Friday Night Gun Porn: Halloween Horror Shotgun Match 2015

Holidays are more fun when there is shooting involved.  Halloween is no exception.  The Halloween Horror shotgun match is an annual event in Arizona where competitors compete in costume in stages inspired by popular horror movies, games, or books.  This year's match was entirely based upon the Monster Hunter novel series by Larry Correia (if you haven't read them you should).

Stage descriptions:

Some of the costumed competitors at the 2015 match

Here's my open division run that got me 2nd place open and 2nd over all:

In addition to Pump, Auto, and Open divisions, the match has two unique divisions; Boom Stick and Action Hero.  Boom Stick is any break action shotgun.  Action Hero is any shotgun with no butt-stock.  This match is about having fun after all.  I shot the match a second time in Werewolf mode in Action Hero.  This proved to be both stupid and fun at the same time:

Here's some photos from the match. You can purchase the Monster Hunter International series right here (trust me, it's good, I and Reeder and several of our other contributors will attest).

Cowboy with authentic first year production Winchester 1887.

It's not a costume. The match director killed a Teletubby and is wearing its' skin.

The cowboy used authentic black powder loads that filled the range with smoke.

“Hipster Douchebag” stands ready to tell you how his Triple barrel shotgun is a superior design.

The Most Interesting Man in the world comes prepared with a VEPR-12 and an unusual ammunition carrying system.

Shakespeare On The Range; What light from yonder window breaks? Tis Muzzle Flash!

The hero of Canton the man they call…

Six men came to kill me one time…

Jesus shoots a Chiappa triple barrel in Boom-Stick division.  Watch his match video here

Team Shoot off at the end of the match. Only one gun starts loaded, the other team mates have to bring ammo up and mow down the sea of steel.

Team shoot off; guns start staged on the tables

El Nacho Bandito was surprisingly effective with his break action 20 gauge

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