Not for pistol bullseye matches.
My club has an "Action Pistol" meet once a month. More defensive-based than competition-based. Retired cop sets it up and it is free to club members. Maybe a dozen members will show up and he'll usually set up 3 "stages". No score is kept and it is more like "Who's next?" "Who hasn't gone yet?" "Who wants to go again?". Most of us will go at least twice and I'll usually go weak (left) hand only the second time. I should probably refer to my left as "non-primary" because it isn't really any weaker than my right hand...
I don't know how I would have racked the slide if I had to without making the RSO nervous. I mean, I KNOW how to rack the slide against something but I wouldn't want to run afoul of range etiquette by being unsafe...
No, his left hand is in his pocket (ie: TWO "pistols")
Hence the smily emoticon...
When Beretta first came out with the APX, I happened to walk in on a demo the Beretta rep was doing. He racked the APX one handed on his jeans pocket and also the seam down the leg. I was impressed. That first gen APX slide had the odd serrations that have since been reduced.My club has an "Action Pistol" meet once a month. More defensive-based than competition-based. Retired cop sets it up and it is free to club members. Maybe a dozen members will show up and he'll usually set up 3 "stages". No score is kept and it is more like "Who's next?" "Who hasn't gone yet?" "Who wants to go again?". Most of us will go at least twice and I'll usually go weak (left) hand only the second time. I should probably refer to my left as "non-primary" because it isn't really any weaker than my right hand...
The last stage consisted of kneeling behind a barrel (on the left that you can barely see), engaging the two closest targets at least once (I did three times) then back up on feet and approach the second barrel with gun up aiming, then back down on knee(s) and engaging the last three targets at least once. My second time through was weak hand and at the second barrel I ran the gun dry. Fortunately the slide locked back so I put the gun on the ground magwell up (keep in mind I'm kneeling) and stuffed a mag in then gun in hand, hit the release with my left index finger. It was interesting reloading "under pressure" with left hand only but I got it done...
The indoor range I go to most frequently has an RSO that hates my guts. He also does instruction for a fee. I shoot so much better than him he can't stand it. If he sees I signed up for a local match, he abstains. He also doesn't like it if I give others at the range advice/instruction. I asked a newb in the lane next to me who was struggling to get anything on paper at 15 yards, "Who taught you to shoot so badly?". He looks over at RSO and says "That guy. Three lessons". 10 minutes later he was at least hitting the paper. Grip, stance... doing everything wrong. He had a red dot and couldn't find the dot because his form was so bad.
