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Awful Shooting Squad – The Beginning

January 3rd, 2010 by foghorn in Awful Shooting Squad, Guns, Travel

A couple months ago, one of the guys on the Cavalry Arms competition team was talking to me and telling me about how much fun he was having running a tactical rifle competition team. He showed me some videos of past competitions, and I was extremely interested.I have shot competitively in the Olympic style before, with stationary targets and stiff jackets, but having to coordinate moving, shooting, communication with 3 other guys, and solving problems as they came along seemed like a challenge I couldn’t pass up.

Here are a couple of the videos:

One week later, I had organized not one, not two, but three full teams for a competition in Texas coming up in March. With 4 guys on each team, our 12 man group came up with the name “Awful Shooting Squad,” registered for the competition, and started practicing.

"Harry," the A.S.S. mascot

My team in the squad is the Pennsylvania team, so named because all of the members are from Pennsylvania or adjacent states. The other teams, Texas and Team USA, are also composed of geographically similar individuals, but none of them seem to have been able to organize a practice session yet.

The PA team relax after a day on the range

The plan is to leave Thursday morning from State College, PA. From there, we drive the 23 hours to Waco, Texas, where the competition is being held. Friday afternoon, we take some time to practice on the range, and then check into the hotel. The competition runs from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon, which puts the team back in State College Monday evening.

At least, that’s the plan.