33rd Match: 2025 Delmarva Section Championship presented by Southern Bobby Q, April 25-27th, 2025
2nd Major Match, 1st Major Match on Staff/ROing
PCC Division, Borrowed Angstadt Arms Lower Build
367th of 405 overall (37.48%) | 42nd of 43 PCC
Scores: https://practiscore.com/results/new/c6e32b1b-a79e-49ec-95fb-1243b9be78d0
Video: https://youtu.be/iO9YACGiBlw
The long weekend of my first time working a major match is complete!
Friday started off with a staff meeting at 8, so I got there around 7 so I could walk the stages ahead of time and have some familiarity with them. I'm not huge on spending a lot of time on each ahead of time because I'll forget by the time I get there, but walking it enough to have a general flow, and make sure round count matches the targets I see, and I'm not missing anything makes it easier to re-familiarize myself with the stage when our squad gets there.
The match ran in a 2-zone setup, so zone 1 was Stages 1-6, and zone 2 was Stages 7-12. My squad started on 11, then 12, 7, 8, 9, 10. Lunch included from Southern Bobby Q, then stages 5, 6, 1, 2, 3 ,4. My squad included 4 other match staff ROs, plus another 7 shooters, so it was a busy day since being a level two match, all ROing, and Scoring had to be done by staff. It went pretty well though, and we didn't really run into any issues with that.
Stage 11: 104/405 Overall (58%) | 22/43 PCC (58%)
Stage 11 was an interesting stage because the stage brief specified that the last two targets had to be engaged weak hand only. Not the last two shots, the last two targets. This was also a 3 per paper stage, with some poppers, so last two targets could've been 2 shots if you saved the poppers for that, 4 shots with a paper and a popper, or 6 shots for two paper targets. My stage plan was doing one of each, and I think that worked well. This stage was also an unloaded start, so the combo of weak hand and loading with a gun I've never taken to a match before was going to be interesting, but it actually went pretty well. Not as fast as I may have hoped, but really no issues, so it was a decent warmup.
Stage 12: 231/405 Overall (52%) | 29/43 PCC (52%)
12 was a very short stage with 3 strings, required reloads, and again, weak hand, but again, for being on a "new" gun, it went fairly well.
Stage 7: 118/405 Overall (66%) | 24/43 PCC (74%)
Stage 8: 83/405 Overall (71%) | 20/43 PCC (78%)
Stage 9: 386/405 Overall (0%) | 42/43 PCC (0%)
This one was a lesson in preparedness. A couple shots in, the battery on the red dot died, so I proceeded to finish the stage with no dot, which resulted in 4 Misses, and 2 No Shoots, which zeroed the stage for me. I was happy that I still managed to drop a popper in 3 shots, I was just watching the dirt hits and moved it in closer till it hit. I hadn't really thought about the battery on the dot since it wasn't my gun, but it happens. Didn't seem like a big deal until I opened it up and it used a CR123 battery, not the button battery of most, which is what I had as a spare. Fortunately, one of my squad mates was able to give me one from out of a flashlight he had, so that was fantastic. The comradery and support in this sport is amazing, and especially visible in moments like these.
Stage 10: 42/405 Overall (82%) | 12/43 PCC (85%)
Fresh battery in the red dot and ripping, this stage went well.
Stage 5: 158/405 Overall (69%) | 29/43 PCC (69%)
Stage 6: 182/405 Overall | 28/43 PCC (33 Points of 60 possible)
Fixed time stage, 6 targets, two shots each, 5.1 seconds on the timer, so 5.4 seconds before penalties. I went into it with a plan that only allowed me 5 targets, I skipped the right most target since I knew I wasn't fast enough to get them all, and the wall would make it tight to move around with the PCC. I got off 9 of my 10 planned shots and stopped myself before any overtime shots, but had 2 Cs and 2Ds, so the score suffered.
Stage 1: Zero...
Here's where it all went wrong... This was our first large field course of the day, which I struggle with more than short courses, I think. Anyway, I was almost to the end of the course, and I had already realized I had forgotten a target, so I was going to have to go back to it, and then the gun made a big bang, and shot the magazine out and had a stovepipe. I paused to see if the RO would stop me, and he did, which allowed me to reshoot. The match director, Dave is also a PCC guy, stopped by and from my description of the event said it sounded like an out of battery discharge.
At the safe table I did a very brief look and cleaning on it and ran my bore snake through it as well, and it seemed ok. Unfortunately, when I went to reshoot, on the 6th shot it did it again. So again, I stopped, but when I looked down something didn't look right. It took me a minute to figure out why it looked weird, but the mag release actually broke, so part of that is gone as well as the spring.
So that unfortunately ended my shooting for the match, so I cleaned up and just RO'd for the rest of the day. Gonna be a fun chat when I go into the shop this week and tell them I broke their gun.
Stage 2, 3, 4: Zero.
I had some high hopes going into it because in B class PCC there were only 8 of us, instead of the ~52 B class Carry Optics competitors. I figured those were better odds for winning my class on the count alone, but also still being more comfortable on PCC than the pistol. Looking at the scoring, if the red dot didn't die, and the gun didn't break, and if I stayed consistent, I would've been pretty darn close to winning B class PCC. Now, obviously that is a lot of what ifs, but I'm still pretty happy with my performance on the stages that I was able to compete in.
Carnage:
