Old Fort VOD - The Gun Run 3/8 and 3/9

[Frack N Cylons]

Who else is shooting this?

I’ll be there for the white light event on Sat.

 

[Tim]

oh dang...is that this weekend?

 

[Frack N Cylons]

Getting ready…

I guess all the high rollers are getting ready to run right now with NODs.

Fresh batteries in everything.

 

[Lucky63]

What is that on your optic private?

 

[Frack N Cylons]

She put it on at the last one and there it will stay. 😄

 

[Lucky63]

I figured so. She already has given ya luck 👍🏻

 

[Tim]

Mud.

There is mud.

And, perhaps some more mud.

 

[Frack N Cylons]

I see quite a few DNFs out there….

 

[Tim]

I see quite a few DNFs out there….

Night Vision sucks - really sucks - in fog and heavy rain

 

[Tim]

This run was brutal. The Match Director should be ashamed of himself.

How dare he allow Fog, Rain, No Wind to clear smoke and zero Moonlight?! Didn't he know that guys spend $10,000 on NV Gear and don't want to get it muddy and wet or be shocked that it doesn't work in an austere environment?!

 

[Frack N Cylons]

Some not so happy campers I take it?

Of the 3 nighttime runs I’ve done at VOD, that one was probably the most fun. I didn’t have to run it in the rain, but there was plenty of mud. At one point I plopped into a mud hole up to my nuts and just started laughing.

I think it was the nighttime event this time last year where the stages were a little too difficult in my opinion.

I was concerned that the courses of fire would be a bit too complicated, but they were all pretty attainable. I DNFed stage 5 due to poor ammo management. I also froze on the grenade targets for some reason, I wasn’t expecting cardboard baddies in camo maybe?

 

[Tim]

Some not so happy campers I take it?

Friday night, for the Night Vision guys, was about as bad of conditions as you could get. The fog was so thick that targets (full size torsos at 50 yards) were washing out. Steady, fairly heavy, rain made the footing really bad. If you're not really experienced with how to run with it, NV gear gets fogged over and becomes almost useless in those conditions.

So, yeah, there were a lot of guys that weren't real happy.

Saturday night was almost perfect. Wind came up just enough to clear the smoke away and dry out the some of the course. We had zero fog or cloud cover and a fair amount of natural light. Lots more shiny happy faces after the runs.

Of the 3 nighttime runs I’ve done at VOD, that one was probably the most fun. I didn’t have to run it in the rain, but there was plenty of mud. At one point I plopped into a mud hole up to my nuts and just started laughing.

That's the attitude!

 

[Tim]

I circle the muddy parts of the course in RED