One more. My favorite matches are the ones that I win, lol. I am a competitive fellow. All the things I do or have done for fun had either a element of competition or required extreme mental focus or both. Road racing, dirt bike racing, martial arts, IPSC pistol, Motorcycle riding/racing, flying aerobatics, fly fishing, hunting, etc. Some of my most favorite things are to take a tool that is obsolete, or outdated and win when I should not be able to. Example is when I used to bring a 80+ yr old beat up Winchester 52 with the bbl cut short, and a 3lb trigger and a vintage scope to a winter BR series at our club. I started winning with that old fossil and today half the shooters are using 52's. I used to race an old outdated Honda MC in road race events and did very well with it. When I went to a modern updated superbike, I was doing great but the fun factgor got diminished somehow. One event this past Halloween was a candy shoot our local club sponsored. The tgts were one piece of candy corn at 25y, one piece of candy corn at 50y, a little half inch candy pumpkin at 75y and 100y. We each got six shots to hit each tgt one time. Shots not taken were a bonus point for each. Unlimited time. There were four out of 16 shooters who hit all four with six shots. Each of use taking our last shot to hit the 100y tgt. It was windy enough that the 100y shot was not easy.
That led to a shoot-off. We got 3 shots to hit the 100y tgt only. Same rules. Two shooters got it on the 3rd shot. I hit it on the first shot which won the stage and gave me two more bonus points for the two unused shots. I got 2nd place in the 2nd stage but the overall was based on total points for both stages and that made me the overall winner. I was stoked about the win against some really good shooter with some great rifles but then they told me that the prize for winning was $600. That was a great bonus. Being the cocky, smarta$$, SOB that I can sometimes be, I thanked the match sponsors for a fun event and asked when they were going to do it again? They said about once each Qtr. I said, "let me know when it will be. I will bring my good rifle, next time."