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The Gun Run NC, TEAM, Ellerbe, NC - September 26, 2020

mikefromphilly

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It was a blast! The Patriot Party secured a solid 3rd place overall (0.15 % from 2nd), 14th runners, 2nd shooters out of ~54 teams. Some of the mix N match kit was cool to see, notably a .308 side folder teamed up with a .223(?) bolt gun. Same .308 dude folded the stock in and cleared 'The Nutt House', awesome. There was a team of ameri-silkies dudes with ac/dc shirts and hulk stache, plenty of boog shirts and a strong presence of first timers.

The thing that stood out to me the most at the event was pushing hard to a stage that had shooters in-progress thinking wait time was our reward, only to have an 8 year old kid say "Happy Halloween, do not start wait time, pick this up and carry it into the woods." Revealing a weighted rescue litter that we got to carry ~150yds.

There was a wall climb immediately before a stage requiring some excellent shooter/spotter communication. Short version: 3 bays with the same colored but different shaped targets in the same orientation in each bay. Spotter had to describe what was on the card to inform shooter how many hits and which bay to shoot first.

Stage 2-6 had a 30~50% DNF rate; DNFs from: shooting the hostage (Jimmy Nutt's smiling face), timing out d/t 1 handed pistol, burning up time not knowing how to engage UKD targets/BDC reticle, shooting incorrect target(s) were probably most common causes.

I got to run a 2nd time with someone who was doing their 2nd RnG (1st was legion 2wks earlier), we were 5th runners, 28th shooters, 15 overall. She ran a Romeo 5 and was not very familiar with rifle work but threw down on the pistol
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Some wait time later in the day but overall excellent weather for competitors and smooth logistics day of the event. I hope this galvanizes many more team matches the southeast!
 

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