Guy Sauvage didn’t want to board an aircraft and fly to Elis, Greece; the Stadium. Instead he drove his 2017 navy blue Citroen C4 Cactus compact SUV from Southern France through Italy to the port of Brindisi in the southern Apulia Region. He boarded a ferry headed to Sami, Kephalonia, Greece. Once in Sami, he had a two hour layover before continuing to Patras, Achaea, Greece. He took time to get a meal from a small cafe in Sami. This was a beautiful locale, quiet, warm and free from all the crazy shit going on in the world.

Patras was a beautiful Aegean City port on the north side of the Peloponnese region of Greece. Guy appreciated the mix of modern architecture with the remnants of the old world. He drove the Cactus along the coastal highway 5 and E55 until he reached the Stadium. Once at the Stadium, he parked his automobile in the lot and carried his duffel bag and rucksack to the barracks. After stowing his equipment, he felt he needed some trigger time.

Guy wore his hip holster with the Glock 17 and carried two boxes of 9mm ammunition. He had only four magazines on him. He loaded his magazines. Each held seventeen rounds which left thirty-two rounds loose in a box. He placed a standard black silhouette target on the stand down range and stood behind the firing port roughly 25 yards away. To warm up, he fired the first magazine at the target. With his first magazine, he put five rounds inside the number nine circle in the head and ten rounds inside the number nine circle in the body. One round landed in the number eight circle and one in the number seven.

Although he was accustomed to putting everything either around the X or at least inside the number nine circle, he did not beat himself up over it. After replacing the magazine, he was able to put eight rounds inside the number nine circle in the head with two in the X and nine rounds in the number nine circle in the body with four in the X. He was happier with this outcome. He pulled the target back and placed eight steel plates on a shelf, standing up at the far end of the pistol range. He then inserted the remaining thirty-two rounds in the two magazines he emptied.

This next drill, he holstered his pistol and set a stopwatch with his left hand. After triggering the stopwatch, he placed it on the stand in front of him, drew his sidearm and rapidly engaged the eight plates. As he squeezed the trigger in rapid succession, he could hear the successive [i]plinks[/i] of lead striking steel. He squeezed off eight rounds as quick as he could, reholstered his pistol, grabbed the stopwatch and stopped it. He picked it up and looked at the time. It was 10.8 seconds. Naturally, this included time spent having to pick up the stopwatch, put it down, draw his weapon and put it away. In his opinion, it was too slow, but it would be easier to do if he had a partner to operate the stopwatch for him. He would continue to shoot the plates until he ran out of ammo.