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SASS 2018 Idaho State Championship
Posted by Junior Shooters
By Macey Magoo (16)
On the first day, there were lots of side matches, but I only competed in the Wild Bunch shoot and the warmup match. It was very hot, but most definitely worth it. I loved every second of shooting those two matches. I ended up taking home first place for both Wild Bunch and the warmup match! Wild Bunch is shot using a 1911, a .45 rifle and model 12 shotgun or an 1897 Winchester pump shotgun. There are two options on how to shoot Wild Bunch: “traditional,” which is where you shoot your 1911 with one hand, or “modern” where you shoot it with both hands. I shoot lady’s modern. The warmup match was just a few simple, but still challenging stages, where I got a little more time to prepare for the next two days.
The last two days of the shoot was when the real match was held. I was really nervous going into this match because I had been out all season due to breaking my right wrist during a volleyball tournament. I had only gone to one shoot before the state match other than the warmup match. I had never faced this kind of nervousness before any kind of shoot in my life. I was really unsure if I was even going to be able to make it through the match without my wrist hurting since it had barely been out of a cast for a month, but I was dying to get back out on the range.
I was really surprised how well my whole shoot went. I didn’t have any major mishaps that were going to set me back. I had a few errors and a procedural, which is where you shoot out of sequence, but those were my only mess-ups thankfully. My first year ever shooting state, the receiver bar in one of my pistols broke and cost me that stage, but nothing that bad happened this year!
State is by far one of my favorite shoots of the year. I get to meet tons of different shooters from all around. I even met another Macey, although her spelling was different than mine; it was Maisie. I almost never meet other people with my same name!
This year, I ended up taking home first overall junior girls and junior girls state champion! I was so excited to even be able to shoot this summer, but the icing on the cake was being able to take home a shiny new buckle!
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