brass hasn't expanded enough to seal the chamber, and all that crap ends up making the chamber sticky.
Once that happens the cases get hard to extract and the occasional failure to return to battery happens. The chamber was so sticky that I damned near couldn't get out the round I chambered before leaving the range when I cleaned the gun this morning. That sucker was stuck in there.
I was really in full bore adrenalin dump mode right before the start of the first stage. I could feel my heart pounding. Fun stuff.
IPSC scoring is kind of foreign to me. You can shoot everything perfectly and still lose to someone who shoots less accurately but faster. This kind of goes against my self-defense training and I decided to just concentrate on making good hits and forget the scoring.
My actual shooting was good on some stuff, bad on others. The steel gave me the most challenges, and I love shooting steel. So I'm not sure what was up with that.
My gun, my favorite gun, my Wilson Combat CQB gave me all kinds of fits. Very frustrating, since it has run like a clock for about 2,000 rounds or more. I made the mistake of using some ammo that I had never ran in it before. The ammo was Winchester White Box 230 grain FMJ, which is not in Wilson's recommended list, but it's also not in their NOT recommended list.
I kind of expected it because it failed my home ammo test. (My home ammo test consists of loading up a full magazine and hand cycling every round.) The last round would be flopping around in the chamber and the slide would lock back. So why did I shoot it anyway? I'm not sure, I guess I just wanted to shoot it up, but sure enough I had the 8th round flopping scenario happen 4-5 times at the match.
It also is undercharged, in my opinion, and my CQB really doesn't like undercharged ammo. The brass comes out blacked on the outside (usually just one side) because the brass hasn't expanded enough to seal the chamber, and all that crap ends up making the chamber sticky.
Once that happens the cases get hard to extract and the occasional failure to return to battery happens. The chamber was so sticky that I damned near couldn't get out the round I chambered before leaving the range when I cleaned the gun this morning. That sucker was stuck in there.
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