Tactical Rifle & Shotgun Gun Rules

Tactical Shotgun Rules

• Riot Gun - Pump
• Riot Gun - Auto
• Enhanced Tactical Shotgun - Pump
• Enhanced Tactical Shotgun - Auto
• Ammunition & Carriers
• Reloading
• Gun Conditions / Starting Positions

Tactical Rifle Rules

• Battle Rifle
• Battle Carbine
• Tactical Carbine
• Special Purpose Rifle (SPR)
• Bolt Action Sniper Rifle
• Miscellaneous Tactical Rifle Rules

Program Description and Rationale:

ALGC has been involved in defensive / practical style pistol shooting since the early days of IPSC, and then IDPA.  In addition, these programs were supplemented with an annual riot gun match, the Francis Marion Memorial Swamp Fox Assault and an occasional assault rifle match.  Due to growing interest in the use of shotguns and rifles for defensive / practical style shooting, ALGC created a program specifically for these types of weapons, patterned after IDPA.  2003 was the first year of this program.  After a full year of competitions and numerous rule changes and revisions, this program has started to settle down into something of which we can all be proud.  Monthly matches are now held during all but the coldest winter months.  Some of these matches are shotgun only, while others are rifle only.  In addition, we have one very big shotgun only match, the Francis Marion, and last year we had our first Three Gun match, which will probably become a yearly tradition.

This new program is patterned after the IDPA model in most ways.  It is our intention to, as much as humanly possible, attempt to simulate real world tactics and scenarios in our competitions and rules.  This is not always easy.  As this program develops, we need to constantly assess the direction we are going in to make sure that we are adhering to these goals.

As stated earlier, this program and its rules are structured in manner similar to IDPA.  In fact, the following rules only outline the areas where we diverge from IDPA (due to equipment, etc.).  In general, matches are run by IDPA rules.  If something isn’t specifically mentioned in the following rules, you can refer to the latest revision of the IDPA rulebook for how a situation should be handled.

Matches and course descriptions should be of the following types:

• Standards – These courses are skill drill type matches that are used for testing a shooters raw ability in the areas of accuracy, speed and gun handling (reloading, etc.).  Standards courses do not have to be “tactically sound”(e.g.:  use of cover, etc.), as long as the skills being tested are consistent with those that are useful in the “real world”.
• “Urban” Scenarios – These courses are meant to set up real world home defense, law enforcement, or military situations, where an armed citizen, LEO, or soldier solves a tactical problem with his rifle or shotgun.  Course design should emphasize “tactically sound” techniques (e.g.:  use of cover, etc.).  In general, these scenarios will be fast and furious, with relatively low round counts.  Whenever designing a scenario course, the question should be asked:  Would a real person do this?  Course designers must constantly question their motives and thought processes, whenever the round count of a course begins to become outrageously high, unrealistic movement or obstacles negotiation is required, or anything else that doesn’t seem realistic is included in a scenario.
• Special Event Scenarios – Due to the long tradition of the Francis Marion, in addition to the desire for “fun”, we will run a few events each year that are NOT realistic.  For example: one man armed with only a shotgun, takes on a huge opposing force, defeats the enemy and saves the world.  It is understood that this wouldn’t happen in the real world.  It is understood that the “story” behind these scenarios is fiction, created in the spirit of fun.  HOWEVER, the course designer should always strive to create situations where the tactics used and the skills tested are the same tactics and skills that are important in realistic scenarios.  Round counts can be unrealistically high.  Movement and obstacles can be unrealistic and difficult.  These courses should be the exception (once or twice a year), rather than the norm.

We have broken the rules down into Shotgun and Rifle catagories.