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 3

For the first time, this final day featured sunny calm as the winds disappeared. A good thing, too, because the next day after the match was over, the wind was howling strongly enough to ground any drones!

I mainly followed a couple of squads, but tried when I could to break away to catch others on either side. Lugging drones the size of mine would reduce the number of videos I could accomplish.

The happy ending is that many shooters did get into these galleries to show their skills!