The one that got away or second on 99.95% still sucks!
Over the weekend of the 11th & 12th of April Dave, Malcolm, Margaret & I went to the Annual Single Stack Classic in Wanganui.
Now this match is really for the 1911 pattern pistol and several intrepid souls who brought their old S&W 645's & 745's out of retirement. You may only use a pistol with a single stack or single row magazine, no hi-cap double stack mags allowed even if you only load them with eight rounds, which is the most you can load even if your single stack Colt holds 10.
It is also expected, though not YET a rule that the gun must be in 45ACP (Next year may also require a 45 if you want to shoot in the Premier Division).
Swapping gears to reload every 8 shots was a bit of a challenge, especially after the 20 rounds in my Production SP01, but if you worked on the premise of every time you move RELOAD you did fine. Where to put 6 to 8 spare mags was another good question. But boy you better know how to shoot because there are no spare shots. At almost every position on every stage you were firing 8 shots, and with only 8 in the gun & 1 backup shot before you went to slidelock....hits were the order of the day. Miss and do a static reload and you will be down in the bottom half before you can say BOO!
The stages were straight forward, fairly close with no stupid stuff, more tactical with all the extra reloads but a good shooting contest enjoyed by all. Then 2 days 12 stages & 250 rounds later it was all over. Margaret was top Lady & 20th, Dave was 16th & Malc 14th. My 11 Alphas and 1 Mike on stage four was good enough for second place.......... oh well there is always next year.
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