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Stage 2 was shot third in order. Consisting of behind the left side of a barrel on the right side, with
a triangular fault line box, the shooter started at a popper on its right and with the second high paper
the front point of at a traffic cone, with barricades beyond the left side barricade and a popper at its
flanking each side, hiding the targets beyond and base. Just shy of 8 seconds to take 9 shots which were
forcing you to run to the corners at the rear of each all on target.
side to get sights on them. These were 4 paper targets I was the fastest shooter but probably because I
in total, one with a no shoot obstruction right in front picked up 2 procedural penalties due to slipping over
of your starting point, two stacked vertically with a no the fault line on the left as I ran to get sights on the
shoot between on the right side and a final paper on targets there! I should have spent more time moving
the left side with twin poppers at its base, the ending further back to the rear left corner of the fault line
plate being forwards of the start point. triangle. Another slightly annoying failure on my
With a minimum shoot of 11 rounds, I ended up part following the previous week’s final stage balls-
missing a popper again once and running 12 rounds up, where I totally missed one of the targets at the
through everything in just shy of as many seconds, far rear. It seems, in general, I shoot very accurately,
getting all 11 alphas and still managing to be halfway which is good at least, I just sometimes make
up the pack in terms of time. Another quick break procedural errors or scupper myself over silly things
to reload and it was on to the final stage before we as I concentrate on deliberate marksmanship and
stowed our gear and began the breakdown of stages. perhaps take a little too long to do so and miss things
mentally at times as a result.
FINAL STAGE
Stage 1 - shot fourth in order - was short and sweet! ON THE PODIUM!
A small triangular fault line box made for minimal Nonetheless, my diligence seems to be slowly
movement, being allowed to start on either the left paying off in terms of shooting increasingly cleanly
or right rear corner and having to move to the front and with slowly progressing speed in doing so, aside
point to reach the final target. This was the last of from occasional procedural mess ups. Once the
three paper targets and the only one with a no shoot scores were all collated it turned out that despite the
obstruction, which followed the first low paper hidden penalties I still acquired enough points to finally claw

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