United States Practical Shooting Association

Just as background, each competitor has to knock over all steel targets, and put two bullet holes in each tan-colored target without hitting any white (penalty) targets.

On the second day of building and testing the stages, I barely beat the wind coming in to look at Stages 10-13. Two of them  feature looooong rifle shots. I used the telephoto lens (clumsily) to look out at the five steel targets on the distant mountainside. You can barely see them!

These long-shot stages are often difficult to use for videos because they can drag on for a couple of minutes while a competitor struggles again and again to hit those distant targets.

It is those stages, however, which often determine the match winners.

Day 1

The winds dropped in the late morning of the first day of shooting, and I was able to catch up with a squad, which included some old friends from my competing days.

They happened to be shooting two stages, which include the long rifle shots at big steel rocker targets up on the hillside.

While we can't see the targets very well, the range officers have spotting scopes and call out, "Hit!" each time a shooter hits one of the targets.

As always, I'm furious with the Chinese drone-makers for not putting audio in the !#!$!%!^! camera!