Zak Smith
Member
Hearing damage is cumulative and irreversible. Torching rounds off outside with no earpro will cause some hearing damage - inside, definitely. You might or might not notice, but it's there.
I don't like a lot of junk on my rifles, and I do not usually like to have a rail fore-end. The exceptions are if I will be using a VFG more than half the time (useful when shooting full-auto or suppressed to deal with barrel heat) or have a light mounted. But there are a bunch of modular float tubes that allow just the rail sections you need to be mounted, which can reduce the overall bulk of the front end of the rifle.
I don't like a lot of junk on my rifles, and I do not usually like to have a rail fore-end. The exceptions are if I will be using a VFG more than half the time (useful when shooting full-auto or suppressed to deal with barrel heat) or have a light mounted. But there are a bunch of modular float tubes that allow just the rail sections you need to be mounted, which can reduce the overall bulk of the front end of the rifle.
This shouldn't step on toes. Fighting and competition are two different things by definition. However, 3-Gun competition is a crucible in which better techniques and equipment are evolved to solve practical shooting problems. Fighting adds other aspects and when taking those techniques and tools from competition to fighting, judgment and experience must be brought to bear on if they are appropriate or not, an advantage or not, a liability or not, etc. However, with that said, competition is the place where most of the better tools and techniques are developed: the US Army and USMC both understand this and that's why they have 3-Gun (and other practical shooting teams).I'm going to step on some toes and suggest that three gun and defensive fighting are two different things.
I find this statement curious. I have taken a bunch of fighting rifle classes from a variety of trainers, and I have competed in 3-Gun at the national level since 2003. Categorically, 3Gunners are less concerned about slings and almost always only put them on their rifles when the stage requires it (otherwise they get in the way and can slow you down), while the fighting rifle trainers always indicate that the sling is mandatory.My point is, sling use is another tacticool recommendation made by users who focus on a competitive event and assume it would be useful in actual combat in a defensive role.
In 3-Gun matches I've shot from within/on/in vegegation, vehicles (moving and non moving), doors, walls, wobbly platforms, helicopters (both "prop" and flying), armored vehicles, trenches, trees, stairs, furniture, bunkers, etc.You won't ever see snag obstacles on a range precisely because it's unsafe.