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congrats Greg Jordan!

I ran a Silent Captured spring system all last year. Other than no spring sound when shooting, I don't know that it was any better than anything else. The whole setup is currently sitting in my center console in my vehicle, and I'm not sure if I'll sell it, use it for a new build, or toss it into one of my other rifles. I'll likely see how it's supposed to do with suppressed rifles first.

When I'm firing that much, I prefer to do it with a belt-fed. Bring the belt-fed and ammo.....we can be friends! If I'm traveling East and have to go through East St Louis, I always pack an extra 100rds of rifle and pistol ammo over the extra 100-150rds extra I pack for each caliber.

I'd run it standing with magwell pressed forward and handguard along the top trying to stand as "natural" as possible to make sure my diaphragm wasn't resting on the prop or crunched with me leaning over.

If it faded to pink by October it would work for breast cancer awareness month. :-)

I'd say cardio is big for your heart rate, but I'm maybe 5'10" with thick soled shoes and 255lbs right now. I think it just comes down to how excited you allow yourself to get. Not sure if that makes sense or not, but IMO there is a heart rate difference between "I just ran and I'm in the zone" and "I just ran and I GOTTA GOOOOOO." I can handle the increase in heart rate when I'm in control, but if I make mistakes and get flustered it becomes more difficult for me to control.

Handguard is neat and all...but love the red color and how good it looks against the black/CF.

I've never consciously thought of this while shooting, but have noticed I needed to get my breathing in check after holding it too long. While RO'ing other shooters, some hold their breath while shooting and others can't seem to catch their breath. I ran hair scrambles on atv's, stunt rode sportbikes, and now 3-gun. While 3-gun is a blast, I've never felt an OH NO moment where a slight mistake puts me in the hospital. I was used to keeping my heart rate and actions under control while looping out a sportbike at 55 in front of several people. Freak out, hold your breath, or breath too heavily and you usually get hurt bad. You had to control the crash to walk away from it. Make sense? Another thing I've noticed as I've gotten a little faster is that my times are usually faster if I duck-walk while shooting instead of trying to sprint from shooting position to shooting position. I reload my shotgun well while lightly trotting, but fumble shells when sprinting, so I tend to do better when I make my time from A to B a little more useful than just running. I'm not in great shape either, but if you can't lightly job 20-40 yards without being overly out of breath, you may be way too out of shape.

Need RO's? May make time this year and RO for local matches more.

We have a friend in Columbia that lets us use basement couch space. It's not far from a bar called Tropics......I will be visiting there again.

16" midlength Evo UltraLite in my new TacIrons rifle. So far it has shot great with 69gr SMK handloads. Gun is friggin light too, just a hair over 6# with Aimpoint T1.

Have to agree! Instead of getting butthurt when there is criticism, they take it in stride and seem to take it into consideration. Wish everyone looked at it the same way.

Fingers crossed

Yes......opinions, observations, and suggestions are bad! Point taken comrades, silence and obedience will be observed. This is EXACTLY what KurtM was talking about in this thread, or maybe another. Constructive criticism, not just saying "you suck", is not welcomed and will be flamed. God forbid someone point out that the timing may have been ill-advised, a matches stage design may have been irresponsible, or that the use of a certain target type may lead to irregularities in shooter's times....because we should be thankful to shoot a match we paid good money for. I am fully aware that everyone understood they would have to pay for the match when they signed up, I was not dropped on my head and I do not wear a helmet when walking around. My suggestion is merely an observation, that if registration had been planned for the Saturday after thanksgiving, with payment requested within 7-10 days, or payment requests sent out in mid January, perhaps I would be less taxing or perceived better.

Gonna make a couple simple suggestions for next time. 1: Have registration on a weekend or weekday evening that is NOT on or near a holiday. 2: Have payment requirements no where near the biggest spending holiday in the USA. I know it's been discussed at length about the original registration date, so now let's talk about the genius involved in requesting payment for matches one week prior to Christmas, the biggest retail heavy holiday in this country. While I agree that 3-Gun is not a poor mans sport, many people have kids and big families to shop for. With my 3 kids, living parents, and grandparents....I'm kinda glad I'm not promoted to a match and having to put money out right before Christmas. Here is how it comes across to me, intended or not,.... 1: "We want your family members to know how important 3-gun is to you by pulling you away from them on a major holiday" 2: "We want to reiterate how important 3-gun is to you by having you spend $225-900 on match registration 7 days before Christmas so your kids know that 3-Gun is more important than giving them Christmas presents". ....."sorry kids, Santa is broke this year, he got promoted into the Southwest and Midwest regional matches" *all above quotes came from the voice I have in my head that is allocated for 3-Gun Nation related stuff, not actual quotes.

thats the best advice I've heard so far!

I'm hoping so. People are nice and fun to hang out with. All the super close paper at 1-8 yards and huge steel poppers at 7-8 yards reminds me of stage 2 at the ProAm. I shot one stage in 4.11 seconds, shooting 6 targets, all A's.....fast and fun. Weird thing I didn't know about......3-gun matches at the club usually start around 9:30 and are over by around 3-4. USPSA match started at 9:30, we were done shooting by 1:00. Evidently someone was grilling at noon and there was lunch supplied for our entree fee!

Shot my third USPSA match today. Had no idea they had a USPSA match each month, EVERY month, and only about 40 minutes from my office. While there, they asked where I was from and were surprised I wasn't attending an indoor USPSA match every Tuesday evening that is only 15-20 minutes from home. Wanna guess where I will be spending my evening Tuesday? Shotgun has been something I've picked up quick in 3-gun practice with all the emphasis people have put on it when talking to me about where people LOSE matches.Have been practicing shotgun reloads a lot at the office during lunches, with 8 shell reloads at 3sec standing and 3.5-4 while walking/scooting down the hallway. Rifle has always been my strong skill, but I'm gonna build up practice upper from Taccom with a Primary Arms Aimpoint t1 clone (t1 on my limited rifle and the dot is similar on my Vortex 1-6). Pistol has been my biggest weakness. I've never shot pistols much, don't own that many of them, and have now been to only my third pistol match. I've ordered an airsoft pistol that I intend to mod the grip to match close to my 3-gun pistol and use for offseason practice as well as practice during season. Planning to buy several sheets of thin metal that I will cut knockdown targets out with side cutters, then print off IPSC targets from card stock. Should make for some good practice in the office during two hour lunches if the airsoft gun proves to be accurate and reliable.

Lol, wrong season for me right now I guess. Between the weather and the job and working on my house, shooting is kinda on the back burner. Still can talk about it though! dry fire, shotgun reload practice, indoor uspsa (tho I've found a few, all seem to be while I'm working),..... off season isn't the wrong season. :-)

It starts around 3pm on your wedding anniversary and ends right around the time you wake up the next morning.

I would recommend buying a Stag, Colt, or Doublestar 3-Gun ready rifle. You're just getting started and going crazy with race parts seems counterproductive until you can actually put them to use. I shot all of 2012 with my near stock LaRue 5.56 OBR that has a 16" mid-gas barrel and AAC muzzle brake silencer mount while using the Aimpoint M4s that was already on it. After doing better and better in matches, I built my 2013 race gun with all the goodies and Vortex 1-6 scope. Still have the LaRue for hunting and home defense, and feel I'm a LOT more proficient with it. Once you have some time in and can notice the difference those race parts make for you, build your match rifle. Until then, I would save the money and spend it on decent optics and ammo. Little things like picking up Magpul's 40rd PMags and a few Taccom 5rd extensions for them will help avoid some reloads, which will do as much or more for you than any of the high speed race parts.

only so many things I would think you could do. I could shed a nice chunk of weight by removing my 16.4" Lancer Octagon handguard that is thick and a little heavy, but fits my hand, and replace it with a lighter round carbon fiber tube that is maybe 12" long. The muzzle device can be an area where you would be surprised how much weight is added. My Miculek comp works well, but is kinda heavy and friggin LOUD....I'll replace it with something lighter and smaller when the opportunity arises, same as the handguard. Have you seen the Triangle Rolling Thunder? Not what I would call light. And AFAIK they're building with extended handguards, much like others. Also using 18" barrel minimum for 3-gun I believe. Btw, the Lancer's don't feel that heavy to me, especially when compared to the awesome but weighty JP modulars. Never had one of those.....was comparing to the AP customs handguard I had. Decent difference in weight, I just like the octagon shape.

only so many things I would think you could do. I could shed a nice chunk of weight by removing my 16.4" Lancer Octagon handguard that is thick and a little heavy, but fits my hand, and replace it with a lighter round carbon fiber tube that is maybe 12" long. The muzzle device can be an area where you would be surprised how much weight is added. My Miculek comp works well, but is kinda heavy and friggin LOUD....I'll replace it with something lighter and smaller when the opportunity arises, same as the handguard.

I'm noone, but I haven't found a big difference for me from my lightweight rifle and my heavier rifle for 3-gun just yet. I rarely take offhand shots past 100 yards, and when I have the 18" heavy rifle seemed to get a little heavy and started to cause muscle fatigue which lead to more swaying and a harder time getting my hits. I built up my sub 6# rifle for the last Gateway 3-Gun match and was able to win TacIrons while also beating out TacOps and Open for HOA. Shots were kept around 100yards and under, but shots on paper to 60-80 yards were present and I'm not sure I would have been any faster with my heavier Tacops rifle.

The Razor HD 1-6 weighs 25oz. A typical mount from someone like JP or the like will be in the 6-8oz range. I started out shooting with a T1 and found my astigmatism made any kind of consistent shaped dot impossible.Too bad because I really liked it otherwise and the weight, or lack of, was another bonus. I have an astigmatism in my right eye as well, but have found it doesn't effect me much. My dot ends up like a teardrop and I use the top point at the sight in reference with power turned down. Never had an issue hitting the distance stuff this way.Ok, enough thread drift, sorry.