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2008 Fort Benning 3 Gun Challenge – Results

Dec 07 2008 Published by under 3 Gun, BGM, Competition, DPMS, match, member, Shooting

Congratulations to two BGM members – Tax Man and White Feather.  Both competed over the weekend at the Army Marksmanship Unit’s three gun competition at Fort Benning, Ga.  Tax Man came in 126th and White Feather 23rd.  Friends of the BGM: Pony Tail came in 14th and Ramey came in 3rd in the Open Division.  Ramey smoked professional shooter Todd Jarret and finished behind other professional shooters Jerry Miculek (world’s fastest reloader) and DPMS Sponsored Jasmes Darst.  For weekend shooters not to shabby.

The AMU uses a set of complex rules and scoring system that aren’t completely easy for everyone to understand.  But basically the highest score wins.  The system does not necessarily indicate the fastest competitor as much as it does for the one that was accurate, fast, and followed all the rules.  Here are White Feather and Tax Man’s Results.

White Feather Tax Man
Points Points
Stage 1 28.50 30.00
Stage 2 91.33 63.43
Stage 3 58.78 40.54
Stage 4 81.35 46.98
Stage 5 88.22 61.82
Stage 6 99.33 50.87
Stage 7 114.21 61.18
Stage 8
 42.65 29.71
Total 604.37 384.53

Again congratulations and job well done.

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Steel Plate Match and 3 Gun Practice

Jun 13 2008 Published by under 3 Gun, Action Alerts, Alabama, Competition, DPMS, match, Pistols, Tactical Rifle

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Don’t forget that this Saturday we have the Pistol Steel Plate Match at Pleasant Grove FOP. In addition to the steel plate match we will be having a 3 Gun Practice. We plan to run a couple different style stages with walls, steel plates, sporting clays, and silhouette targets. We may also have a couple swingers in place. The swingers will be on loan form Lee Knobloch.

Lee has been kind enough to grant us use of his personal swingers. Lee is a fantastic pistol competitor and if you ever want to know something about shooting or just want to chat give him a call over at the FOP range, 205.744.2600.

Hopefully the weather will be good. We always go even in inclimate weather. It adds to practical action of the the shoot. Check the weather.

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Rant: Where is the Gun Marketing

Jun 09 2008 Published by under AR15, DPMS, New Guns, Tactical Rifle

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We have all heard the stories about the internet making people millions. Well, why hasn’t the shooting industry joined in?

  1. Gun people aren’t tech savvy?
  2. They can’t use computers?
  3. They are are unorganized?
  4. Maybe all of the above?

We happen to think not. Someone hasn’t come along and entered into the heavy competition for marketing over the internet. Which by our calculations is a bad thing. For instance… If you are looking for a “NHO Magwell” on Google, or Yahoo you couldn’t find one. So if somebody spent a little time and learned to market gun products on the internet it would make life easier for the shooters doing the shopping and make somebody lots of money.

There sites like bizrate.com or yahoo shopping. But what do those companies know about guns and gun accessories? Nothing. What if somebody came along and made a Amazon style website? That would revolutionize the weapon industry. Lots of people have a website but they are so poor it is hard even for advanced internet users. Maybe a single company with the capital and the right internet marketing direction will come along soon. If you get some ideas from this post give us credit for the inspiration. If it is good enough we might even promote it on our site.

As a question what do you think of the internet gun shopping business? What are your favorite sites? What type of things do you buy from them?

Though we are not marketing or selling anything as a team… We use the services of Birmingham SEO Service, to help promote shooting through search engines. We don’t pay for anything when it comes to the website. The owner of the Search Engine Optimization Service is a member of our team and provides basic design, layout, SEO, and all around technical know how for our website. So if you want to discuss ideas them about improving your online gun business contact Birmingham SEO and tell them you saw this article and receive a very willing and helpful person.

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