Pictures from the 3-Gun Nation Pro Series 2013 Competition #1
I'm working on a full write-up of the weekend's festivities, but in the meantime please enjoy these images I snapped of the competitors and their pretty guns. Click the image and then click the...
En Route to a Weekend with Team FNH USA
I love flying. I love it a lot more when I'm the pilot in command (hence why I'm dropping about $10k on a PPL) but I'll take it any way I can get it....
Back on the Horse: Shooting the Texas Tactical Carbine Match at Cedar Ridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj2x-bN5baA
After the minor trainwreck that was my performance in the Best of the West 3-gun a couple weeks ago, I was itching to jump back into another competition and see if all that practicing...
Crimson Trace Midnight 3-Gun 2013: Here We Go Again
Last year, Iain Harrison and the Crimson Trace crew put on the world's first 3-gun competition to take place in complete darkness. It was a fantastic challenge and even though I became disoriented and...
Doing My Pistol Penance
My hands were killing me as I fired the last few rounds in the magazine. The barrel toasty enough that there was a visible mirage across the top of the slide, and the...
The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen In Months
You are looking at a case of 1,000 rounds of Winchester 5.56 ammunition that just showed up on my doorstep. The good folks at Winchester have agreed to sponsor me, sending this along with...
My First Competition with FNH USA’s 3-Gun Setup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYvXXAlnufU
Some competitions, you can feel that you’re going to do well. All the planets align. Life is beautiful. Then there are days like this past Saturday, where it seems that even your ammunition is...
Climbing the Learning Curve: Working Out My New FN Guns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE6ytSY7PL0
Good competition shooters become one with their guns. They understand their quirks and limitations (the guns). They can sense when their firearms need maintenance just by the way they feel. It’s a relationship formed...
Team FNH USA: Breaking In the New Guns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE6ytSY7PL0
Right now (as this video posts) I'm at my first local 3-gun competition running my new FNH USA-issued guns for the first time in competition. In preparation, I spent Thursday morning on the range practicing...
SHOT Show Shopping: Kitting Up for Team FNH USA
One of the biggest pains for newbie 3-gun competition shooters: finding the guns and gear that fits. It’s hard to justify dropping a couple hundred dollars on belts and magazine holders and special bags and...
How it Happened: My Long Road to Team FNH USA
It was a couple days into the 2013 SHOT Show when it happened. The daily grind I had come to expect from trade show coverage was in full swing – long days, short nights,...
Nick Leghorn to Join Team FNH USA for 2013 3-Gun Season
By his own admission, Nick Leghorn is a nerd. Which is a not very nice way of saying that Nick is very good at a lot of things. He's an accomplished musician, cunning chess...