Stage four. This is a pistol only drill.
Shooter begins at left rear cone. Pistol
loaded held at low ready or not coming
from the holster. At buzzer, shooter
will neutralize one knockdown steel
target in front of them and fire only
one shot at the paper. As many rounds as
you need to knock down one steel target,
but one shot on the paper. They will
move to the center cone. Neutralize one
knockdown steel target and only fire one
shot at the paper. They'll move to the
last cone on the back. Do the same
thing. Knock down one steel target and
one shot on paper. They will move
forward to the next cone. Knock down a
steel target, one shot on paper. Move to
the center cone. Knock down one steel
target, one shot on paper. Then you get
to the last cone. Oh, I know. Knock down
the last steel, one shot on paper. All
paper should have a minimum. We should
have two
hits. No FTNs will be applied, but both
hits count. If there are no hits, it's
just two misses. If there's one hit,
then it's one miss. If there's two hits,
score them normally. Firing more than
one round at the paper at each position
will be scored as a procedural per shot
fired. Any hits greater than two on the
paper will be scored as a miss per
instance. So, in this stage, you have
volume of fire on steel, but precision
fire on paper.
Very
If you're finished,
Stand by.
Good. If you're done, show clear.
All right. So, we just finished stage
four. This is a pistol stage. Yep.
Pistol drill. And you did really well. I
did. I rocked that thing. You were
fast. You were fast. You were accurate.
You You finished the whole thing in a
raw time of 26 seconds something. Yep.
And I was not very fast. I was being
trying to be precise. I was 37 seconds.
And you forgot to shoot one. But here's
an interesting thing. Excited about the
last stage command here running my own
match. Brain's not always in it. I went
shot the paper target with the first
cone. Got to the second cone. Shot at
the steel, missed. Shot a couple at the
steel, missed them, got it, and then
forgot to shoot the paper entirely.
Oops. Just moved on. So, in that regard,
that's a 10-second miss. Yep. So, a
brain fart. Not bad accuracy, not
shooting poorly. Brain fart. Mental
mistake. I just cost myself 10 seconds,
putting me 20 seconds behind you in
total because you beat me by 10 seconds
in raw time and then 10 seconds for a
miss. Yep. Now, the purpose of this
stage, and I'm not sure how well it
actually worked, the purpose was to to
contrast precision fire on the paper
because you've only got one round and
rapid fire on the steel where you can
shoot as much as you want. You just have
to knock it down. And I think the goal
was to try and get people's mindset
changing between the two. That was the
goal. I don't know. I
think it might a better way to do that
might be to have a more challenging
oneot requirement target. Um, still
interesting. Uh, also because I think
actually what we had more effectiveness
from was when you hit the steel, it goes
down. When you hit the paper, nothing
happens. And so your brain is juggling
back and forth between I have pulled the
trigger, therefore I am done with this
target versus the target did or did not
fall down. So maybe I'm done or maybe
I'm not. Well, that's what cost me.
Yeah, the target went down. Oh, I'm done
at this gun and I moved on. Yeah. So
here's the thing. A lot of people say
this and if you don't shoot these
matches or even if you don't run one,
even more so, it is a very it's a very
challenging things mentally to keep your
head in the environment you're in. So we
just got off the stage. We're having
fun. We're over there goofing off,
talking to one another. Oh, it's my turn
to shoot. Get the camera ready. Aim it
at the shooter. Make sure this is ready.
Got your gun loaded. Timer's there. Go
to shoot. Even though I designed the
stage. Yeah, I blew it. Oops. I'm not
always in my own game as mentally as I'd
like to be because I'm very distracted.
And I'm not saying that's that's not an
excuse. It's an interesting thing
because in terms of stress inoculation,
that means I'm actually getting more of
it. Yeah, you are. But that doesn't mean
I'm always shooting my best. We've seen
this when I go to matches that are not
mine. I do shoot better. You've seen it.
like the Independence Day match with the
broken gun. Yep. So when you're there
and you can oh I know what I'm doing.
You get your prep ready. You're like
okay I'm here. I know this and you have
it in your head. You'll probably shoot a
better stage. That's the mental
organizational part. However, when
you're more useful more useful to be
able to get yourself mentally distracted
and then shoot and practice that. So I
justify this in my own mind at least.
You totally are. And there might be some
but I think there is truth to it. If the
goal is to stress inoculate that
sometimes sometimes the score isn't as
important as what you're getting out of
what you're doing. In many things you
don't learn as much when you win as when
you lose. So lesson there. But I like
winning. Of course I don't get to do it
often and it was fun this time. Yeah.
Well, you won on this stage. We'll see
what happens for the rest of the match.
All right. Next up from here we are
actually moving on to stage one. Uh
because we're not doing these quite in
the right order. So check in tomorrow
for that.