Golden City Club Shoot

A Tiny Slit To Shoot Through

Whoop Whoop - One of my favourite days.
We received notification for the club shoot with the heading "Balls to the Wall"
6 Stages and you need 240 rounds of ammo.
Normally with a 6 stage shoot we would need between 150 and 170 rounds so this sounded like we were going to do some serious shooting.

RO Keeping a Watchful Eye

There were 6 stages of 40 rounds each.
The stages varied with poppers and targets. There were swingers and disappearing targets.
But the secret of the shoot was the strategy that you were going to use with the magazine changes.
Each shooter had a different outlook on the stage.
I loved the long stages and am really pleased with my STI 40 now that my jams are sorted out.

Golden City Club Shoot

Saturday and Sunday were two days of eating, drinking, sleeping, dreaming shooting.

The longest shooting days we have ever had.

The heat was extreme and the dust with all the new ranges being build for the SA Champs at Golden City next year left us hot and bothered.

Not enough to take away the sheer joy of shooting.

Ten stages with minimum of 179 shots and we decided to shoot Standard and Production Divisions. That meant twenty stages and loads of ammo.

Richard was once again very accurate but the time plays havoc with the score when we have these jams

I had one really disastrous round where the Range Officer had to unjam my gun it was that
bad.

Sunday was Production Class for us with our CZ Shadow 9mms.

My time improved vastly and once again we learned loads.

One thing that is a great advantage learned today, but took two or three stages to master was that the first shot in Production is mostly double action unless told otherwise in the stage brief. Now we learned that you can half cock the hammer and it is still deemed double action on the first shot.

Much easier when you get the hang of it.

Thanks to everyone that shot with us.

Golden City Club Shoot

We arrived back from the Namaqualand Flower tour to beautiful weather. Good enough to pack away the winter jackets and jerseys.

Lo and behold this morning we woke up to an icy wind and it is shooting day, so out come the warm woollies again.




 It's the Cape's fault - it is snowing

down there again.

In the end our weather turned out lovely but then again when we start shooting, then the elements are non existent to us.

Once again Richard was very accurate -  just a few jams today. Three full house stages.
My gun is still not feeding properly (not making excuses)and I went through all the teasing of not straightening my arms and having limp wrists.  Richard and I then changed guns and he had had the jams. Whew was I relieved - I wouldn't have heard the end of it.

Thanks Heinrich, Tinus, Albert, Glenn, JP and Erwin - it was good shooting with you and thanks for all the tips.

Once again I had an absolutely awesome time. I always do when I shoot.

Golden City Shooting Club

Saturday saw us out at Golden City Shooting Club again.

It's one of my favourite pastimes as you all know.

We had a really good shoot and Richard had some amazing scores.

I think all the finer points with our reloading is being sorted as on Saturday we only had one or two jams.

We shot with some real good shooters and what I love is that the shooters are always more than willing to help you sort out your faults and help you improve.

I need to work on my Grip. I start off correct and somewhere along the line - could be with the mag change - I change it. 

Thanks to Peter, Colin and Alex. We loved shooting with you.

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Sunday was still cold but we had to go and shoot as we missed last months shoot when we went down to Thaba Nchu to the quad weekend away.

Most of the shooters take part on the Saturday of the weekend shoot so very few shooters pitched up for the shoot.

We felt a bit rust as we haven't shot for about 5 weeks I think but scores were not too bad.


The club is undergoing a major face lift and loads of sand is being brought in for new ranges as Golden City is going to host the National Championships.

I must say that they are jacked up in comparison to other clubs. They always have interesting ranges and the grounds are always well cared for.

I love shooting there.

Golden City Shooting Club - IPSC

This was a full weekend of shooting for us.
We have been in a squad where we were tested for safety but now that we have been up graded we are free to shoot at any time.
Normally we only shoot on a Saturday and when we do we shoot in the Standard Division with our STI 40 calabre. 

We have been concentratting on accuarcy more than speed to get going at first.
Thjis weekend we decided to shoot on the Sunday as well and try out our 9mm pistols.
Never shot competition with them before and never shot in the Production Division before.
Thank goodness we were in a squad that was there just to enjoy and not put stress on us.
My main obsticle was the first shot that had to be double action which we don't normally do and it was like I was actually watching the hammer come back SLOWLY so that my shot didn't go over the berns on anywhere it shouldn't.
I am sure I am going to be somewhere down the bottom of the log in this Production DIvision but once again, I loved every minute of shooting.
Thanks all who shot with us on Saturday:- Wayne, Mark andBardev.
Then all the Laughs on Sunday with:- Bennet, Brendan and Humphrey.

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Heading for the Safety Area to Holster guns

Yesterday saw the last of our induction and safety training for IPSC at Golden City Shooting Club.
Our last leg was just a safety aspect that we had to undergo and now it is green light for us to shoot leaugue and partake in other club and provincial shoots.
Yesterday we shot with the experienced shooters and there was no time for dilly dally and idle chatter. 
It is down to shooting business and all were ever so willing to give advise and praise when needed.
This is what we came to do and we just absolutely love it.
Next week is a club shoot again and we are going to try out our new guns in a seperate division, but all about that next week.