Lanny Barnes beat the next Lady finisher at the 2026 Rocky Mountain 3-Gun Championship by 385.82 seconds. Call it six and a half minutes. In a sport where shooters lose sleep over one fumbled reload, that’s a lot of daylight.
Barnes finished the championship at the NRA Whittington Center outside Raton, New Mexico, with a total time of 1141.15 seconds, good for High Lady in the Open division and sixth place overall in that division. Runner-up Dianna Muller came in at 1526.97 over the same nine stages.
The NRA Whittington Center hands match directors 33,000 acres to work with, and RM3G uses them. Stages drop into arroyos and climb ridgelines, a few of them built around the ruins of an old coal-mining town, with rifle targets pushed past 600 yards. Competitors hike between shooting positions. They go rifle to pistol to shotgun on the move, and by the third day route planning counts for nearly as much as marksmanship. Divisions include Open, Limited Scope, Limited Iron, He-Man Scope and He-Man Iron.
None of that is unfamiliar ground for Barnes. She raced biathlon for the United States at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 Olympic Winter Games, where the whole event comes down to skiing yourself into oxygen debt and then hitting small steel anyway. Action shooting came afterward. Somewhere along the way her competitors started calling her “Lanny Oakley,” and she has since put up results in 3-Gun, PCC, IPSC Shotgun and IPSC Rifle.
Barnes shoots for the Fiocchi Pro Team and also runs support from Trijicon, Hogue, STP, JP Enterprises, Lowa Boots and Dissident Arms. She thanked match staff and her squad in a social media post afterward, calling the NRA Whittington Center one of the most beautiful places in the country to compete and giving the people she squadded with much of the credit for the weekend.
“Lanny continues to demonstrate why she is one of the most versatile competitors in the shooting sports,” said Christian Hogg, director of marketing for Fiocchi of America. “Winning the Lady title while finishing sixth overall in Open at a match as demanding as Rocky Mountain 3-Gun is an incredible accomplishment. Her ability to perform across multiple firearms, challenging terrain and complex stages speaks to the preparation, skill and determination she brings to every competition. We are incredibly proud to have Lanny representing Fiocchi.”
Complete 2026 Rocky Mountain 3-Gun Championship results are posted on Practiscore.
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