And here are the results.....
Mercy Prize: Free Pr weekend Entry and Bottle of Weapons Lube: Junior37C
Appreciate it brother. Not a great weekend on this end.
But I wanna be great, so I'm grateful.
I am grateful that I had the opportunity to demonstrate for a whole host of people beyond just myself why you should label your rifle cases in some way to prevent bringing the wrong one. I sincerely hope that everyone else learns from my mistakes and we as a community don't see that one again.
I am grateful for my having had the opportunity to demonstrate clearly "one man, one kit." it's nobody's problem but yours when your sh*t doesn't work/isn't here and it's on you to fix it.
I am grateful for my having learned the lesson (the hard way) that "extractors breaking isn't just a mumbo jumbo fairy tail that you hear from great uncles and grandfathers that did all their shooting with Enfields that fought in the war." it does in fact happen even on modern firearms.
I am EXTREMELY grateful that a failure like that happened at a regional match and not a national one, and that I have learned that the old timer wisdom of "keep a complete spare bolt/bolt carrier in your ruck." is not hocus pocus mumbo jumbo but actually sage advice that I will be following from now on.
But mostly I'm grateful to have had a weekend with good friends in a great community that are totally willing to give me a hard time when I screw up and be the first to offer everything they've got to help get me going again in a pinch. No less than 4 offers to use someone elses rifle, but unfortunately I don't intend to use any of those rifles at Meaford in 2 weeks so it would have been of little use to me.
Adversity into Advantage, everything that goes wrong is an opportunity to learn those lessons in a training environment rather than a critical one.