Gary Reeder
I shot in the 3 gun combat shoots in the late
Sunday, January 25, 2026, 19:05

70s and early 80s. Almost all the guys in the shoots I shot in used the Rem 1100 with the 9 shot extended mag that stuck out about 4" longer than the barrel. One of the Devil Shoots had us crawl down into a gully with about 8" of water in it. They ran wire about 16" across the bottom of the gulley and most of us rolled over on our backs before sliding down the gully into the water. we got to the other end of the gully we cocked our gun to take out a bad guy. I had an 1100 for this course and I don't remember having any problems with the water or mud, but that was 40 or more years ago.
We had another run that they required an 870 or other pump shotgun instead of the 1100s. They had cut a large tree down to where the stump was about 6 feet off the ground. We had to go up the steps nailed to the stump, put a sling on the 870 over your shoulder the grab a one inch thick rope and holding onto your 870, swing over a bunch of briars and other fun crap and land on another 3 foot stump about 20 yards away. They thought about us shooting the 870 before swinging to the shorter stump, but several of the guys in the club were lawyers or doctors and they voted it down. They even checked our shotgun to make sure it wasn't loaded before this run. But we still did the swing to the shorter stump with the 870. At the time I owned 17 acres of dense woods where we ran this part of the shoot an also a great combat designed shoot.