DO 3 gun matches require a black badge?
To the guy who said he likes a shooting challenge not a marathon, I guess that has more to do with taste than anything else.
FOr some people, trying to shoot accurately on the clock when you are winded from having bashed through several hundred meters of wooded trail is far more of a shooting challenge than your 11 second sprint stage that you can do without even tightening up your solomon speedcrosses
I guess this is the exactly same debate between sprinters and marathon runners have trying to decide who is the faster runner.
To each their own. Some people love to dive in hard on one very specific sport and go as far as they can with it, maybe all the way to the Olympics, if IPSC were allowed at the Olympics. Others are generalists that like to dabble, are interested in being proficient under a wide array of circumstances with a wide array of equipment, and aren't so concerned with being the fastest/best at one particular thing.
I find that IPSC shooters are about average when it comes to having their core group of exclusive IPSC shooters, compared to any other sport like Biathlon, Sporting Rifle, Trap/SKeet, and on and on.
The thing I like most about 3 gun matches, is the longer the stage, ie the longer the marathon, the less your kit matters, and more your skill comes into play. In a 10 minute long stage, having a benelli M1 vs a Remington 870 doesn't make a whole lot of difference if you can manage your ammo effectively.
IN the 10 second or less stages that I see most often at IPSC events, the best shooter in the world with a factory Glock will lose.
