February Match

Shot the monthly match on Sunday. Had three alibi's, all light strikes, so I think the izzy will be headed back to EAA for head-space adjustment. Was using Eley Sport. Still shot well, posted my first match score over 800 and won outright two of the sections of the 22 match. Of course some of our better shooters were gone; none of the experts or masters were shooting.

But overall a positive result and continued progress. Shot the 45 portion of the match with my STI Spartan and really struggled in rapid fire with jerking the trigger. Tried using some of Brian Zins ammo but it wouldn't cycle the Spartan which has a 18 pound spring now. Switched to Stan Chen's ASYM Practical Match which I use on the short line and it cycled fine except for one failure to eject where the empty round hung up on the scope mount between the slide. Otherwise the Spartan seems to be pretty reliable using FMJ rounds.