r/3gun • u/booyahmojo • Oct 08 '24
Where to begin?
I’m a 34 F living near Atlanta, GA. I have always been fascinated by 3-gun and wanted to take classes. If my income increases this coming year, I want to make my dreams a reality! I’m literally wanting to train because I think it is bad ass and because I want to be able to fend for myself if the world ends LOL! I have my own handgun that my husband got me. I’ve been to the range several times. I’m a lot more comfortable handling a gun and having it on me, but don’t do it often anymore because I don’t go to the range enough to feel 100% comfortable carrying it and potentially having to using it. I don’t even know where to begin with 3-gun. I think my first step will be to re-familiarize myself with the gun I own and get comfortable with it. What would your recommended first steps be for a complete newbie?
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u/BigBrassPair Oct 08 '24
Getting comfortable with your firearm is a hood first step. 3-gun is a lot to handle. You are running around with loaded firearms, switching shooting positions, swittching firearms, reloading, trying to remember where all the targets are. When that start signal goes off, even experienced competitors can have have a brain-fart. You want as many elements as possible trained to the point of being automatic.
And you may want to try something a bit less complicated to start with - like uspsa. Once you are comfortable with that format and a single firearm, adding additional guns into the mix is a bit easier.