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Speed, accuracy, execution under pressure. At the Goat PCSL match, US Army Marksmanship Unit shooters stepped onto the range to test it all. First stage is a great opportunity to either get a solid run or crash and burn and then kind of set your match up for the rest of the day or the rest of the weekend to kind of be chasing what you didn't do on the first stage. So, it's very important to kind of just get on that first stage, really lock in a plan, and then just execute to your best of your ability.
Every stage presents a new problem. Movement, transitions, and decisions made in real time. From close targets to distant shots, every movement is calculated. Speed only matters if the hits are there. You've got some closer targets, which you can guarantee your hits on, and uh they kind of boost the hit factor, and then you've got your far rifle targets that you need to shoot some good points on. Do you want to drop any deltas or anything too crazy. And then for your pistol, you want to be smooth into the first position as you shoot on the move, hit those steel first shot, and I'm going to load to the last position. We have a moving target, and you want to shoot it just before it
stops and just after. That gives you the least amount of movement and the most amount of time. And then shoot the rest of the targets in the A's. Behind every run is repetition, refined through training and the people around you. Working with them every single day, being around, uh like I said, the best of the best. Um you know, you are who you're around. So, being able to kind of, you know, bounce ideas off of them and get stage plans from them. Uh that's what's helped me the most, I THINK. COMPETITION ISN'T JUST ABOUT PERFORMANCE. It's also about the people you share it with. But being able to still shoot with my dad, kind of like
how it used to be. Obviously, I'm in the Army now, and I travel with a different group of guys. But being able to see him come to every match and compete alongside of me, it's always fun. We run uh stage plans off of each other. Sometimes I'm right, sometimes he's right, and uh it's just good camaraderie. Be able to see my dad at just about any match that I shoot. At every level, the standard stays the same. Refine the fundamentals, execute under pressure, and maintain consistency across every run. Because in the end, shooting is measured in speed and accuracy.
