The
last weekend in October was the Glock shooting match
at the Pima Pistol Club on Tucson's north side. Shooters
from all over attend this event, it's the only Glock
only event in Arizona that is sponsored by the GSSF.
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The match included the same three events as
2006
GSSF Glock Match Tucson, AZ. The first was Glock the Plates. This is
a more difficult one than you might think. Knock
down all the plates as fast as you can. I did
the worst at this stage. I'm glad rows of metal
plates don't attack me very often
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Next is the 5 to
Glock stage. Five targets at various distances,
you need to put two rounds into each target as
fast as you can.
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The targets are perforated cardboard so you
need to aim well to get a bulls eye on these
at any distance
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The Glock the M stage is four paper targets
and three popper style metal targets. Shooters
will shoot this stage three times (three strings).
Shoot two rounds into each paper target, and
knock down one popper each string.
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The popper style steel reactive target is designed
to fall down when it's hit. I've seen these get
hit multiple times with a 9mm before falling.
just one .40 S&W or .45 ACP will do the trick
however
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The Glock Armorer was there again to help diagnose
any troubles. I had two issues this year. One
was I failed to check if my Glock 27 had one
in the chamber during one string, which cost
me some time I suppose. And I noticed one of
my magazines is starting to fail. The plastic
around the lip is being cut. UI think it might
be from inserting that Glock 22 mag into the
smaller Glock 23 and Glock 27. I'll look into
that. So I didn't need his services this year.
see last years review.. now I use only glock
factory magazines.
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The people in yellow Glock shirts are the volunteers.
Very nice and helpful people who took care of
running the ranges, calling the commands and
running timers, recording scores and even taping
targets. I think they are all volunteers, I didn't
ask
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The Pima Pistol Club was the location
for the 2007 GSSF Glock Pistol Match. They
were here last year also and the turnout
seemed just as large this year. Shooters
come in from all over Arizona as this is
the only GSSF event in Arizona each year.
Shooters could fill out their forms at
the table behind the first shooting bay.
And once filed out pay and get their stickers
in the office between the first two shooting
bays. Shooters would use stickers
to label their score cards, shoot the stage,
and get a copy of their score cards to
keep
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This year I shot three glocks, The Glock 23,
the Glock 35 and the Glock 27 all in .40 S&W
they are standard glocks with no modifications.
I brought along enough magazines to ensure I
wouldn't need to reload during a stage
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The Glock 35 is the long version of the Glock
in .40 S&W. It's controls are larger and extended
compared to the standard Glock parts. The Glock
27 is the sub compact frame Glock in .40 S&W
It might be obvious but shooting these two is
like night and day, they are very similar in
many ways, but they shoot quite differently
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The Glock 23 (in .40 S&W) may be the best gun
of all time. Shoot one and let me know what you
think. I shot the best with it, although I shoot
it quite often.
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I didn't score well, my
shots were far enough away from the center to
get time penalties. This was one of my
worst targets. I missed a bunch of plates
and a few shots off the paper target with the
little Glock 27. I didn't get a chance to evaluate
all my shots they were scored and tapped up pretty
quick
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