Okay, long time lurker, first time poster... and I'll further devalue my post by stating that I am not a 3-gunner. So obviously I won't talk about a major match, but locally, as a potential new shooter (well, if I bought two new guns )...
I know a couple of guys with AR-15's, and honestly the most fun I ever had shooting them was not just pulling the trigger 30 times in a row, but a day when we set up a little "run-n-gun." Three targets, three magazines loaded with three rounds each. We put three rounds on the first target, reloaded on the move to the second, three rounds there, reload on the move, went prone and put the last three on the last target.
When I look at something like 3-gun (or even USPSA or IDPA, both of which I hope to shoot this year), I don't think of them as "training," because I understand that they're competitions first... but I do think that they should reward fundamentals like reloading (as opposed to avoiding it entirely and just hosing a stage with a 60-round mag). As I understand 3-gun, there are multiple stages, so (again, as a potential new shooter) I would be all for mixing up high round counts with low anytime, let alone now when ammo is hard to find.
Okay, long time lurker, first time poster... and I'll further devalue my post by stating that I am not a 3-gunner. So obviously I won't talk about a major match, but locally, as a potential new shooter (well, if I bought two new guns )... I know a couple of guys with AR-15's, and honestly the most fun I ever had shooting them was not just pulling the trigger 30 times in a row, but a day when we set up a little "run-n-gun." Three targets, three magazines loaded with three rounds each. We put three rounds on the first target, reloaded on the move to the second, three rounds there, reload on the move, went prone and put the last three on the last target. When I look at something like 3-gun (or even USPSA or IDPA, both of which I hope to shoot this year), I don't think of them as "training," because I understand that they're competitions first... but I do think that they should reward fundamentals like reloading (as opposed to avoiding it entirely and just hosing a stage with a 60-round mag). As I understand 3-gun, there are multiple stages, so (again, as a potential new shooter) I would be all for mixing up high round counts with low anytime, let alone now when ammo is hard to find.