Tony Grist
This past weekend the family and I found ourselves in Wyoming to shoot the state and regional Action Pistol matches. Long, boring, windy story short, I took first in Production Optics in both matches, shooting my trusty LTT P30L. JAG was High Lady in both matches, and the kids helped score and run various stages. I didn’t shoot as well as I would have liked, but the conditions at that particular range are always challenging to shoot in, so you take what you can get.
In addition to the state and regional matches, Steamboat hosts a very strict revolver match. I had been wanting to shoot the match for 2 years now, but I did not have a revolver that met all the rules. No external mods were allowed, no chamfered chambers, etc. Though most of my revolvers are pretty basic, the bigger ones that would have been appropriate for a match were either too big or too modified. I went on a year-long quest to acquire an appropriate revolver and holster and ended up with this amazing piece.
Unfortunately for me, the match director decided to change the rules and allow full-blown ICORE competition revolvers and holsters to compete. The only problem was that he neglected to tell anyone except the people who he let alter the rules of the game. As a competitor, not to mention what I do for a living, I have a real issue with this. Cheating in fights is great. Cheating in competition is not. Since there was nothing I could do about it, I shot the match as I had intended. I came in second to one of the guys referenced above, but beat the others. On one stage, the falling plates, I shot a clean run, 48 plates down. The only clean run of the match. In the video, you can see just how ugly my draw is, trying to pull a 6″ tube out of a full coverage holster. That was not the holster’s fault, nor the revolver’s fault. In fact, both the holster, a G-Code OSH, and the K-38 performed brilliantly the entire time and they did what was asked of them. I’m just a little short to make that work really well.
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