I had almost 9 miles from start to finish. I didnt stop counting while making the turn at 5k. I was completely unprepared physically. Must train with gear or weighted vest. Starting at the heat of the day didn't help either. Neither did 50 mimutes at stage 5. I ran out of water/Gatorade and brought 12L.
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RBGC 2019 Run-and-Gun (5k/10k)
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I had almost 9 miles from start to finish. I didnt stop counting while making the turn at 5k. I was completely unprepared physically. Must train with gear or weighted vest. Starting at the heat of the day didn't help either. Neither did 50 mimutes at stage 5. I ran out of water/Gatorade and brought 12L.
This is what I ran in for training. Its great because it doesn't rub, or bounce, or restrict your breathing. Most comfortable way to carry 20 lbs I assure you.
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You guys and your rail wraps!!! I shoot 3 gun with a guy that has one on his rifle too.... is there something I’m missing?Well, first of all, I had an outstanding time doing this event. This was my first run-and-gun event so I wasn't sure what to expect but I tried to prepare the best I could. One of the best parts was meeting a couple of ODT'ers.pistolpat and @bulletpaluza whom I got to meet F2F for the first time which was awesome. I wish I could have shook hands with more of you.
For the most part the system I had thought through worked pretty well save for a few issues with mags falling out of my GP pouch located on my belt at the small of my back 3 or 4 times because I forgot to zip it back up. I actually completely lost 1 rifle mag and I can attribute being able to continue because I listened to the advice ofngcsugrad09 (congrats on the win btw) in taking 1 extra mag beyond double the round count. I basically ran with belt only, with extra mags thrown in the GP pouch along with a silicone/soft water bottle.
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Looking at the run scores I was at worst 8th (I can't see the hatchet/knife bonuses) and possibly as high as 3rd in raw run time. Running for 3 months with a 20lb vest helped tremendously but I am sad to say, I could not run shotgun hill. I tried, but it beat me and I had to walk it...BOTH TIMES...in a 5k.....
Apparently I have terrible navigational skills when I am overexerting myself. I ran all over that place looking for stage 2 and stage 4 and my Garmin watch showed I ran a nearly 4.5 miles on a course that should have been 3.5 miles. I hit shotgun hill twice and ran around in cubby holes like a chicken with my head cut off and also somehow missed the cornfield too apparently. I think next year I will go up a couple days early and run the route just make sure I know where I am going. My moving pace was 10:18 per mile and at one point my heart rate touched 197. Yikes.
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Overall I placed 11th out of 54 in the 5k and for my first event, I am definitely happy with that result. I ended up not getting a DNF on any stage, which was one of my goals, along with have fun and don't finish last. The one thing you learn real quick is there is a lot to go wrong in one of these over the course of an hour or so, so just keeping everything together is a mission in and of itself.
This is completely the fault of my own ignorance, but I didn't realize was how small an IPSC A/B zone is. And worst, I didn't realize this until after stage 5. I have only ever shot on IDPA targets so I was thinking if I was in the 0 or 1 down zone, that would be comparable. That is NOT the case. I will be buying IPSC targets from here on out.
Stage 1 was a tough one for me. If @RugerMeister was indeed running that stage he yelled at me probably 3 times for muzzle positioning on my rifle. So sorry dude! Of course my rifle was slung toward the ground, maybe pointing 12 inches left of my left foot and never pointed anywhere but there, but I still had issues not breaking the 180 plane running back to the pistol box until I figured I had to physically push the rifle against my sling across my body while running. I remember him yelling "YOU ARE SHOOTING GOOD BUT YOU HAVE TO SLOW DOWN!" After all the "SLOW DOWN!" instruction I went to slide lock on my last shot on the pistol target (15th round) and rushed to fire my last shot on the rifle target at EXACTLY the 3 minute mark. I did end up with two hits outside of the A-B zone on the paper but I got that one in with zero time to spare. The guy at the start of the stage told me I brought the wrong gun when he saw my P365. Ha! It's the little pistol that could.
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Stage 2 Shotgun: Well I am a crossfitter so I killed the burpees quickly and then proceeded to embarrass myself by apparently not knowing how a double barrel shotgun works. Why in the world I didn't just grab the pumps I do not know. I went click, no bang on two clays and missed 2 of the other 3. I still don't know what went wrong.
Stage 3, 600 yarder: No problems clearing the wall, but I couldn't stay on that roof to save my life. I ended up holding myself up with my left hand and shooting one handed with my right hand. To make matter worse, the first 10 or so 600 yard shots I used the wrong hold on my scope. I have no idea what I was thinking. Once I realized what I was doing I pretty much ran it clean after that but I got that one in with only 3 seconds left.
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Stage 4, the box, where I completely forgot to introduce myself to @mikefromphilly . Sorry buddy, next year for sure! Well, I smoked stage 4 and got 2nd overall. I remember telling my buddy that was with me that I don't think anyone could have shot the box stage faster than I did. Turns out, only one person did,
Stage 5 was after a full 55 minute wait time, I had one penalty on that round which is dumb considering you can fire all the make up shots you want. Lesson learned.
Stage 6, I missed the throwing targets completely and then had my first malfunction on my P365 with a failure to feed somewhere on the back targets. Not sure what happened but I got the gun up and running again fairly quickly, just to have to reload into a magazine that only had 2 rounds and then reload again from my side pocket. Doh! I probably burned an additional 10 seconds there with that nonsense.
I feel like the rifle I put together for the event was absolutely perfect. I am not changing a thing. My pistol is staying as well. I don't feel at a disadvantage at all with the P365 except its obvious that I can't shoot the hoser pistol stages near as fast as others but thats OK. Its the gun that defends my life every single day, so its the gun that will continue to go along with me on any shooting comp.
In the end, I loved every second of it. I came home and immediately registered for the Rockcastle Zombie 10k event in November. I am beyond hooked. Can't wait to see you guys there.
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Left the rifle out in the sun one day and the handguard was nearly too hot to touch from the sun alone. I figured if it was going to be in the sun for 1-2 hours during a R&G it would be best to have one. I quite like it I must admit.
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No pistol on Stage 4, 12 for 12 and zero malfunctions, which makes your time even more impressive, haha.Burdy did you have to go to pistol on Stage 4, at the box? I went 12/12 so I didn't have to. I also only had one malfunction on the right side of the box.
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Just realized, I got my hat and GP pouch hung in the barbwire two times each on the crawl under...if that portion was part of the shooting time then that might be where the huge discrepancy is. I'm sure your splits were much faster too, I never got situated enough to not have to reposition a bit for each shot.
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The wire crawl was on the clock.
I had a mag go flying at the end of the wire crawl, but ended up just grabbing it and using it instead. The left side was very stable, I just rested the rail on the box edge and got 3/3 pretty quick. The bottom wasn't bad, I was able to lay the gun down flat enough to shoot 3 pretty rapidly without much adjustment. The top of the box took some fiddling and was a little slow. On the right side I fired a shot, then a dead trigger due to the malfunction, then clearing it and firing again. I had one break a little close to the edge on the top portion but made the hit...I really didn't want to have to go to pistol to save the time.
Here's my loadout in full: http://practicalsharpshooter.com/loadout-2019-rbgc-run-and-gun-5k/
Working on an AAR now.
Working on an AAR now.
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