SinistralRifleman

Just lube the target between squads or between shooters. +1 I also like them because it is one of the few targets out there that power factor makes a difference.

Holy necropost!

The big thing I see is noobs resting on exposed bare barrel and deflecting by as much as 10" at 100 yards. The effect seems less on hand guards, but it is still there if they crank down on them.

I deliberately shot SMM3G without one this year, using a basic M4ish configuration in Tac Limited. At that match I don't think it was a limiting factor, but they do of course help. I think the carbine gas system cycling more violently slowed me down more than not having a free float tube. If your budget is limited: order of priorities should be match trigger, then brake/comp, then free float tube.

Lightweight laser cut hypalon chest rig by Whiskey Two Four holds up to 8 Taccom loa 2 or load 4 carriers. http://bit.ly/1rmPjEx

I used one in lowlight this past week, and in that situation it was worse than iron sights because the fiber optic did not gather enough light to work even with a surefire scout light on. The 2 Gun (rifle/pistol) Action Challenge Match here in Tucson is allowing them on rifles in Iron sight division. It is much more similar to using irons albeit with a very short sight radius than modern optics.

Unloading completely is never wrong at any match, and if you want to shoot the whole match it's the safest thing to do. If some people want to risk safeties coming off, that's on them I suppose.

My Beretta 1301 Comp article will be in Issue 13 of Recoil at the end of May. Thanks to all the people that talked to me at SMM3G about the history of 3 gun shotguns including Eric and Kurt Miller, Ken Anderson, Richard White, and Pat Kelly Really awesome gun out of the box. I had it for a week before the match and shot one local match with it then shot SMM3G as part of my evaluation. No malfunctions of any kind.

So here's my take on this thing after playing with it. The rear "lens" is equivalent to a rear sight, and the fiber optic is equivalent to a front sight. Unlike a red dot, there is a very narrow window where you can actually see the triangle. You must line up the rear lens with the fiber optic then cut the target in half with the tip of the triangle making aiming more like using a pistol sight than a red dot where the dot is super imposed on the target. If I were an MD I would allow these on shotguns along with iron sights in the tactical divisions. It's functionally the same as iron sights merely with a much shorter distance between the front and rear sights.

The way this thing works is more like a single piece solution to iron sights than a red dot IMO

While we're at it, what about this pistol sight thing http://www.tas-sights.com/web/8888/nsf/sbs.py?&_ID=6546&did=2087&G=6546&PF=20〈=EN

Here's a question was the Armson OEG considered an optic for the purposes of the sport? You didn't look through it, with both eyes open the fiber optic was super imposed in your vision. This appears to work similar to an OEG but cut in half so you can look over the top of it. Functionally is it different than bolting fiber optic rifle sights to your barrel?

They're sending me one to check out. I'm really curious if/how this thing works

If you view a match as a marathon rather than each stage as a sprint, I think it's a lot harder to get DQed. Perhaps that will make you fundamentally slower in some ways, but you will survive the whole thing. Every match I go to, removing the mag and unloading the action making the gun completely empty is NEVER wrong. Every match I go to, removing the mag and unloading the action making the gun completely empty AND putting it on safe is extra NEVER wrong. I'd personally rather spend an extra 2 seconds clearing a gun and putting it on safe than hurrying to such a degree that I get DQed. I want to get my money's worth even if it costs me some time.

Shot the match with the ROs the past couple days, here's my match videos for those of you that can't make it.

Has anyone tried one of these: http://www.seeallopensight.com/shotgun/ Would this be considered an optical sight for match purposes? It does not seem to be a traditional optic.

I'd recommend you have cases and uncase your guns when you're on deck to avoid exposing them to Parma moon dust more than you have to.

Underworld is pretty bad. All the slow motion shooting in it makes the trigger jerking very apparent.

The VEPR-12 is a dramatically better gun out of the box than the Saiga-12. I have a full review being published in Recoil around March. The followers in my SGM mags were binding in an area where the magazine body was narrower from plastic sink: as plastic cools coming out of a mold this can happen. I ran sand paper on the inside of the mag until they passed freely through. Take spring out and just drop the followers through to see where they bind.

The biggest problem with this show that I have is everyone can make head shots on walkers running at 25 yards away, but a chain link fence = armor and no one can hit shit with rifles on human opponents in the open. The rifles constantly missing sights and optics is lazy prop work too, they often remove that stuff for stunts so it doesn't break off and you won't notice it when it's falling or flipping through the air, but when someone is just standing there shooting it looks stupid.

Saw the movie then read the book again and Enders Shadow for the first time. I don't know how they could have done a better job in the context of a 2 hour movie. Make it any longer and it's too boring for modern audiences. The book takes place over 6 years, the movie maybe 3-6 months. They crammed as much as they could into it. While we don't see the whole of the psychological toll on Ender and the burnout of other students I think the heart of the story was still there. The thing I was worried about the most was that they'd just tell us how smart Ender is without showing us. They did show us and Asa convincingly acted intelligence and a wide range of emotions. I liked it a lot, and while I've seen people saying it misses the themes of the books I just don't see how it did

Team mates clear guns whenever moving and only shoot from designated areas: http://sinistralrifleman.com/2012/05/03/tiger-valley-team-match-2012/ http://sinistralrifleman.com/2011/04/19/2011-tiger-valley-aar/ I was disappointed it was cancelled for 2013 :-(

If more 2 gun matches were available I wouldn't shoot 3 gun much or at all. I've been saying this for years: http://sinistralrifleman.com/2011/04/27/the-case-for-riflepistol-matches/ I wish USCA would have went with existing equipment division rules rather than being so nuanced, it's just another reason for people not to participate. The 2GACM match in Tucson here standardized equipment rules around IMGA minus shotgun so any existing competitor can participate without swapping gear around.

Here's the brutal truth regarding sponsoring matches; the same relatively small group (compared to gun owners as a whole) of people shoot them. There are now more matches than ever and sponsorship requirements keep increasing. Sponsors donate product as a form of advertising; are they really getting their money's worth out of it? In a lot of cases they're really not, they do it because they themselves are participants or want to help keep the sport going. If you haven't seen a lot of Armalite stuff on prize tables, they probably don't have any of their staff actively involved in the sport and they're donating it to the NRA, a veterans group, or any other of the hundreds of sponsorship requests a rifle company gets requests for. Also donating something to have it sold for $0.50 on the dollar actually has a negative effect on the perceived value of your product. I've been on all sides of this as the guy handling sponsorship requests for matches and soliciting prizes for matches. Good will isn't quantifiable, sales figures are...how do you convince a company's owner to donate stuff for a match when there isn't a way to show how much money in sales will be generated from it?

It appears VEPR-12s are between importers or waiting for another batch because all the gunbroker ads are artificially inflated prices and the normal dealers are all out of stock