My 3 Gun Match Last Week

[lenahorse1]

I am very new to the 3 gun but have shot matches all my life, last Sat we had a 3gun here at our club. Recently I have had eye problems and got my 1st real glasses, was I surprised. The pistol targets were plates and paper both shot from a crouch through a series of barrels, there was not a comfortable way to shoot these, I dropped 5 points here, then to a series of windows with a carbine 60 rounds with the closest target being 50 yds to 70 or so. We shot 2 to the body and 1 head shot on each, I could see!!! the sights for a change and shot it clean with 0 points down, then we advanced to the shotgun stages where I used my Mountain Man Caddies which are great. We had 2 clay targets, 2 poppers and 2 rows of plates, I had 0 points down here too, for a total of 5 down on the whole match. I was very pleased, I won 2nd and as a sidenote the winner had 45 points down!!!, he just shoots very fast and lots of ammo down range.
We had a lunch of wings and pizza included in the match and shot it again! The 1st time I shot a Glock 17, the 2nd time a Para Ord P14 45acp. I shot the match clean 0 down and was only 2 sec difference in the 2. I got 2nd here also. 2 seconds difference in the 2 runs total.
Pardon me for the post but it made me feel good about the match.
I shot a Glock 2nd gen 17- Rock River AR with EOTech-FNSLP which had been 100% since day 1-Para Ord P14--------
Larry

 

[jtischauser]

Nice! When I got my astigmatism correction contacts it changed the long range shooting for me a lot!!! Its amazing how much easier it is to hit something that you can see.

 

[lenahorse1]

Info here--- on the 2nd run I shot the Walmart 12 Ga Win ammo that everyone has trouble with, it was given to me so I tried it, 100% in my FN as everything else I have shot in it, I just keep it clean and well lubed with LSA.
We had an FNFAL, Mini14, M1 carbine and AR's shooting in it, the Mini14 was the only 1 with trouble and did not finish the match with it, we are talking about a Dec match with M1 Garands only for the rifle, our club is a DCM club and we have plenty of ammo and M1's.

 

[Wormydog1724]

My fn hates the winchesters. I haven't shot but a few Remington's through it and I can't say if it malf'd on those or not. It's about 99% with federals. I have had one malf in each of my last 3 matches, and for some reason its been on slug stages, sometimes right before and sometimes right after a slug is fired.

Congrats on your finishes! Welcome to the addiction.

 

[lenahorse1]

I de-burred everything on the FN and keep it well lubed with LSA, it shoots everything I have tried in it, the only slugs I have tried are Wolf,WIn,Rem. All ok. Naturally the Wolf were the most accurate as they are almost impossible to find here. They were given to me to try when I got the FN.

 

[Oldtimer]

Congrats on your finish. I may have to try and get up that way some weekend to watch one of the matches.