Battlefield Pickup at Moons Out 2025: AR with a PEQ-15A

00:00 – Intro; overall match sponsor Q
03:27 – Stage 1: Rambo’s Reading Rainbow, sponsored by TNVC
06:31 – Stage 2: Seal Team Extraction, sponsored by Nocturn Industries
08:10 – Stage 3: Mogadishu Marathon, sponsored by Polaris Logistics
10:22 – Stage 4: Home Invasion, sponsored by Refuge Medical and Magpul
13:02 – Stage 5: Siege of Camp A-107, sponsored by Flux Defense
15:29 – Stage 6: Bound Forward, sponsored by Aimpoint
17:39 – Stage 7: Double-Wide of Death, sponsored by B&T
18:38 – Stage 8: Bakhmut Night Assault, sponsored by Varusteleka
23:02 – Stage 9: Radio Freq Out, sponsored by T-Rex Arms
26:15 – Stage 10: Assault on Camp A-107, sponsored by Trijicon

Moons Out 2025 is our annual night rifle match, presented this year by Q. Shooters must use active or passive IR (no white light), and we have ten stages over two nights. It is not just a rifle match held at night, but rather a match designed from the ground up to test nighttime skills.

I was planning to use a CETME-LV with its period PVS-4 copy night scope, but the scope stopped working on the first night of the match (arg!). Instead, I borrowed a rifle on the spot from another competitor – an AR build with a PEQ-15 laser aiming module. Despite being a true battlefield pickup sort of situation, I had a really good time and actually performed really well, taking 14th place overall out of 137 shooters!

This year was a resounding success, with some really outstanding courses of fire, a fantastic prize table for participants, and an unparalleled staff of range and safety officers who made it run like clockwork.