I have a huge problem with the USMC running 3-gun. First if you're gonna do it then they should stick with issue weapons...and I'm not talking about MARSOC issued weapons but those found in the Fleet. Second, lets face it. If this video is any example (and I'm not sure it is) then they're gonna get smoked cause even on the local level, guys come hard. Race guns are all over, extended shotgun and speedloaders are all the norm. And finally I just don't see how the sport of 3-gun (and it is a sport) increases combat effectiveness. I mean seriously! Some of the shooting positions that started in 3-gun that have been adopted by the "forward" thinking military shooters are just down right silly. Contorted firing positions when its still possible to adopt a more conventional AND stable one to shoot from. The idea of firing from your back...approaching a target while shooting? Its all bullshit and most people know it but don't know why. I do. If you've ever been shot at then you know that you do it from cover. If you've ever shot at someone then you know that you're not advancing on the target while doing it. You take up a position that provides cover and you try to put them away.
The Marine Corps really needs to rethink its approach to the shooting sports. Its gone from being combat based to something else.
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The photos below are from AR-15.net. I didn't know it but they've been all over the "new" shooting positions and have had fiery debates on the subject. To sum it up...no one could name one of the "new" shooting positions that was superior to the traditional ones. As a matter of fact the debate ended with one of the commenters saying that the "new" positions were just more "ninja" looking.
C'mon, they don't teach you guys the old "shoot the bad guy's ankle under the truck" move?
ReplyDeleteThose silly positions are about as applicable to a real fight as a Globetrotters trick shot is to a real basketball game.
the crazy thing is that i've done a couple of local 3 gun matches and you're seeing more and more law enforcement and military showing up doing it.
ReplyDeletei'm good with that as long as they realize its a sport and has little to no application to real gun fighting but i'm beginning to wonder. these guys are taking this shit back to the marksmanship school houses in both teh Army and Marines.
this is gonna end badly unless someone with some rank calls bullshit on this. but i'm running out of faith. the USMC. supposedly the most cost effective of all the branches is buying 50 dollar Vickers slings. is buying the defective Serpa drop leg holster. is falling for all the latest and greatest tacti-cool bullshit going.
its depressing.