CHAS 3-Gun Match May 18th
- Thread starter Schecter 81
- Start date
I'd love to see it. Sadly though, I was not in attendance.
CHAS always has really cool stages.
Posted some quick and dirty photos... hopefully nothing with serial #'s or faces showing.
http://bachelortips.net/chas-3gun-may18-pt-1/
http://bachelortips.net/chas-3gun-may18-pt-2/
Didn't get a chance to get a good photo of press pass' knee pads ...or of the pink quick loader and walther ppq navy i borrowed from my sister.... who brings only 1 of their own guns to a 3 gun... I did bring 3 pens though!
Nice pics, thanks for sharing them!
Schecter 81
Regular
- Location
- Edmonton Area
I have a pile of video from it, but I only have my work computer running right now. Once I get my computer back (should be this week) I will post some videos. I have TVPressPass, Sosa, and a few others in there. Because it was a huge stage the videos are quite long though so I will just post links to them. Thanks to everyone who came out. Next match we will make sure to have more than one stage set up to get some more shooting done. As it was though, a lot of guys still didnt bring enough ammo!
TV-PressPass
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Mountains, Alberta
Okay! Here's the rough edit of my run pulled from the face-cameras.
A basic rundown of the course of fire as best I can remember:
- start with rifle and pistol loaded, shotgun staged at the second barrel inside the house
- first four ports are all paper targets to be engaged with rifle
- dump the rifle, draw your pistol, and engage the drop-target from the centre of the house.
- shooters choice to go left or right, and clear pistol targets up to the shotgun barrel
- at this point you must clear and reholster your pistol, go back and retrieve your rifle, and move up to the 9-hole wall that was blocked by the drop target
- downrange 80 yards are 4 steel targets
- the shooter must make two hits on a steel, then transition to another shooting window. no window can be re-used. The entire sequence happens twice, so each steel must have 4 hits total, and all but one shooting window in the 9-hole wall must be used.
- dump the rifle and pickup your shotgun
- engage the MGM steel coffins with target load, starting at the rightmost window and shooting targets as they become visible.
- knock out the Whirly-Gig
- switch to slug loads, leave the house for the furthest forward barrier
- 4 hits on the steel torso, one from each position on the forward barrier
Done!
This event was a ton of fun, and it was stellar prep for the MGM Ironman for 2 reasons:
1. CHAS recently bought a bunch of fricken sweet MGM Steel. Those poppers and the whirli-gig are both things I'll have to shoot in Idaho. So its great to get a sneak peak at how some of these work. (great example: shoot the whirligig targets starting at the top to minimize the amount of spin)
2. This stage was long! If you can sit through the video, it's a full 5 minutes shooting! All 10 stages of the Ironman are supposed to be a similar length. I learned that it doesn't matter how breezy it is: you better take your hoodie off before you go into the stage!
A few personal notes:
- I fricken love the Mka 1919, and its been feeding great, but getting the big mags to seat can be a challenge. I'm going to need to tweak one a little more (s.o.b. fell out twice!) and slap em hard when reloading.
- I need to put the retention back on my mag pouches. When I sprint, I sprint. The day before at WRAS I dumped one shotgun mag in the dirt.
- The Tavor height over bore makes narrow windows a challenge! I had one really successful canted window, and one not-so-successful. I solved it, but I definitely think a low-to-bore reflex sight might be worthwhile.
- I need more mag carriage! I wasn't picturing needing more than 30 rounds of .223 on a stage, so I figured one beowulf in my rifle and one on my belt would be enough. Wrong! Retrieving borrowed beowulfs from short's pockets is neither fast nor fun.
A basic rundown of the course of fire as best I can remember:
- start with rifle and pistol loaded, shotgun staged at the second barrel inside the house
- first four ports are all paper targets to be engaged with rifle
- dump the rifle, draw your pistol, and engage the drop-target from the centre of the house.
- shooters choice to go left or right, and clear pistol targets up to the shotgun barrel
- at this point you must clear and reholster your pistol, go back and retrieve your rifle, and move up to the 9-hole wall that was blocked by the drop target
- downrange 80 yards are 4 steel targets
- the shooter must make two hits on a steel, then transition to another shooting window. no window can be re-used. The entire sequence happens twice, so each steel must have 4 hits total, and all but one shooting window in the 9-hole wall must be used.
- dump the rifle and pickup your shotgun
- engage the MGM steel coffins with target load, starting at the rightmost window and shooting targets as they become visible.
- knock out the Whirly-Gig
- switch to slug loads, leave the house for the furthest forward barrier
- 4 hits on the steel torso, one from each position on the forward barrier
Done!
This event was a ton of fun, and it was stellar prep for the MGM Ironman for 2 reasons:
1. CHAS recently bought a bunch of fricken sweet MGM Steel. Those poppers and the whirli-gig are both things I'll have to shoot in Idaho. So its great to get a sneak peak at how some of these work. (great example: shoot the whirligig targets starting at the top to minimize the amount of spin)
2. This stage was long! If you can sit through the video, it's a full 5 minutes shooting! All 10 stages of the Ironman are supposed to be a similar length. I learned that it doesn't matter how breezy it is: you better take your hoodie off before you go into the stage!
A few personal notes:
- I fricken love the Mka 1919, and its been feeding great, but getting the big mags to seat can be a challenge. I'm going to need to tweak one a little more (s.o.b. fell out twice!) and slap em hard when reloading.
- I need to put the retention back on my mag pouches. When I sprint, I sprint. The day before at WRAS I dumped one shotgun mag in the dirt.
- The Tavor height over bore makes narrow windows a challenge! I had one really successful canted window, and one not-so-successful. I solved it, but I definitely think a low-to-bore reflex sight might be worthwhile.
- I need more mag carriage! I wasn't picturing needing more than 30 rounds of .223 on a stage, so I figured one beowulf in my rifle and one on my belt would be enough. Wrong! Retrieving borrowed beowulfs from short's pockets is neither fast nor fun.
Great shooting Ed! Vid came out great too! Looks like I wasn't the only one dropping F bombs when my LAR failed to feed a few times.
I posted the raw picture files I had on that link, I think they will be too big to email.
Shooting steel from the ports my run went a little like this...
BANG.
RSO: Miss, right.
BANG
RSO: Miss, right.
BANG
RSO: .... Still right.
KGB: Reloading!
I posted the raw picture files I had on that link, I think they will be too big to email.
Shooting steel from the ports my run went a little like this...
BANG.
RSO: Miss, right.
BANG
RSO: Miss, right.
BANG
RSO: .... Still right.
KGB: Reloading!
TV-PressPass
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Mountains, Alberta
Yeah I think everyone got lots of coaching from the RO's!
Thanks for the Vid TVPP.
Man, even though it was only one stage, it looked hella fun.
The one lesson I have learned from past CHAS events, BRING LIKE YOU WANNA WIN.
In otherwords, prep like you are going for battle, but do not overburden yourself.
Man, even though it was only one stage, it looked hella fun.
The one lesson I have learned from past CHAS events, BRING LIKE YOU WANNA WIN.
In otherwords, prep like you are going for battle, but do not overburden yourself.
Big stage. Nice.
Thanks for the write up TV! We like long stages at CHAS 3 Gun. The ones that get your heart rate up
. We usually have more than one stage too.
- Location
- Edmonton, AB
My footage didn't turn out the greatest... got to see lots of ejection port and elbows. Not much else. But I do have a few parts that are workable for an idea that I'm cooking up. Maybe TVPP will be a sport and let me download his raw footage so I can put this plan in motion.
Schecter 81
Regular
- Location
- Edmonton Area
Here is TV-PressPass from the RSO perspective!
Owning that Tavor!!
Owning that Tavor!!
I like this video!
When I get my schedules sorted out and finally touch the dirt on a range, I will definitely try and sweet talk the RSO's into wearing one of my cameras!.
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Schecter 81
Regular
- Location
- Edmonton Area
I took this one with my own camera. Got a few of the guys that day. Ran out of room on my memory card when it was time for the CHAS Exec to run though! Didn't even get my run.
Schecter 81
Regular
- Location
- Edmonton Area
Sosa tearing up the course.
Finished up fourth!
Finished up fourth!
