Originally Posted by
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Gents, just wanted to take a minute and thank Drew Boldt for MD'ing a fun shoot up in Weld County. This was my first "proper" 3 Gun match- I've shot some IDPA, some 3 Gun "team matches" (IDPA scoring and rules), and a whole lot of ACTS matches. ACTS is kind of a mil/le oriented competition constructed the way IDPA was initially intended with no "gaming" or race guns, lots of trainers/cops/Soldiers/Marines etc... Very, very fun venue to put into practice what we learn at various courses or at work, but definitely not good preparation for 3 Gun.
The match was extremely well run, stages left little open to interpretation and were all clear and smooth, with an emphasis on accuracy enforced by a LOT of no-shoots throughout. There was lots of steel for the shotgun, no slug stages, and plenty of medium range, tight shots with the pistol. What surprised me was the lack of any "hoser" stages. My impression of 3 Gun coming from outlaw style team matches on the other side of the country had left me expecting a bunch of short range, heavy round count blasting with every other dude out there trying to find a loop hole in the stage description for some kind of advantage. I was very impressed not just with the ROs and MD, but with the other shooters as well. Folks were very patient with the many questions that I had about everything from scoring to stage planning. Everyone was willing to offer words of advice, and it was a fun crowd to spend an afternoon with. I shot absolutely terribly, but it was a good time and I'll definitely be back next month with a few lessons learned.
So thanks to WCFW, Drew Boldt, and the folks over at coloradomultigun.com for a great match, and I'll see you in a few weeks!
And if anyone has any suggestions for how to suck less at running the shotgun well, I'm all ears...