BMPs, Hurdles, and Kettlebells: Finnish Brutality 2022 Day 2!

Thanks to Varusteleka for putting on an absolutely magnificent match! I’m also very happy to have a line of merchandise now available with them.

Time for Day 2 of Finnish Brutality 2022! We have five more stages today, and for people like me in Recon Division, five more 3km runs in armor and kit. I woke up pretty darn sore from Day 1, and it took a few minutes to stretch out my calves to the point I could actually walk…let’s see how Day 2 will treat me.

A few gear notes:
My camo is all Finnish M05, from Varusteleka. The kilt is no longer offered, though. My rifle is a WWSD with an Aimpoint CompM5 and a Vortex 3x magnifier. Pistol is a Laugo Alien. Knife is an Anthropoid from Acta Non Verba. Plate carrier, backpack, and belt are also from Varusteleka. Boots are from AKU.

Full scores available here.

7 Comments

  1. On the pistol stages, why not holster when you run? You could have switched arms when running with the kettle bell.

    • I can’t speak to this match, but many have a safety rule prohibiting reholstering a pistol with a round in the chamber due to accidents under the time pressure of a match and some level of physical duress.

  2. What, no knife throwing stage? No tomahawk? No grenade event? Why hell, I could’ve done that poor man’s Mohawk Run while singing “Sally’s Upstairs With a Hog-Eye Man” and pulling on hip boots. Naked, just like Ian.

    Well, I maybe could.

  3. Well done Ian. Completing a competition like that is an indicator of a high standard of physical fitness and marksmanship. Who designed it: the ghost of Captain Lauri Törni?

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