(Dakota being the poster child for miniature or "mini" 3-Gun is completely coincidental) As winter melts into spring, the season is drawing near for the beginning of Wednesday Night Thunder. While week night pistol matches are fairly common place, few-if any- week night 3-gun leagues exist. While the opportunity is ripe with possibilities, it [...]

One of the ideas we came up with for the Hawkeye Ignite series this year was what I like to call a progression stage. The idea behind the stage is that we will run the exact same stage every week all season long. Now, I probably won’t get the tape measure and string line [...]

While the primary draw to 3-gun for most enthusiasts is the equipment and subsequent tinkering with gadgetry, it is not what wins matches. What wins matches is formulation, visualization, and execution of the perfect stage plan. Sometimes there are right and wrong answers to problem solving a stage, other times it is simply an [...]

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas here in the northland, which means many things. It means that the ground is too frozen to stake down range props, footing gets slippery, fingers don’t work so well, and about 60% of our community is less than enthusiastic about being outside if its anything less than [...]

As the sport has grown and online match management tools have become the norm, pre-registration for matches has become increasingly popular and important. To those not intimately involved with match administration, some of the advantages may be readily apparent and others may not. As action shooting events have evolved from somewhat informal gatherings to much [...]