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2/27/2014

3 Gun Gear - Shotgun Shell Caddies & Speed Loading

By Gabby

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Of all the shooting sports, 3gun requires a lot of gear (great for a gear head like me, not great for my wallet) but it's not nessicary for anyone to run out and buy it all right away. You have to figure out what works for you, and then build up the gear slowly. Some matches and stages may require a lot of reloads, others may require vigorous movement and your gear will have to respond accordingly.


2/26/2014

Shotguns: Pistol Grip or Traditional Stock?

By Gabby For Gun Nuts

Shotgun Decision: traditional stock or pistol grip
There seems to be a simmering debate, that folks are not directly addressing. This is the question of pistol grips on shotguns. I was doing a little research on 3gun shotgun preferences and I found that in most cases competitors prefer a traditional stock. However, anyone who is a fan of pistol grips on their scattergun has told me that it gives them a tactical advantage. Is there no over lap between the tactical community and 3gun on this? 

2/24/2014

Women's Outdoor & Shooting Industry Dinner at SHOTShow 2014

By Gabby For Gun Nuts

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At this year's SHOTShow the Second Annual Women's Outdoor & Shooting Industry Dinner was held. Put on by Britney Starr of Starr & Brodhill African Safaris and Jacquelyn Kelly of Armed in Heels, the event took place at V bar in the Venitian hotel. The theme was Old Hollywood Glamor and, as you can see, almost everyone ran with it! This year the gathering saw some new sponsors as well as a few familiar faces, including Laser Max and GunUp Magazine. 

2/19/2014

First Look at 3 Gun by Atlanta 3Gun

By Gabby For Gun Nuts

atlanta%203gunI have now signed up to shoot the Brownells Lady 3 Gun match and will be sponsored by Gun Up Publishing, but up until last week I had never seen a 3 gun match in action. So I decided to head an hour south and east of Atlanta to South River Gun Club. 

2/17/2014

A Shooters' Romance


By Gabby For Gun Nuts

dave%2520and%2520brooke%2520sevigny%2520at%2520steel%2520challange%2520Georgia%2520state%2520championship%252020145In honor of Valentine’s Day (or in celebration of it passing with minimal collateral damage) I’d like to tell you a story of a great love shared by two top gunners.

One half of the pair, is a southern belle who is as sweet as she is gorgeous. The other half, is a northerner come south, who I have heard called, “the Michael Jordan of the shooting sports.”

2/13/2014

3 Gun Gear - Shotguns & Modifications

By Gabby

shot%252520gun%252520Xrail%252520magazineIn my meeting last week with Match Director, Lisa Marie Judy, we began by talking about shotguns. This is because, as I have read, matches can be won and lost with the shotgun. (Also, I have the most to learn about 3gun gun, so it makes sense to get started ASAP.) Unlike with skeet and trap shooting, in 3gun, we really do use our shotgun sights. The gun must begin a stage with no more than 9 shells loaded into the gun. That's 8 rounds in the tube, one in he chamber (unless one is shooting "Open" division.) Lisa Marie explained to me that, if you own an X rail for you shotgun, then Open division is for you. "You don't load your shotgun in Open division."

2/12/2014

"Winning" a Shooting Competition

By Gabby For Gun Nuts

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I’ve been considering the idea of shooting competitions lately and have found a catch 22 that has my brain spinning. In the past, these events have been sold to me as great opportunities to practice self-defense techniques while putting the body under certain pressures it might experience in a real high-stress situation. At the same time, I recently had an instructor say to me,

2/11/2014

We're Reading- "Why Jews Should Defend “Stand Your Ground” Laws."

Why Jews Should Defend “Stand Your Ground” Laws.

Why do we even have these laws? Very little generates as much heated debate as the recent cases in Florida and elsewhere that purport to call “Stand Your Ground” laws into focus. ...



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2/06/2014

Registration for Brownells Lady 3Gun Opens Saturday

By Gabby

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I'm kind of amazed that I've spent an entire year writing for Gun Nuts Media, and still know so little about competitive shooting. I might have continued on this path as a casual-shooting gun girl, if it were not for the very first, Lady 3-Gun Major Match announced recently at SHOTShow.

Now that such a monumental match is coming to my home state, I feel compelled to dive into the competitive shooting sports head first. So I've started by doing a considerable amount of reading, googling and YouTube watching. I also had an interview/lesson today with Match Director, Lisa Marie Judy, who really knows her stuff.

2/05/2014

First Look Review: Laserlyte AR Trainer

By Gabby For Gun Nuts

laserlyte%20AR%20trainer%20reviewLaserlyte just sent over their new AR trainer system "Training Tyme AR LT-C556" and I'm very excited because of all the guns in my house, my AR is the one with which I need the most practice. I like this kit a little more than others I've tried, because there is no blue gun involved, and while that will mean a lot of extra racking of the charging handle, I will be able to practice with a real trigger and my own sights.

2/04/2014

Atlanta's Snow Breakdown

By Gabby

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It may not have anything to do with guns, but last week's "weather disaster" in Atlanta has everything to do with preparedness, so I believe that gives me enough of a right to rant!...

I guess I'm lucky. I work from home, so when the snow started falling I thought "Oh, Pretty!!!" And then went back to my desk. Having grown up in Manhattan, snow doesn't cause all that much excitement in my house. As a child my school's policy was that a "snow day" wouldn't happen unless an ambulence couldn't get down the street. I can remember about four total snow days in my entire grade school and high school career. This is probably due to multiple factors: New York City has the trucks and salt to spread and does so most every year, the city's streets are trapping heat from below that melts the snow as it falls, buildings are required to clear ice from the sidewalks in front of them, most people walk in Manhattan (as I did to school every day) and walking in snow isn't as difficult as driving in it.

Now, I'm often the first to defend my adopted southern home, but after the 2011 storm and now 2014 I am forced to shake my head in disappointment and shame. In 2011, as the snow fell on a cold Sunday night, I waited to hear if my university would be closed the following day. As we awoke on Monday morning to a snow covered Dixie (and school was of corse, canceled) I turned to my norther raised friend and asked, 
 "So when are they going to get the ploughs out?" His response basically blew my mind, 
 "They don't have any." 
 "Then what are we supposed to do? Wait till spring?" I joked, because I didn't know what else to do!
 "Thaw," he said. And that's exactly what happened. Everyday the snow melted a bit, but then, every night, it would freeze back up again. And so we sat and waited for an entire week in January 2011. All I could think was,
 "What a waste!"

2/04/2014

We're Reading- "New Study Demolishes Almost Every Gun Control Myth"

New Study Demolishes Almost Every Gun Control Myth

A study published in the latest issue of the academic journal Applied Economics Letters took on many of the claims made regularly by advocates of stricter gun laws. ...



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2/03/2014

Steel Challenge Georgia State Championships

By Gabby For Gun Nuts

Sevigney%20shoots%20Steel%20Challenge%20and%20makes%20new%20bestThis weekend Georgia held it’s state level Steel Challenge match and I went to observe my first shooting match, ever. I was welcomed, in typical southern style, by Brooke and Dave Sevigny, also known as members of Team FNH USA. They were wonderfully helpful in explaining how the process works and introducing me around.