{"id":7150,"date":"2022-02-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7150"},"modified":"2022-02-09T21:12:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T02:12:11","slug":"fox-box-o-glocks-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/fox-box-o-glocks-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"FOX & BOX O\u2019 GLOCKS, REDUX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"The
GSSF is using this new target this year.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A decade or so ago, the Evil Princess and I would shoot a couple of dozen matches a year. Scheduling nibbled away at that.\u00a0 So did mobility issues: a bad knee for her and bad back for me, both worse of late.\u00a0 And of course, there was the Plague and the Great Ammo Drought. Gail only shot one match all last year \u2013 the Pin Shoot, www.pinshoot.com<\/a>, our favorite.\u00a0 I could count my 2021 matches on the fingers of one hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I was glad to again be on the road again with \u201cthe fox and the box o\u2019Glocks\u201d to shoot a Glock Sport Shooting Foundation match www.gssf.com<\/a> this month.\u00a0 The EP shot 9mm, .380, and .22; I shot those plus .45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Massad
Mas runs the Glock M stage with a Glock 42. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bad news: didn\u2019t win a damn thing. Good news: at least stayed in the top ten with each gun. I was satisfied with that, given zero practice and a year since my last GSSF shoot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lessons: Don\u2019t expect to win if you don\u2019t have the time, ammo, and\/or dedication to practice. Our congratulations go to those who DID practice, and performed accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, if you stick with the fundamentals, you at least do well enough not to embarrass yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gail
The Evil Princess\u2019 Polymer Pistol is dropping the first of six steel plates from eleven yards. She \u201ccleaned the table\u201d with six shots from her Glock 17 RTF2 9mm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The EP did much better than me. She hadn\u2019t shot a Glock match since 2019, and still came in top five in the Glock Girls event, and in the top fifth of Civilian class overall including the men, despite very little trigger time.  I at least get to do some demonstration shooting at each class I teach (my primary day job); with her bad knee, unable to demonstrate all the positions, she has been pretty much away from trigger pulling for a couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joining us were my old friend and colleague Steve Sager, who shot very well, and Philip Large. Philip just shot his first match last year and has improved exponentially.  GSSF range staff at all their venues around the country are extremely welcoming to new shooters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Philip
Philip Large shoots the Five To Glock stage with Glock17.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a match an hour and a half from us toward the end of this month, and we\u2019ve set aside a Sunday to do it again. It feels good to be on the firing line with a gun in my hand and an electronic timer at my ear once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A decade or so ago, the Evil Princess and I would shoot a couple of dozen matches a year. Scheduling nibbled away at that.\u00a0 So did mobility issues: a bad knee for her and bad back for me, both worse of late.\u00a0 And of course, there was the Plague and the Great Ammo Drought. Gail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7160,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions\/7160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}