We finished the 4th Cola Warrior Northwest event yesterday and I would like to give a huge thank you to all who attended and all of our amazing sponsors!
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Also a huge thank you to the Cola Warriors who helped staff this event:
Binary_operator
CaliContractor
Kelsgro
joeypacific
JohnStoner
ORjeepguy

Every event we have an amazing show of generosity from our sponsors and I hope that they know how much they are appreciated!
Abe & Moe
AIM Surplus
ALG Defense
American Defense Manufacturing
Arisaka
Arson Machine Co
Bluegrass Targets
CherryBalmz
CCI/Speer
Esstac
Forward Controls Design
Geissele
Jolly Green Juan
Night Solutions LLC
Tater's Welding
Zero Day Consulting

There were 5 clean runs this year. They are the top 5 times.

Obstacle 0 had zero failures this year.
Obstacle 1 (Rope Crawl) had 16 failures this year. (Up from 10 last year)
Obstacle 2 (Beams) had 9 failures this year. (Up from 4 last year)
Obstacle 3 (Heavy Metal Plate) had 5 failures. (Improved from 7 last year)
Obstacle 4 (Heavier* Snowshoe Pull) had 1 failure. (Up from none last year)
Obstacle 5 (Reworked Tires) had 15 failures. (Up from 10 last year)

25 runners cleared the rifle.
The fastest rifle time was 2:53 by Maser7
35 runners cleared the pistol.
The fastest pistol time was 27 seconds by JohnStoner
21 runners cleared the range.
15 runners cleared the chug.


Run Times:
0 JohnStoner - 23:49
1* BMSMB - 27:20
2 Moose - 31:35 (High Combat)
3 Mk4dubbin - 32:47
4 Mgobin - 39:03 (Combat)
5 Extrabonez - 46:06 (Combat)
6 MrSprocket - 47:11 (Combat)
7 NeoAeon - 48:35
8 maser7 - 48:45
9 spyderboy03 - 45:55
10 esstac- - 50:55
11 ORjeepguy - 52:36
12 KOLAT - 52:57 (Combat)
13 Binary_operator - 54:03 (Combat)
14 joeypacific - 54:17
15 Dlivernace320 - 55:38
16 phiers - 55:56 (Combat)
17 Mike - 56:46
18 Madcap72 - 56:54
19 Kelsgro - 61:26 (High Lady)
20 aihino - 63:33
21 Spud_Mode - 63:44 (Combat)
22 S1W - 64:29
23 Mack - 64:45 (Combat)
24 davidrw5150 - 65:45
25 Nurse_Holliday - 66:30 (Combat)
26 Lurk-King - 68:14 (Combat)
27 Notcalifornialegal - 68:24 (Combat)
28 TNC - 69:24
29 Grantizzle - 81:41 (Combat)
30 Cameron - 83:46
31 NachoDip - 91:14
32 RIP-Yataski - 91:35
33 Usernames - 93:06 (High Night)
34 Bourbonator - 101:43
35 CaliContractor - 101:52
36 SchlotShot - 110:17
37 sortafast - 117:06
38 bajagringo - 119:19
39 UffDuhGrunmuff - 129:04 (Combat)
40 ABlack - 129:35 (Lady)
41 EnemiesWithBenefits - 131:24
42 MVTTXLVRSON- 143:59
43 Splat2013 - 169:57 (Night Lady)
44 ladysortafast - 170:35 (Lady)
45 bigstick61 - 179:23
46 davidb1982 - 180:02
47 ShaliMarie - 205:55 (Lady)
48 Kbae - 231:20 (Lady)

The event ran incredibly smooth this year. When I get the opportunity, I'll sit down and add a comment on my run as well as my thoughts on the event for the year.
Thank you again for donating and competing with me and my cohost Splat2013.

This was a great event. Ran super smooth.
Thank you to our hosts, BMSMB, Splat and Marsie.
Also want to thank the other staff members. This would not be possible without our dedicated staff members.

Congrats kels on your big win! Super happy for you. BMSMB, your winning run was inspiring. I could barely keep up with you while timing you.

I've been slacking lately. Hadn't worked out in months. Haven't shot a gun since Heartland last year. Somehow was able to pull off 11th place. Just skirting my first top ten run... again...

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Stu: shows up without a run spot, decides to run last minute
Me: don't kick me out of top ten Stu.
Stu:
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So good, was an awesome event with great hosts and a beautiful location. Lots of hard things to overcome and new challenges. Huge thanks to everyone who pitched in to make this event possible. Was great to see old friends and make new ones. Excellent people all around.

Vid of pistol course:

Scorer says, "Give me 4 more inches"


Camper in back agrees.

Last run was fun.

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Thank you all for making NW4 a great event, our staff were amazing as always and made my life so much easier. Greatly appreciate all of your help!

Enjoyed seeing old friends and making new ones, hope to see a lot of you again next year!

This year I decided to try something new and did a night run. As far as I'm aware, I'm the first lady to run night. I was really happy with my run for what it was. I was hoping to hit more rifle targets, but didn't make it past 100 yards. I guess that's what happens when I only practice once, with one mag of ammo before my run. Still extremely new to NV, and need a lot of work on it...gives me something to practice over the next year! Goal is to take a high lady while running night at some point!

My obstacles were about on par with normal and I still cleared pistol relatively easily, just need more time behind the rifle at night and I should be able to get a lot better. Especially if I manage to get my hands on a clip on.

Congrats to Kelsgro on your win, its been awesome Watching you improve every year, Glad you keep coming back to cola!

@BMSMB, you finally got your 1*st place. Congrats! You've been working at this for awhile, and I'm glad it finally came together. Time for you to start bringing home more uppers, you have 5 more to win to catch up to me.

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Thanks to everyone who played fetch with Copper, he appreciates having the stick thrown constantly all day every day for him.

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Glad I was able to convince my cousin to come out and run, he's already ready to build a rifle. Thanks @spyderboy03 for donating a trigger to his new build already.

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@ORJeepGuy, you might have gotten than top 10 if you remembered your bipod, don't have a picture of the Nalgene substitute unfortunately Attached File


@Nurse_holliday sorry for messing up your score card originally, ill double check them next year
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Goal is to have some sort of work party this summer for anyone who is interested, want to get some more work done at cola camp. In addition to fixing the shooting berms that got destroyed by all of the misses on the rifle range.

Every year our event runs smoother it seems, glad people keep coming back and are enjoying the shenanigans in the snow.

Big shout out to @KOLAT for helping tow almost everyone out of the field Saturday. The snow made it difficult to get in and out of the field but glad we were able to park down there makes it easier when camping is near cola camp.

I finally got to 10 and didn't get bumped!

@S1W got a good puke video of me. I'll post up later.

Thank you for another awesome event! Swag was awesome and our sponsors are the best!

In order
CWNW2, 3, 4

Pebbles!

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It was awesome meeting everyone!

Kelsey and I had a great time. The event went super smooth as always. Thanks for the delicious, warm food. The larger range portion was a nice change. I dont know who we camped next to, but if the baby kept you up, sorry!
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I'm betting the .fed is the guy in the back with the moostache

You guys did great. Cool seeing a young family camping and peeping together.

It felt like Matt's offroad recovery, except my tacoma is painted in snow camo not yellow.


A good time was had by all.

@grantizzle may have set a record for most blood lost during a run.

It was a great event. Thank you to Kolat for towing me out.

The ghetto rigged camp platform worked as well as I had hoped. I brought food just in case and didn’t touch any of it. The hosts food was amazing!

My rifle was run the way it is set up at home. Disappointed that I couldn’t get out as far as I hoped but I am comfortable with it as it currently is. I may take another rifle and make a midrange cola specific rifle.

Learned a lot and know where I need to improve.

Had fun chatting with some old faces I remember and some new ones that I felt honored to meet. I also found proof that there are female arfcom members and that they aren’t just a myth.

Flaming MrPib around the fire and walking around with Stu’s NOX18 and Quad tubes was great.

Planing to attend next year and hopefully get a few more events as well.

Also: damn near hit a pair of moose on the drive in. There are witnesses to that @JohnStoner was in the car behind me.

Acceptable number of combat runners. Bravo everyone.

What a great event, so much fun to see old friends and make new ones.

A massive thank you to BMSMB and Splat for hosting a wonderful event, along with all the staff for keeping everything moving along smoothly.

Mistakes were absolutely made at this event, some more glorious than others.

I need to learn the ways of @Kolat to get a bit bigger so moving the beams would be a little more manageable.

Yes, we do exist.

Just the best.

This was my first clean event. Pretty stoked to have been able to pull a 1st* place run as well! I had a handgun malfunction about half way through the pistol range that locked my handgun up solid and I thought for sure my run was tanked. Took about 30 seconds, but was finally able to rack it clear and finish up. This was also my first event to try a 2L again after my failed chug with one at Classic X. I barely cleared it, and I'm not sure if I want to try it at the next event. My conditioning wasn't quite where I wanted it to be due to a back injury that required physical therapy the last few months. Because of that, I took the obstacles and run at a more relaxed pace. I think this ended up helping me clear the chug as I didn't have the "gut check" that I normally have after doing a full push through the run and obstacles.
It was great seeing all the cola bros/sis and I can't wait to see you all again!

Thank you to all of our amazing sponsors. Very excited about my haul from the prize table this year!
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For the event we tried a few new things this year. We did not limit ammo or mags at all, upped the target count a bit, and did not allow any spotter corrections for rifle.
The rifle portion really opened a few eyes I think.

The event went very well I think, but I'd love any feedback (public or private) on how you think we could improve. My goal is to try and make the event better every year.

One final note. Please do not use any ammo that attracts a magnet. We had at least one runner use green tip this year, and my targets suffered.
This was at 500 yards...
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Good work everyone!

Yeah buddy!

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Have you contacted Reebok yet about becoming a sponsored athlete?

What a great weekend. I laughed a lot and learned a ton. I consider each and every one of you to be a friend. Looking forward to future shenanigans.

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Thanks as always to our wonderful sponsors, even with my poor overall placement still managed to walk away with a gray ALG rail. Thank you to Esstac for my new pouch to hold my nods, will definitely be getting used. CCI made some sweet bottle openers this year as well!

Big shout out again to all of our dedicated staff, you made this event run smoothly and BMSMB and I couldn't have done it without all of you.

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Looks cold. Someday I'll make it up there.

Tag for more.

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It takes many taco Tuesdays to get my size.

Thank you to BMSMB and splat for allowing me to wander in last minute and do a run. Great event, the range was quite challenging.

I apologize for not coming back Saturday, after a week on the road and two more days to go, I decided it was time to head home. The snow in the morning may have helped that decision.

Hopefully will see a bunch of y’all at West next month.

Epic photo timing.

Looks like a great event. But so cold....

Bigfoot was a childhood nickname as well..

It was pleasant this weekend, I just wore a hoodie no jacket.

Come to Deep South or Classic this summer for another pleasant weekend.

I honestly wouldn't know how to act in all that snow. Yall are truly hard.

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Not sure where this happened.

Don't  know why my triceps are sore. That doesn't make a lot of sense.


Happy with obstacles, peeps, ak
First part of run i was stumbling and sinking into snow and brush. Tripped once. Pretty slow on that baton portion. Then when i got to the rest of the run i slow shuffle jogged and it was okay. Snow was pretty shifty, which zaps speed and takes a little more energy. But wasn't too bad.


Then pistol went pretty quickly. Used just red dot under NODs. Versus laser last year. Easier with just red dot i think. Laser is distracting. Smoked the pistol pretty well.  Couldn't see the minimo very well so turned on helmet ir light to help.

Rifle.... pretty disappointed.  I had done a fair amount of long range practice and figuring out dope and everything.

A few days before cola, I shot this group at 300 yards with clip on night vision at night, while laying in snow.

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But... at cola:

Standing 100 yard shots, were done easy quick.

200 I got tricked by the sideways snow in the night scope  and was aiming off to the right for a couple shots thinking wind might be stronger but found put didn't need to. Held center and made the hits.

Moved onto 300 yds. Made 3 hits of the 4 targets at 300.  But could not see the 4th target at all. I tried no illuminator, low illuminator, high illuminator. Could not see it. I tried to guess where it was and hold in that space but could not hit it. Could not see it at all.
After thinking about it all night I think I was holding too far to the right. I should have kept coming left till I hit something.  

I asked to move on to other targets,  but this was not allowed. So I timed out, without being able to attempt the 325-550 targets. That's a lot of penalties.

Oh well.


Chug went slower than I thought it would and was more painful than I had hoped.  I contemplated quitting at bottle 3, 4. And 5. But was able to finish.  And this year I was able to puke most of it up afterward. Which was very nice. Not feeling sick for 2 hours after.


Still had fun. Great to see you all and catch up.


Learned some more. Got better,  but not good enough.


Special thanks to Kevin and Lauren and property hosts and all the staff. And John Stoner who is the friendliest most knowledgeable dude around.

Shout out to kolat for his towing skills ( I didn't need then for my lesbian assault vehicle, but it was cool to watch). And for his bolt gun run.


I love this stuff and wish I could do it more often.

Sponsors are the best. Love arson machine! Check out their cool wire guides.


Esstac makes the coolest web gear /plate carrierd/chest rigs/mag pouches/etc. Their employees are cool too.

Arisaka gave a total light package which I mounted to this awesome Geissele rail.


(I used my geissele backpack to transport my ginger beer to the range and it worked awesome).



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If you don't run colawarrior, you're missing out on tons of fun, learning, meeting cool people, and free peeps.

Don't regret your poor choices. Sign up for an event and see what it's like!

He’s an ass.

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Huge thank you to the hosts and staff! Had a great time meeting new people. Except that guy that forgot his pistol….what a loser!

I will be displaying my prize above the fireplace.

Look forward to doing it again next year. Hopefully in much better shape.

Huge thanks to the hosts.

That was a well oiled and impressive machine you guys run.  Beyond that it was well worth the trip to meet some new folks, see some old friends and down a box of peeps.

Things I learned:

I can shoot shit Ok.

I have made progress but still have more physical development to do.



Looking forward to next year's!

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How cold?

Is this one of them cult threads?