Isidro, Al Mutawah top FAST ‘Flip Side’ scenario – Garcia, Motlaq settle for second place

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KUWAIT CITY, Dec 11: This was another regular shooting day for the FAST members after the President’s Cup 2016. The day started by awarding the winners with medals and trophies wherein Waleed Al Mutawah won all three events from the Special and Professional Division on Practical Shooting and the Professional Division on Precision Shooting.

“Flip Side” scenario was a brilliant creation of FAST President Ronil Garcia with a lot of help from FAST secretary Archie Cajucom.

At the start of the fun shoot, Garcia stressed on the safety and briefed the competitors with the scenario. “Flip Side” scenario is different from the rest of the scenarios that was made before.

At the start, where gun is in Condition 3, both magazines are in the mag pouch and gun holster with both hands on the wall. The targets are laid in 5 different sections, wherein 1 mandatory target is set-up behind a barricade and will be engaged through an open window at a distance of 5 feet.

The shooter has to move from his left side going in through a series of targets that the shooter must engage 2 targets while moving or s/he can decide to engage all 4 targets while moving.

Moving back while shooting is very difficult and the shooter might end up getting a procedural error or disqualified if the gun is pointed in the wrong direction.

Going to the last section, wherein 5 targets are laid out with 3 targets flips sideways every 2 seconds and 2 targets are laid out openly. The shooter has to decide to engage all targets in the mandatory position or elect to engage 2 targets at a distance of 3 feet then run to the mandatory position to engage the flipping 3 targets.

An aggregate scoring method is used to calculate the final score for each competitor with a bullet in Alpha earning 5 points, while in Bravo and Charlie brought 3 points and Delta 1 point.

The time taken to complete the shoot plays a major part in the standing as the total score is divided by the time taken over the course to get the result.

The shooter is penalized and 10 points deducted from the total score for procedural errors and hitting no-shoot targets, they are be disqualified if they violate any gun safety handling rules.

This is the 2nd stage of the competition and as the winter season sets in, the heat is on within the competitors as they came in with high intensity and eagerness to capture the title.

Standard Category

FAST VP Cesar Isidro bounced back on top and tucked another win for the regular shooting competition which gave him an advantage to win his 2nd FAST Championship in Standard Division for 2016 which he had won last year.

He had a good time and recorded the fastest time tonight’s event with 28.42 seconds and collected 15 Alpha and 5 Charlie for a perfect shoot that gave him 3.1668 hit factors.

In 2nd place is Salem Motlaq who had a good run despite of a miss on his 1st attempt wherein he finished the scenario in 28.87 seconds.

He collected 14 Alpha and 5 Charlie for an overall hit factor of 2.5979. On his 2nd run, wherein he had applied a little speed that enables him to finished the course in 26.22 seconds which is a good time but sacrificed on his accuracy after he collected 11 Alpha, 1 Bravo, 3 Charlie, 2 Delta and 3 Mikes for 1.4874 hit factor.

Completing the Tough 3 Line-up was Malik Javed Iqbal who had a perfect shoot performance under 35.13 seconds after collecting 15 Alpha, 2 Bravo and 3 Charlie for a total hit factor of 2.5619.

Armando Reyes who placed third overall during the President’s Cup competition of the same category ended up in 4th place tonight and completed the course in 32.14 seconds. He collected all the alphabets with 10 Alpha, 2 Bravo, 5 Charlie and 3 Delta for 2.3024 hit factors.

Muath Al Assaf had a good run after he finished the course in 35.78 seconds and suffered a miss during the process together with 15 Alpha and 4 Charlie for a 2.1520 hit factors

Never to be denied, he had set-up for his 2nd run wherein he clocked in 35.25 seconds with 17 Alpha and 3 Charlie for 2.6667 hit factors.

Since he loved the scenario, he took his last and managed to run faster and finished the course in 33.00 seconds with a perfect shooting of 15 Alpha and 5 Charlie that gave him 2.7273 hit factors but will settle for 5th place as only the 1st runs are considered entry in the regular competitions.

Cajucom was way off on his performance tonight and proved that he needs to suit up more often for the competition. He came in short on his 1st attempt as he had collected all the alphabets with 9 Alpha, 1 Bravo, 4 Charlie, 5 Delta and 1 Mike under 32.55 seconds and managed to take 1.6897 hit factors.

On his 2nd attempt, it looked like the lady luck did not show up tonight as he had a gun jammed and collected a procedural error under 47.35 seconds wherein he hit 11 Alpha, 5 Charlie, 3 Delta and 1 Mike for 1.1193 hit factors.

Completing the Magnificent 7 Line-up is Anthony Eribal, who is also on and off to the range due to busy work schedules. He finished the course in 36 seconds wherein he collected all the alphabets as well with 5 Alpha, 2 Bravo, 7 Charlie, 2 Delta and 4 Mikes and barely crosses over the line with 0.3889 hit factor.

Professional Category

With superiority, Waleed Al Mutawah took on another win under his wings as he flawlessly finished the scenario under 20.36 seconds and collected 15 Alpha, 4 Charlie and 1 Mike that gave him 3.7819 hit factors for his 1st attempt. In his 2nd attempt, he mirrored his 1st run but perfectly finished it under 20.38 seconds and this time with 15 Alpha, 4 Charlie and 1 Delta for 4.3180 hit factors.

Garcia almost stole the top but came in short because of a contested miss on the target wherein he missed it by a hairline gap.

Nevertheless, he recorded the fastest time in the same category by clocking in 19.74 seconds and collected 12 Alpha, 4 Charlie and 3 Delta that gave him 3.2928 hit factors.

Mohammed Al Sadoon completed the Magic 3 after finishing the course in 21.66 seconds and hits all the alphabets on his 1st run with 13 Alpha, 1 Bravo, 4 Charlie, 1 Delta and 1 Mike that gave him 3.2779 hit factors.

He had a good 2nd run and finished the course in 20.04 seconds and collected 11 Alpha, 4 Charlie, 4 Delta and 1 Mike to give him 3.0439 hit factors but on his final run, he had a perfect shoot performance by collecting 10 Alpha, 8 Charlie and 2 Delta that gave him 3.6591 hit factors.

Humod Al Sabah came in short tonight as well as he didn’t get a good look at the target as he missed mostly on the flipping targets. He finished the course in 24.14 seconds with 13 Alpha, 2 Charlie with 5 Mikes that really dragged his scores down to 0.8699 hit factor.

Omar Al Ansari did not manage to get in tonight as he had an error on his loading. He loaded 15 bullets only instead of putting a total of 20 bullets in both magazines. Although he had 14.82 seconds, he had earned 5 Misses and 2 Procedural Error by failing to engage on two targets.

He had to take on the course 4 times to finally get into the rhythm and although he didn’t qualify for tonight’s competition, he had showed that he had a good aim an all targets and he runs very smooth as he finished the course in an average of 17.95 seconds and collected an average of 11 Alpha, 7 Charlie and 2 Delta that gave him an average of 3.3632 hit factors on 4 attempts.

Tonight was not an ordinary night as everyone came prepared and excited to see the new scenario that was set-up by no other than Garcia with the help of other team members who came in early to help and facilitate the weekly competition.

These weekly fun shoots would not be a success without the commitment of Filipino Action Shooting Team (FAST) officers and members. They are being guided by no other than Range Officer Wilbert Zingapan to ensure the safety of all the participants joining the competition.

Meanwhile, FAST officials had announced that all newcomers and members wishing to participate in the weekly shoots should come to the range ahead of time for a “dry run” over the course.

The aim of this dry run is to ensure the newcomers safety as well as that of all those present at the range. Those newcomers who fail to turn up for this dry run will not be allowed to take part in the actual competition.

On the other hand, FAST officials would like to invite everyone on Tuesday evenings to the weekly fun shoot competitions at 18:00 hrs.

For details, on all FAST activities, contact Garcia on 66368018 and Isidro on 99530301 or look us up on Facebook ‘FAST – Kuwait’.

By Ronchie Dela Cruz

Special to the Arab Times

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