0:00 Welcome back everybody. Today's video, we're gonna be breaking down my 2025 Tactical Games Rifle. This will be my fifth season and the rifles throughout the years have made some changes. So we're breaking down what's in it, why are we running it and what you should run for tag games. And then we're also got a rifle only stage for paper. And then we've also got a tactical games only stage as we're gearing up for the season, preparing for it and training for it. We'll be talking about why I train the way I do. And so it's gonna be a good video. Let's get to shooting first. Before we get into talking about the rifle, we're here to shoot fast, because that's what you really want to see, right? Okay, so for today, we're running an accelerator drill setup. So accelerator is kind of like a format, a concept. It's not necessarily
0:47 always the same distances, but today we are running targets at seven, at 15, and at 25 yards. So what we're going to be doing is two on the lower A zone at seven, 15, 25, reload, and then two on the head box at seven, 15 and 25. Goal for today is can we shoot close to some really low fives, maybe only maybe like two Charlie's total and then from a clean perspective close to six as possibly as we can. Now we're not measuring Charlie's on the head box, we're only concerned with just head box only. That's kind of how tat games are, it's kind of a weird thing. If you're shooting USPSA, obviously you have A and C zone there but from today's perspective, we only care about hitting head.
1:42 639, two alpha, one head box, one mic. We got alpha Charlie, two head box. And then we got... Is that in the same hole? Yeah, same hole. Two alpha, two mic. It was a terrible run. You might be asking yourself, why is there tape on this mag? So I think last year we had to shoot a stage that had like four through one port and four through a different port for rifle. Like you split your mag eight into two different ports. And this was the mag for that round. And this was my reminders. I love it to be like, oh yeah, make sure you switch ports. So I just leave it there.
3:11 about this today. All right, it's that time of year again to break down our 2025 Tactical Games Rifle. So we're gonna break this rifle down in the words I like to say it from tip to butt. All right, so the first we're gonna talk about muzzle device on this new rifle this year. So we're running, right now we just have a three-prong flash hider on there. We may or may not keep that. We might be looking into testing out a suppressor this year. So we'll make a different video on that. But for right now, we have a three-prong on here. We can't run a break in tackle games, so we're in a three prong for right now. All right, back and away from the tip, we've got ourselves the hand guard. We were running a 15.5 inch long hand guard. It is the M-Lock hand guard from JP. It's been rock blasted, meaning it's a little bit rougher than normal.
3:58 In my mind, JP is really known for the rounded hand guard. I personally don't think the rounded hand guard is the way to go, at least for the tackle game sport. For other sports, phenomenal, right? It's great. It feels good in your hands. I like the M-LOK only because it's got flat straight sides and we need that when we work and shoot from barriers. Barrel wise, we are running a 16 inch JP Super Match, ladies and gentlemen. I have tried out a 14.5 in the past, wasn't a huge fan. Also because if I do happen to change out my muzzle device a couple of times this year, I don't have to deal with the pin and weld the thing over and over and over again. So I'm gonna run a 16 inch. Also because I'm gonna be running a 77 grain for a majority of the year for a long range, I don't wanna have any more loss in velocity
4:44 and run a 14.5 inch barrel. So run a 16 inch barrel with a mid length gas system on it. So in years past, I've always talked about running a slick rifle, meaning I don't have anything on the hand guard, keep it slick, keep it keep it empty pretty much but last year I tried something new that was a barricade stop and so I'm running a barricade stop from Magpul this is phenomenal for I don't use it for gripping if I'm just standing and shooting off offhand but if I'm bracing against a barrier hence the word barricade stop I'm gonna use it it's lovely it helps out quite a bit so I'm running a barricade stop that's about two-thirds of the way down the handguard Next up, we're talking about the upper I'm running. So from JP, I am running the PSC21 upper. Essentially, it's their
5:30 dual charging system, basically. So the letters don't really mean anything, but it's their ability to have a dual charging system. So what that means is I can charge the rifle on the top like you would normally do if you've had an AR-15 platform before, but also on the side. So I've got a side charging handle that allows me to charge I say charge so many times it's sounding weird, but I can charge the bolt. I can put it around in the chamber by using the side charging handle. Currently, I am running the competition side charging handle from JP. You can kind of tell it kind of comes off the rifle, a couple inches. It's pretty big. It's easy to get to, hence the word competition. I do have a low profile. They do sell a low profile also. So I'm gonna try out the competition charger for the next couple months. I might switch to the low profile.
6:18 We're gonna keep that. I didn't ladies and gents. I might switch into a low profile, like also test that out too. Because we compete with our rifle slung so much, whether it's in the front or in the back, that's the main point of contention. I got to see how well this functions. Is it going to dig into my body? That kind of perspective. But they're really easy to change out. So it's not that big of a deal. all right for the lower we are running jp's asf20 basically it's their ambidextrous lower their ambi lower so what that means is i have the option of having the mag release and also the bolt release on both sides of my firearm for the trigger perspective i am running the jp's competition trigger flat gold the competition trigger essentially means it's about a three pound sub three pound trigger pull and then from the safety perspective we have a gold short throw
7:05 safety on here So for those who follow the tactical games and understand the rules, one big thing we have to combat is we have certain rules for what we can run on a rifle. Well, for one thing, we have to run pretty much, we can't run brakes. So we have to run flash hiders, free prongs, this concept you see here, suppressors. We can't run brakes, basically. So essentially, we have to find other ways inside the rifle to make it shoot really flat. Because if I'm shooting a brake, that thing ain't moving, but I can't shoot a brake because I don't want to kill the guys next to me's eardrums. So in order to combat that, the one good option we have is we can run a buffer system that allows the rifle to not rise as much or move as much for recoil reduction and so what i'm running from jp is their silent capture system um i ran it last year in a different rifle setup and so we're continuing that this year with
7:54 the same silent capture system from jp that kind of reduces the rise of the muzzle as i'm shooting down range all right grip and stock ladies and gents grip is the moe k2 from magpul i've ran the same grip for like four years in a row i ain't changing it's uh stippled stifled stippled stifled same word whatever apples and oranges um from fda coatings who does my amazing paint job by the way just is awesome so if you need somebody to do a paint job hit that bro up he can do anything um he stippled it what that essentially does is he goes in and makes this thing just roughest crud so we can't use chalk so any way i can get around to make my rifle rougher from the concept you know we obviously put like i talked about the we use the m lock from jp that's a little bit rougher i want the same thing on my
8:39 grip so using the k2 down here from magpul and then their stock wise we're using the magpul dtpr stock from them this is the first year i ran this i actually like this setup in years past i've used a different uh stock setup from magpul we're going to switch it up this year and try something different All right, now that we've discussed the full kind of gun part of it, let's talk about the optic, right? So how am I hitting anything with this firearm? Okay, so on the top, my 12 o'clock optic, I am running the Leupold Mark V 3.6 to 18. And reticle-wise, I'm using a PR2 in mil. I ran the same reticle and optic last year. Loved it. This is the non-illuminated version. You might be asking yourself, hey Jacob, seems like a majority of your guys' shots
9:25 are like 75 yards on paper. Why are you running this big of an optic? Great question. So for tactical games, where usually majority of the time shooting paper at distance could be from 30 yards from a rifle all the way up to 320 yards. Well, having a little bit more magnification on your optic, in my personal perspective, I like it, it's an advantage to me, right? So if we're shooting paper out at 175, 200 yards, what I can use this optic to do is kind of crank up the magnification, make sure, hey, is my point of aim and my point of impact matching up to where I think it should be? Or, hey, am I pushing too much on my handguard and having a little barrel deflection? Or is the wind adjusting where I'm shooting? Or is, hey, is my optic just completely off? And that allows me to change my point of aim to make sure that
10:13 I'm impacting on the target as I should be doing. so and then after i make sure point of aim is point of impact i'll back that thing back down and then lace the target as such so i like having a little bit more magnification allows you to have more options available to you when you are competing am i using the 18 power all the time of course five yard target crank that sucker up no i'm not using the 18 power all the time i probably don't go past the 10 or 12 a majority of the time so that's my 12 o'clock optic from the side We have an offset Delta Point Pro is what I'm running on like a, I don't know, 35, 45 degree offset there. A lot of people when they look at the offset optic for the red dot, they think, okay, well, you know, how often are you using that? Well, I've already talked about one course of fireworks, like, hey, close paper. I'm not using this on anything,
11:05 you know, very like accuracy based, like, hey, I need to shoot this really small target, like really close by. I'm always using this. So my main optic is going to be zeroed at 100 meters with a 77 grain. But my offset optic, I don't care too much about accuracy. If that's inside like a two to three inch circle at 15 meters, I'm golden. I'm zeroing this optic, my offset on a 55 grain, because again, it doesn't need to shoot 77 grain. And I'm only planning on shooting at like max 30 yards more than likely. So that's zero to 15 meters like I talked about. So Brian told me to say this, but you might be wondering to yourself, why is this sitting here? Is it just there to take up space? And we're not even here to talk about this gun. Well, we talked about this in a previous YouTube video. We discussed my actual PCC setup. Brian will put
11:55 it somewhere on the screen to make it look really cool. And now that we have actually finished my 2025 tactical game setup, we talked about it previously was I wanted them to be very similar. So I wanted you to kind of see the similarities between them, right? I wanted the same hand guard. If I was just shooting PCC, I probably would have gone for their JP, their rounded kind of well-known handguard. But because I shoot tack games primarily and I don't want a rounded handguard, then I want these two handguards to look the same. So we have pretty much the same gun, right? The same stock, the same grip. The only difference is the barrel here is 14.5 versus 16. That's mainly the only difference. And obviously you have the same optic setups for the offset. except for the only difference is I don't have a large blue bulb offset or main optic on here. So I wanted these to be really similar. And that's kind of what was the goal was as I'm practicing
12:43 PCC for, you know, that kind of perspective from a PCC perspective, I wanted there still to be some carryover for the look and feel of how the gun feels in my arms. Now, this is obviously heavier. There's obviously some big differences in terms of recoil reduction, but I wanted to be as much similarity as we can get that way when I'm training this, it still hopefully somewhat carries over to this for TAC Games. All right, so now we've covered my 2025 TAC Games rifle from JP. We're gonna actually use it, put use, we're gonna jump straight into a TAC Games style stage. with some sandbag weave.
13:33 All right, on today's tactical game stage we're gonna be doing today, we've got ourselves three sets of two minutes on and two minutes off. Inside that two minutes, we're gonna be doing eight sandbag weaves. Essentially is I have a hundred pound sandbag, I'm going over the bar with the sandbag, then I'm going over the bar, then I'm going through the middle with the sandbag, me and the sandbag, then I'm going underneath and me and the sandbag. So think about like three different sections and I have to put me in the sandbag through each of those sections. Once I finish the whole rep at the bottom of it, that's one repetition. So I'm doing that eight times through, then I'm shooting 10 rifle shots at 30 yards on the target. And so what's the goal? goal for this right the goal is I always want to shoot 85% so I don't think I really want to drop more than one shot per sec so I'm only drop like three to four total is kind of my goal and try to save fluid on the fitness part if I'm choppy if my
14:22 heart rate spikes I'm gonna drop more so trying to save fluid over here on the sandbag part and my goal is like if I'm gonna shoot 10 rounds rifle I need at least 30 seconds of good to shoot so I'm gonna have to finish the fitness portion in about 110 to 115 in order to give myself a couple seconds to get over here, rest and take accurate shots on target. All right.
15:38 I can't see it but I'm really tender right here and bruised up. Because when you pick up the sandbag and put it over, you whack your forearm on it. I'm being a little turd, okay? I'm complaining.
18:42 finish at 150 drop one let's look at the target alright alright round one dropped one round two zero round three dropped one I know if you're thinking what's this this is me checking to make sure my zero was on and I was aiming for the staple so spot on This is me striking a power pose at the end of this workout. Okay, finished up three sets, dropped, what, dropped three. So that's 90%, no, yeah, 90%. So that's pretty good. So we're getting ready for the TAC game season. I hope you guys enjoyed the video.
19:30 If you have any questions about the rifle I'm running, the rifle set up you might be running at TAC games in the future, ask away in the comments down below. If you have any questions about how to train for the TACTA Games, I run the training for the TACTA Games online training program for complete. please ask away. Other than that, have a wonderful day. We'll see you guys in the next one.
