3 - Gun Subclass.

[Rumbler]

I'm pretty ignorant on competition shooting. Can someone enlighten me to how this works?

Near as I can tell; you surrender, until this annoying buzzer sounds, then you change your mind, then run, shoot using horrible tactics, run some more, reload standing in the wide open, run some more, disarm yourself while standing in the wide open, change guns, shoot some more standing well framed in a door or window, reload while standing in the wide open, then repeat. Oh, and if it is a well constructed course, you will probably get to shoot from a portal on a barricade where you stick your gun through it before engaging.

Great fun. It is like an ultra compressed class on how to get killed in a gunfight.

[Dale Gribble]

Jeeze. But their are some good points.

Like most gun games there is good and bad.

It gets people out using 3 guns that most of us have for our defense, make you use them under some stress (time, competition). Like most gun games, the top guys have a technique that won't work well for anything but the game (lets talk about benchrest shooting), but nothing says you can't use better tactics if that is what you want.

[AB]

Rumbler's just trying to fire me up. Competition teaches shooting skills, not tactics. I would forward the premise it is impossible to replicate the level of stress of a match when practicing shooting skills alone. I've seen some folks who shoot, move, and reload as smooth as silk when on the range with a few friends absolutely lose their minds when the buzzer goes off at a match.

That experience of tunnel vision, forgetting the plan, and stuff going wrong is extremely valuable, I think, in the tactical realm as well. Everyone who EDC's a firearm should allow themselves to feel that at least once.

Of course, there is no rule that says you have to do all the things Rumbler says about the match. You can shoot it as slowly and methodically as you like, taking advantage of available cover, reloading while stationary, slicing pies, keeping muzzles out of windows (but there are times, both at the matches and in real life, you do have to get in the window to get to your target), and so forth. You probably won't do as well in the match as someone who is only paying homage to the clock with all the appropriate race gear, but if that isn't important I think it is a great opportunity to test yourself and your gear on a course you didn't design, on the clock, with a bunch of strangers watching.

So, it appears Rumbler did, in fact, provoke me to post longer than I intended when I should be doing other stuff!

[Rumbler]

Yup. The old man snookered you.

I'd like to try an experiment sometime.

See how many "30 seconds or less" courses of fire I can engage taking 8+ minutes before other shooters start fussing . . . . 'betch not very dang many.

[Dale Gribble]

I'd like to try an experiment sometime.

See how many "30 seconds or less" courses of fire I can engage taking 8+ minutes before other shooters start fussing . . . . 'betch not very dang many.

I have a better idea.

After the next Talon 3 gun, you and I and any others interested run a Stage or 2 with Rumbler's rules. We will clean those stages up. And who knows, maybe a new sport will be invented.

[Rumbler]

NJC is already doing that. See: "C-4".

I have a better idea.

After the next Talon 3 gun, you and I and any others interested run a Stage or 2 with Rumbler's rules. We will clean those stages up. And who knows, maybe a new sport will be invented.

[Dale Gribble]

NJC is already doing that. See: "C-4".

Yea, but I don't own any carbines.

Well I do own one, but it says Red Ryder on the buttstock.

[Tack Driver]

Yea, but I don't own any carbines.

Well I do own one, but it says Red Ryder on the buttstock.

Don't split hairs. You have a rifle.

[Dale Gribble]

Don't split hairs. You have a rifle.

And a gun.

[FLT]

And a gun.

But not a long gun ?