Snowy IDPA

**LadyDoc** · 04-02-2011, 01:20 PM

First IDPA match of the local season this AM.

36 degrees and spitting rain when I arrived. By the time I geared up and closed the hatch on my car it had started to sleet. Fortunately it stopped within a few minutes of start time. We had about an hour of no precip, but partway through my last stage, it started puking snow. Heavy, wet, puking snow.

One of the pics is as we were finishing the morning - before breaking for lunch. The rest are after lunch. I usually stay for the reshoots, but today I needed to go home and dry out and get a hot shower to warm up.

Some of the SO's forgot to replace the plastic on the targets before lunch, and they ended up pretty sad-looking.

I don't have the full scores yet, but out of five stages I didn't drop more than 3 points down on any stage, and one I cleaned completely. Another one I cleaned, but got a procedural for forgetting to load the eleventh round in the pipe. I wasn't loaded to "IDPA max", so minus 3 seconds for me. [doh]

It was a good morning despite the weather, and now I'm stoked for Babes with Bullets this week!

bg · 04-02-2011, 01:35 PM

That first target is trying to kiss his ass goodbye.

**Ops NCO** · 04-02-2011, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by bgermain

That first target is trying to kiss his ass goodbye.

Of course he is. He knows LadyDoc is sending lead downrange!

**~~Jeff82~~** · 04-02-2011, 02:46 PM

Sounds like the sport is growing on you LD!

**gunsmittys** · 04-02-2011, 04:22 PM

COngrats glad you had fun...stay safe

**abnbull** · 04-02-2011, 05:02 PM

Fun with guns!!!

**Rocket1972** · 04-02-2011, 05:09 PM

That's not snow - it's frosting.

**yrualeg** · 04-02-2011, 06:55 PM

Nice...and I was going to bitch about the rain......Uh not

**LadyDoc** · 04-03-2011, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by Jeff82

Sounds like the sport is growing on you LD!

Yeah, it really is.
As I've said before, I shoot alone -I don't have a range partner or shooting buddies. So IDPA lets me interact with other shooters and get advice, and laugh at scenarios, and generally be social, in addition to making me "think" and challenging me to get better. I've been to 4 local matches now, so the regular folks recognize me, "Hey Doc! Good to see ya! How was your winter?" -- building some comaraderie that I didn't have before. I enjoy that.

I'm pretty accurate now - just slow. I've had very little formal instruction, so that's why I'm headed to Louisiana this week for a Babes with Bullets Camp. They're going to throw a little rifle in with the pistol training, so I'm really excited. http://www.outdoorchannel.com/Shooti...UZ43Mk5_mSKKPz