Moons Out Goons Out 2024 Overview: Yeah, I Ran a High Point (Ad-free)
Added 2024-03-31 12:00:08 +0000 UTCLast weekend we ran Moons Out Goons Out 2024, a night rifle match presented by Tactical Night Vision Company at the Echo Valley Training Center. The match was a fantastic success, and I figured I'd give you some overview takeaways to the whole event before posting my complete stages runs later this week. I did run the match twice, once in Active division with a Hi-Point carbine and BE Meyers MAWL IR laser module and once in Passive division with a prototype Q Boombox and an AGM Clarion thermal scope. By doing it in that way, I managed to handicap both my runs, and did...not very well.
Thanks to our greta match sponsors! Thanks to them, we were able to make this a great event with an outstanding prize table:
TNVC
AGM Global Vision
BE Meyers
Brownells
Gorilla Ammunition
Q
Refuge Medical
T-Rex Arms
Varusteleka
Virginia Citizens Armory
For more match coverage, you can check out these videos from other channels:
Brass Facts - “I Shot a PDW at a Night Vision Rifle Match” https://youtu.be/yqjZd1lx954
Kit Badger - “Nocturnal Transmissions Part 13” https://youtu.be/mi96uu2Ke9E
Refuge Medical - “Moons Out Goons Out AAR Night 1” https://youtu.be/z3vzQEtCcag
Refuge Medical - “Moons Out Goons Out | Night 2” https://youtu.be/oIazdm_AGck
The Nova Group - “ForgottenWeapons Moons Out 2024 Loadout” https://youtu.be/E1viXwwk_Ko
C Does - “Moons Out, Goons Out 2024” https://youtu.be/Q3lIeMDlhPE
Comments
So for the MP5, you would need one of those weird adapter things that has a claw on the bottom and picatinny ladder on top? I have no idea how you would attach a light or a telescope to a Colt SMG. So, a SMG/carbine style rifle with picatinny ladder is the recommended weapon for this type of match?
David T Klein
2024-04-01 17:28:35 +0000 UTCA carbine or PCC would be just fine, but you would want one with good options for attaching a light/laser/optic. Anything predating the ubiquitous use of picatinny rail would be a difficult choice to set up.
Forgotten Weapons
2024-04-01 17:20:06 +0000 UTCWorse, I expect.
Forgotten Weapons
2024-04-01 17:18:13 +0000 UTCSo, Hi Point wasn't a good fit, but I like the idea of a SMG/carbine type rifle, especially with a sound suppressor on it. Would a good SMG/carbine type rifle (like the MP5 or the Colt SMG (and very excited, Palmetto State is coming out with a clone of the DoE nuke-transport version of the Colt SMG)) with a sound suppressor be a viable option? They are certainly less noisy and less muzzle-flash than a typical .223 CAR15 or the like, and they are small and compact for running around in the woods. Would an infrared telescope (modern-day equivalent of the Starlight scope, or similar) work better than the thermal telescope? When you said the targets were unheated, I wondered how a thermal telescope would help at all. Thanks for this interesting review of a match with two rifles I doubt any of us would have thought of
David T Klein
2024-04-01 17:07:30 +0000 UTCHi point: better or worse than Othais’s Sub 2000?
Chairman
2024-03-31 23:57:04 +0000 UTCThanks for the video. Interesting breakdown on the uses of thermal. I believe your instincts are correct that in "real world scenarios" the thermal would be more useful than it was in shooting cold steel silhouettes . How often would one be looking for a cold steel ?door? in a sneaky mission I do not know but in that instance I would think the availability of other options after assuring no thermal signatures were around would be inherent in the mission. Peaceful Skies. p.s. All of the green arrows at the end of the included links (Get a direct link) lead to a savefrom.net page saying they ceased to provide this service on April 16 2020. Subject: Discontinuation of Service in the United States April 16, 2020 Just thought I would let you know.
Mark H. Smith
2024-03-31 22:28:07 +0000 UTCGreat breakdown.
Terry
2024-03-31 20:46:28 +0000 UTCsurprising you haven't borrowed othais keltec thing. would love the nightstuff hardware of course but legally and just as bad financially... NO way. and then owning and using gear is another topic.
Guido Schriewer
2024-03-31 17:12:23 +0000 UTCGreat recap of the Hi-Point in action. Thanks!
Glenn Miller
2024-03-31 15:18:37 +0000 UTC
