Monday, September 05, 2005
Goodness, it's been busy these past few days..
Saturday i couldn't get out work early, so i missed out on my 10-year hi skool reunion. It wasn't meant to be, it was held as a lunch bbq at coyote point.. and to further make it a fly-by-night operation, the day before i get this email stating 'we need to get cups, utinsels, plates, hot dogs. etc..' ??? The day before?? and to a hundred-plus (i'm assuming).. weaksauce!
Sunday: it begins, a few months late but none the less. All i hafta do is repeat it the next month, for my new years resolution will be completed. 200 yard slowfire Offhand 189-2x, 200 yard rapid sitting 97-2x, 300 yard rapid prone 99-2x and 600 yard slowfire prone 98-2x. Total of 483-8x!! Woohoo! To reach master class you need to shoot 470-484, the final class to reach is the high master class which is at 485-500. Next year, i think my resolution will be to go for the high master class. The weather was overcast, there was little wind going southwest 'cuz the .308 caliber shooter to my right was killing my eyes with all his gunsmoke. The drive was cool, and there weren't many shooters that day. I'm guessing theres a fatty rifle match somewhere else, Jim O'Connell wasn't there so thats a sign. There were about 14 shooters. kinda odd feeling.
There were a few differences between what i did 2 months ago (i didn't get to shoot last month) and this one. The main difference was that i was reading The rifle shooter by 11-time national high power champion, David Tubb. I got this book from fluffielady's parents for my birthday. The book is somewhat aligned to the gear that he's selling, but the shooting technique was what mattered to me. i mean if i *had* $3550 for his Tubb 2000 Bolt rifle (match sights are not included ($500+)), is nice but is it worth it? It's nice to have a Lancer Evolution, but if you can't use it to it's full potential, then is it worth it? Anyhow i digress. i did learn 3-things: 1) breath inbetween shots at the rapid fire (which is odd to do, for me it's like sharp short breaths), 2) finding your natural point of aim is quite critical and 3) don't wait till the target comes back up for you to write it down on your shooting diary, load up and then look through your scope and remember the marker position and point value to jot down *after* you shoot the next shot. This gives you more time to shoot and not to fiddle with scribbling and waiting. The previous months i was shooting in the 465-468 range, after tweaking very little things i can't belive i'm shooting like this. Hopefully this will be my 'standard' and not some fluke one month thing. 'cuz i'd be pissed! My main goal this year was to become just in the master class. let's hope it'll work out next month!
Speaking of breathing inbetween shots in the rapids, i sorta couldn't because the M1A shooter to my right started shooting really fast (1st time you have 60-seconds for 10 shots, and 2nd time 70-seconds for 10 shots). This guy was pumping it down the line, the cloud of smoke just floated over to me and it's killer. He was done with at least 20 seconds to go!
After getting high on shooting went home and fixed up with place with fluffielady for the Do-all Poker night / bbq at our place. It was pretty cool, i made some old school mixed drinks that i hadn't made in ages. The crew came over (with little baby chloe!) and we hung out till1 am (lordy!). The only thing that majorly sucked was my little airsoft homegrown video wouldn't be transfered into dvd format. I'm glad that sherwin figured that my version of nero was tweaked, and his worked on his lappy and burnt a dvd before it was too late. woot!
Today.. let's see.. We woke up at 10am. Floated around till noon and went to my coworkers bbq at San Jose, hung out there till 5pm.. and paul was having a little belated birthday party for chloe with his familia. It was then that Fluffielady realized that when we have birthdays it's not, let's say that your turning 30, that it's at the end of you being 30, and that your really turning 31.. When chloe turns one, next year she'd already been in earth for a year and that it's not the beginning of life. Hows that to make you feel old!
Speaking of which, it's 10:10pm.. i'm feeling quite tired from sitting in the sun at san jose.. Warm weather knocks me out.. nini
oh, one last thing, my webcam is back and going. I've borrowed Vick's webcam also and is gonna try that out too, one day.. Woot!
Saturday i couldn't get out work early, so i missed out on my 10-year hi skool reunion. It wasn't meant to be, it was held as a lunch bbq at coyote point.. and to further make it a fly-by-night operation, the day before i get this email stating 'we need to get cups, utinsels, plates, hot dogs. etc..' ??? The day before?? and to a hundred-plus (i'm assuming).. weaksauce!
Sunday: it begins, a few months late but none the less. All i hafta do is repeat it the next month, for my new years resolution will be completed. 200 yard slowfire Offhand 189-2x, 200 yard rapid sitting 97-2x, 300 yard rapid prone 99-2x and 600 yard slowfire prone 98-2x. Total of 483-8x!! Woohoo! To reach master class you need to shoot 470-484, the final class to reach is the high master class which is at 485-500. Next year, i think my resolution will be to go for the high master class. The weather was overcast, there was little wind going southwest 'cuz the .308 caliber shooter to my right was killing my eyes with all his gunsmoke. The drive was cool, and there weren't many shooters that day. I'm guessing theres a fatty rifle match somewhere else, Jim O'Connell wasn't there so thats a sign. There were about 14 shooters. kinda odd feeling.
There were a few differences between what i did 2 months ago (i didn't get to shoot last month) and this one. The main difference was that i was reading The rifle shooter by 11-time national high power champion, David Tubb. I got this book from fluffielady's parents for my birthday. The book is somewhat aligned to the gear that he's selling, but the shooting technique was what mattered to me. i mean if i *had* $3550 for his Tubb 2000 Bolt rifle (match sights are not included ($500+)), is nice but is it worth it? It's nice to have a Lancer Evolution, but if you can't use it to it's full potential, then is it worth it? Anyhow i digress. i did learn 3-things: 1) breath inbetween shots at the rapid fire (which is odd to do, for me it's like sharp short breaths), 2) finding your natural point of aim is quite critical and 3) don't wait till the target comes back up for you to write it down on your shooting diary, load up and then look through your scope and remember the marker position and point value to jot down *after* you shoot the next shot. This gives you more time to shoot and not to fiddle with scribbling and waiting. The previous months i was shooting in the 465-468 range, after tweaking very little things i can't belive i'm shooting like this. Hopefully this will be my 'standard' and not some fluke one month thing. 'cuz i'd be pissed! My main goal this year was to become just in the master class. let's hope it'll work out next month!
Speaking of breathing inbetween shots in the rapids, i sorta couldn't because the M1A shooter to my right started shooting really fast (1st time you have 60-seconds for 10 shots, and 2nd time 70-seconds for 10 shots). This guy was pumping it down the line, the cloud of smoke just floated over to me and it's killer. He was done with at least 20 seconds to go!
After getting high on shooting went home and fixed up with place with fluffielady for the Do-all Poker night / bbq at our place. It was pretty cool, i made some old school mixed drinks that i hadn't made in ages. The crew came over (with little baby chloe!) and we hung out till1 am (lordy!). The only thing that majorly sucked was my little airsoft homegrown video wouldn't be transfered into dvd format. I'm glad that sherwin figured that my version of nero was tweaked, and his worked on his lappy and burnt a dvd before it was too late. woot!
Today.. let's see.. We woke up at 10am. Floated around till noon and went to my coworkers bbq at San Jose, hung out there till 5pm.. and paul was having a little belated birthday party for chloe with his familia. It was then that Fluffielady realized that when we have birthdays it's not, let's say that your turning 30, that it's at the end of you being 30, and that your really turning 31.. When chloe turns one, next year she'd already been in earth for a year and that it's not the beginning of life. Hows that to make you feel old!
Speaking of which, it's 10:10pm.. i'm feeling quite tired from sitting in the sun at san jose.. Warm weather knocks me out.. nini
oh, one last thing, my webcam is back and going. I've borrowed Vick's webcam also and is gonna try that out too, one day.. Woot!
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