3 Gun Tips and Tricks
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grimreefer
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That's pretty fast. I haven't done enough practicing but I can hit 2.5s from shoulder, load 4, to shoulder...but it's a rush with a good chance of fumbling. 3s is comfortable with no fumbling.
Some of us wear what we use at work. Definitly not as competitive as the guys wearing spendex and race gears (its a joke people) but we use 3guns as a ''skill maintainer'' more than a competition
Depends how competitive you want to be, I've seen some guys drop 1.5-1.6sec loads. I'm at about 1.9sec now. I want to get to the 1.5sec mark but its going to take lots of practice. Nothing wrong with a fast load someone that can go one for one on a shotgun stage with a 3sec load will smoke someone that can drop 1.5s but has a few misses.
Not sure if this will work but I'll try to put in a video of me doing a 1.9sec quad...
Still lots of time on the table to clean that up.
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grimreefer
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Damn dude...that's really fast. Watched your load 20 vid too. Seems like you can do that pretty consistently.
2 seconds is super fast to me but people can do it no problem. Once you get the hang of it, you will get faster. I was going to have my load port opened up even more to help out but local smith wants to charge $300 and I am not idea if thats expensive or not. Seems expensive.
You gotta start coming up to CR. There's a match every month up there, usually the first Saturday of the month. May 5th is the next. Get some use out of all that gear...
grimreefer
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It's a bit too far for me right now with family/work situation, but maybe next year! When does the season start and end?
And he can do that with his hands covered in mud up to the elbows.
It's not hard, you can easily do it yourself with a Dremel and some patience. At Crazy Steve's House of Angle Grinders a port job costs a bottle of dark rum.
Hahahaha Are you ever going to let me live that down?
Pretty much runs all year. We missed a couple matches because of the snow, but otherwise good to go.
Live it down? Au contraire, it was most impressive to have a partner who could do that, especially under those conditions.
grimreefer
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First 3 gun match of the season (and second overall for that matter) is finally approaching. Our club is just Open division (bring what you have). I have a new Derya MK-12 mag fed semi that I didn't buy for 3 gun...but playing with the idea of running it. I bought mags so I'd be able to...I have 5 x 5rnd mags for it which should be sufficient. Not quite sure it would even be an advantage yet. Five rounds isn't a lot, quad loads are fast and more dynamic.
grimreefer
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I think it's fine for the island as far as I know. I only have 24 rounds in gun and shell carriers for the pump (10 more in sidesaddle and buttstock that I don't expect to use but live on the gun anyway. What do you think about 5 round mags vs pump with 3 seconds-ish quad loads?
The mags are heavy. If I needed more rounds, the answer would be shell carrier, easy.
I'd imagine the quad load guy would be faster overall, though we don't see mag fed shotguns here any more.
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Personally, I don't relish the thought of going at a Death Star or spinners or flippers with only 5 rounds in my shotgun. Seems to me like flow through the stage would be a lot more choppy and broken. Also, if the stage requires slugs you'll need a mag or two just for slugs.
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grimreefer
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Yeah, good points there.
