Inland Empire 3-gun Scores and Pix

From Bill S., this news and a couple of fascinating (if L-O-N-G) mulitmedia shows on Smilebox.

Scores are up at www.sppl.us

Below are two links to pix from the Inland Empire 3 gun, thanks to all who participated by working, ROing, cooking, scoring, tearing down, and shooting. Ty Mabry made this slideshow...way cool!


2008 IE 3 Gun Match
http://smilebox.com/playEmail/4e4467784d5449794d3377334e5449784d6a63320d0a&sb=1

2008 IE 3 Gun Team Event
http://smilebox.com/playEmail/4e4467784e7a417a4e3377324e7a4d324e446b340d0a&sb=1

(Click the link on the event description, or the complete URL, or cut&past the URL into your browser bar.)

I'm not familiar with SmileBox, but I'll be checking it out. One feature seems to be that after it completes a show (which may take a half-hour or so), it goes into 'loop mode' and starts all over again. You'll have to decide for yourself how many times you want to watch.

The first display, of the 3-gun main match, provides some short videos interspersed with a lot of stills, choreographed by a fair amount of headbanger music.

This is a long display, but the music is an interesting mix and the videos jazz up the action. The pictures range from try-to-catch-the-brass-in-the air to interesting people smiling for the camera.

I discovered that the people were most interesting. I saw a lot of people I knew there. R&R Racing was well represented, both in the people (Bobby and Scott) and the props ... which I assume were donated to the match by R&R. Of course there were a few Montana Gold shirts there, Bill S. included.

Mostly, there were so many family and couple group photos represented that the entire display gave the happy impression that this was a family event.

The range, incidentally, is little short of wonderful. The footing can be described as 'meadowland', with lots of hills and trees in the background. It's a warm Summer (or early Fall) day, the sun is shine and faces are well populated with smiles and gap-toothed grins.

The second display, which seems to be a side match, demonstrates something knew in my experience: a 3-gun tag-team match.

There are three six-plate racks, three shooters, and 3 guns.
On the left rack is the shotgun shooter, with the rack not-to-far away. On the buzzer, he jumps up from his chair, grabs the pre-staged shotgun, and blazes away until he knocks down all six plates. (If you have to reload, you have to reload!)

Then he grounds the shotgun safely and RUNS to the second position, where the second team member is seated in a chair. Slapping hand ('tagging') releases that shooter to run to the table where his rifle is grounded. After knocking down the six plates at a 'pretty far out' distance, he grounds the rifle on the table and races to tag the third team member.

On receiving the tag, the third shooter runs to a barrel where a pistol is pre-staged. Grabbing the pistol, he knocks down the six plates on that rack

there appear to be some restrictions on how a gun must be 'safely grounded'; if you screw up, you have to go back and safely ground the gun before you can tag the next team member.

Lots of action, lots of fun, and lots of cat-calls from the Peanut Gallery when a team member screws up.

Highlights: Bill S. on the shotgun (he may not be accurate, but he is fast!) and a four-foot-not-much-more junior who does a fine job on the pistol plates.