July 2026 GPA Match Report
We had 43 shooters come to our July 25th Galactic Pistol Alliance match at MCRC. This match continued our summer pattern of easy to build – easy to tear down stages, but they were challenging (3 shooters were below the initial par time). We were done shooting about 1:30 pm.
Winners of each class/division (from Practiscore):
High Full Size Optics (25 shooters): Robert Bradley
High Full Size Iron Sights (6 shooters): Gerald Douglas
High Compact Optics (5 shooters): Eric Sczesny (also High Overall, High Gold [EXPERT LEVEL] and High Veteran)
High Compact Iron Sights (1 shooter): John Champoux
High Limited Capacity Iron Sights (1 shooter): Michael Dawson
High Pistol Caliber Carbine* (5 shooters): Eric Jackson (*Division not classified by GPA)
High Silver: Shawn Morley (Also High Law Enforcement) (FSO) [SHARPSHOOTER LEVEL]
High Bronze: John Pelfrey (FSO) [MARKSMAN LEVEL]
High Pew-Pewter: Adam Fekete (FSO) [NOVICE LEVEL]
High Senior: John Edens (PCC*); James Elks (FSO)
High Super Senior: Bob Bailey (FSO)
High Junior: James Rittgers (FSO)
9 Veterans shot this match (Many thanks for your service to our country!)
No Lady Shooters were at this match (August match is ladies shoot for free if they mention this report!)
Most Accurate: Marc Richman, down 1 for the match, excellent. (Most Accurate are shooters that did not hit a non-threat target on any stage). 30 shooters (70% of all of our total) made the Most Accurate list.
Setup Crew: Don Rawls, Marc Richman and John Edens. If you enjoy our sport and shooting our match, it is absolutely the best and easiest way to give back. Set aside a Friday afternoon and lend a hand. We 3 (MD, AMD and John Edens) were able to get the stages built and get out on a reasonable time on Friday due to the toned down, simplified stages. This will continue into the August match. Starting September when the temps come down, we plan on going all out with props, doors, car, boat, moving targets and mucho steel. We won’t be able to accomplish this without help or without making some changes in the way we do things, like Saturday morning setup.
There is an incentive program where MCRC members that serve as SO’s AND help setup get $50 off their MCRC yearly membership dues for every 4 hours of SO AND setup help. See me for details.
Many thanks to our local MCRC Safety Officers (our match goal is one local MCRC SO per squad) and all the other Safety Officers and Scorekeepers. If you are an SO in IDPA or USPSA, you are qualified to run shooters in our match.
The GPA non-official match par time was 89.4 seconds. 3 shooters were below the par time. The official classifications have been posted on members GPA account pages per Chuck Limpert.
Galactic Pistol Alliance news:
We encourage everyone to join GPA. It’s free for 1 year and you get a member number (and classification if you shoot our match) right away. Go to the Galactic Pistol Alliance website https://galacticpistolalliance.com/ for more info. We had 27 GPA shooters provide membership numbers (up from 21 last month) at this match, many thanks to them for showing our report viewers that GPA is a legitimate shooting organization.
OTHER BIG GPA NEWS: Committees are being formed and planning has begun for a GPA Sanctioned Match to be held at Skip J Range in Anderson, SC, next year. MCRC has 4 representatives on the committees. The match will be the SC State GPA Championship or the Southeast Regional GPA Championship. This is exciting news and we will keep everyone posted as we move forward and get the date and details ironed out.
Stage winners:
Stage 1, “Dressing Room Danger” [22 rounds, 2 curtained dressing rooms and 2 positions of cover, single hand only in dressing room one] Eric Sczesny, CPO, 16.70 seconds, 8 were below par time of 21.24 seconds.
Stage 2, “Should’ve Stayed Home” [20 rounds, 2 cover positions, no non threats, L-R or R-L movement necessary but not mandated] Eric Sczesny, CPO, 11.03 seconds, 8 were below par time of 16.03 seconds.
Stage 3, “Distillery Standoff” [18 rounds, mags start on shelf, 4 targets head shots only, 2 cover positions] Eric Sczesny, CPO, 16.00 seconds, 2 were below par time of 18.81 seconds.
Stage 4, “Nostromo” [22 rounds, space pigs (cut down targets), 1 position of cover] Robert Bradley, FSO, 15.09 seconds, 7 were below par time of 18.77 seconds.
Stage 5, “Infinity” [24 rounds, shoot stage while seated, non-threats behind steel poppers]: Eric Jackson, PCC, 13.26 seconds, 1 was below par time of 14.50 seconds.
July Stage Breakdown: “UNSC Infinity”
This stage had 24 rounds to be shot while seated, two non-threats that a lot of shooters hit behind steel poppers, and there were 4 non threats total.
Take a look at it below and see how you would approach the stage. This was a stage that was built as designed and did not require any last minute layout changes. I’ve included a video of Marc Richman shooting the stage, he finished 20th of 43 and was 0 down, 25.47 seconds. 11 shooters hit a non threat on the stage. No shooters had Procedural Errors.
A FEW UPCOMING DEFENSIVE PISTOL MATCHES:
PALMETTO GUN CLUB IDPA (NEAR SUMMERVILLE) – August 15
MID CAROLINA RIFLE CLUB GPA (GASTON, NEAR COLUMBIA) – August 22
ANDERSON 2 GUN – August 29
CCSC (EDGEMOOR, NEAR ROCK HILL) – September 12
The GPA At MCRC August 22nd match will open Tuesday on Practiscore. The 5 stages will be posted on the sign-up page. We will have 5 squads of 12 shooters each for this match.
This month, the stages and match format will follow our previous “BUG Friendly” match that we held in August every year. All stages are less than 20 rounds total, and no targets distances are greater than 10 yards. This will be a great opportunity to get classified in another GPA Division for all of our shooters. So break out those Compact and Limited Capacity pistols and join us on the 22nd!
We also post these reports on the Mid Carolina Rifle Club website and the Mid Carolina Rifle Club Facebook page.
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[submitted by MD Don Rawls, GPA 2827]