Almost everyone discovers that the Texas Star can be difficult to shoot clean, especially when presented in a stage which offers a challenging mix of IPSC targets, Pepper Poppers, Plates and The Texas Star.
Each target design offers unique problems for you to solve, and the results are often frustrating.
In the video below, you see four or five individual shooters as they address these challenges. The first shooter does fine on the plates and the star, and only misses one shot at a Pepper Popper toward the end because he rushes a shot. Everybody else in this video misses multiple shots.
When you're shooting a pistol with a 10-round magazine and the stage is set up with three 7-shot arrays, you may be excused for expecting that you can clear each array with no more than 10 shots. Sadly, this is often not the case.
Even Open-gun competitors can find themselves "behind the stage", needing to make an unplanned reload even though they have four or five extra shots to complete this 21-round stage. (I know I did, and I'm happy that nobody was filming my performance!)
You can view higher definition videos of this stage at Jerry the Geek's Video Shooting Gallery.
Please pay special attention to the large file sizes ... the first (HPIM4356.MPG) and the last (7a9star.wmv) videos are 15MB downloads, while the 2nd video ("Mike Wilson's Near-Perfect run on the Texas Star Stage) is a 6MB download.
PS: You'll notice that the last competitor, Norm, has a few misses even though he turned in an excellent time. Some people just miss faster.
Incidentally, you can see the match results here. This was Stage 4: Can You Say "Steel" Norm was 2nd overall for the stage, Mike W. beat my time by 5 seconds.
Very Nice Job, Mike!
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