3 Gun Match with old AR rig

[Griff Murphey]

Used my old SP with HBAR upper and Leupold 4X this last weekend in 3-gun. I am really old school with my leather sling and old 10X shooting coat. Anyway I did not do well overall, 55th of 82, but I did manage to be 24th in long range rifle with optics (72 shot optics). Long range rifle began with loading your AR with bolt closed. A girl shot before me and failed to seat her mag fully... out it fell. HAW! I thought, "Won't happen to me!" Guess what, mine did too. Well out comes the sage old advice about NEVER running a full 30 in AR mags. Also this lady was shooting an M-4 with pink stock! The targets were mostly 10" discs at 200-250 yards, plus you had to double tap IDPA silhouettes at close range and blast one Larry type at 80 yards, offhand. There was "gettin'up" and "gettin' down" shooting on a platform.
The AR platforms the younger shooters use are all racy looking with multi-rail bits. Lots of fancy new scopes even more exotic than the ACOGs. There were two ladies shooting; the other was match DQ'ed when she lost her pistol belt (a fancy modern nylon rig, so complicated she did not get it fastened right) and dumped her (unloaded) pistol on the ground.
They had a close combat course where you had to run down a trail and blast IDPA targets but you had to double-tap them. I had planned to use an 03A3 sporter with 25 shot air service mag but that double tap deal blew me away. So out came the poodle gun. Then at the end you had to lie on your side and fire your rifle held at 90 degrees. Just TRY that dry firing tonight in the den! This simulated firing from a gutter or through a barricade. Target was 3 mini-poppers at 100 yards, challenging targets anyway and I was happy to get my 3 in 4 shots.
Anyway if you have not tried 3-gun, do it. It really pumps you up and gives you some real ideas about how you would perform in an emergemcy. Bill Davison of Tacpro told us some interesting things about his work with the NYC anti-terr forces and gave us some scary scenarios LE (and us civvies) better be ready for. Big fun, TRY IT! If I can do it and I will be 60 this month, you can do it.

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