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Well, since it isn't an IDPA match, the IDPA rule book really doesn't apply, does it? And since Frank owns The Carolina Cup, he can do what he wants.

The Carolina Cup is not sanctioned this year because the AC's designated representative over ruled the arbitration panel last year. That is, the official IDPA oversight official didn't follow the rules. There are several stages this year that do not pretend to be IDPA legal stages. They are not. They are not supposed to be. Virtually every target system that has ever been used in a Carolina Cup will be used this year. There will be a few fault lines. There will be a bunch of steel, a par time stage, a lot of non-threats, some very challenging shots. IDPA type stages will run on IDPA type rules. There will be no arbitration. The Match Director's word will be final. It is his range, his match and his efforts.

Yuku is down. Nice try though.

I just realized, this is the Cali version of IDPA. Nothing to see here.

I have tried to read through all this but I have a question. Is the shooter behind cover? Is the shooter using two sides of a barricade? If there is cover, near to far doesn't apply.

It is better to look good, than to be good.

I have dedicated Templar Tactical on my 24" 308 bolt and 20" 223 AR. Both thread on since they are for longer ranges. They are titanium models and very light. I just tried the 223 can on my 16" and was very impressed with the suppression. With both cans, the point of impact shift was minimal and 100% repeatable. QD may not produce the same repeatable POI.

I did quite a bit of testing factory loads to see what my rifle liked. That process was very informative. Because of what was available to me, I ended up with a lot of Federal and Privi brass. When I started load development, I focused on the Privi brass, but also loaded some Federal. I found that the Federal was much harder to extract than the same load in Privi brass. It is so much of a problem, my Federal brass is heading to the recycler. It isn't worth the trouble. To be clear, there are no over pressure signs. I now have my Privi brass, a really nice load and 200 new Lapua cases. I'm sure I'll be buying more.

I'm shocked that these sorts of discussions still come up after the carefully thought out, meticulously enumerated, and well studied work of the Tiger Team. Someone send me a PM when the New, New Rulebook is out. I don't get the emails anymore.

I understand that Ken Reed is no longer a moderator. I'm not sure why, but he wasn't very user friendly. I have heard that many of the "faithful" have had issues with the rule book. I won't speak for them by name. The rest are hung up on "Founder's Intent." This is in spite of the fact that none of the founders shoot IDPA anymore.

In my area, the program was moved to a Sports Tier after the network change. I watched the first season, not much after, and none since the move to the Sports Tier.

I my experience, which I won't bore you with, setting up a match according to the rules is the easy part. The hard part is utilizing large numbers of SOs from outside the local area to officiate the match. Inspite of specific stage direction and COF brief in writing, someone will invariably put their own spin on how they are going to run the stage. Volunteers can be fired and certainly not invited back to reinterprete a stage in the future. I have never seen a 16 stage match where something wasn't done by the SO staff either to the SOs or regular competitors incorrectly. It is the human element and it is unavoidable. Try as you might, nothing is perfect and no one is more frustrated than the people who spent six months designing and two weeks building the match.

Must have been a surprise to the people who showed up to shoot an IDPA match, since I'm pretty sure that was how they advertised the match. I think I know that MD and it was a surprise. A very pleasant one. A lot like the stage with more poppers than I had ever seen assembled at one place and time before. A lot of fun. There a only so many ways to arrange six threats.

Joyce to Robert - "Robert, send out an email and tell everyone you were wrong with the rule changes."

I haven't been an IDPA member since September 2012. I wanted to see what the Tiger Teams would actually do before spending any more money on IDPA. From my personal interactions with Joyce, et al, I was convinced that things were going to get weird. Well, they did. I was a CSO, a member since 2002, and enjoyed shooting a minimum of two matches a month and four or five sanctioned matches a year. After the new rules, I did not renew, no longer SO, but I still shoot two matches a month. I find the rules in many areas to be, dumb and without rational explanation. There is a rule against knee pads, which I really need after years of abuse and landing on too many pieces of brass and blue stone. There is a rule against stiffeners in concealment, because it is apparently too effective and real worldy. There is a rule against the most effective flashlight I have ever seen and purchased specifically to shoot with. There is a rule against the moving reload, which completely negates any skill one might possess at performing a tac load. The sport I started shooting has been dumbed down to avoid embarressing the multitude of new MM and SS, which are not overcoming the number of experienced shooters who have chosen to not renew, but rather do something else. Oh, or just not pay Berryville. After "officially" suspending training any new SOs, IDPA, generally, does not have enough experienced SOs to run a major match. Tribal rules are on the rise. The new rules have destroyed what ever institutional knowledge there was. The strict equipment rules have been bent and revised too many times at this stage to trust the motivations of those writing the rules. Big sponsor, no problem, that looks good. Not a sponsor, you can't use that, next week. By the time this is over, you will probably be able to buy IDPA for a little over the annual dues take. Good luck finding out what that might be, but it is a lot less than it used to be. The only reason to stop issuing member numbers sequentially, is to conceal the number of members. In a nutshell, the new rules have created a game that isn't worth my money or the time I invested to help build and staff matches. Outlaw 3-Gun baby!