Leo and Slough have taken very good care of you. Listen well. I'll only add just a little, and/or reiterate:
Ya'll are focusing on the wrong things. Focus on preparing your equipment and mind. When you are there, focus on safety, fun, and the front sight, in that order.
But to answer the questions: it's not about "size groups"...wrong sport. We are on a 2 MOA 10-ring/1 MOA X-ring target set, and it takes a 776 (97%) to be near winning most matches at Atterbury. If one of a few shooters are there, it will take more than that. Classification is not an award in-an-of-itself, though it gets treated that way sometimes. Shooting your first match, or even first year of matches, class is almost completely irrelevant except on your registration form.
For your reference, my Slow Fire ammo is shooting in the 4's. Or at least, that's the best I can hold to tell.
Indeed it was, and is. What is meant by the 'carry decently' thing is to generally not be a d*&%. That condition is usually a result of ego, but can also be ignorance, so the short version is to leave your ego at Range Control, shut your mouth, open your ears, and prepare to follow commands. It's a lot of fun--and REALLY a lot of fun after a few matches when you know how to go with the flow--but for the first match, don't get too social. Observing us too closely as we tell dirty jokes and laugh and make fun of each other, you might get the idea that we're casual about the triggering...that would be a mistake.
Like Leo said, just focus and try to safely get them all out of the magazine, and somewhere on the scoring rings.
You guys SHOULD do that. Let me know, if you do. I won't be shooting a whole lot of Course this year, but I'd like to shoot one or two for the right reasons...and those reasons probably don't include Regionals or States.
And nobody likes Richter anyway. What an A%#. Who keeps vision like that, for that long, anyway?
-Nate
Ya'll are focusing on the wrong things. Focus on preparing your equipment and mind. When you are there, focus on safety, fun, and the front sight, in that order.
But to answer the questions: it's not about "size groups"...wrong sport. We are on a 2 MOA 10-ring/1 MOA X-ring target set, and it takes a 776 (97%) to be near winning most matches at Atterbury. If one of a few shooters are there, it will take more than that. Classification is not an award in-an-of-itself, though it gets treated that way sometimes. Shooting your first match, or even first year of matches, class is almost completely irrelevant except on your registration form.
For your reference, my Slow Fire ammo is shooting in the 4's. Or at least, that's the best I can hold to tell.
Indeed it was, and is. What is meant by the 'carry decently' thing is to generally not be a d*&%. That condition is usually a result of ego, but can also be ignorance, so the short version is to leave your ego at Range Control, shut your mouth, open your ears, and prepare to follow commands. It's a lot of fun--and REALLY a lot of fun after a few matches when you know how to go with the flow--but for the first match, don't get too social. Observing us too closely as we tell dirty jokes and laugh and make fun of each other, you might get the idea that we're casual about the triggering...that would be a mistake.
Like Leo said, just focus and try to safely get them all out of the magazine, and somewhere on the scoring rings.
You guys SHOULD do that. Let me know, if you do. I won't be shooting a whole lot of Course this year, but I'd like to shoot one or two for the right reasons...and those reasons probably don't include Regionals or States.
And nobody likes Richter anyway. What an A%#. Who keeps vision like that, for that long, anyway?
-Nate
