Ok, I am seriously needing a 3 gun fix.

[Dale Gribble]

So the life or death stuff that you're practicing for are controllable outside the range?

I think you misread. I can't control either, IE its not a scenario I dreamed up.

Sometimes you just gotta have fun. Nothing wrong with having fun while still doing something serious. That stage told me that, in a (highly unlikely) scenario where the bad guy I need to shoot with that particular rifle is 400 yards away, I'll take cover and wait till he gets closer. You can still learn stuff from the misses.

Point well taken, and trust me I enjoy fun.

I just view it as, a marine can get a hit with irons at 400 yards, no reason I should not train to be able to do the same.

[Danman]

I just view it as, a marine can get a hit with irons at 400 yards, no reason I should not train to be able to do the same.

As someone that attempted this and truly tried, I kind of regret taking my time on these shots. It completely fubar'd my score for the entire match.

I think Ken summarized it well - if I was trying to shoot someone at 400 yards, I'll wait.

[Dale Gribble]

As someone that attempted this and truly tried, I kind of regret taking my time on these shots. It completely fubar'd my score for the entire match.

However, if you had hit them, your manliness factor would have gone up by 50%.

I mean it would move you from girly girl to tomboy.

[easternrider]

If the target is a 16" black circle on white background and you got time to do that NRA breathing thingy.
If the target is full size human target in fair to good light.
If the target is 10" orange circle in bad light.
If you're running irons, red dot, good scope, great scope.
If you're running something that you refused to pay a bunch of money for.

It's a competition. It sorta tells you where you're at right now. Out of breath, can't see target, didn't know where to aim, couldn't get comfortable or get on target, gun jambed, mag jambed, mag was too long or too short - whatever! Now you know what to work on/fix.

Competitions are not defensive drills. However, I really don't see how they would hurt when you do choose to do defensive drills, or have to.