Shooting in general

It seems that I have my good and bad days when shooting.  This year at the state shoot in Enderlin, I had what I thought was a pretty good shoot, everything was going fine until I got to stage 10 and had a rifle malfunction, cost me 4 misses.  Overall it was a good shoot but when I compared my 2010 time and place to 2011 I was surprised!  In 2010 I finished 33 with a total time of 309.96 for 10 stages, (only three misses), in 2011 I finished 32 with a total time of 309.45 for 10 stages, ( 6 misses total).  So shot faster but had more misses, average time per stage, (2010, 29.49), (2011, 27.94) I guess need to work on shooting quicker but taking that extra half second to make sure to hit target, 5 seconds per miss adds up quickly.  Regardless I am having fun.