Cheap 3 gun idea??
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herpinator45
Regular
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- Southern Ontario - Just off 401
I don't think it is possible to do cheap three gun - its more of a take your lunch to work for a few months instead of buying it vs sell your house and move into a refrigerator box to buy guns and ammo
I shot a IPSC three gun match last weekend and it was a great time. 9 stages and like 300 rounds of ammo.
Due to it being IPSC though, no one I saw was running "red guns" or Norc.
I was probably the person there with the more economical setups. I ran NEA 18" DMR (shared with my wife none the less) with irons, stock Remington 870 ATACS, and my shadow.
The overall match was broken into three separate "matches" with one for each discipline. Then was all broken down into classes for scores and then scores where factored for overall score in the three separate disciplines. Some guys had super expensive guns for all three disciplines, but really that means jack squat. It comes down to running clean and shotgun reloading (make or break)
There is always someone who could show up with a 2"x4" and a handful of gravel and they will still beat you as they are skilled shooter and a gamer. But to me, any day on the range competing and learning from some of the top shooters in our sports is a good thing.
I shot a IPSC three gun match last weekend and it was a great time. 9 stages and like 300 rounds of ammo.
Due to it being IPSC though, no one I saw was running "red guns" or Norc.
I was probably the person there with the more economical setups. I ran NEA 18" DMR (shared with my wife none the less) with irons, stock Remington 870 ATACS, and my shadow.
The overall match was broken into three separate "matches" with one for each discipline. Then was all broken down into classes for scores and then scores where factored for overall score in the three separate disciplines. Some guys had super expensive guns for all three disciplines, but really that means jack squat. It comes down to running clean and shotgun reloading (make or break)
There is always someone who could show up with a 2"x4" and a handful of gravel and they will still beat you as they are skilled shooter and a gamer. But to me, any day on the range competing and learning from some of the top shooters in our sports is a good thing.
There is no 3 gun org out that that only permits PCCs.
Some gun clubs may make this a rule, but certainly they aren't shooting under the guise of a 3 gun org, at best its an outlaw match.
To my knowledge, there are only 4 "3 gun orgs out there"
3 Gun Nation
USPSA
IPSC/IDPA
I put IPSC/IDPA together, because in my view, they are both highly questionable when it comes to what most people think of as 3 gun.
mebiuspower
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Morontario
That's too bad, I don't even have a pistol caliber carbine.
herpinator45
Regular
- Location
- Southern Ontario - Just off 401
USPSA and IPSC Canada are both under the IPSC umbrella as USPSA is just the American version as PPSA is the Filipino version of IPSC . IDPA is a separate entity
In regards to the questionability of their definition of three gun; its all subjective. To me shooting all three disciplines in separate stages with their combined score factored into the overall placing meets the criteria just as much as all three firearms per stage.
The one thing I do like about separate stages is that if you have a big hole in your game (my whole game is a hole) then it really gets identified clearly in the scoring.
Then again we are all just weak as some would say; True three gun is you carry all three guns and your ammo during a match, like Trooper Class at the MGM Ironman
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