Mud Pie
Last weekend’s snow turned into something entirely different for this Sunday’s regular practice match. A warm New Mexico sun and some very frozen ground soon started becoming a big mud pie. By mid morning, ten real shooters were slogging around on one of Jerry’s more torturous stages. Some grown adults were observed playing patty-cake in the mud like five year olds, and one of Jerry’s magazines, on a reload, landed, and stayed, full vertical in the mud.
We soon began to wonder which was more fun: The Snow or The Mud? The gang just kept coming back for more slip-sliding away. As the day wore on, the ground thawed more, and we found ourselves getting stuck. Even real shooters have to admit to defeat. Aw, the thrill of victory and the agony of da feet.
January 30th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
This was truly a practice that tested not only the shooters skills in movement and target acqusition in very difficult conditions - try ankle deep mud! - but in their ability to laugh at themselves. At first, the stage called for shooting steel from boxes (3) only and paper from out of the box. That was pretty amusing as Rod shot first and got 60 procedural points. I shot next and did well with only 40.
After everyone got kinda used to shooting steel from the box, we changed it to shooting paper only from the box. Got ugly!
It was good shooting and good fun. Maybe next time we’ll have a sandstorm!
See you at the match Saturday.
Jerry