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3-Gun Training With Junior Shooters Magazine Part 1
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(Above right: Poppy Vorse shooting her S&W AR .22 LR during practice. She uses Blade-Tech holsters and magazine pouches, a GLOCK 17, a Mossberg SA-20, and a Next Generation Arms X7 rifle (lying next to her).
Introduction
By: Andy Fink with Duncan Dye (14), Alisah Lierman (16), Hayden Lierman (13), Poppy Vorse (13), River Vorse (13), Cody Leeper (17).
3-Gun competition is a one of the fastest growing shooting sports there is. It is also a sport that juniors can participate in and enjoy. It is fun, fast, requires strategy, and being in shape helps. The sport has gotten a big boost with the 3-Gun Nation series of TV shows. Though Junior Shooters magazine covers all of the shooting supports and actively encourages and helps new shooters in a variety of sports, we have placed an emphasis on providing firearms and gear for those juniors who want to get into 3-Gun competition. This is thanks to our sponsors and many people that are supporting this effort. We also provide training through volunteer staff and later this year will be conducting a 3-Gun clinic for juniors.
(Setting up targets during training. L to R: River Vorse, Cody Leeper, Duncan Dye, Hayden Lierman.)
Each year, the Junior Shooters Magazine 3-Gun Program works with a number of juniors with ages ranging from 13-18. The big event we train for each year is held the first part of June – the MGM Ironman! This is the toughest 3-Gun competition in the nation. Over two and half days you shoot 1,300 – 1,500 rounds of pistol, rifle, and shotgun at multiple targets, some of which are moving. The stages last anywhere from two minutes to eight minutes and though exhilarating, are also exhausting. We get set up the later part of the previous year and actually start training in February.
Our first year of doing this was in 2008 when we had the first junior girl, Sarah Bowers (16), participate in the MGM Ironman.
Check out the 2008 video by clicking on the small photo to the right of Sarah Bowers shooting the Texas Star.
We skipped 2009 and started back in 2010 with four juniors and in 2011 we had five juniors (all boys). This year, 2012, we have six juniors including two girls. We also have Cody Leeper (17) the returning 3-Gun Nation Series 2011 Junior Champion returning. This year we also have Junior Shooters shooting shirts for them to wear. In order to participate in this program each junior must sign the Junior Shooters creed, write articles, agree that school comes first, always conduct themselves as good sportsman, meet their obligations, represent our sponsors and advertisers well, and be safe.
I thought it would be a good idea for you to see, and read about, what we do in 3-Gun training and get an idea of what 3-Gun competition is all about. Therefore, we will be including on our website the process and the stories of our juniors. We will try to have a new article published on our 3-Gun training each week. A photo of our 2012 team is shown below.
If you are interested in participating in this program please give me, Andy Fink, a call at 208-629-8967 of send me an email at publisher@juniorshooters.net.
(Junior Shooters magazine’s 2012 3-Gun Team. Top: Alisah Lierman (16) who shoots a FNH FNX9, a Stag Arms Model 3G .223, and a FNH SLP 12-Gauge shotgun with her brother Hayden Lierman (13) who shoots a FNH FNX-9, a custom built AR-15 Stag Arms – Badger barrel and parts from Brownells, and a FNH SLP shotgun. Left: Poppy Vorse (13) uses a Mossberg SA-20 Bantam, GLOCK-17, and Next Generation Arms X7 rifle. Right: L to R Duncan Dye (14), River Vorse (13), and Cody Leeper (17). Duncan shoots a Rock River Arms A4 LAR-15 fixed stock with an Eotech dot in Limited, and a FNH SLP shotgun while his pistol is either a GLOCK-17, 34, SigSauer 1911 .45 acp, or a custom Bar-Sto 2011 double stack 9mm. River shoots a FNH SCAR-16, a GLOCK-17, and an FNH SLP shotgun. Coody Leeper, the 2011 3-Gun Nation Junior Champion, shoots a Next Generation Arms X7, a FNH SLP shotgun and his pistol is either a GLOCK-34 or a FNH FS-9. Cody and Duncan are experienced 3-Gun shooters while this is the first year for Poppy, River, Alisah, and Hayden.)
Before signing off, I would like to thank our 3-Gun sponsors. A current list is included below but many more are coming on board to support Junior Shooters magazine’s effort in getting more juniors into the sport of 3-Gun.
- · 3 Gun Gear
- · Aimpoint
- ·Alpen Scopes (our biggest scope sponsor)
- · Bar-Sto Precision Machine
- · Black Hills Ammunition
- · Bladetech
- · Brownells (our biggest non-firearm sponsor)
- · Bushmaster
- · Bushnell
- · Caldwell Shooting Supplies
- · Cavalry Arms
- · Champion Targets
- · Eotech
- · Federal Ammunition
- · FNH (our biggest firearm sponsor)
- · GLOCK
- · Horus Vision
- · L.A.R. Manufacturing – Grizzly Arms
- · Lancer Systems
- · Magpul
- · MGM Targets
- · Mossberg
- · Next generation Arms
- · Radians
- · Rock River Arms
- · Rudy Project
- · Ruger
- · Rugged Gear
- · Safariland
- · Sig Sauer
- · Sightron
- · Stag Arms
- · Swarovski
- · Erijicon
- · Umarex
- · Valdada
- · Viking Tactics
- · Warne Scope Mounts
- · Winchester Ammunition
- · Wolf Performance Ammunition
- · Zero Ammunition
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