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All,
Glock has a thing called the GSSF and it involves a competition of sorts for any owner of any of their guns all across the country (and I believe international, too).
It's not the most demanding shooting competition and anybody can sign up and shoot it with no "serious" training involved. It's more of a fun shoot to get people involved in shooting their new Glocks some place other than a static range. It's an interesting shooting challenge on its own level. This is not to say it's not competitive. They give away lots of guns, awards, money, memberships, etc to the top people and a lot of randomly selected prizes of guns, money and the like. I know several people who have won guns at these things and have never placed in the top 100 in any event!!
With that preamble, I'd like to repost an email I sent out to a lot of my shooting buddies about an interesting event that happened to me yesterday at the St.Petersburg, Florida GSSF shoot.
The email follows.......................................................
Guys,
Well, today was the first GSSF shoot (Glock Sport Shooting Foundation) of the year and I did it last year with a fair performance and I figured I had practiced those damn plates for a year, so I SHOULD do better this year.
I least that was the plan and it was going really well.
I ran the “5 to Glock†thing a few seconds faster, but much more accurate this year.
I ran the “Glock M†course with good times AND no misses, so that’s good.
Now, on to my nemesis group. The dreaded “Glock the Platesâ€.
It’s a simple course. You look at 6 plates and shoot them all down. You do it four times and call it a day. Now I was shooting “MajorSub†so I only had 7 bullets available for each of the groups.
Four groups of 6 for 24 plates total. Not a problem. Like I said, I’ve been shooting those damn plates for a year in order to do better than my dismal showing last year. I should breeze right through it this year, right?
Well, hold it right there. Seems I put myself on the squadding board and got put right in front of world famous gun author, instructor, and all around World class gun guy MASSAD AYOOB. Yes, me and him were yakking up a storm, talking about the weird airplanes flying over the range, the rain, the lack of women and guns. What has turned into a simple shooting of 24 plates has my knees shaking because Massad Ayoob is standing RIGHT BEHIND ME watching the whole thing unfold.
I choked. I should have easily gotten 24/24 but I wound up 22/24 with two misses ON THE FIRST SET! Even the range officer told me to just settle down and they’ll start falling again.
I slowed down a bit and knocked down the next 18 without a problem. Massad Ayoob says “Nice Shooting, Andy†(he must have missed that first set) as I collected up my bag and moved smartly out of the area. I wish I had brought one of his books with me to autograph! (How tacky).
How embarrassing. Shooting in front of one of the most famous firearms guys in the world, and I choke on a stupid metal plate!!!
I think I’ll take out my frustration on LaGrand this Monday night and really kick his butt.
AD (at least I did beat last year’s time by a good margin)
Glock has a thing called the GSSF and it involves a competition of sorts for any owner of any of their guns all across the country (and I believe international, too).
It's not the most demanding shooting competition and anybody can sign up and shoot it with no "serious" training involved. It's more of a fun shoot to get people involved in shooting their new Glocks some place other than a static range. It's an interesting shooting challenge on its own level. This is not to say it's not competitive. They give away lots of guns, awards, money, memberships, etc to the top people and a lot of randomly selected prizes of guns, money and the like. I know several people who have won guns at these things and have never placed in the top 100 in any event!!
With that preamble, I'd like to repost an email I sent out to a lot of my shooting buddies about an interesting event that happened to me yesterday at the St.Petersburg, Florida GSSF shoot.
The email follows.......................................................
Guys,
Well, today was the first GSSF shoot (Glock Sport Shooting Foundation) of the year and I did it last year with a fair performance and I figured I had practiced those damn plates for a year, so I SHOULD do better this year.
I least that was the plan and it was going really well.
I ran the “5 to Glock†thing a few seconds faster, but much more accurate this year.
I ran the “Glock M†course with good times AND no misses, so that’s good.
Now, on to my nemesis group. The dreaded “Glock the Platesâ€.
It’s a simple course. You look at 6 plates and shoot them all down. You do it four times and call it a day. Now I was shooting “MajorSub†so I only had 7 bullets available for each of the groups.
Four groups of 6 for 24 plates total. Not a problem. Like I said, I’ve been shooting those damn plates for a year in order to do better than my dismal showing last year. I should breeze right through it this year, right?
Well, hold it right there. Seems I put myself on the squadding board and got put right in front of world famous gun author, instructor, and all around World class gun guy MASSAD AYOOB. Yes, me and him were yakking up a storm, talking about the weird airplanes flying over the range, the rain, the lack of women and guns. What has turned into a simple shooting of 24 plates has my knees shaking because Massad Ayoob is standing RIGHT BEHIND ME watching the whole thing unfold.
I choked. I should have easily gotten 24/24 but I wound up 22/24 with two misses ON THE FIRST SET! Even the range officer told me to just settle down and they’ll start falling again.
I slowed down a bit and knocked down the next 18 without a problem. Massad Ayoob says “Nice Shooting, Andy†(he must have missed that first set) as I collected up my bag and moved smartly out of the area. I wish I had brought one of his books with me to autograph! (How tacky).
How embarrassing. Shooting in front of one of the most famous firearms guys in the world, and I choke on a stupid metal plate!!!
I think I’ll take out my frustration on LaGrand this Monday night and really kick his butt.
AD (at least I did beat last year’s time by a good margin)