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I'm sure that can be it some too. Several of the ranges I shoot at host IDPA and USPSA. Shooting USPSA you can shoot PCC or run AIWB. But the IDPA matches you can't. One of the clubs always blamed that stuff on range rules even when the USPSA MD was allowing it.

I think locally, most of the clubs MD's have been around a long time. IDPA beat it into them over the years that AIWB wasn't safe for matches so even though the rules changed they're sticking with that going forward. I believe there is only one club in a reasonable distance to me that allows it. In time as those guys step down clubs will probably start allowing it if they continue with IDPA.

You can save time that way, but if you can't shoot and start moving faster you'll just make the shooting you're already struggling with harder. I think learning to shoot is of massive importance.

Yeah, I much prefer a measurement I can check before a match vs showing up and relying on what equipment check guy things is suitable for all day carry. Even more so when my actual carry gear (AIWB) isn't allowed at 90% of the clubs here anyway.

They've changed the rule since then too, now the outside edge of the holster can't be more than 3" from your body. So unless you're fairly round 1" spacers probably wont fly anymore. And if you're that round those spacers are just making it fair for you as tucking the gun under your gut is going to hinder your draw a touch. I run a red hill holster, on a boss hanger with no spacers and my rig is barely legal. If my belt isn't tight enough it probably isn't legal. RHT holsters stick out pretty far.

Yeah we can't really have things that are just fun in matches. I almost never see texas stars.

I remember when they banned texas stars, my local club had just bought one. lol. Never fails.

I got the impression from staff that the AC was there when they set it up and told them they'd have to physically stop people from going down there via barrels or something. Our AC doesn't have the best reputation when it comes to making good calls.

One of my buddies on the squad jokingly asked if we could do that expecting a no. The CRO said yes, that the AC had overruled them and said they had to allow it if people wanted too. The fix probably would of been to put some steel down there so running up would of been unsafe. Or built some kind of physical barrier maybe. That or not make the shooting so hard that doing dumb stuff is faster. It felt dirty but it had to be done.

I shot a stage last year that ended up being the dumbest thing I've ever done in a shooting sport. Imagine two positions, you have the option to go to either to engage the same 4 targets. One is prone, one is a farther run but standing and leaning. From both positions the shooting was vary hard with NS partials obscuring all of them. You were going to shoot slow, and likely drop points and if you happen to end up not getting a Mike or NS you might win the stage. Ooor what we did. You run dry in the open before this position, so pop a reload round the corner to go to the sanding position and dump the whole mag as fast as you can over the targets while running down the short hall to the position. Once 8 rounds where fired the targets were "engaged" and make up shots could be made from anywhere. So you ran dry, and popped a reload and never stopped running until you were standing next to the target and just blasting them. I felt like such a operator. But, you really had no choice. Do it the way it was intended you're not winning the match because others had already done it.

That's one of the best things this place has going. I'm down in MD, here on the eastern shore.

So here I travel about 120 miles each ways to shoot a level 1 club match where most shooters are not on my radar as competition. There are a couple of these a month, I probably shoot one a month at most. There are a couple level 2's around 200-250 miles from me. There will be no national champions at these, but you'll likely see the top guys in the region here and a few of them might make the super squad. There are maybe 3 or 4 of these a year, if I push it to 3-400 miles I get a couple more options. My Area match which is the closest level 3 is just shy of 400 miles away. That's probably the only chance to shoot against national champions, and even then it depends on what division you shoot. Nationals this year is about 800 miles away. And consider, I'm on the east coast which is pretty densely populated. Guys out west are probably travelling much farther than I do. Most USPSA shooters don't travel to level 2+ matches, and classifiers give them a idea of where they are at on a national scale without needing to drive 800 miles each way to get to a national championship match.

I got one of these about a month ago now and so far I'm pretty happy with it. I've 3D printed a 2011 grip, added lead to it to get it up to about 43 oz, which is about the same as my unloaded gun weight. Added the same grip tape I'm using on my real gun, and printed a new trigger and sear. It's still not a perfect representation of my 2011 but it's getting the job done I think. It also fits my holster so I can work on draws too. I believe it is helping and will continue to train with it pretty heavily.

@-JCN- yeah I agree, and I like running classifiers in practice. It gives you a benchmark. I could setup some random thing shoot it and assume my run was good or bad. But if I find a classifier that works the same skill, now I'll for sure if my performance is good or bad. Typically though I'm to lazy to build a classifier in practice lol.

I think this is part of why classification is bigger here. The US is a really big place, we have states that are bigger then Finland. The state I live in is smaller in size but even then we have 1/2 million more people then you do. So for many of us it's not as simple as just go to a match and see how good you are. Things are so spread out here that many can go to their local match and never shoot against anyone who's M or GM let alone a national champion. How will they know how good they are? Enter classification system. It's not perfect but it's something and gives you a idea of where you're at. If someone tells me their classification I have a pretty good idea of what they can do.