First bullseye match

I shot my first bullseye match this past weekend. This was actually an NRA conventional pistol sectional, so as soon as the results are in from all the sectionals, I'll actually have a national ranking. Given that I'm currently unclassified, I was officially competing in the master class. Which is pretty funny considering how I did.

My performance was piss-poor. My aggregate was a 538 (out of a possible 900.) I knew I was unlikely to be scoring an 850, but I thought I had a reasonable chance to score in the 600's, and it wasn't unreasonable for me to think that I would break 700. The scores I've been getting in the USRA postal match I've been shooting range from 225 to 241 and have mostly been in the 230's. The bullseye match was effectively just three times as much shooting, so it's reasonable to assume I could just scale these scores up and shoot somewhere between 675 and 720.

I did notice that I was grouping low on my timed and rapid-fire targets, to the point of scoring a number of misses. (One of my rapid-fire targets actually scored a 33, as embarassed as I might be to admit that.) This in spite of the fact that I thought I had a good sight picture for all of those shots. It's unlikely that my sights suddenly broke in the middle of the match, so it's probably something I'm consistently doing wrong. At least, for being misses, they were consistent misses, so I can figure out what to pay attention to.