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For an hour, my toes touched bottom no more than for a few fleeting moments and, my ego is relieved to report, I was not alone in the deep end. Repeated blank looks were the only answer to the presenter’s occasional, “Are there any questions?”

Look on the left for the “Shooters to the Line!” list of the next five events, and also at the top of the display via the “Calendar” button in the main menu.

The difference is in dealing with the inevitable “Oops!”

In a staple match, everyone puts a buck into the kitty and a single staple into the center of each target. When the line is called, the first to shoot away their target’s staple wins. It has to be completely gone.

It’s a five-day class but it takes more than one to get there and I need another day to get semi-adjusted to the local time before I teach, and then about the same coming home. So all in all, it’s a nine or ten day effort.

It seems like no matter how careful I am, 1% of it goes where it’s needed and the other 99% goes on my hands, my pants, the table, the floor – and trust me, you don’t want to simply scuff your shoe or slap at your pants to get rid of it. All that does is encourage it to spread out and dig in.

Click the picture to go to ArizonaPistol.com, the scores and events calendar for Bullseye and International pistol at Phoenix Rod & Gun.

Speaking in 1962, President John F. Kennedy explained why America should go to the moon. He said, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

The new web-site for the Pistol Division will go “live” very soon.

If you’re out in the backyard in the early evenings, face west (where the sun went down) and look up and a little left. The constellation Orion is in rare form.