The Worst ACTS Match Ever

Yup, I only had a bucket of fun instead of the whole 126 imperial gallon buttload.

It was three stages, but one of them was a blind stage that used three bays, plus the 200-yard long-range lane that connects them. Last time, Stage from Hell was run with all ten shooters on the same squad. Stage from Hell II was run in a match with three 10-man squads. Can you say "Bottleneck?" I knew you could. About 30 shooters! I hope some of them come back!

Other than that, the POFMeister ran great (once I cleaned out all the brass shavings and dirt from the firing pin tube), my fat little legs didn't, and I got to see some great Gun Pr0n!


My nemesis Aaron brought his Baby AR (left) and proceeded to kick my ass with it. Lots of serious shooters were there with cool toys. Here's a bullpup AK (right) that caught my eye.

By the way, the AZ Match Director has okayed the use of muzzle brakes (hence my using the POF-Meister this time) -- there were several short-barreled rifles in attendance that rivalled my brake for noise factor!

I bet you want to see some match Video, huh?

Oh, yeah, the first stage was tentatively titled "Han Shot First." He had to simulate a table to shoot under because we feared shooting up the PPC's. I got good hits on this one, except I "ignored" a target, which costs you 35 seconds in ACTS.

Stage Two is an old stand by of ours, but this time we hung numbered tags on some of the targets: 0 = no-shoot hostage target; any other number represented the number of shots you were required to take on each target. Untagged targets were the default two shots. Trying to read the tags while the wind was blowing was quite a challenge! I did well just to shoot this without a hostage hit, since the shoot-through opportunities were abundant.