My first bowling pin match was fun, but I did terrible. The time listed is the best 2 out of 3 rounds added together knocking down 5 pins. I shot in the Unlimited Division using my Shadow II with a 2 lbs. trigger break and my Canik METE SFX w/ red dot. Next month I think I will up the trigger break on the Shadow II to 3 lbs and be able to shoot in the Stock division and remove the red dot on the Canik and shoot Stock Division. That would place me in the middle of the pack in the Stock division.
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The key, for me anyway, to these types of things is to not worry about time and just learn what to do and slowly get better at it. When I shot IDPA for a while a few years ago, that's what I did. I took the time to learn the rules, learn the best way to shoot the course of fire and slowly improved. This sounds like it would be a lot of fun and once you shot a couple times I could see getting some decent times.