Archive for the ‘Competition’ Category
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
It may be a fool's errand but for what it's worth, I submitted the following to IDPA via their rules comment section (accessible to any IDPA member who is logged in to IDPA.com). If enough of us ask for it, perhaps the rule will get some new consideration.
Train hard & ...
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
The IDPA "round dumping" rule is history, verified a short while ago in an email I received from IDPA Executive Director Joyce Wilson.
Thanks very much to Joyce for her quick reply to my question and to the entire IDPA Board of Directors for putting a stake through the heart of ...
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
I've only read through it once and scratched some very rough notes but here are some of the issues that particularly stood out to me:
Safety. The new book has some rather complicated and sometimes contradictory rules about safety. Section F1(B) states that "unsafe gunhandling will result in immediate disqualification (DQ)." ...
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
The new IDPA rulebook, which has been a work in progress for the past couple of years through the use of anonymous "tiger teams" set to task on various aspects of the sport, is being released for comment to IDPA members today on IDPA's website.
Joyce Wilson, Executive Director of IDPA, gave ...
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Friday, April 12th, 2013
Caleb's blog post yesterday about IDPA's cover rule led to a back channel discussion between the two of us about the use of cover in a competitive venue. While I could just complain about the way IDPA's approach to cover has evolved over the years (I began shooting IDPA in 1997 ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2013
When I was shooting IDPA more seriously, each year our team would attend a major match that invariably had a pick-up gun: a dedicated gun provided by the match staff that you had to use for part of one particular stage. On its face it makes for an interesting twist, but ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
... the tough, so the saying goes, go cyclic.
At last night's KSTG match at the NRA, we saw this happen frequently on two stages: 3 and 4.
Stage 3 was unusual in that we utilized the NRA Range's outstanding programmable target system. You had a regular KSTG target (IDPA target with a ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
I overheard one of those age old shooting cliches today: "Every bullet has a lawyer attached to it."
OK, but he's not going to leap out and sue you in the middle of a gunfight. Priorities...
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
Posted in Competition, Safety, Teaching | 9 Comments »
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
IDPA Headquarters just produced a neat little graphic on the Down Zero Blog that shows the breakdown of shooters at this year's Nationals by class, division, etc.
The number that really stuck out to me, though, was 22%. That's the percentage of competitors who were shooting Glock 34 pistols. And that number ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2012
The last pistol-training.com class of 2012, a combined 3-day Appendix Carry Workshop and Aim Fast Hit Fast, was held this past weekend in Oklahoma City. Students from all over the country attended, including a gentleman from Maine who cut short his vacation in California! And the mix worked out just right, ...
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