3 Gun Tips and Tricks
- Thread starter bluesclues
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7.62... Care to enlighten us on your match saver comment?I was thinking of adding one to my M3K.
pauls seems to have to most experience with this issue, I am sure he will be along shortly and can give a detailed expaination.
- Location
- Lower Mainland
great tips! Thanks!
LOL
RULE #1 of PRACTICAL SHOOTING
If one uses a matchsaver during a course of fire, and does not shout matchsaver while doing so, that person must buy the squad a round of beers after the match.
This rule supersedes all other rules that the match director may have in place for any given competition.
100% enforceable, regardless of acknowledgement of the rule (Onagoth) and no expiry of payout of beers.
The only thing that comes out of my mouth during a course of fire is usually curse words.
Lets just say, I owe my regular squad mates about a case and a half of bears each.....
hell, I owe guys in Denmark and Estonia beers.
1. Make sure your holster will retain your pistol while running, jumping, crawling, etc. I recommend a kydex one with some form of retention other than just friction.
2. Make sure all your gear is secure and won't fall off. It's tough when you get to the last bank of targets and need another magazine and you realize that they all fell out while crawling through a culvert or low wire obstacle or just jumping down from a roof barricade.
3. Pattern your shotgun with your chosen loads and chokes at distances so you know when you need to switch up chokes or go to heavier shot if able to.
4. Zero your rifle and understand your holdovers for distances both long range and short range. Impacts of height over bore on POA POI is good to understand.
5. Understand what canting your rifle 90 degrees either way does to your zero at multiple distances. I reccommend 25, 50 and 100m.
6. When shooting through a barricade port with your pistol, don't stick your pistol through the port, if you do muzzle flip may cause you to smack your front sight into the top of the port and smash your fiber optic if thats what your running.
7. When shooting around a barricade from the kneeling, keep your outside knee up, use your support hand to lock the forend of you rifle to the barricade and plant your firing hand elbow on your outside knee. Will make a much more stable platform.
8. Work to understand what you need in terms of slight alignment for accuaracy versus speed. By that I mean you need to know what kind of slight alignment and sight picture you can use to hit an full size steel IDPA target at 25m vice a 6" plate at 50m. If your looking to shoot at speed they are not the same.
9.Know how to rectify stoppages with all three guns. Nothing eats time like a double feed and not knowing the steps to clear it fast.
10. When shooting a Texas Star/Whirly Gig etc. start at the top and work your way down from side to side, if your good you will be shooting almost static targets. Starting at the bottom is your way to a very rapidly spinning target that is hard to shoot.
2. Make sure all your gear is secure and won't fall off. It's tough when you get to the last bank of targets and need another magazine and you realize that they all fell out while crawling through a culvert or low wire obstacle or just jumping down from a roof barricade.
3. Pattern your shotgun with your chosen loads and chokes at distances so you know when you need to switch up chokes or go to heavier shot if able to.
4. Zero your rifle and understand your holdovers for distances both long range and short range. Impacts of height over bore on POA POI is good to understand.
5. Understand what canting your rifle 90 degrees either way does to your zero at multiple distances. I reccommend 25, 50 and 100m.
6. When shooting through a barricade port with your pistol, don't stick your pistol through the port, if you do muzzle flip may cause you to smack your front sight into the top of the port and smash your fiber optic if thats what your running.
7. When shooting around a barricade from the kneeling, keep your outside knee up, use your support hand to lock the forend of you rifle to the barricade and plant your firing hand elbow on your outside knee. Will make a much more stable platform.
8. Work to understand what you need in terms of slight alignment for accuaracy versus speed. By that I mean you need to know what kind of slight alignment and sight picture you can use to hit an full size steel IDPA target at 25m vice a 6" plate at 50m. If your looking to shoot at speed they are not the same.
9.Know how to rectify stoppages with all three guns. Nothing eats time like a double feed and not knowing the steps to clear it fast.
10. When shooting a Texas Star/Whirly Gig etc. start at the top and work your way down from side to side, if your good you will be shooting almost static targets. Starting at the bottom is your way to a very rapidly spinning target that is hard to shoot.
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Look at what you are doing when reloading. It's easy to flub a reload (especially with shotgun) if you aren't actually looking at the port as you load. The rnds. you drop or send sailing past your muzzle cost huge time.
TIP:
Make sure that you are familiar with the scoring system for the match you are attending.
For example:
In "time plus" scoring, a missed target is (at our club anyways) worth a 5 second penalty.
So, don't spend 20 seconds trying to hit a steel knock down target when the miss is worth less than spending a magazine on it.
You do have to attempt it though or you will receive a FTN penalty on top of the miss.
Just little ways to game the stage....
Make sure that you are familiar with the scoring system for the match you are attending.
For example:
In "time plus" scoring, a missed target is (at our club anyways) worth a 5 second penalty.
So, don't spend 20 seconds trying to hit a steel knock down target when the miss is worth less than spending a magazine on it.
You do have to attempt it though or you will receive a FTN penalty on top of the miss.
Just little ways to game the stage....
TIP:
Double check to make sure that your mags are all topped up before you start a stage.
Nothing like grabbing a mag from your belt only to find 2 rounds in the mag....
After a stage with rifle I empty the mags I've used (if they're not empty already) and reload them with 10 round stripper clips. Fast, easy and no counting required.
It helps to prevent what you mentioned.
mississaugagunnut
Regular
- Location
- mississauga
Sorry, I had to stop watching, it was too painful.
grimreefer
Regular
- Location
- Vancouver Island
Hopefully it was the shooter that posted that vid poking fun at himself?
grimreefer
Regular
- Location
- Vancouver Island
Just saying that it's not gonna help get new people into 3 gun if they're afraid their stumbles are going on youtube. Not me though, I will be a rockstar.
Ask Paul about stumbles.... He is Queen of the swan dive.... Lol
