I got the chance to shoot the RO pre-match of Hätilä 2022.
It was a great experience and I learned a lot.
Stage 8:
Get up and crawl through the tunnel, load the rifle and engage 3 targets (General/Blue, Artillery Commander/Red, Aide/White) in the correct order.
- I had a brainfart here and engaged the Artillery Commander first, costing me a 10p bonus. The were a little obscured from my POV so it took a bit to much time to get into a good shooting position.
Stage 1:
Drag the AT mine obstacle into position, grab the rifle and engage the targets along the wood path.
- First slip of the day XD. I`m not yet fully comfortable with the AR15 platform so the malfunctions slow me down quite a bit.
Stage 2:
Fire the LAW at the BMP and engange all the targets along the wood path.
- Again the malfunctions cost me a lot of time on this stage.
Stage 3:
"Fire" the mortar round take the rifle and engage all the targets across the road.
- Second slip and I had some troubles finding all the targets at the first shooting position. Again I had quite a few malfunctions and I got quite annoyed by it at this point.
Stage 4:
Drop the fired AT launcher, draw your handgun and engage all the pistol target across the road, while advancing.
- Was not a horrible stage run but I tried not to slip again so I ended up running quite slowly along the roads.
Stage 5:
Open the door, engage the 2 far popper targets and engage all the targets while moving through both buildings.
- I decided to shoot the rifle empty and treansition to pistol instead of switching back and forth. Being used to using the Stgw.90 (20-21" barrel) in CQB the 16" WWSD felt nimble enough to move through the rooms.
Stage 6:
Hit the first popper targets, throw the grenade into the building and start engage all the targets inside the building.
- We had to do one madatory reload on this stage and I decided to do it after shooting the target through the low port. The reload was pretty slow and I think it would have been smoother doing it just one set of targets later, before moving into the smaller room.
Stage 7:
Shoot the UTM rifle at the enemy charging you, draw the handgun and engage all the targets while moving along the trench network.
- My best and last stage of the day. I aced the run, making only Alpha hits. An indicator that I should have gone faster... again I tried not to slip on the sometimes a little uneven ground.
Overall I`m decently happy with the results. Considering I competed with some of the best shooters of Finland, I`m happy that I did not DQ and did not come in last XD
Altough there are 2 things I worked on since:
- My WWSD2020 suffered from PDQ-lever bounce, causing several malfunctions on several stages. This has since been fixed.
- The cheap boots I was wearing had quite a strongly worn sole, causing me to slip twice during the match when not watching my steops closely. Those boots are now put on infinite garden duty.
