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(Photo by Robin Taylor)
Multi-gun requires rapid transitions between
weapons. Here FN Herstal’s Mark Hanish leaps out of a
military Humvee, headed toward a “drop box” where
he’ll exchange his rifle for a pistol.
Championships, the USAMU is going to place a greater emphasis
on multi-gun shooting in next year's All-Army since
there is a direct correlation between this type of shooting
and what a soldier can face on the battlefield."
Technology Counter- Revolution?
Amid Multi-gun equipment, simplicity and reliability are
becoming watchwords. Shooters have so much to worry
about (ammo, mags, and ammo carriers for the rifle, pistol,
3-Gun Aggregates
Open
Fiercely competitive, Open division
applies the “Open” rules to pistol,
rifle and shotgun — except long gun
magazines may be any length (see page
11). Recoil compensators and optical
sights are practically required to be
competitive. Bipods are allowed on
the rifle, and in shotgun, shooters may
have a maximum of 11 rounds in the
gun. Shotgun competitors may even
use speed-loading devices (including
box magazines) to reload.
Standard (a.k.a. “Limited”)
Standard applies the “Limited”
rules to pistols (see page 10), and applies
the same rules to long guns with
five minor exceptions: Competitors
may use a recoil compensator on their
rifle no larger than 1 inch in diameter
by 3 inches long. Competitors may
NOT use a bipod. Long ugn magazines
may be any length. No more
than nine rounds may be loaded in the
shotgun and the shotgun may NOT
use speed loaders.
Tactical
Immensely popular from its birth,
Tactical has quickly supplanted “Limited”
as the most popular division
within USPSA 3-Gun.
The Tactical Aggregate allows an
otherwise “Standard” shooter to add a
single optic to his rifle. All other
equipment must conform to the
Standard division criteria.
and shotgun), that any firearm or accessory that requires extra
bother is a problem.
One can see this most clearly in the movement away
from minimalist race holsters to more-secure Kydex affairs.
Not only is a person less likely to disqualify themselves by
having a loaded gun drop out of the holster on the run, the
Kydex rigs aren’t much slower. To deal with the challenges
of negotiating obstacles while shooting a shotgun (for example),
a Multi-gun competitor needs much more retention
than a typical pistol shooter. One might venture to say, a
more “practical” holster. Imagine that!
Shotguns
Where Benelli Super-90’s and Winchester SX2’s vie with
the Remington 1100 in Limited, Remington 1100’s and 11-
87’s fight it out with the box-magazine-fed Saiga-12 in
Open. Each has ever-increasing bits of technical gadgetry attached.
You name it, it’s out there somewhere.
Standing around at a 3-Gun match a few years ago, I
heard one of my squadmates, Joe Hampl, talking about 3-
Gun: “This is a lot of fun, I think it’s going to take off.”
3-Gun grew steadily in the next few years, to where today
there are multiple major events around the United
States. Those events have caught the attention of two different
shooting-oriented cable TV programs (Shooting USA and
3Gun Nation), who have started sharing the fun with hundreds
of thousands of viewers.
Like Hampl, today we think 3-Gun is about to take off,
again, reaching a new level of popularity.
Photo by Dave Thomas.
Top Senior-category shooter Joe
DeSimone aims his scoped Opendivision
Remington 1100 shotgun.
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