After the recent success of the shoot held by the Porirua Pistol Club at Wanganui it wasn’t long before the ‘A’way team were all travelling north again for the Wanganui monthly level 2 (L2) shoot.
25 competitors from the lower half of the North Island converged on Wanganui’s 9 ranges for another fun filled day of shooting. Our own Scotty was back for some more punishment & Alan H made his competition debut (taking out 4th in the open division along the way) along with the usual crew of Marg T, Aaron T, Dave D, and Derek D.
While we didn’t have the pleasure of Bob the Builders van, there was plenty of steel in its place & the fun house on range 9 has been redesigned with some tight angles and sneaky ports that are very easy to forget. Standards that had you backing up were a real eye-opener for the new shooters!
Production division growth seams to be carrying on unchecked, with 13 competitors, more than Standard & Open combined. Or perhaps people are getting some more time on their Production guns before the CD Production Champs in Wanganui on the 10th & 11th of October.
Aaron T took out Production from David S; Bruce C took out Standard & Max T Open.
At the end of the L2 Wally announced there would be a Single Stack Shoot on the 23rd of August
So there was still more IPSC in Wanganui…..
And 14 days later the ‘A’way team was heading north once more, this time with their trusty (rusty?) single stacks at their sides.
Marg T, Aaron, Dave, Derek and Scotty made the trip, there would have been more but a combination of factors kept some of our members away.
Some of the stages were similar to those we had shot a fortnight previously; we didn’t have to walk backwards in the standards this time! But those sneaky ports behind the doors were all still there and now that there were no rounds to spare! Anyone who dropped a shot here paid for it dearly, with only 8 in the mag and perhaps one in the chamber a single miss could prove disastrous, watching a number of shooters go bang bang click, drove home the fact that you must plan you reloads or end up in a world of trouble. And boy you better have a gun that works every time.
Everyone had a fantastic time, especially Mike C who won it. Scotty wasn’t so happy, after borrowing Dave’s 45 he had to return it with a broken firing pin.
And Wally I gave Margaret a 38 super to use just to make you happy.
Aaron T
