u/-fishbreath

Greater Pittsburgh Gun Club is one of a few I count among my home ranges. I expect they'll continue to do a great job with IPSC Nationals for the next couple of years, and I look forward to shooting them all.

This was probably my best-executed stage of the match, although I had some scorchers in all zones. Not totally mistake-free, but with a 14-month-old at home, I haven't had quite the time to practice that I'd like. A bit more of that in 2027 and I think I can do most of the match at this level.

(And of course congrats to Pat Jones for eating my lunch at the shoot-off.)

I really like getting a film look straight out of camera, but reading that Darktable has a spektrafilm plugin in the nightly builds, I couldn't resist trying it out for a film look for RAWs too.

I'm a huge nerd for physical simulations, so I'm a sucker for this approach: taking the raw light values from the RAW, modeling the responses of film to light at various wavelengths, simulating the development and printing process, and finally virtually scanning the output.

Alex Bakken on the left and Alexander Doner on the right were about as close as it's possible to get in a shootoff on this one. Bakken got this heat by a nose and won the next one, but after going down 0-2 Doner (second to Bakken in the main match) completed the comeback to take the Limited shoot-off title 3-2.

I've got a lot more on Instagram @practicalshootinglive, with copies of all the video going up on Youtube and Rumble (eventually) under channels of the same name, but this one was cool enough that I thought even non-revolver-enthusiasts would like it.

u/Deveat pointed out that there hasn't been much revolver here in a while, so here's some USPSA action with my ICORE/IDPA GP100 10mm.

This was last month's match; after a month of regular dry fire and practice I'm starting to feel a bit more like myself. (Not that this isn't a good run, I just have more in the tank when I'm tuned up.) One or two more practices to go; the ICORE International Revolver Championship is two weekends away. After that it's back to the USPSA 8-round guns for the rest of the year.

This camera's main job is action photography, but I've also been grabbing it on the way out the door for walks around the neighborhood with my daughter. I find I'm really enjoying having a couple of film simulations programmed in for those walks, and I'm really happy with how these ones came out.