{"id":1913,"date":"2012-10-01T12:32:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T16:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2012-10-01T12:32:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T16:32:35","slug":"take-your-friends-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/take-your-friends-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"TAKE YOUR FRIENDS SHOOTING!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I finished a class in the Salt Lake City area on Saturday, and stayed an extra day to shoot the Glock match there (www.gssfonline.com<\/a>) on Sunday.\u00a0 The Evil Princess and I brought four friends.<\/p>\n

They all told me they enjoyed heck out of it.\u00a0 They all shot well.\u00a0 We lent guns to a couple of them, which is just what you do when you\u2019re introducing folks who are already shooters (as these were) to a game that is new to them, and of course, what you always<\/em> do when you\u2019re giving an introduction to those who don\u2019t have guns of their own yet.<\/p>\n

A shooting match is a great opportunity to meet new friends. We met many in Salt Lake.\u00a0 One who stuck in my mind was a nice young lady named Tennille Chidester\u00a0who was running the Glock M stage.\u00a0 When she saw my name on the scoresheet, she realized it was probably the guy of the same name who wrote the book her father gave her when he presented her with her first handgun at age eighteen.\u00a0 For me, it was one of those \u201cyou made my day\u201d moments.<\/p>\n

She and the rest of the crew at the Lee Kay Shooting Center in Salt Lake provided a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. It was a leisurely event with little waiting to shoot. (If ya want a relaxed pistol match, go to one in Utah on a Sunday morning.)<\/p>\n

The preliminary scores show that it was a day of second places for our group. My significant other and I shot OK\u2026she took second place female, and I took second place in Master Stock and Subcompact. I didn\u2019t feel too bad about that, because I shot a subcompact 9mm Glock 26 throughout, including the stock gun (service pistol) and competition gun (target pistol) events. The guy who stomped me into the ground and captured first place across the board was Bryan Dover, and losing to him in this game is kinda like losing to Tiger Woods at a golf tournament: ya didn\u2019t have a chance of beating him anyway, but you\u2019re just kind of honored to have been able to compete with him in the same match.<\/p>\n

On days like that, it ain\u2019t about how well you<\/em> shoot, it\u2019s about the friends you brought to the range.\u00a0 All four of ours shot well under pressure, and they all made me hugely proud of them, none more than Tommy Nelson. The other second place listed on the preliminary results was Tommy in the largest category, Amateur Civilian. He came one down from the top there, in his first time shooting this discipline!<\/em><\/p>\n

That was WAY more important to me than my own finish.\u00a0 You know that everyone shooting a given kind of shooting match for the first time has in the back of their mind the fear that they\u2019ll come in dead last.\u00a0 The fact is, they probably won\u2019t.\u00a0 But even if they do, they will have come in ahead of a countless number of macho men who look in the mirror and think they see a tacti-cool honcho of the gun, but don\u2019t have the guts to put it on the line in public at a match\u2026like the shooter you brought, DID!<\/p>\n

Take someone shooting.\u00a0 On the practice range if they\u2019re new, and to a match if they\u2019re ready.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll feel as good about it as I do, today\u2026<\/p>\n

Tom Nelson contemplates a good day of shooting in Utah. He did great in his first GSSF match.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Tom<\/a><\/p>\n

The captain and Tennille<\/a>. \u00a0Capt. Ayoob with Tennille Chidester, one of the hard working GSSF range officers.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Tennille<\/a><\/p>\n

The white steel target at left is on its way down from a .40 bullet fired by Carl Albright at his first GSSF match. He shot well.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Carl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I finished a class in the Salt Lake City area on Saturday, and stayed an extra day to shoot the Glock match there (www.gssfonline.com) on Sunday.\u00a0 The Evil Princess and I brought four friends. They all told me they enjoyed heck out of it.\u00a0 They all shot well.\u00a0 We lent guns to a couple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-competition","8":"category-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}