March Q&A: Competition Shooting
Added 2025-03-16 21:45:02 +0000 UTCIn light of having just finished running Moons Out 2025, this month's Q&A theme is competition shooting. From full-on Brutality matches to BackUp Gun matches, especially shooting historical guns. What would you like to ask?
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How has military firearms and technology influenced and changed compition shooting and what direct influences have competition shooting had on military firearms and technology?
Jonah Hollie
2025-03-31 20:11:29 +0000 UTCwith oddballs like 357 cops, those got to get rare by now, a linda or ooold designs like a roth... do you have firearms you'd LOVE to bring to a match but haven't yet? no matter if handgun rifle shotgun... mg convertion...
Guido Schriewer
2025-03-17 21:07:07 +0000 UTCWhat was/is your historical loadout with the highest/most historical value (e.g. because they brought sth. game changing to the table or just rare or someone important carried it, whatever comes to your mind)
Reichsbierminister
2025-03-17 20:37:56 +0000 UTCHahah. Great idea, everyone has to shoot left handed.
John Anderson
2025-03-17 20:05:23 +0000 UTCI don't think there's enough left-handed bolt guns in existence for all us righties to shoot like Ian at one time... π
Bruce Brodnax
2025-03-17 20:03:47 +0000 UTC"weigh" not "way"(sic). But we get what you intended. Don't you hate it when your brain is already at the end of the sentence before your fingers catch up? π
Bruce Brodnax
2025-03-17 20:01:49 +0000 UTCI think the weight & complexity of semi-auto combination guns rapidly outpaces their market potential, which is why the existing niche is composed entirely of single-shot (per barrel) designs [simple/rugged/cheap to build-sell-buy.] But it would be interesting & perhaps reasonably achievable to integrate a blow-back semi-auto 22 w/ a pump-action shotty [or heavier caliber rifle?] Maybe integrated optical sight required because of the need for a reticle w/ different aiming points for the two barrels being so offset from each other?
Bruce Brodnax
2025-03-17 20:00:19 +0000 UTCIan has been shilling for Royal Tiger Imports for awhile from the Ethiopian cache, so you might check there 1st. Sadly, most of these were undoubtedly obtained years ago when they were still available and absurdly cheap because non-Cowboy BP wasn't popular at the time...
Bruce Brodnax
2025-03-17 19:53:47 +0000 UTCThe Faxon barrels didn't open up much w/ heat, which is why they went with them; that was the advance in materials handling over Colt's original light profile barrels that made the WWSD so practical. That being said, your experience w/ the carbon-wrapped barrels being what it is, if you've got the dosh, forge ahead! Personally, I've got better things to spend my $ on, like more ammo [ equals more practice, = shooting enough better to where I'd notice the accuracy evolving under heat instead of "well, *that* was more of my own craptastic shooting..."]
Bruce Brodnax
2025-03-17 19:52:07 +0000 UTCAre there any historical firearms you brought to a match thinking they would be great but performed poorly and any you brought as a fun joke but performed better than you thought they would?
Bdavis
2025-03-17 19:02:06 +0000 UTCWhat would be your unicorn gun combo for a brutality match??
Christopher Maclennan
2025-03-17 19:01:00 +0000 UTCDo you have a story about either yourself or someone else bringing a piece of new kit or period kit to a match where it failed miserably?
Keith
2025-03-17 16:02:51 +0000 UTCWhat is the sequence of matches needed for a total beginner to advance to the level of these matches?
Stance Nixon
2025-03-17 15:56:13 +0000 UTCWhich historical gun most overpreformed your expectations in a competition and would you use it unironically moving forward?
AC C
2025-03-17 13:04:39 +0000 UTCWhat were the biggest performance surprises competing with historic firearms? Guns that you thought would do great but sucked. Gun you had concerns about but did great.
GaryG
2025-03-17 10:23:44 +0000 UTChave you considered a Proof carbon barrel on a WWSD style super light carbine? I have no experience with their AR barrels,but I have used them on bolt guns with dramatic improvement in weight and even more dramatic improvement in handling. it seemed like the issue with the Faxon pencil barrels from WWSD was groups opening up with heat, and perhaps a carbon barrel might be the best of all worlds.
Adam Schindler
2025-03-17 05:02:11 +0000 UTCYou guys always seem to shoot some of the coolest old black powder stuff. Where on earth do you guys buy this great old iron?
Larry Schwartz
2025-03-17 00:49:28 +0000 UTCWhat does your dry-fire and live-fire practice look like leading up to a major match like Moons Out?
Tim Black
2025-03-17 00:45:04 +0000 UTCAny thoughts or biathlon or modern pentathlon, and how their guns and processes are adapted to their disciplines? Both are pretty fascinating, particularly pentathlon as a simulation of escaping from enemy territory
Cliche Guevara
2025-03-17 00:33:53 +0000 UTCThereβs a mortar competition at Big Bore Blast in Ohio this June. Do you regret not buying that live, registered 50MM French βadorableβ mortar from Morphyβs a year or two ago? Cause I do. π« π€£
Nic G
2025-03-16 23:03:37 +0000 UTCAssuming the rules allow it, do you see any potential advantages to running a combo-rifle in a match with many targets at a variety of ranges including paper up to spinners. My conceptualization of a combo-rifle would be something like a 20in 0.308 with 20 round mag combined with a 5.7x28 (or similar) using high-cap mags like the P90 mags. Single fire control group that would switch between the two. The 5.7 would be used to quickly put many holes in many paper targets, while the 0.308 would be used to run spinners or handle the longer ranges. Think something like a Kel-Tec RFB with a P50/R50 underslung and the fire control groups combined. I'm still waiting to hear back from Kel-Tec.
MWelty
2025-03-16 22:29:00 +0000 UTCFrom shooting USPSA, I like others find themselves walking through the stage and planning out reloads. Do you do the same? Has the buzzer also had the effect of having you completely forget your plan?
Christian Hanes
2025-03-16 22:25:51 +0000 UTCWith all of the B.U.G. matches you have shot, has it changed your thoughts on what a good vs bad carry gun would be? Or does training and proficiency out way the individual differences in handguns?
Alexander Moore
2025-03-16 22:14:48 +0000 UTCDo think action challenge matches, like Brutality, will continue to grow in popularity?
Cody Vega
2025-03-16 22:01:04 +0000 UTCWhat's your favourite non Back Up Gun you've shot at a BUG Match?
David C
2025-03-16 21:56:33 +0000 UTCHow do you decide what gun(s) to shoot at a competition? I have a limited time and money budget to attend competitions. At the same time I have a lot of different guns I would like to try on the clock. I'm not the sort of shooter that is going to win, no matter what gun(s) I shoot, so I like to shoot guns that are interesting to me. How do you go about deciding?
Landric Hakon
2025-03-16 21:55:03 +0000 UTCHas anybody ever used a water cooled MG in any of the competitions youβve attended? If not, can you think of a suitable theoretical course of fire for those of us with first-generation belt-fed heavies?
Nic G
2025-03-16 21:51:28 +0000 UTCWhat was the most fun ridiculous historical gun you have brought to a match? Which one did you regret bringing the most?
James Steed
2025-03-16 21:49:49 +0000 UTCWhat "gamer" competition tactic or tool, if any, do you think a major world military would adopt next?
Josh Dahn
2025-03-16 21:49:03 +0000 UTCHaving never participated in a shooting competition, what would you recommend to get started in terms of finding a place to shoot, skills needed and equipment?
Loki
2025-03-16 21:47:38 +0000 UTCWhat has been the easiest historic gun for you to shoot left-handed in a competition setting?
Joshua Vovk
2025-03-16 21:47:18 +0000 UTCAny suggestions for a first timer going to a competition?
John Scheib
2025-03-16 21:47:13 +0000 UTCWhen is the Ian shooting invitational happening
John Anderson
2025-03-16 21:46:28 +0000 UTC
