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Does this apply to the new keyed mainspring housings on some factory guns? How do I start a string? Key in lock? Key in hand? Key in left front pocket, or as in my case, back at home in the nightstand? Dave

I thought if you disabled your grip safety, you did it to enhance the relialibility of the weapon

Rick; Ask your insurance agent about a umbrella policy. I have had one for years and you can drop all of your other liability policies, auto and homeowners, to the minimum required by law and make up the difference with the umbrella. Mine costs, I think, about 250.00 per million dollars. You can subtract the savings on your other policies from that. Dave

I believe the intent of this rule is not to leave any ammo behind to allow your real-world opponent the chance to retrieve it and then shoot you with it. If you are making a legal reload and drop your next mag on the ground or miss your mag pouch when you go to stow it, there wouldn't be a penalty if you went to your next magazine and then retrieved your dropped mag before you advanced to the next shooting position. If you are making a legal reload and drop your next magazine on the ground and you go to the next magazine and finish the string WITHOUT MOVING to another position, then you have left no ammo behind. I am not sure how else it could be done, would putting the dropped mag back in your mag pouch create enough sound to activate the timer? At the 2003 IDPA Nationals in Little Rock, this very thing happened to TGO on Johnny V's stage and he was given a PE but it was overturned because he had not moved since dropping the mag. At this years Nationals in Little Rock a shooter dropped a mag while moving to a new position and the SO picked it up and handed it to the shooter so he could finish the string ( he needed it ) and did not recieve a PE. Did the match director approve this action for all shooters or just the ones sponsored by Wilson Combat?

Yea, I liked the part where he made you a human target stand for your shooting partner. As far as the latest article in the TJ, it is definitley an improvement over the other ones. He even quoted special agent Scott Warren in this last one. Anybody at the 1998 IDPA Nationals in Jefferson City, Missouri remember what Scott's T-shirt said? Great people. DA Dave

I can not disagree with to much on this thread but I believe this is just wrong. BW was very competitive, and very, very supportive of USPSA. He got screwed and then got mad and then set out, in my opinion, to make IDPA to be different more than anything else from USPSA.

"By the way, airgunning is still against the rules" Where is it written that airgunning is against the rules? Sight pictures, yes. DA Dave

He does look at at least some of these forums, I have a nasty e-mail from him to prove it. DA Dave

Don't they do that at the Nationals almost every year? They call it a Tac-Load off the clock. That way you can have high round count stages and still be "legal". D A Dave

Jane's IDPA scoring software is the bomb!!!!!! Dave

Would you guys quit arguing long enough to tell me when the match at Coney Island is.

This ( '04 Nationals ) was my first major USPSA match and I admit I went into it with a "fear" of being DQ'd because of all the stories I had heard about the RO vs. us mentality that does or did exist in USPSA. And after going to the shooters meeting and listening to a GUY WITH A DRESS ON tell us how to be safe, I was beginning to wonder. However, and I know this is no comfort to the people that did get DQ'd, I thought things went pretty well considering there were some 180 traps and some real good places to sweep yourself. I actually seen one guy get DQ'd and he had done nothing unsafe but placed his weapon ( empty ) on a table before getting the range command to. I think for 563 shooters and no more than 6 (?) to get DQ'd and no arbitration that says something. This don't mean I think Unleashed was treated right or wrong, I wasn't there, but something has changed or all those other stories were just BS. Dave

I see a lot of people here asking about new "IDPA legal" holsters. A new holster rule is in the works and is RUMORED to be implemented around the first of the year. The holster list will be abolished and what works for you may not work for someone else. Rumor is that the gun must not be more than 1/2 inch from your body and the latest RUMOR is that when holstered the gun or holster must touch your body. Like I said this is just rumor but I hate to see someone go out and buy a holster and before they get a chance to use it , it becomes illegal. Happened to me with the Helwig a few years back. Dave