Current mood:	tired
Entry tags:	uspsa

Shooting with a hang-over sucks... or does it?
I woke up at 6:30AM this morning with a mild hangover. It only got worse as the morning progress but I went to the match anyway. Figured is was my last match I would likely shoot before becoming a dad so I was determined to tough it out. It was not my most enjoyable match due to the pounding, red wine induced, hang-over/migraine head-ache. One of these days I will learn to just pass on red wine, it almost always causes a migraines in any quantity. Well I fought through the headache and manage to take first in Limited-10 (of 11 shooters). The match was our usual four stages with one of the stages being a classifier. This month's classifier was an old classic called El Presidente (CM 99-11 link to stage diagram/description (PDF)). In limited-10 I manged an 85.81% on the stage. That is Master Class shooting (85-95%). I am presently classified as a B class shooter (60-75%, presently: 70.73%). I did pretty good on my re-shoot in Production taking third place. All in all not bad given my poor condition. My theory here is the headache kept me from being overly talkative allowing me to focus on my shooting while not letting me over think the stages (it hurt too much to think). I certainly don't think I will make hang-overs a regular part of my shooting regiment but I think it does point to the fact I need to do less talking and more shooting.