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You step up to the stage
and the instructions state that you will be shooting four shotgun
knockdown targets. To complete the stage you must continue shooting until
you knock down all targets.
You confidently load the
first two into your Coach Gun, fire without a miss. Extracting the spent
shell you grab for the next two from your shot shell belt and your fingers
suddenly don’t work correctly. May because you are concentrating too
hard on handling the Coach Gun; keeping it pointed safely downrange,
keeping the barrel action open far enough to reload, looking for your shot
shell reloads, etc.
Anyway you fumble the two
new shot shells and one of them gets into the shotgun while the other
falls to the ground. SASS rules make that fallen shell “dead” and not
retrievable. You grab for another shell to load the other chamber, fire
both rounds with one hit and one miss due to your frazzled nerves from the
fumbled reload.
You dump the spent shells
and grab at your shot shell belt only to find that you don’t have enough
to load both chambers again. You only brought 4 shot shells. You walk away
from the stage with a miss credited or worse a failure to engage penalty.
Next time resolve to carry
more shot shells either on your shot shell slide, belt or in a pocket. |
