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I chickened out this year and decided to just pay the match fee instead of RO this go around, I'm lucky to be alive after missing my wedding anniversary to RO in 2013. I won't know what to do with myself shooting only 3 stages a day. Andy and Paul, I'm the other Eskew, just to clear up any confusion. Semper Fi

Same as anything else, 1A or 2 anywhere. With the pistol in particular, it gives you a little bit of a challenge. On close range hoser targets, do you want to bust out 1 clear A, or just chainsaw the hell out of it? Ammo management vs. speed. To be, the best thing about shooting HM was having "Pistol Grip Pump" by Volume 10 stuck in my head all day. Ammo management (recoil management too) with my M1A will be important. It is a wild ride compared to my TacOp mouse gun, but it's fun

What's the norm for HM to neautralize a paper target with rifle? Sometimes it's one round and some matches it's two. I'm having this debate with a local club now.

I bought an M&P9 several years ago to gain round count over my single stack 1911 for multi-gun. Despite trigger and sight changes I cannot shoot this pistol as well as a 1911, single or double stack. Don't get me wrong I really like the M&P but when that dang "BEEP" sounds something short circuits in my muscle memory. I'm considering the one piece trigger by APEX to augment the previous mods because some say it makes the trigger more like a 1911. Please brow beat me now on what I may be doing wrong. Frustrated Old Marine.

It was a lot of fun, except the first three stages that I mentioned earlier.

First as an old Marine I should know that anything that will go wrong will when you don't want it too. Normally I bring parts/tools or at least have my trunk gun with me that can be cannibalized. I was at the BRM3G as an RO and on the first stage of the RO shoot my trusty AR crapped out. NO spare parts/tools or backup to use or get parts from, ARGH! Thanks to Brian on the Samson Team he loaned me his spare rifle lower, I felt like such a tard. Unfortunately, I screwed the first stage rifle portion and while going to get the lower I missed the walk-through of the next stage and was still ticked at myself for the third stage. Needless to say those stages sucked. Be assured I'll have spares at the next major match, maybe a backup shotgun too. Old Marine.

Got in at #175 Am, this will be by 1st Rockcastle Pro Am. If I have as much fun, and harrassment from Robert, as I did at FB3G 2010 it'll be great. Sent my check and waiting.................................. Semper Fi,

I've ran whatever I had laying around at first, 20" for tac iron, and that was 16-20" rifles. Now I'm running an 18" RL gas system 1:8 twist. I've found it a good all around setup, is it perfect, no but it works for me. The only thing you loose with shorter barrels is velocity which will affect energy transfered to target and bullet drop over distance.

Darth, I ran a Mossy 590A-1 20" Cyl Bore with ghost ring sights at 2010 FB3G. I was able to clean stage 8 except the moving slug target at 50 yds. I hit all the flying clays, even on stage 1. I used Win Universal #7.5 on light stuff and Fiochi high brass #6 on 4 of the poppers on stage 8. Fiochi Low Recoil 7/8 ounce slugs shot very well too. Hope this helps. Now go have some fun.

Oh no I've been discovered. This three gun stuff is fun and the shooters are as nutty or more so than I am. Looking foward to FB3G 2011 hopefully with my own shotgun this time. Hey did big Dan ever get his 1911 mags back?

Hey Blockhead, I see the picture you had me take didn't break the camera after all. Semper Fi,

Matt, Chill man, I was out of shooting competitively for awhile after my youngest was born in 1994. I was shooting a USPSA match the day my wife went into labor with that kid and now he is my shooting buddy and I still have the wife . We just finished FB3G together and had a blast. With three kids and one of those in college full time I still don't get to shoot as much as I'd like but I shoot with all three. Enjoy Jr while you can and take lots of pictures, you'll be packing him off before you know it. Semper Fi, Old Marine

The Corps still uses shotguns, they are using the M4 Benelli and the Mossberg 590. They are very good for house to house, a blast of full house 00 buck will get the job done at close range. I borrowed a 590A1 with ghost ring sights to shoot at FB3G. Now I didn't have any blazing times but I did manage to outshoot some of the guys with semis on some parts of the shotgun stages due to their guns malfunctioning or loading issues. Yes, we did have to shoot from the prone in the tunnel on stage 4. I shot left and right handed because it was easier than rolling over. I'm still looking for a semi-auto, haven't decided yet on brand. I did manage to master the weak hand 4 round reload before FB3G without dropping any rounds. (I didn't say I was fast at it.) Semper Fi,

I have a DOD decal and military ID, so do I just check in at the visitors center to turn in all the paper work??????

Thanks guys, I'll try the prome and side prone as well just in case. There's a lot of slugs to shoot at FB3G this year so anything is possiable. I've tested my holster and have it where I can run and it won't fall out, I've watched too many shooters trying to keep their hands on their pistols while moving. I want to go to a semi-auto shotgun but I'm kid poor right now, one in college and the 16 yr old is shooting matches with me. (FB3G expenses X2) I need to change my stock which is a 12" pull and I want to go to a 14" should I go to a standard or a pistol grip stock? Semper Fi