Three gun match review from Birchwood Three gun Championships in Ancho

[Alaskapopo]

Dale hosted a great match at Birchwood Shooting Range in Anchorage Alaska. One of the best matches I have been to in the state. I had a lot of fun. Lots of cool sponsors. I would especially like to thank STI for the frame kit I won. Lots of cool sponsors there and I will let Dale list them out for a thank you. There were 34 shooters in all with 9 great stages. There was also a shoot off for Miltiary LEO folks and among the division winners to see who went to the prize table first. 1st place open, tactical and production all did a man on man shoot off with 22lr AR rifles. It was fun to watch. My friend 9x23guy looked like Daniel Horner while he was sprinting up to the table. Thankfully he won because it meant our division would go to the table first. Basically it was like this one big prize table that everyone walked and 1st place winners went first in the order of the shoot off standings, then 2nd place then 3rd and so on and so forth. This was a great match and I had a great time. In the military LEO shoot off I got eliminated on my second match up against a friend of mine.

Came in 2nd in open and 2nd overall at this match and won myself a STI Frame Kit among other things.

Long Range Rifle stage. I took 1st on this despite missing about 10 times in a row or more before realizing that I had forgotten to change to my 300 yard hold point. Dope. Fortunately once I got my brain un screwed I cleaned the steel from the second port fairly quickly. I was the only one to use the seated position. The problem was there was vegetation in front of some of the targets that made hitting difficult if you were not higher up. But those that tried kneeling and standing in the door frame had a very hard time as it was not that stable. I sat down and used my bipod and it paid off. In the last few matches my rifle stages at longer ranges has been pretty good for up here in Alaska.

I did just so so on this stage in the standings. I had a penalty on one target where I took a single head shot gun was in the C zone (low) so I did not have a AB or 2 hits on paper so I got a FTN penalty. I also did not game the stage properly. My plan went out the window when the timer went off.

[Alaskapopo]

Fun pistol stage. You had to shoot one of the poppers on the move. I finished ok here. Could have gone a bit faster.

These pipes are heavy and hard to knock over. This was the only malfunction with my Saiga in the match with 2 of us shooting it and it was basically me not getting behind the gun enough on my left shoulder. Finished 2nd on this stage. Its nice not having to reload.

[Alaskapopo]

This stage sucked for me. I hit the barrel which got knocked into the swinger slowing it down so I could not hit the last clay costing me a penalty. My friend cleaned this stage with my Saiga in 4.6 seconds the fastest in the match.

Really wish I had a second big stick for my Caspian. I could have used it on this stage as it would have saved me from having to shoot from 3 positions. I could have done it in 2.

[Alaskapopo]

Fun pistol rifle stage from inside a Cowboy action shooting stage coach that moves when you move.

I actually dialed my rifle in for 50 yards for this stage so I could make the head shots without having to remember any off set. It pays off to know your zero at different ranges.

Good stage for me except missing one of the slug targets. I should have been paying better attention o the RO’s hit calls. This was a total Saiga domination stage. My friend beat me on it using my gun. The other shotgun guys with tube guns in open were a lot slower due to the reloading they had to do.

[Alaskapopo]

This was a fun stage and it was nothing like I have ever shot before with flying clays from clay launchers. I got 4 of the 6 air born clays that were tripped by sensors you ran through.