2008 Awards and CQB

2008 Awards and CQB

On October 11th SCI-Fayette held its second Law Enforcement Invitational PPC shoot. 30+ participants fired a 48 round PPC course from 7 to 25 yards. Most shooters came from the prison ranks, but a number of other state prisons were represented and local law enforcement agencies. The match was well run by Sgt. Curt Shaffer and other members of the Fayette Combat Shooters team. This year I chose to use my Wilson combat CQB model 1911 in .45ACP. The five inch barrel and sight radius, I thought, would give better results than the stock four inch S&W 686 I used at the Beaver County match the prior month. The results weren’t too bad. I earned 1st place in single man Marksman class and my partner, Stephen Longstreth, and I took second in the two man Expert class. Stephen would have walked away with overall high score and given us first place in Expert had he not given away 60 points by shooting the left hand barricade with his right hand. That’s a big no-no in PPC where part of the test is shooting with either hand.

So, I can’t complain about the outcome. I have a couple more placques for the wall. The real winners and the reason for the match was to raise money for our co-workers in the military who have been deployed this year to foreign soil. We will use the funds raised to send care packages this holiday season. Good fun for a good cause! I look forward to next year’s match.