Jim Weaver

The days are getting warmer and longer and as we start a new month it's time once again build the stages then run and gun our way through them in Texarkana Gun Club's April USPSA match!

Bangin' and Clangin' this past weekend in the April Steel Challenge at the Texarkana Gun Club was great! If you were there you know that already, if you weren't, bummer!

The bane of my USPSA shooting existence is the "Classifier" stage! I don't know what mental block I have on that particular stage but for some stupid reason I screw it up every month.

Well thanks to boy-child's baseball and many other duties to perform there just hasn't been any time for practice the last couple of weeks between the March Steel Challenge and this Saturday's USPSA match. What can I say, life keeps me busy, as it does us all.

We may be breaking out the lifeboats now but believe it or not, we didn't get rained out on the second Saturday of March! Our plans were to shoot the Steel Challenge match even if it was raining Saturday March 10th, but to all of our surprise we ended up with a fantastic day to shoot.

What a great day for shooting and a terrific turnout for our very first USPSA/IPSC match for 2012 at the Texarkana Gun Club. Last Saturday started off a little cool, but it quickly turned into bright sunshine and mild temperatures that set the tone for a fun day of shooting. We welcomed 38 shooters for our first match of the year including most of our usual folks and a bunch of new faces. Read Mor

I don't know if you've had any experiences with this ramp yet but let me give you fair warning, the eastbound entrance ramp to I-30 just before Summerhill can be very treacherous in the rain! Wednesday morning, (Leap Day) I was entering the freeway on that very ramp in a rather heavy downpour, quite suddenly the rear end of my truck was trying to pass the front end. I tried to steer into the skid

2012 - A year that I hope will bring great improvement to my competitive shooting. I'm loading my own ammo now, my gun has been virtually flawless in it's operation with just a hiccup or two here and there. So really, it's all me now.

C-C-C-COLD! OK, weather-wise last Saturday could have been better. It was 26 degrees and cloudy when we arrived at the Texarkana Gun Club for the very first Steel Challenge match, and actually got colder before the morning was over if you can believe that. But even though it was a "bit nippy" out, we still had 26 shooters in our first match attempt of this kind.

Last night my son Tyler and I finished the first 100 rounds (pictured below) of hand-loaded ammunition just in time for this weekends first ever Steel Challenge match at the Texarkana Gun Club.

Even though it's not quite over yet, you won't hear me griping about that long, hard winter we've had. Except for still being just too dry around here, it's been a pretty darn mild winter so far. So no excuses on why I haven't been out practicing more, other than Christmas eating all my shooting funds.

Steel Challenge update: Two weekends ago we headed south to Longview, TX for the “Steel Challenge” match at the East Texas Rifle and Pistol Club. As predicted, fun was in fact had by all.