Rio Salado: Practical Long-Gun Matches In January

[StealthyBlagga]

Here are the practical long-gun events we have scheduled this month at Rio Salado:

3-Gun (Multi-Gun) Match: Saturday January 9th - PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED

We have been using electronic scoring for several months. To facilitate efficient shooter registration, we want everyone to pre-register for the match. Online registration will open at 3pm on Tuesday January 5th at the Practiscore website. When you arrive on match day, come to the stat shack and pay your match fee as usual, then simply go and shoot - your info will already be in the iPads. Even if you are not 100% sure of making it, it is better to pre-register. Those who do not pre-register will have to wait at the back of the line until everyone else who did pre-register is processed.

Sign-in on Saturday runs 8am-9am, with first shots at 8am. New shooters should come in time to attend the New Shooter Orientation at 8:30am before they shoot. To get a feel for what to expect, check out these videos from our previous matches. Our usual format is 3 short-range rifle, shotgun and/or pistol stages, plus 1 long-range rifle stage. Bring 150 rounds of rifle ammo, 50 shotgun birdshot (#6 or smaller), and 50 rounds of pistol ammo. THIS MONTH, BRING AT LEAST 6 SHOTGUN SLUGS.

We are fortunate to have two very generous sponsors for our monthly match: Carbon Arms sponsors one of the shotgun stages, provides "loaner" shotshell caddies for competitors to try, and they donate a $100 gift certificate. VLTOR sponsors one of the rifle stages, and they donate TWO of their excellent AR15 rifle stocks. All prizes are distributed by random draw from the list of competitor who finish the match. With typical attendance around 75 shooters, your odds of winning something nice are pretty good.

Tactical .22 Rifle Match: Tuesday January 12th & 26th

Registration opens at 4pm, with first shots shortly thereafter. Location is the Smallbore Range right behind the Activity Center. The rules are simple: it's a straight time match with penalties for misses. Pretty much any .22 rifle is OK - the most popular guns are AR15-clones and Ruger 10/22s. We have two divisions: iron sight and optical sight. Our typical match format is one "long range" stage out to 100yards, and two or three shorter range hoser stages. Check out

and this Dillon Blue Press article for a flavor of what we do. This match is more fun than a barrel of monkeys... bring a bulk pack of cheap ammo (if you can find any) and you will leave with a smile a mile wide.

Red Mountain Action Rifle Match: Sunday January 17th

Registration opens at 12:30pm. This is a rifle-only match run over the same course of fire as is used for the Red Mountain Action PISTOL match in the morning. There will be 4 close-range (maximum 60 yards), high-speed/low-drag, run-n-gun stages. To see what a typical match setup looks like, view

. The equipment divisions accommodate iron and optical sights, rimfire rifle, centerfire rifle and pistol caliber carbine. Bring 150 rounds of ammo and a quick set of legs.

Tactical Shotgun and Pistol Caliber Carbine Match: Thursday January 21st

Registration starts at 4pm, with a new shooter orientation shortly thereafter. The match format is four practical scenario-based stages similar to what you would encounter at a 3-Gun match, except that you only need to bring one gun - you choose either shotgun or pistol caliber carbine. There will be separate divisions for shotgun (Open, Limited and Pump), centerfire carbine (Optic and Iron) and .22 rimfire carbine (Optic and Iron). Any tactical shotgun suitable for 3-gun competition will work well in this match, or you can shoot a pistol caliber carbine (straight walled pistol calibers only please) or even a .22LR rifle. Check out the match rules for more details.

Run-n-Gun Rifle-Pistol Match, Saturday January 30th

This is a special RIFLE + PISTOL match (no shotgun required). There will be five practical scenario-type stages; four CQB-type stages on the Pistol Bays plus one longer range stage on High Power. Bring 150 rifle rounds + 100 pistol rounds. Almost any semi-automatic centerfire rifle and pistol will work, plus a safe/secure belt holster for the pistol. Standard IMA-SMM3G rules will apply. First shots will be at 8am. Pre-registration is NOT required... just turn up and shoot.

[StealthyBlagga]

Thanks to everyone that participated in yesterday's 3-Gun match. We had a huge turnout, which unfortunately meant that a few folks did not get to finish before the special 2pm range-mandated hard-stop. We hope you had fun none the less, and look forward to seeing everyone at next month's match when normal hours will resume.

Thanks as always to our generous stage sponsors Carbon Arms (Stage 2) and VLTOR (Stage 3). Here is the match video:

The trip mine on Stage 2 managed to maim half a dozen victims (or at least their score ). We liked this prop, and think it could be making a return in future matches. For those who didn't see it go off, here is a video of me testing it:

[Rookie]

Run-n-Gun Rifle-Pistol Match, Saturday January 30th

This is a special RIFLE + PISTOL match (no shotgun required). There will be five practical scenario-type stages; four CQB-type stages on the Pistol Bays plus one longer range stage on High Power. Bring 150 rifle rounds + 100 pistol rounds. Almost any semi-automatic centerfire rifle and pistol will work, plus a safe/secure belt holster for the pistol. Standard IMA-SMM3G rules will apply. First shots will be at 8am. Pre-registration is NOT required... just turn up and shoot.

Stealthy... do you intend to run with the "standard" divisions? Stealth, HM, Tactical???

Edited January 11, 2016 by Rookie

[StealthyBlagga]

Yes: The rifle-pistol match on January 30th will recognize:

Open

Stealth

Tactical

Limited

Heavy Metal (with rifle mag capacity rules per current IMA-SMM3G rules)

[StealthyBlagga]

REMINDER: Action Rifle-Pistol Match on Saturday. Five stages of awesomeness

[StealthyBlagga]

Here are the stage diagrams for Saturday's rifle-pistol match:

[StealthyBlagga]

The RIFLE-PISTOL match is built... should be a blast. We hope to get shooting a little earlier tomorrow... first shots could be as early as 7:30am if we get folks in and registered timely.

[StealthyBlagga]

Thanks to everyone that came out for today's rifle-pistol match. It was a lot of fun, and the shooters that were shooting by 8am got all 5 stages done in less than 3 hours... everyone had finished, and we were torn down and off the range before 2pm. Here is the match video:

Edited January 31, 2016 by StealthyBlagga

[Neomet]

Great match Richard. Stages were really well designed for quick resets which seemed to move things along quickly. Well done sir.

[StealthyBlagga]

Rifle-Pistol match results are up: LINK