Its easy if you only carry what you need? I've only shot a few 3 gun matches, but I don't remember needing "full kit with armor". I guess the matches I shot didn't have the cardboard targets that shot back.
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Its easy if you only carry what you need? I've only shot a few 3 gun matches, but I don't remember needing "full kit with armor". I guess the matches I shot didn't have the cardboard targets that shot back.
Hi,
The only carts to be seen are the medical carts. We can play BINGO on what SF Team has a guy fall out or drop out first....
Sincerely,
Theis
Hi,
While yes, yes it is.
Sincerely,
Theis
How much outrage if I hired someone to walk around with one of those big sunshade umbrellas, and keep me out of the hot sun all day, even while on the firing line?
Yes, the military uses gun carts. It even spends big money sending teams to school to learn how to use the gun carts.
In fact, the army is leading the way in making a better gun cart.
In fact, the army is leading the way in making a better gun cart.
i shoot 3 gun to augment training....which was kind of the point of all of these "practical" shooting sports.
also, when you see some of the gun handling ive seen.....body armor seems like a better and better idea each match.
same when i shoot IDPA, i shoot in my regular street clothes with my actual carry gun/ holster.....not a $2000 race gun in a bent coathanger of a holster with 7 mags on my belt.
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I want a robodog....
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They leak hydraulic fluid more than a chihuahua pisses when someone knocks on door.
Sincerely,
Theis
Tripods, especially in the world of rifle support have come a long way in the last 10-years. They are now soo much more versatile, and weigh hardly anything if you stay in reason. My CF Manfrotto with RRS Anvil 30 and tripod hammock is under 4-lbs.
Tripods have become very common while hunting in the Western US, where we hike to the game vs. sitting in a tree stand and waiting for the game to come to you. We also have wider open expenses where longer shots can be taken, thus needing the support of the tripod.
When hiking with full kit, rifle and pack, I carry my tripod with the legs extended to a certain length. Not only is it easy to deploy quickly to glass or shoot off of, I also use it as a walking stick, helps me push brush or branches away, but also aid in support on steep hills, or rocky terrain where ballance can be difficult carrying a full kit.
No, the point of practical shooting sports is to be a sport. One that has more practical basis than something like NRA high power or benchrest or F class. At the end of the day its a game, not training. How often are you in a real gun fight and you have to wait for the beep of the timer before you can start shooting?
If you have a problem with someone using a cart or anything else that makes the game more enjoyable or gives them an advantage, then that's your problem not theirs.
IDPA requires that type of gear per the rules, coat hanger holsters and belts full of mags is USPSA. I've seen plenty of carts at these matches also.
I don't see that picture of the woman shooting anywhere on the IDPA website, but I did see lots of people wearing cover garments. I do notice they now have a pistol caliber carbine class. When was the last time you CCW'd your 9mm AR?
What we do in the PRS and NRL is totally a game. The matches 15 years ago were more "realistic" with UKD's and stalking. I run a cart sometimes, and sometimes not depending on the terrain - do what you want.
There are a lot of practical applications for gear from competitions - note the Pump Pillow in lap.
There are a lot of practical applications for gear from competitions - note the Pump Pillow in lap.
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Here are a few cart pictures for inspiration, lol..
Sincerely,
Theis
Here are a few cart pictures for inspiration, lol..
Sincerely,
Theis
Fuck it... I have requested an adult match with hot women with minimal clothes as score keepers and refreshment carriers... since that isn't happening and people need strollers im going to do it right...
Some match this year I will find a skimpy skimpy maybe bikini clad girl to carry my gear and bring me water.
I'm sure I will offend people
Some match this year I will find a skimpy skimpy maybe bikini clad girl to carry my gear and bring me water.
I'm sure I will offend people
listen man, im game for a Hedonism Shooting League....we can import live game animals from Africa as moving targets.....hire some indigenous peoples to serve as gun bearers for our 416 rigby double rifles...maybe find a poor orphan boy to fetch me whisky and cigars between relays...get some bikini clad women to carry my umbrella and retrieve my brass...
just so long as we dont try to call it "practical" and then completely ignore any "practicality" in our matches.
The old elephant guns are gorgeous but no fun to shoot anymore.... I would be happy with just the bikini girls that are extra friendly... ifvyou arrange the full experience version im game though.
Haha dude so much crying in this thread. Bring the strollers who gives a damn? There’s matches that involve a more physical component if if that’s bothersome go shot those.
Agree 100%, I don't get the comparison between military and civilian games. Yeah, PRS is a game, and its played like one. It is certainly based on practical situations as circus as it might get at times. Games and competition lead to innovation in gear and techniques. I have seen PRS stuff go directly into training, and know a sniper instructor who wanted all his shooters to go experience it, cause it taught shooting that didn't happen in course. He also shot at AMU and brought what he learned from those games with ridiculous jackets that wouldn't go to combat.
Who cares if a guy uses a stroller... go to Mammoth or another match where its straightforward grit and shooting.
100% the civilian games are an incubator for stuff that gets incorporated all the time by professionals.
Listen to Caylen, he started using tripods in combat cause he had high windows with no furniture. It was a necessity. Listen to Phil, he admit dentists whipped him at his first matches. Frank lashed his bipods. Hat Creek Training teaches tripod and bag use to elite professionals. I sold dozens of bags to him for his students that they took with them. PRS requires pure shooting skils to win, regardless of games and silly gear.
I learned tripod shooting from Marine and SF sniper instructors. And, shooting matches gave me confidence to call and make shots at distance hunting. I stopped carrying a bipod on backcountry hunts because a Mini Waxed bag and a tripod get me sub moa to any reasonable hunting distance.
I can deploy a tripod very fast, as fast or faster than fuds can get into position prone. I can put a shooter on a tripod for the first time and have them shooting inside vitals out to 600 and 700 immediately if they don't jerk the trigger.
In July 2019, the mil sniper taught me a tripod trick and weeks later I used it to shoot a deer at 575 in the neck with 100% confidence. I was as steady as prone. And, I used my puffy jacket stuffed into another shirt as support, where I would have used a pillow in a match.
Gay huh? How about...
“The use of my giant swinging nuts created the little fucker that necessitated the purchase of a jogging stroller. Now that he’s old enough to carry his own ass around, I can do with it as I please- even carry around too much shit at a PRS match. Any tactical larper that doesn’t like it can turn his head and shut his mouth.”
But, I don’t own a jogging stroller anymore. I should have built a gun carrier out of it instead of donating it to Goodwill. A back pack works well enough for the stuff I carry- that and I bring my son along to carry shit too. Hey, I load his ammo.
I find it humorous that so many swinging dicks ride a side by side from stage to stage, often spread only a few yards apart.
People that call stuff gay are near universally dealing with their own sexual identity crisis. Who am I to judge?
“The use of my giant swinging nuts created the little fucker that necessitated the purchase of a jogging stroller. Now that he’s old enough to carry his own ass around, I can do with it as I please- even carry around too much shit at a PRS match. Any tactical larper that doesn’t like it can turn his head and shut his mouth.”
But, I don’t own a jogging stroller anymore. I should have built a gun carrier out of it instead of donating it to Goodwill. A back pack works well enough for the stuff I carry- that and I bring my son along to carry shit too. Hey, I load his ammo.
I find it humorous that so many swinging dicks ride a side by side from stage to stage, often spread only a few yards apart.
People that call stuff gay are near universally dealing with their own sexual identity crisis. Who am I to judge?
You do realize that golf carts are used in golf. I mean, it actually has the name "golf" in the vehicle designation. lol
JK, Ted. I'm just busting your balls.
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This has been true of all the "practical" gun sports since Coopers Leatherslap competition. Everything from Red Dots to two handed shooting has made the leap from game to reality. We owe a lot to those early gamers.
