Did yall know Texas/Oklahoma is the mecca of a pretty neat shooting sport?
Run and Gun is a 2 gun match (pistol/rifle) with shooting stages scattered along a distance course. Some matches have physical obstacles like walls, rope climbs, etc, some just depend on the terrain to provide physical challenges. You bring everything you're going to need for the course with you from the start (no stopping to top off with more ammo along the way). Your score is an average of your run time and your shooting time/score.
It's been on my list of "want to try" for a couple years now, and I finally ran my first one this weekend at the Old Eighteen Defense Farrell Run and Gun outside of Meridian.
It was advertised as a 10k with 7 shooting stages. Wound up being about 8 miles with 700 feet or so of elevation change. Longest rifle target was 640 yards (that stage was naturally about 6 miles into the course up the longest hill climb of the event). There were no walkthroughs, every stage was blind other than a brief picture showing number of targets that you got to examine when you arrived at the stage. No distances listed, targets were sometimes in shaded tree lines, next to no shoot targets, etc and every stage had a maximum time limit.
It was an absolutely outstanding challenge physically and mentally. Knowing your holdovers, estimating ranges, efficiency in getting in/out of positions, rifle/pistol transitions, being able to shoot while physically exhausted, being able to make accurate shots under time pressure...it was fantastic.
Cannot recommend this enough to yall. If you want to test yourself and your equipment....there's not a whole lot else out there like this (besides Cola Warrior). Plus you get to run around on rich people's 1800+ acre Texas ranches and enjoy how amazingly beautiful Texas is....and then shoot stuff. It's great.
Took this picture at sunrise before the safety brief:
Took this picture from the top of the hill before the long range stage. Red pencil is the route you ran from stage 5 up to stage 6 here. This was the only picture I took on course. Was too busy shooting or sucking wind otherwise.
My shooting gear for the match: Rifle with 1-8, Glock with RMR, Chest rig for ammo/medical/water/multitool. Was just over 25 lbs at the start line. Thankfully you can lighten the load by being a bad shot and burning through some extra ammo. I could have gamer'd it and run as light as possible (no tools, no medical, less ammo), but that's not really the point of this kind of event for me.
This was my first run and gun, but absolutely will not be my last. Learned too much, had too much fun. If yall have any questions on how to get into it, about the gear I used, whatever, let me know. I finished in the 30s out of 118 shooters, but the three guys I went with all finished in the top 15 so I have some chasing to do.
Run and Gun is a 2 gun match (pistol/rifle) with shooting stages scattered along a distance course. Some matches have physical obstacles like walls, rope climbs, etc, some just depend on the terrain to provide physical challenges. You bring everything you're going to need for the course with you from the start (no stopping to top off with more ammo along the way). Your score is an average of your run time and your shooting time/score.
It's been on my list of "want to try" for a couple years now, and I finally ran my first one this weekend at the Old Eighteen Defense Farrell Run and Gun outside of Meridian.
It was advertised as a 10k with 7 shooting stages. Wound up being about 8 miles with 700 feet or so of elevation change. Longest rifle target was 640 yards (that stage was naturally about 6 miles into the course up the longest hill climb of the event). There were no walkthroughs, every stage was blind other than a brief picture showing number of targets that you got to examine when you arrived at the stage. No distances listed, targets were sometimes in shaded tree lines, next to no shoot targets, etc and every stage had a maximum time limit.
It was an absolutely outstanding challenge physically and mentally. Knowing your holdovers, estimating ranges, efficiency in getting in/out of positions, rifle/pistol transitions, being able to shoot while physically exhausted, being able to make accurate shots under time pressure...it was fantastic.
Cannot recommend this enough to yall. If you want to test yourself and your equipment....there's not a whole lot else out there like this (besides Cola Warrior). Plus you get to run around on rich people's 1800+ acre Texas ranches and enjoy how amazingly beautiful Texas is....and then shoot stuff. It's great.
Took this picture at sunrise before the safety brief:
Took this picture from the top of the hill before the long range stage. Red pencil is the route you ran from stage 5 up to stage 6 here. This was the only picture I took on course. Was too busy shooting or sucking wind otherwise.
My shooting gear for the match: Rifle with 1-8, Glock with RMR, Chest rig for ammo/medical/water/multitool. Was just over 25 lbs at the start line. Thankfully you can lighten the load by being a bad shot and burning through some extra ammo. I could have gamer'd it and run as light as possible (no tools, no medical, less ammo), but that's not really the point of this kind of event for me.
This was my first run and gun, but absolutely will not be my last. Learned too much, had too much fun. If yall have any questions on how to get into it, about the gear I used, whatever, let me know. I finished in the 30s out of 118 shooters, but the three guys I went with all finished in the top 15 so I have some chasing to do.
