WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.720 Listen, it's not web-based software if it's not changing every day. 00:00:07.600 --> 00:00:13.520 Working at a company that makes software for the internet, um, that's just how it works now 00:00:13.620 --> 00:00:14.020 Yeah. 00:00:23.140 --> 00:00:24.820 Yeah, and all software is horrible. 00:00:24.820 --> 00:00:25.060 So 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:27.360 most software is horrible. 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:28.400 How are you? 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:29.360 It is it has been a minute. 00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:29.920 It's been a minute. 00:00:30.080 --> 00:00:30.640 It's been a minute. 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:32.240 I'm I'm I'm doing okay. 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:33.280 How are you doing? 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:34.480 Uh yeah. 00:00:34.480 --> 00:00:37.520 So let's talk about our little prolonged absence 00:00:37.580 --> 00:00:37.820 there. 00:00:37.820 --> 00:00:38.940 This is all on me. 00:00:38.940 --> 00:00:42.460 Um my work has been crazy. 00:00:42.460 --> 00:00:46.060 Um I've had to travel like some back to back weeks. 00:00:46.480 --> 00:00:50.880 Um matter of fact, I gotta go out of town again here in another week. 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:51.680 Oh no. 00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:53.680 Um it's it's it's fine. 00:00:53.680 --> 00:00:59.600 This is just a really busy time of year uh for for the kind of work that I do. 00:00:59.579 --> 00:01:04.059 So part of that has been my fault for not scheduling things. 00:01:04.059 --> 00:01:13.020 Um and well, we're also coming up on the end of summer where Mandy will be back in school and schedules will be a little more predictable. 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:13.159 Yeah. 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:17.560 So uh you may also see a small dog uh running around down here. 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:20.040 We're we're gonna see we're gonna see how this goes. 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:20.759 Okay, okay. 00:01:20.759 --> 00:01:21.960 I'm I'm excited for this. 00:01:21.960 --> 00:01:24.119 He's a he's a good boy, actually 00:01:24.460 --> 00:01:25.740 Hold on one second. 00:01:27.980 --> 00:01:31.100 He's a good boy, but Okay. 00:01:31.100 --> 00:01:34.220 So the good the good news is is um 00:01:34.460 --> 00:01:36.620 You can see that there is a there is a dog bed behind. 00:01:36.620 --> 00:01:37.500 I s I see that. 00:01:37.500 --> 00:01:37.820 Mm-hmm. 00:01:37.820 --> 00:01:38.300 Yep. 00:01:38.300 --> 00:01:43.820 And he will occasionally curl up in that for a little while while while while daddy works or is on the computer. 00:01:44.240 --> 00:01:44.640 Mm-hmm. 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:45.520 So that's good. 00:01:45.520 --> 00:01:50.000 Uh he also runs upstairs to go to the bathroom instead of just taking a piss on my floor. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:50.640 Good. 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:51.520 Also good. 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:54.880 Um he still gets his moments where he gets a little mad at us. 00:01:54.880 --> 00:01:57.680 And we had some people here working at the house 00:01:57.820 --> 00:01:59.900 Um and he really wanted to help. 00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:01.900 He really wanted to help. 00:02:01.900 --> 00:02:07.340 Um But as you know, there are there are jobs that just don't take any dogs. 00:02:07.340 --> 00:02:09.259 Requires no dogs. 00:02:08.880 --> 00:02:09.840 Y ye yeah, yeah. 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:17.760 Uh uh most jobs I would say require no I mean so some job d some jobs are like dog tolerant. 00:02:17.760 --> 00:02:20.720 They will they will l allow dogs to be around 00:02:21.860 --> 00:02:25.379 But there are some job jobs where the number of dogs that should be there is zero. 00:02:25.459 --> 00:02:26.180 Zero. 00:02:26.180 --> 00:02:32.819 Um some of those jobs, just so you're aware, include painting, uh redoing trim. 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:35.240 Um and refinishing doors. 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:36.440 Um no dogs. 00:02:36.440 --> 00:02:37.480 Absolutely no dogs. 00:02:37.480 --> 00:02:41.560 But yeah, but young veto seems to think that he should be a part of those things. 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:45.720 And when young veto doesn't get his way, he just well 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:48.040 Go take a shit on the floor. 00:02:48.040 --> 00:02:48.599 It's fine. 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:49.239 It's fine. 00:02:49.239 --> 00:02:50.120 I get it. 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:50.760 I get it. 00:02:50.760 --> 00:02:52.360 I've been I've been so mad. 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:55.880 I've been so mad in my life that I've wanted to just poop on somebody's floor. 00:02:55.880 --> 00:02:57.640 I totally understand that behavior. 00:02:57.640 --> 00:02:57.959 So 00:02:58.620 --> 00:03:00.300 He is out and about right now. 00:03:00.300 --> 00:03:04.380 I actually have my cameras up and running here uh somewhere. 00:03:04.380 --> 00:03:05.740 At least I thought I did. 00:03:05.740 --> 00:03:06.460 There it is. 00:03:06.460 --> 00:03:11.580 Okay, so I can I can kind of like see if he's like running around uh the house. 00:03:11.340 --> 00:03:13.500 Um how have you been? 00:03:14.620 --> 00:03:16.940 Not too bad, all things considered. 00:03:16.940 --> 00:03:17.180 Yeah. 00:03:17.420 --> 00:03:17.980 Okay. 00:03:18.060 --> 00:03:18.780 Yeah. 00:03:18.780 --> 00:03:19.980 Yeah, can't complain. 00:03:19.980 --> 00:03:21.020 Can't complain. 00:03:21.020 --> 00:03:21.980 Okay. 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:30.560 Well, um let's try to sum up what we've been doing for the past almost month since we last recorded. 00:03:30.640 --> 00:03:31.360 Okay. 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:31.920 Okay. 00:03:31.920 --> 00:03:33.040 I'll go first. 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:36.880 Uh Paul, I did another shooting competition. 00:03:36.880 --> 00:03:37.600 Excellent. 00:03:37.600 --> 00:03:38.080 Okay. 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:38.320 Yeah. 00:03:38.320 --> 00:03:40.240 And just just one? 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:40.880 Just one. 00:03:41.200 --> 00:03:43.680 Which which firearm did you take? 00:03:43.900 --> 00:03:49.980 Uh I took a bunch of different firearms because what I did was a three-gun competition. 00:03:49.980 --> 00:03:51.100 Three-gun competition. 00:03:51.500 --> 00:03:53.900 And as the name implies, uh 00:03:54.920 --> 00:04:00.280 This is a competition where you will use a pistol, a rifle, and a shotgun. 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:00.920 Okay. 00:04:00.920 --> 00:04:03.880 Not all at the same time, because we only have so many hands. 00:04:04.040 --> 00:04:09.320 Um, but you will use sometimes you will use multiple firearms within the same stage. 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:09.840 Okay. 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:14.080 So this was a an event that the gun club that I belong to put on. 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:19.680 Um they only do a few of these at the club I go to a year. 00:04:19.539 --> 00:04:28.259 The club I go to, their big thing is they love, love, love to do 22 rifle competitions, which are very fun. 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:30.280 Very inexpensive. 00:04:30.280 --> 00:04:38.280 Um, it's a really good time, requires a a fairly decent amount of skill to do well in one of those, and I've shot those up there. 00:04:38.420 --> 00:04:43.220 They also do a lot of pistol competitions, and traditionally that hasn't been something that I've enjoyed. 00:04:43.220 --> 00:04:49.460 I like I like rifle, I like these multiple type of gun competitions. 00:04:49.460 --> 00:04:49.780 So 00:04:50.260 --> 00:04:54.580 Uh this was an opportunity to do something that was actually on the Fourth of July. 00:04:54.580 --> 00:04:55.380 Oh, good. 00:04:55.380 --> 00:04:56.820 Yep, it was in the morning. 00:04:56.820 --> 00:05:00.260 And it was a relatively quick match. 00:05:00.260 --> 00:05:02.340 It was only four stages. 00:05:02.500 --> 00:05:13.140 Uh now the way that these work is you have to show up, obviously, and um you won't know what the different courses of fire are for each stage. 00:05:13.140 --> 00:05:15.860 So the way that the the event is organized is 00:05:16.320 --> 00:05:19.600 Everybody who signs up gets put into squads. 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:23.360 There are usually as many squads as there are stages. 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:28.160 So like squad one will do the first stage, squad two will do the second stage. 00:05:27.860 --> 00:05:31.060 And then everybody just kind of shifts, right? 00:05:31.060 --> 00:05:34.020 If everything goes according to plan. 00:05:34.020 --> 00:05:39.700 And they will let you know ahead of time, like, hey, this is the expected round counts minimum. 00:05:39.700 --> 00:05:41.220 That's the key word here. 00:05:41.440 --> 00:05:47.520 for the thing, like bring this many rifle rounds, bring this many pistol rounds, bring this many shotgun rounds. 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:53.760 And then when you get there, then you get a walkthrough of what the course of fire is going to be. 00:05:53.760 --> 00:05:54.880 Now um 00:05:55.699 --> 00:05:56.819 I did okay. 00:05:56.819 --> 00:06:04.819 I I haven't done this kind of competition in and I was doing the math because I think the last time I did one I had only been working with you at IGS for 00:06:05.440 --> 00:06:07.920 A couple of months when I when I did the last one. 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:11.120 So it's been close to twenty years since I did one of these. 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:13.040 Um I had done 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:19.120 um other competitions in in between there, but an actual three gun competition I hadn't done in a while. 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:28.160 And part of the reason I really wanted to do this too is the guy that I shoot with, he's been really wanting to do this, and this was an opportunity for us to do it together, which was also fun. 00:06:28.460 --> 00:06:30.699 Just to see how we do. 00:06:30.699 --> 00:06:41.500 Okay, so the way that this works is uh the first stage that we did was just a hundred-yard rifle course. 00:06:41.780 --> 00:06:51.699 So on at our at our gun range, they had the hundred-yard range set up, and what they had is they had ten targets at a hundred yards. 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:53.880 Some of them were big targets. 00:06:53.880 --> 00:06:57.320 Many, many of them were small targets. 00:06:57.320 --> 00:06:58.199 Okay. 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:04.280 Now, you're probably thinking to yourself, Drew, 100 yards, you shoot a mile, that should be pretty easy. 00:07:04.320 --> 00:07:09.040 You probably have the best gear in the world 'cause you're a crazy person who spends a lot of money on this stuff. 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:10.800 Like this should be easy for you. 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:11.120 Okay 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:18.759 What I need to explain to you right now is that there are different divisions in these competitions. 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:19.080 Okay 00:07:20.020 --> 00:07:31.060 Depending on the size of the event, where it's being held, all this other stuff, there could be a million different divisions that have like really small nuances in them. 00:07:31.060 --> 00:07:34.660 But there's three main divisions to be aware of. 00:07:34.300 --> 00:07:38.940 The one that almost everybody shoots in is this division called Unlimited. 00:07:38.940 --> 00:07:42.139 And what that basically means is anything goes. 00:07:42.139 --> 00:07:47.180 You want to throw the fucking Hubble telescope on your gun like fucking go nuts, right? 00:07:47.039 --> 00:07:47.360 Okay. 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:49.599 Um you want to shoot a heavier caliber. 00:07:49.599 --> 00:07:50.639 Fucking go nuts. 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:55.520 Like it it's like no holds barred, no limit, no nothing. 00:07:55.860 --> 00:07:58.340 Then there's practical division. 00:07:58.340 --> 00:08:05.220 And the only main difference between that and unlimited is you can't use a magnified optic. 00:08:06.220 --> 00:08:07.020 Okay. 00:08:07.020 --> 00:08:07.660 Okay. 00:08:07.660 --> 00:08:15.660 So to put this in perspective, okay, on many of my rifles, especially like my long-range rifles, those are magnified optics. 00:08:15.660 --> 00:08:17.580 You need to be able to see what you're shooting. 00:08:17.539 --> 00:08:18.020 Right. 00:08:18.020 --> 00:08:21.699 But you may have also heard me talk about holographic sites. 00:08:22.500 --> 00:08:25.139 And the idea behind one of those is 00:08:25.880 --> 00:08:38.200 You have your your firearm and then on top of it you place a uh a sight that basically is a reflective piece of glass that a laser shines on 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:47.000 And the idea behind that is that is nice because when you're looking down the sites, you have a clear site picture. 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:49.720 There's a very clear reticle, it's lit up. 00:08:49.960 --> 00:08:52.920 It generally gives you a really nice field of view. 00:08:52.920 --> 00:08:57.000 You're not looking through a tiny little aperture on like an iron sight or something. 00:08:57.000 --> 00:08:57.240 So 00:08:57.980 --> 00:09:08.140 Typically, when you're shooting practical division, you're using some kind of aftermarket optic, but you're not using the built-in sights of the rifle. 00:09:08.020 --> 00:09:08.580 Okay. 00:09:08.580 --> 00:09:14.340 And then that's if you if you choose to do that, that is also a division known as factory division. 00:09:14.340 --> 00:09:20.900 So that is like you literally took the rifle out of the box, didn't do anything to it, and you're gonna shoot factory 00:09:21.020 --> 00:09:27.340 So when I was looking at the signups, almost everybody was unlimited was on the was in the unlimited division. 00:09:27.340 --> 00:09:31.900 There were nine of us signed up for practical division and three for factory. 00:09:31.900 --> 00:09:34.860 So out of the forty or so people that signed up 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:45.200 I chose, and I chose poorly, to personally handicap myself and go into practical division. 00:09:44.940 --> 00:09:45.740 Okay. 00:09:45.740 --> 00:09:51.100 Everybody else in my squad was using a magnified optic but me. 00:09:51.100 --> 00:09:54.780 Now I have been shooting for a while now. 00:09:54.780 --> 00:09:58.540 I have no problems hitting targets at a hundred yards. 00:09:58.339 --> 00:10:04.259 with my rifle with a holographic sight, provided that they're a reasonable size target. 00:10:04.259 --> 00:10:06.019 What I didn't realize 00:10:06.520 --> 00:10:15.080 is that they had basically had targets there that were the size of your iPhone at a hundred yards. 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:29.760 So of the ten targets, basically from left to right there was big target, slightly smaller target, slightly smaller target, really tiny teeny targets, a bonus target, and then a bunch, and then basically the same thing going the other direction. 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:30.440 Okay. 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:33.400 So I shot the first stage and I did god awful. 00:10:33.400 --> 00:10:37.320 I think it and and and the way that it worked was there were three shooting positions. 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:40.360 So what you had to do is go to position one. 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:41.880 Shoot at the ten targets. 00:10:41.880 --> 00:10:46.440 You could take as many shots as you want, but really you you had to hit every target once. 00:10:46.839 --> 00:10:49.000 Then you went to the next position. 00:10:49.040 --> 00:10:52.000 Shoot the ten targets, then go to the third position, shoot the ten targets. 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:57.839 So basically out of the thirty shots that I took, I probably had eight hits. 00:10:58.600 --> 00:10:59.320 Okay. 00:10:59.399 --> 00:11:02.600 Now that's the that doesn't seem great. 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:07.880 Now the other thing to keep in mind too is that you are timed. 00:11:09.300 --> 00:11:17.940 So not only do you have to hit these targets, you gotta do it fast, which means like you have to be able to move from target to target, move from position to position. 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:23.920 And when you actually look at the scores, your score is basically a sum of your time, right? 00:11:23.920 --> 00:11:26.319 So a lower number is better. 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:36.960 So whenever you're figuring out like what did you score on a particular stage, really what it is is how long did it take you? 00:11:37.260 --> 00:11:39.580 Did you successfully hit the target? 00:11:39.580 --> 00:11:41.900 If not, it adds time. 00:11:42.140 --> 00:11:42.780 Makes sense. 00:11:43.180 --> 00:11:43.740 Okay. 00:11:43.740 --> 00:11:47.820 So after the first stage, I'm like, well, this is gonna be a long fucking day. 00:11:47.560 --> 00:11:53.320 So, and plus everybody else that is shooting has a magnified optic, and they're just like hitting target after target. 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:57.560 It might like I could have sat there and I could have shot 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:00.480 120 rounds in the first stage, right? 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:01.680 Until I hit something. 00:12:02.319 --> 00:12:03.920 But it would have taken me a long time. 00:12:03.920 --> 00:12:05.120 It would have wasted ammo. 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:06.160 I was just like, fuck it. 00:12:06.160 --> 00:12:07.839 I'm just gonna move on. 00:12:08.060 --> 00:12:09.900 Then it was time for the second stage. 00:12:09.900 --> 00:12:15.740 And the second stage was a lot more fun because now this was a true three gun stage. 00:12:15.740 --> 00:12:17.340 So the way that it worked was 00:12:17.560 --> 00:12:23.160 There were all these target stands set up at anywhere from 50 to 15 yards. 00:12:23.160 --> 00:12:24.440 So very close. 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:24.760 Okay 00:12:25.459 --> 00:12:29.380 And the way that it was set up is some targets were white. 00:12:29.380 --> 00:12:31.620 Some targets were brown. 00:12:31.620 --> 00:12:34.500 Some targets were white and brown. 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:45.520 And the goal here was is that on the stage there were 10, I'm sorry, 11 targets that you had to engage. 00:12:45.560 --> 00:12:51.880 And when I say brown targets, what I'm talking about is imagine like a silhouette of a target. 00:12:51.880 --> 00:12:58.120 What you had to do is in order to successfully engage that target, you had to put two shots into it. 00:12:58.160 --> 00:13:05.600 Or one shot in the what's called the A side uh or the A area of the target, which is basically dead center 00:13:05.820 --> 00:13:11.660 So you could either shoot one shot, hit that center, or two and hit the the the other part of the target. 00:13:12.620 --> 00:13:16.780 If you put any bullet holes in any white target, it was a penalty. 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:17.440 Got it. 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:17.840 Okay. 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:22.240 So the way that they had it set up was you could not see every target from every position. 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:30.880 So you had to choose where to start, where to move to, and go through and hit the 11 targets before you moved on to the second part of that stage. 00:13:30.700 --> 00:13:33.180 That was really fun and I did really really well. 00:13:33.180 --> 00:13:34.779 I like moved quickly. 00:13:34.779 --> 00:13:35.740 I shot every target. 00:13:35.740 --> 00:13:36.700 I didn't have any misses. 00:13:36.700 --> 00:13:38.220 I didn't have any penalties 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:45.280 Then when you got to the second part, you had to basically take your rifle and put it in a trash can so it was safe, right? 00:13:45.280 --> 00:13:45.840 Okay. 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:52.640 Then you decided if you wanted to finish the stage with your pistol and your shotgun or just your pistol. 00:13:52.220 --> 00:13:59.420 Because then you had to draw your pistol from a holster, and then you had to engage pistol targets with the same rule. 00:13:59.420 --> 00:14:02.780 So don't hit any white targets, just hit the brown parts of the target. 00:14:02.820 --> 00:14:10.500 Then finally off to the right were these little metal spinner targets that you could either engage with your shotgun or your pistol. 00:14:10.500 --> 00:14:14.500 So you could either like set your pistol down, then pick up your shotgun. 00:14:14.740 --> 00:14:17.700 and start shooting, or you could ch stay with stick with your pistol. 00:14:17.700 --> 00:14:26.980 I just stuck with my pistol, which in the long run I think was the better move because number one, there were more targets than I had rounds in my shotgun. 00:14:26.920 --> 00:14:29.319 And I was able to shoot faster with my pistol. 00:14:29.319 --> 00:14:31.560 So that that stage was really fun. 00:14:31.560 --> 00:14:33.800 Then the third stage was kind of similar. 00:14:33.800 --> 00:14:35.720 It was more of a heavy pistol. 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:37.639 It was more of a pistol focus. 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:37.959 Um 00:14:38.640 --> 00:14:40.880 And then you had to hit some sporting clays. 00:14:40.880 --> 00:14:45.760 And then the final stage was we were on the 300-yard range with larger targets. 00:14:45.760 --> 00:14:48.480 And I actually shot that stage really well with my rifle. 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:50.720 I think I only had like six misses. 00:14:50.540 --> 00:14:53.180 uh without a magnified optic at like 200 some yards. 00:14:53.180 --> 00:14:54.940 Although now granted the targets were bigger. 00:14:54.940 --> 00:14:55.899 I could see them better. 00:14:55.899 --> 00:14:59.420 There were still some there were still some that I had trouble trouble making out. 00:14:59.900 --> 00:15:04.620 Um and then you had to shoot some aerial clays, which I am absolutely dog shit at. 00:15:04.620 --> 00:15:07.740 Like I don't like I don't like trap or skeet shooting. 00:15:07.740 --> 00:15:08.940 I'm not good at it. 00:15:08.940 --> 00:15:10.940 Um and that's what the stage finished with. 00:15:10.940 --> 00:15:14.460 So all in all, a really, really, really fun day. 00:15:14.560 --> 00:15:17.920 Um I didn't finish last, which was the which was the goal. 00:15:17.920 --> 00:15:24.400 I finished kind of just below the middle of the pack and had I shot a little bit better I could have easily finished in the upper half. 00:15:24.400 --> 00:15:25.840 So it was it was good. 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:28.960 Um and everybody was super cool and super chill. 00:15:30.680 --> 00:15:36.120 But after we were done, we were on we were on our way home and my buddy and I were like 00:15:36.740 --> 00:15:37.940 What do we need to buy? 00:15:37.940 --> 00:15:39.620 What do we need to do? 00:15:39.620 --> 00:15:41.620 What do we need to do to be better? 00:15:41.620 --> 00:15:42.020 Okay. 00:15:42.020 --> 00:15:42.420 Yeah. 00:15:42.420 --> 00:15:44.100 Now I that sounds like us. 00:15:44.100 --> 00:15:44.500 Uh huh. 00:15:44.740 --> 00:15:45.300 Yeah. 00:15:45.300 --> 00:15:48.660 So um first of all, let's talk about gear, right? 00:15:48.660 --> 00:15:48.980 Because 00:15:49.259 --> 00:15:51.740 We have talked about my LARPing, right? 00:15:51.740 --> 00:15:54.139 We we have talked about my battle belt and all that stuff. 00:15:54.139 --> 00:15:55.660 And that's what this stuff is made for. 00:15:55.660 --> 00:16:01.579 Cause you you have to have magazines, you have to have a place to put your expended magazines, like 00:16:01.660 --> 00:16:07.100 When you're ready to reload your shotgun, like you gotta be able to grab shells and reload and do all this stuff, right? 00:16:07.100 --> 00:16:11.500 You gotta have a holster for your pistol, so you gotta full tactical full tactical, right? 00:16:11.980 --> 00:16:12.300 Um 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:17.680 In in terms of rifles and stuff, it you know, it's a really interesting hobby. 00:16:17.680 --> 00:16:23.440 Um I don't think anybody would ever accuse me of not being a snob, right? 00:16:23.740 --> 00:16:26.540 Um and when it comes to my firearms, that's no exception, right? 00:16:26.540 --> 00:16:27.980 Like I don't buy cheap stuff. 00:16:27.980 --> 00:16:32.140 But the beauty of this sport is there's guys there that have probably spent 00:16:33.160 --> 00:16:36.360 $700 on their setup and they're shooting lights out, right? 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:41.160 Because this is truly a sport where yes, having good stuff is nice. 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:45.160 But and and again, this is why I choose to do these things. 00:16:45.160 --> 00:16:52.760 Like the more you do this and the more you get like it's it's very easy for me to go to a range, sit down and shoot. 00:16:53.200 --> 00:17:01.120 It's a it's a completely different thing to be moving, shooting off different positions, shooting off different target stands. 00:17:01.300 --> 00:17:10.660 hitting something other than steel, having actual rules about what you can and can't shoot, like all the stuff that has to go through your mind, which by the way, in addition to doing all of this 00:17:10.860 --> 00:17:14.139 Don't forget, you're running around holding a loaded gun, right? 00:17:14.139 --> 00:17:24.220 So it's like you need some you need some sense, you need some situational awareness, you need to have some presence of mind that like, oh, I probably shouldn't just turn around and say hi to everybody. 00:17:23.740 --> 00:17:25.740 while I'm holding this loaded gun, right? 00:17:25.740 --> 00:17:28.780 Like, frowned upon. 00:17:28.780 --> 00:17:29.020 Yeah. 00:17:29.020 --> 00:17:29.580 Yeah. 00:17:29.900 --> 00:17:32.780 Now Paul, what was the temperature on the 4th of July? 00:17:32.660 --> 00:17:33.140 It was hot. 00:17:33.140 --> 00:17:33.700 It was damn good. 00:17:33.780 --> 00:17:34.740 It was really fucking hot, right? 00:17:34.740 --> 00:17:35.540 It was really fucking hot. 00:17:35.540 --> 00:17:35.860 Yeah. 00:17:36.100 --> 00:17:39.460 You're in full head-to-toe tactical LARPing. 00:17:39.780 --> 00:17:40.180 I wasn't. 00:17:40.980 --> 00:17:46.740 I only wore my battle belt, but what I did wear was long sleeve and long sleeves and long pants 00:17:46.780 --> 00:17:53.740 Because um for those of you watching us on YouTube, uh one thing you'll notice about me is I'm bald and I'm pale. 00:17:53.740 --> 00:17:56.540 So like what I don't want to be is in the sun. 00:17:56.540 --> 00:18:05.500 So I slathered up on sunscreen and I wore like my long sleeve like um breathable fabric to be in the day, right? 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:10.639 Um, so we drank a lot of water and one guy in our squad was the hero of our squad. 00:18:10.639 --> 00:18:17.840 What he brought is I don't know if you've ever seen contractors have these those little fans that are powered by the drill batteries. 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:17.880 Yes. 00:18:18.280 --> 00:18:22.200 We ba we basically just all hung around that when we weren't shooting. 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:27.320 And it's just like little shit like that that you don't think about on days like that, right? 00:18:27.700 --> 00:18:30.820 And like, what do we need to buy to train better? 00:18:30.820 --> 00:18:33.460 And what can we do different with our gear? 00:18:33.460 --> 00:18:36.660 So uh never to be outdone, right? 00:18:36.660 --> 00:18:40.020 Um obviously there were things about my setup. 00:18:40.020 --> 00:18:40.340 Um 00:18:40.660 --> 00:18:46.580 It's a very poor carpenter that blames his tools, but I do take this as an opportunity to think about buying new guns. 00:18:46.580 --> 00:18:52.340 So the first thing that I bought, uh YouTube's gonna like strike our video, but uh this is a Galock 17 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:54.560 Um, I have plans for this gun. 00:18:54.560 --> 00:19:01.840 So traditionally I am not a Glock guy, um, but they're very, very popular for one reason at these competitions. 00:19:01.700 --> 00:19:04.980 And it isn't the gun, it's the magazine. 00:19:04.980 --> 00:19:05.940 The magazine. 00:19:05.940 --> 00:19:09.620 Everybody and their brother makes aftermarket Glock mags. 00:19:09.620 --> 00:19:12.340 And one thing we learned from this competition is 00:19:12.760 --> 00:19:17.720 There are stages where you have to pre-stage your loaded magazines. 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:21.400 So for example, the pistol that I took that day, I have 00:19:22.100 --> 00:19:30.899 three magazines for but you weren't allowed to transition between shooting positions with a loaded gun 00:19:31.519 --> 00:19:37.919 So what you what you were supposed to do is basically take your magazine and set it at the s at the shooting position. 00:19:37.919 --> 00:19:41.279 So like you finished in one thing, you ejected your magazine. 00:19:41.780 --> 00:19:45.940 ran over to the next station, took the mag that was supposed to be there. 00:19:45.940 --> 00:19:49.860 And this is a good example because like the gun I took, the magazines are like 00:19:50.220 --> 00:19:51.660 $50 a pop. 00:19:51.660 --> 00:19:54.540 These are like $10 a pop, right? 00:19:54.540 --> 00:19:57.740 And like Glock is a is a perfectly fine firearm. 00:19:57.740 --> 00:19:59.420 Like they are reliable. 00:19:59.420 --> 00:20:03.740 They are really customizable, which is what I'm going to do with this gun. 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:08.600 This is a Gen 6 Glock 17, so this is like the brand new series. 00:20:08.600 --> 00:20:13.320 Um they don't make a ton of parts for this yet, but I'm gonna get a different barrel, different slide. 00:20:13.540 --> 00:20:20.740 compensator, like this would be a really good gun to turn into like a like competition gun, even though I already have a competition gun, right? 00:20:20.740 --> 00:20:22.420 And it's just one of those things you need to practice with. 00:20:22.420 --> 00:20:24.020 So that was like the first thing I bought. 00:20:24.020 --> 00:20:26.500 And traditionally I haven't liked Glocks. 00:20:26.340 --> 00:20:28.820 Because of this, this is the the hand guard. 00:20:28.820 --> 00:20:30.900 It's c you could kind of see it on my camera. 00:20:30.900 --> 00:20:32.260 Like it's very stippled. 00:20:32.260 --> 00:20:34.500 It's very rough. 00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:39.559 Um this is better than the previous generations that was basically like holding a porcupine. 00:20:39.559 --> 00:20:42.279 This actually doesn't feel too bad. 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:45.000 Um so like that's like the first thing. 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:48.360 Now the second thing was Oh yeah 00:20:49.080 --> 00:20:54.120 So this this is a Sig Spear LT. 00:20:54.120 --> 00:20:58.600 And um a while ago, if you're a frequent listener of the podcast 00:20:58.700 --> 00:21:05.500 You'll know that I also have another Sig Spear, which is the new Army one that like the a the ammo costs dollar sign Texas. 00:21:05.740 --> 00:21:06.139 I remember that. 00:21:06.139 --> 00:21:06.460 Yes. 00:21:06.460 --> 00:21:06.779 Yep. 00:21:06.779 --> 00:21:07.419 Yep. 00:21:07.419 --> 00:21:11.260 This is like the AR-15 version of that. 00:21:11.040 --> 00:21:11.680 Okay. 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:15.040 So this just takes regular 556 ammo. 00:21:15.040 --> 00:21:17.600 Um this is not the rifle that I shot that day. 00:21:17.600 --> 00:21:21.280 I actually used my FN Scar that was a short barrel. 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:23.040 Which made it very, very maneuverable. 00:21:23.040 --> 00:21:24.400 It it performed beautifully. 00:21:24.400 --> 00:21:25.200 It was accurate. 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:27.280 Again, this this is not the gun's fault. 00:21:27.280 --> 00:21:28.880 This is all operator stuff. 00:21:29.120 --> 00:21:30.800 Operator error, I should say. 00:21:31.120 --> 00:21:36.480 Um but next time I am gonna shoot the longer barrel and I'm gonna use a magnified optic. 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:41.360 Now this optic on this gun is the a Trigicon ACOG. 00:21:41.360 --> 00:21:43.760 So this is typically what you see on like 00:21:44.019 --> 00:21:50.419 Military gun, so this is a straight four times magnification with a built-in bullet drop compensator. 00:21:50.500 --> 00:21:52.659 You can't you wouldn't be able to see it on the camera. 00:21:52.600 --> 00:22:01.480 But when you're looking through here, there's a crosshair and then there's hashes at basically 200, 300, 400 meters, not yards, meters. 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:01.799 Meters. 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:02.760 Where like 00:22:03.040 --> 00:22:09.120 you can you can use it to estimate range because it's designed to be the shape of a man at that distance. 00:22:09.120 --> 00:22:17.120 So you can use it to you can use it to figure out distance, but it also gives you four times magnification, which for a competition like that is more than enough. 00:22:16.620 --> 00:22:18.860 And then on top of it is a red dot. 00:22:18.860 --> 00:22:24.700 So on the stages where I'm engaging closer targets, I can use that and then just drop down that to get the magnifying. 00:22:24.780 --> 00:22:27.740 So like that, but that would have put me in unlimited division, right? 00:22:27.740 --> 00:22:31.420 So again, I have plans for this rifle. 00:22:31.420 --> 00:22:34.300 I will register it as an SBR. 00:22:34.260 --> 00:22:39.620 What's nice about these is this entire top section here can be detached from the rifle. 00:22:39.620 --> 00:22:43.059 So if I want to change calibers, I can very easily do that. 00:22:43.600 --> 00:22:50.240 And the other thing is is this muzzle device on the top is the exact same muzzle device that is on my other spear. 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:52.960 So I already have a suppressor that fits this. 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:56.799 So again, there's there's a little bit of reusability there. 00:22:56.820 --> 00:22:59.220 So this is a really, really good rifle to shoot. 00:22:59.220 --> 00:23:02.100