05/27/2025
High Desert 3-Gun Updated 2025 Trooper Rules
1. Troopers may use as many guns as they deem necessary to shoot the course of fire with the caveat that they must be staged/carried safely, and the number of fi****ms used does not cause excessive stage clearance times. The stage RO will provide the final decision on safe staging/carrying of fi****ms and if the number of fi****ms used will negatively increase stage clearance time.
2. Other trooper fi****ms may only be used in the event the Trooper’s firearm becomes inoperable. The Trooper must inform the RO of his intention abandon an inoperable firearm and then run back to the start area to retrieve that other UNLOADED firearm themselves.
3. The Trooper Check-in Point is the shack next to the main gate at the Parma Rod and Gun Club. Troopers must touch the shack with all their gear to check in/check out.
4. All gear being used during that day’s shooting must be carried in one trip from the Trooper Check-In Point to the range.
5. At the end of each shooting day, all Troopers must check out with all their equipment from the Trooper Check-in Point.
6. Pre-staging gear at the range for the next day’s shooting is not allowed.
7. Troopers must carry all gear being used during a day’s shooting to each stage in one trip.
8. All troopers will walk everywhere between Trooper Check-in and Check-Out.
9. Troopers must carry all their gear with them any time they leave a stage.
10. All gear carried by Troopers must be carried on their body (no wagons are allowed). “drag-bag” style cases are considered legal, rolling cases and carts are not.
11. Troopers may not accept gear or ammunition, nor may they borrow fi****ms or use personal equipment not carried in from the Trooper Check-in Point (the exception being any stage guns or other equipment designed into a Stage)
12. Troopers may use any equipment deemed safe by the Match Director/Range Master, provided they carried it in from the Trooper Check-in Point.
13. Equipment may be “abandoned” at any point during the match, after it is abandoned, it may not be used again for the rest of the day. To abandon equipment, the shooter must Declare to their squad that they are abandoning it, walk back to the trooper check point with it and abandon it in their vehicle.
14. Troopers may use a pistol-caliber carbine in lieu of a pistol or rifle on any designated pistol/rifle target.
15. Troopers may not opt-out of any physical challenge.
16. Violation of Trooper Division Rules will result in the competitor being removed from Trooper Division and placed into a division where their equipment is legal.
17. Troopers only need to carry the guns and ammo they intend to use on a stage during a stage. Rucks/Backpacks can be grounded.
18. Trooper class shooters must start with at least one liter of water on their person or in their rucksack. Additional Water will be provided at all stages. The shooter must carry any beverages other than water themselves.
19. Medical assistance does not drop a shooter out of Trooper.
20. In Layman’s Terms:
a. Troopers will check in and hike all their gear for that day’s shooting into the range.
b. Troopers must carry all their gear from stage to stage in one trip. The upside is they get to use any gear they can carry that won’t hurt our steel.
c. At the end of the day, they must hike all their gear back to the Trooper Check-in. After they check out, they can do whatever they want with their stuff.
21. Armored Category - Shooters must wear front and rear rifle rated armor plates during every course of fire.
22. Trooper Class Director will be the final arbiter for rulings on any circumstances not foreseen in these rules. For 2025 HD3G the Trooper Class Director is Sean Smith. In the event the Trooper Class Director is not available, the Match Director will assign a Trooper Division competitor.
