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TonytheTiger

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  1. Was it Taccom that sold that free floating, non clamping clamp? You could always roll without the clamp.
  2. Eh, I use a 40 with +6 or +10 extensions for almost every stage. If that isn't enough or going prone is planned I use a D60. I definitely prefer to not reload ever.
  3. Just based on the OP's last name I'd guess there's a good chance he's not in the US.
  4. I've got an M4E1 set, it's nice, and has kind of an "enhanced" billet look to it without the higher price. The only functional upgrades I can think of are the threaded pins that replace the typical roll pins and the tension screw that snugs the upper/lower interface up. Once installed the pin upgrade is irrelevant and most standard receiver sets I've got in the last few years are snug and rattle free without the tension screw. So it looks nice. I like it but haven't felt the need to buy another and am back to the BCM uppers now. Just re-read the OP, and it's about the upper that interfaces with a specific handguard and is a sturdier mounting system that is less likely to impart directional force from load onto the handguard into the upper receiver. JP, Seekins and maybe a couple other companies have a similar system.
  5. This begins with people almost universally shooting only garbage 55gr ammo and getting poor accuracy from it, combined with almost all 77gr ammo being much higher quality, and not coincidentally, more accurate. Then it turned into a myth of 55gr bullets being inadequate, rather than more accurately saying cheap s#!tty bullets that shoot poorly are inadequate.
  6. I've RO'd some suppressed shooters before. Turn the timer sensitivity way up, warn the shooter that you're going to be all up in their business when finishing a stage with a rifle, then still get dirty looks from them when I have to almost be physically touching the rifle with the timer to catch the last shot. Not fun.
  7. This just proves that it actually functions. Truly a best case scenario when buying a Mossberg.
  8. That all has to happen pre-stage. You've got to have a very rigid plan and then execute it perfect. Any misses or mid stage thinking and it all goes to hell quick.
  9. So as a caveat, I don't shoot in Open or Modified so I don't use a bipod at matches. But I own a few and have tested them with an eye towards 3G use. As cool as things like the Atlas bipods, AccuTac and MDT are, they are unnecessarily finely adjustable and slow to deploy. A good old fashioned Harris deploys quickly with one hand and no buttons, and no buttons to stow. The Magpul deploys the same but needs buttons pushed to stow, although I think deployment is more important than the reverse. Both of them are fairly light, stable enough for a hastily built position, and the Magpul is pretty snag free. For couplers I have some Magpuls, but usually when I want coupled mags it's more for prone stability than ammo capacity, so I default to using my Talyor Freelance coupled mags. Usually a 20 and 30rd coupled together to give me two options for height. The basepads have a sharp golf ball texture that digs in and grips. I like them a lot, which is good because they aren't cheap.
  10. I'm not sure if they ever paint the pipes. Definitely not between shooters, if they do between squads I don't think I've ever had the opportunity to shoot nice visible freshly painted ones. In the jungle runs they're almost invisible for the first squad, after that their patterns cut a nice path around them for the next squad to see. The thickness varies on the pipes, I don't know if they're just random scraps that someone runs through a horizontal band saw or if they specifically buy big sticks at different thicknesses. And yes, they are on stakes with a small flat welded on top.
  11. Yeah they are heavy wall pipes, very common in WI/MN 3g matches and this is the range that's hosted the Nordic Tri Gun match for years, and they're kinda famous for those pipes. They can be deceptive. You wouldn't think they'd be that hard but the more experienced with them you are the tighter the choke you end up running. But they have to kick your ass a few times before you learn to respect them properly. Nice things about them is that you can't reset them wrong, and since you barely knock them over they rarely fly off into the weeds and of course they're cheap.
  12. I actually spent all weekend being bummed I wasn't able to attend the match. Once I saw those stage videos I was significantly less bummed. To pay a major match fee, travel, miss work and stay another night in a hotel to have 1/3 of the stages look like a Steel Challenge MD got turned loose would've been very frustrating. If one person can set up a stage in 15 minutes it doesn't belong in a major. Agreed. Last month I shot and RO'd a relatively big club match. It was basically a pistol bullseye match with no options or ability to plan a stage outside of the very specific WSB's. As a fairly experienced shooter it was super boring to run here, aim really hard at the seven 22 yard small steel, run over there, repeat. But as an RO that ran a ton of new guys it was very discouraging. I worry I'll never see them come back. To watch ten guys in a row time out halfway through five stages in a row at almost the same time they ran their four 17 round magazines dry on 16 targets was not fun. Stages should at least be possible for newer people to feel like they aren't getting kicked in the dick the whole day.
  13. The times I've seen this stuff it's always a full sized silhouette or a big giant steel challenge looking plate, roughly the size of a silhouette without a head. Using the sight picture described above I just try to hold in the top half of the target. I can't resolve a hold any finer than that with my eyesight. Also, I'm not claiming I've got lots of first round hits, a few but not lots, I've witnessed as an RO many competent shooters able to get first round hits. 200 yards is the extreme end of things, but 80-120 yard targets that size for pistol or shotgun slug aren't that uncommon.
  14. I use a modified sight picture for those shots. Top of rear sight level with bottom of front sight then dead hold. Otherwise I have to hold around 1'-2' above the head on a full silhouette, which is hard to judge when you obscure the target with the front sight.
  15. Maybe on paper, but 3 gun is the only sport I'm aware of with 200 yard pistol shots, forests of 4"x6" steel at 20 yards obscured by barrels, death stars, offhand mini poppers at 100 yards etc. I see way more of that stuff these days than I do wide open hoser paper, and it's a nice change of pace to see some targets that let you step on the gas. Somewhere along the line a bunch of MD's got confused on the difference between challenging for everyone stages and just plain hard to accomplish stages.
  16. Finally watched some videos of these "speed shoot" stages. Should've been worth zero points.
  17. I think Leograndis has a simplified hit factor system for his PCSL league. Maybe. I can't remember, been a while since I looked into it. He definitely has a very unique target. That said, the speed shoot stages at 3G Nats were specifically designed that way according to the MD. You either hero or zero, not much in between, and they saved them for the last day to put the pressure on.
  18. That was my second thought. I haven't seen a scope that I'd want to beat on that didn't come with locking or capped turrets.
  19. I can't wrap my head around how that would work without a hole to wire through. Sounds like a pretty drastic fix though.
  20. IL just passed a bunch of garbage laws, hasn't had any effect on IL club matches yet. Non compliance is where it's at. That said, 3 gun has been slow since rona everywhere that I'm aware of.
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