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Independence Day Action Rifle Match
Mesa, AZ (Rio Salado Sportsman’s Club) 7-4-2008
www.cavalryarms.com/ID4/ID4.html

We will be running the Independence Day Action Rifle match to Benefit the Arizona Citizen’s Defense League again this year. AZCDL is a very pro-active pro-freedom organization that has accomplished a great deal with little resources over the past several years. They are well worthy of our support, and that is why all proceeds from the match will go to them. Rio Salado Sportsman's Club is graciously hosting the match and had allowed us full access to their facilities.

Video from last year: www.cavalryarms.com/vids/ID4-2007.wmv

This is an action style match with time + penalties scoring (lowest time overall wins). Those of you who shoot 3 gun will be used to the format. Penalties for No-Shoots and Un-hit targets have been upped to emphasize accuracy. We also score Intermediate Rifle cartridges and Battle Rifle Cartridges differently. Intermediate Rifle Cartridges (.223, 7.62x39mm, etc) require two hits anywhere or one A zone to neutralize, Battle Rifle Cartridges (7.62mm NATO, .30-06, 8mm Mauser, .303 British, etc.) need two hits anywhere or one C zone or better to neutralize. For full rules read here: www.cavalryarms.com/ID4/rules.html

Divisions:
Classic: Any firearm or copy of a design made in 1945 or before. All feeding devices and sighting devices must be of the correct time period too. Classic Division shooters may bayonet the targets (please don't tear them in half) if the course design lends itself to doing so.
Tactical Iron: Iron Sights only, Compensators must be less than 1� diameter X 3� length, no bipods allowed
Tactical Scope: Rifle: Any single optic may be used, Compensators must be less than 1� diameter X 3� length, no bipods allowed
Open: Rifle: No limitations on accessories

Details:

Match Cost: $40.00
Application here: www.cavalryarms.com/ID4/Application.doc
There will be 4 to 5 stages. At least half the match will be long range oriented (100-300 yards).
Sign in will start at 7:00AM
Shooter's meeting at 7:30AM
Range goes hot by 8:00AM
Finish Shooting by 2:00PM
Range Cleaned up and Stages torn down by 3:00PM
Prize Raffle and Awards to follow range clean up/tear down.

If anyone has suggestions for stages, can help set up, or RO, please e-mail me at rphagan@cavalryarms.com

ROs will travel with their squads so everyone will be able to shoot.

A final note, please do not let Cavalry Arms’ current situation dissuade you from attending. Several people have made offers to run the match in the event we are unable to do so for any reason (which currently seems to be an unlikely eventuality). So the match will happen regardless.

Though I would share this with you guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaYOI1waCYI

The root word to "gunfight" isn't "gun". It is "FIGHT"!

I just finished watching the DVD "Fighting Pistol" put out by Tactical Response. It is a great resource for training and information about using a gun in a violent encounter. It covers mindset, basics, tactics, general guidelines and legal issues involved. I learned a lot from this video and know now that I have even more to learn and hone with my pistol. It has everything you need to know from what gun to chose to what to do after you have shot and killed someone.

Here is a Trailer!

Trailer

Thought me and Nate going back and forth was taking too much away from the original idea of the sexy gear thread so I thought this would be more appropriate.

This is not a showcase of items for sale, I am not trying to peddle my wares on this site, and hope others do not. None of these items are for sale. This is to inspire guys who want legit gear but can't spare the coin to get working on making their own gear.

To start things off right here is a bunch of stuff I have done lately.



 









The bag with the Kenyan flag is a "man-bag" I use for church, I finally relented to a bag due to all the stuff I was collecting. I have the Kenyan flag on it becasue I lived there as a missionary for the LDS chuch.

Here we go on part two of our AEG breakdown special.

I am going to go in reverse order showing how the hop up is put together from pieces and you can use the same order but in reverse to take it apart.

First behold the empty systema metal hopup chamber for M4. Now the parts on different hopup chambers are different slightly and have to be taken apart in different ways, as it is with the MP5. The general principles of a hop up will be shown here and the variations hopefully you can figure out.



Take a look at the bucking and barrel. Note that there is a little keyway grove in the bucking that matches up with the indent on the barrel. Slide the bucking on the barrel with those two matched up.





Slide the whole assembly into the hop up chamber with that little keyway toward the bottom of the hop up.



With that in you are ready to start placing the tiny bits intot he hopup. Start with placing the tiny little tube shown here in black in the notch of the white hop up over head cam and attach the spring as shown. I use a bit of vicious grease or shock oil in this case to stick it to the cam.



That little tube pushes against the bucking through the large notch in the barrel to create back spin on your exiting BB spinning it to keep it level during flight. Now place the cam and put the tiny pin in one end to keep it in(the pin can go either way, I think it goes opposite of how I show it ). Make sure that the spring enters into the little guide cut round for it.





You are ready to put your little gears back into place. Before you do check that the little tube on the cam is engaging the bucking by depressing it a bit to see the indent it makes into the barrel area. Now place the gears back in this sequence.



Put the one that engages the cam in first and the middle one in seccond.



Place the adjustment gear in and screw it in place.





At this point you should place the little round clip things on the ends of the posts to hold it all in place, I don't put those on becuase the gears all hold echother in place and none of them can come out because they are all in sequence with the large one. You can place themon with a screwdriver or some small prying device.

You are ready to close it up and place the little "C" clip to hold the barrel in place. I am shown taking it apart with a screwdriver, but it should go together with out prying. The sides of the clip should engage the little indents on the sides of the barrel.







Make sure that when you put it back in the body that the little spring on the guide is there above the barrel this helps the nozzel keep a good seal on the bucking and can cost you up to 30fps or more if not there.

If you have any suggestions on things you would like to see taken apart PM me and I will put them in another exciting eppisode!

Had a hankering to do something with this body I had laying around so this afternoon I built this shorty front end just for fun. I used a stock TM M4 body, with the addition of a systema high speed motor. I then took a barrel nut left over from another project and welded a pice of exhaust pipe to it and tada! a shorty ready for CQB at its finest. Oh the stock is Vltor and the glass is an EOTech 511.









Enjoy!!

Here are photos of some of my gear, and a few pices of gear that are not mine. I just finished making the helmet cover and had to suit up and show off the gears. so here they are:

Here is me in my CRYE field uniform with my TT MAV and SOTech bib, I have an Eagle RAID on my back, new CB alta knee pads, MICH copy with MC helmet cover, oakley M frames eyewear, Sordin supreme pros, and Hatch gloves holding my M4.



Me holding my own in Kurn's Kitchen:




Here is my M733 that matches my M4 but shoots way too hot to bring to games.  





My new gear mascot...



Here is a close up of the helmet cover and what is underneith:







Here are the specs on the guns:

M4:
Guarder Aluminum Metal Body
Guarder Lightweight Outer Barrel
G&P Delta Ring Set
Systema Metal Bits
Guarder Metal Trigger
Magpul Enhanced Trigger Guard
classic army RIS foregrip
Tango Down Vertical Foregrip
G&P Enhanced Pistol Grip
Prometheus Selector Plate
Systema Hop Up
Guarder Hop Bucking
OK 6.03mm Tight Bore Barrel
9.6V 2500mah NIMH Batteries
K2 Metal Pin Set
PDI170 Spring
Guarder Piston
Systema Piston Head
Systema Oiless Bushings
Magpul XT Rail Covers
Vltor Clubfoot Modstock
ITS AN/PEQ2A
EOTech 511

M733:
Colt Upper off my SP1
Colt Hbar Lower
Tango Down Battlegrip
Cav Arms Foregrip
EOTech 511
Vltor Stock tube
Vltor Clubfoot Modstock