IDPA Membership

[floater]

Our club is not making anyone join anything, and the bulk of the shooters at the IDPA matches are newer shooters the are just trying to learn how to shoot. I would say if 25 people show up at a match 10 or so are Idpa members, although the match directer dose encourage people to join.

Edited January 13, 2018 by floater

[rowdyb]

I've seen this encouraged, ignored but never enforced.

[RePete]

I believe that most clubs do this.

[Thomas H]

On 1/13/2018 at 6:04 PM, rowdyb said:

I've seen this encouraged, ignored but never enforced.

 

^^ This.

 

...which makes sense, because if it was actually enforced, a lot of smaller clubs would die.

[rowdyb]

Personal story, I found action shooting of a Google search. I shot an IDPA match as my first match after the USPSA club said I didn't have enough mags to shoot one of their matches. (3 ten round mags) So before I shot that first IDPA match I found their website and read the whole rule book, before my first match. I saw the rule and told myself, "If I like it I'll have to join after this first match as it's a rule".

 

So on my own I saw this, and did join after my first match. No one mentioned it, no one asked about it. In my case I joined on my own, right away because I read the rule book on my own early on. I don't think very many people new do this...................

[Jim Watson]

Most people learn the shooting rules one PE at a time.  Administrative rules not at all unless enforced like the place I mentioned above.   

[ArrDave]

Most people learn the shooting rules one PE at a time.  Administrative rules not at all unless enforced like the place I mentioned above.   

I think the current arc of rule changes this will continue to change to the point of safety rules will be enforced but otherwise shoot the targets as you see them.

I used to be an IDPA MD and the safety briefs got to be painful trying to layout the tac sequence / tac priority / reload rules to the same questions of “why- seems dumb”. Thankfully they have eased that burden some.


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