I had a chance to go and shoot a low light match this weekend. It was a chance to run my carry gun as I usually carry it with the exception that I used regular capacity mags as I was in PA.
My gun is a CZ P-01 with a Holosun EPS Carry 6 and a TLR-7a carried in a JM Custom Kydex IWB holster at 3 o’clock. My spare mag is in my left front pocket held in place with a Neomag.
The first mag in the gun was a flush fit 15 rounder and my reload was a 17 rounder.
A few things I learned…
My index is tied to my view of the back of the gun. Finding my dot on my first draw was slow because I couldn’t see my gun.
Smoke from the muzzle severely limits visibility when it is illuminated by your flashlight. Transitioning to the second target in stage 3 took much longer than it normally would because the throw of my light was not huge at that distance so the target was not very brightly lit, but the smoke from firing 3 shots at the first target was easy to see. I just wasn’t easy to see through. If the target had been moving, I would not have been able to follow it and hit it.
I need to practice more with switching my light on and off. The beginning of the 4th stage was a disaster and it didn’t get any better as my grip was wrong from the draw which meant my index was wrong when I got to the second firing position.
The match mostly used USPSA style rules, but with IDPA style time-plus scoring with a 0.5 second penalty for each point down scored on the targets. Hits on non-threats cost 5 seconds, but I didn’t have any of those.