Ok,
Although I promised some pics & video about Saiga I don't have them now. Been bit busy with my pistol & some other stuff. Anyways I have something else for you:
Last sunday Heggis & I participated in Hyvink?? Pistol Match. The prognosis wasn't too shibby since we had been occupied with a IPSC basic course for the last 2 weekends & had time to practise very little. Saturday we had a chance to test our reloads to match and the needed power factor was 160(= bullet weight(grain) * bullet speed(feet/second) / 1000 = PF) for bigger points. Heggis was happy with he's results, but I was getting results like 157-158, so I needed to do some reloading & go to the match with untested cartridges. Nice.
The second thing that I found out that evening was that the compensator attached to the barrel of my gun was loose. I unscrewed it off & cleaned the barrel & the compensator. After that I installed it back on with some loctite & hoped for the best. I had no chance to test the gun before the race neither. Very nice.
Once we got to the match they informed that they wouldn't be testing PF that day. Atleast if my new reloadings were not working I could switch back to those old ones.
Luckily I didn't have to, since even though those new reloads were bit too hot they worked rather well. Heggis & I were in the same squad and started in the stage 6 - the last one & the 2nd biggest in the competition with 120 points. Since the there were only 2 big stages the value of the one we started was about 26% of the competition. It was also the only one with moving targets, so we could of been a bit luckier on that matter. On the other hand - it could of been a lot worse.
Usually in IPSC-competition shooter want to start on a medium 10-16 shot course, where are not that many points available since the first performance of the day is hardly ever the best. Also difficult stages that include weak hand shooting & such are not that popular at all. But one has to start somewhere. Like said - the first one is hardly the best was proved by Heggis, who missed one shot there. One missed shot already cut's down 15 points from the maximum points. I did quite well on that one by shooting slowly, but accurately(at least in my standards).
Stage6
The following 3 stages were all worth of 40 points. By shooting well these stages you can't make so much difference that you could win the match, but by failure you can loose it quite easy. One missed shot on a stage like this costs 36 % of the points you could get on it.
Anyways Heggis was still obviously feeling sleepy since he missed one shot again on the next one. Bad karma. Right before I started to shoot this stage I somehow strained my other knee. It wasn't that bad - I could walk & even run - but I couldn't get it straigth because of the pain. Running hurted too, but not that bad. I guess it's gonna be ok by the end of the week. Anyways I shot this stage quite well too. Decent time & all hits. No video of this one. Why not? - Ask Heggis!
That knee-thingy couldn't of come at the worst time. Next stage we shot was a stage where the shooter had to go prone while shooting. So once again I did that slow & accurate thing. Heggis also had woken up & got he's best % so far. Well, because of the size of Heggis, it was to be expected that he wouldn't be too fast on this one neither.
Stage 2
The fourth stage was a good one for Heggis. It was the feared 8-shot-with-weak-hand-only-stage. he got a good time & good hits. The bad thing about it for Heggis was that it was only a 40 point stage. The same thing got to be a lucky strike for me, since I missed one there. definately something that I need to practise more.
Stage 3
Following came stage 4 - the one we shot as fifth. 70 point stage that wasn't built completely in the spirit of Practical shooting. Normally targets can be engage where they are visible. On this stage it wasn't quite like that. Like many others I was confused by it. There were 2 targets that could of been shot from elsewhere, but had to be shot from that position(safety reasons I guess). I lost some time while being mixed up there. Heggis on the other hand remembered that detail & got it right. Even with my sore knee I was able to move bit faster than heggis & got that lost time back with interest at the end.
Stage 4
Last but not least was the biggest stage of the competition. 30 shots & 150 points. The starting position was face against a wall that was covering 7 targets behind it. 4 had to be shot from the left & 3 from the right side of that wall. After a short run there were 8 more targets to engage in 2 groups. On this stage heggis got 8 points better result than me, but he's time wasn't as good as mine so he didn't get as good hit factor(points/time) as I did.
Stage 5
To your question - yes, every round was a hit
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At the end of the day I was tired & my knee was killing me + Heggis & few other guys were riding with me, we decided to drive home as soon as possible. Later that evening I got the infomation that I had finished up 3rd & heggis was lucky number 7. Not a bad sign for our Open-team that is still missing one shooter who still hasn't got his pistol from the gunsmith. He's gun is gonna be customed by one of the best 2011-gunsmiths Karl Prommersberger & all I can say is: XIIIIIIIT!
RvS is a frag spamming festival compared to COD4. Didn't remember how big part of the game it was.
But all in all I am pleased with this stage, no misses 
