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I'm not as good/experienced as most of the guys here, but the one thing I notice is that you're kind of scooping the gun up. If you drive it more straight up and straight out, you can get your eyes on the sights faster.

I got a gift cert to Brian's store and some cash that will become a pair of rudy's and an AR barrel.

How do you deal with muzzle safe points when the shooter moves down range? A point that's a safe angle with the shooter slightly ahead of it can become unsafe if the shooter is 5 yards farther downrange. The advantage of the 180 is that it's obvious how it moves with the shooter. A simple set of cones / stakes for muzzle safe points doesn't seem to do that as well. That said, we've used them successfully in IDPA in setting up two simple speed shoot type stages in one pit shooting in to the side berms.

I'm an outsider looking in here, not having ever shot AP. I just looked at the production rules and one thing jumped out "The rear sight may be adjustable if the firearm was originally manufactured with an adjustable sight." So, you cut out all the people who run adjustables on M&Ps and Glocks. Why do the rules have to be different than USPSA Production? I shoot IDPA and USPSA production and I can easily shoot both with the same gun as the rules are very close. What's the gain of being different? I'm not going to buy a new gun to shoot one match. The whole point of having a production division is to avoid that.

The first option is the most flexible IF you reload. If you want to shoot factory ammo, go for the G34.

For a small carry revolver, I think you can't beat the 642/442. You can save a little weight for a lot more money, but I don't see the point. Yeah, you get 357 capability on the scandium/titanium versions, but trust me you won't want to shoot them much. I think the other important gun to have is a K-frame 357 (13/19/65/66).

huh? please clarify. IPSC production doesn't have a 10 round mag limit. 9mm mags of the same size hold more rounds than 40/45.

A friend of mine is a scoutmaster and one thing his pack does that I thought was cool was: After all the kids are done, they have a race for cars built by the parents. This gives the parents a chance to exercise their competitiveness without affecting the kids, and it keeps more of the parents from taking too strong a role in 'helping'.

Haven't posted here in a while, but I'm hoping to make it more regular now. My new Production/SSP gun (M&P 9pro) finally came in this Thursday. I put 50 rounds through it Thursday night shooting groups on the indoor range. The gun is very accurate and feels great in the hand. I did about 45 minutes of dry fire last night, working through the first couple drills in Steve Anderson's book, establishing some baseline times. I shot a local IDPA match today. I didn't shoot great, but the gun feels good. Two nasty magazine failures with borrowed mags cost me some significant time. Two rounds jammed together about halfway down the mag, jamming the follower. This caused a failure to feed, and then a tap-rack induced a double feed. I'm hoping my mags come in soon and don't have this problem. (10 rounders have been backordered everywhere with decent prices for a while.) My plan for the next few weeks is more dry fire and getting my reloading setup sorted out. I'll probably make one or two trips to the range for live fire if I get some decent weather. Today's weather for the match was pretty good. It was cold, but plenty of sunshine and no wind.

What the hell? IRRITATING!

I'm shooting an indoor bullseye league this winter. I'm curious to see what effect it has on my action pistol shooting when the season ramps up in the spring. One thing I've found is that immediately confirming my shot calls with the spotting scope in slow fire has really improved my shot calling across all guns.

Budget/Division? An M&P in production is a good bet, as you can change the grip size as his hands grow.

I went to FrontSight last year. They're very much stuck in the past doctrine wise, as was said above. It's absolutely not worth the list price, but if you can snag a certificate from someone with a membership, it can be almost free. Last I checked, the certificates went for about $100 on ebay. I found the training pretty worthwhile, but I was relatively new to shooting. If you're already an experienced competition shooter, I'd look elsewhere.

I made the same insta-beep mistake at a recent IDPA match. I immediately yelled stop and the shooter didn't do anything. I gave him a minute to relax and re-set and then started him properly. Once he NDs into the ground, I'm yelling stop and then giving ULASC and a DQ. The safety rules are there for a reason, and I'm not going to excuse a violation just because enforcing them would be hard. I think the crap storm if you left him get away with it and the next time someone got hurt would be FAR worse.

I've carried my M&P 9c in a Comp-Tac MTAC for about 18 months now and I still love it.

I'm at 2 months in the same US state as S&W. How do you generally get guns across the border? My certificate didn't mention anything about shipping outside the US.

I just started shooting USPSA recently, but I've been active in IDPA for a few years. At all the clubs around here, match staff (SOs and MD; SOs usually also build and break stages) shoot for free. I assumed that was standard everywhere. I wouldn't ever expect to get paid for working matches, but paying to volunteer would rub the wrong way. I've worked one major match, and staff shot free and ate for free while on site.

The Connecticut State IDPA match had an optional team component. It used the regular match scores and added them up. Teams were of 4 people and had to contain 1 from each class (MM,SS,EX,MA) and each had to shoot a different division (IDPA has 5 divisions). I don't see team results anywhere, so I'm not sure how much participation they got.

We've got some rubberized weights, a Bosu (sp?) and a stabila-ball now. We're both more likely to be working out solo...no spotter, nobody around, so that sort of influences things somewhat. She usually takes a break during the day to work out (works from home) and the multi-machines seem to offer a little more flexibility in that regard. R, If you get a power rack, you don't need a spotter for anything. You can set the safety bars wherever you need to for the exercise that you're doing. Free weights are much better than machines. Machines isolate individual muscles. This seems like a good idea, until you realize that that never happens in the real world.

A friend of mine won a certificate at the MA state IDPA match in early June, and just got his gun last week. I'm not sure how long it took him to send it in. I won a certificate at the New England regional IDPA and sent it in mid September and I'm still waiting.

I shot a Hi-Power in ESP for a while. I borrowed an M&P to shoot the postal in SSP, and blew away my HP scores. I'm not sure why, but I shoot the M&P much better. I've got a M&P on the way, and after that the BHP will probably just sit in the safe. I second the issues mentioned above with the long and mushy reset and the tight magazine well. The Hi-Power does feel great in my hand, but that doesn't translate to shooting it that well for some reason.

I'm just a lowly Sharpshooter (recent match bump from MM), but I just don't see sandbagging as a big problem. What sandbagging isn't taken care of by the match bump rule? You only get to win your class at 3 sanctioned matches before you get to Master. Who cares about sandbaggers winning their division in local matches? I generally look at all the scores in local matches anyway. I think the arguments for adding a GM class make a lot of sense.

I've recently decided to get more serious about action shooting, and i think starting a thread here will help. I first fired a gun in October 2007. I've been shooting IDPA since Jan 08, and I just shot my first USPSA match last month. I shot a Browning Hi-Power for a while, but recently I've been shooting a borrowed M&P. For some reason, I shoot the M&P much better. Luckily for me, I won an certificate from S&W at the New England Regional IDPA match, and my M&P should be here next month. I shot the CT state IDPA 2 weeks ago and ended up 4th place SSP MM. I had some really good (for me) stages, beating some shooters I usually finish way behind at local matches. I also had a few bad stages, including one total stinker. This past weekend, I shot the Maine state IDPA. Somehow things just came together. I had a few mistakes I wanted back, but they were much smaller than in the CT match. I've read plenty about the 'see what you need to see' concept, but I feel like it's finally starting to click. I remember one particular shot in this match. It was a longer shot, and I remember seeing the sights much faster than I expected, and thinking 'well, the sights are there, what are you waiting for, press the trigger'. I felt pretty good about my chances in the marksman class, hoping for a class bump. (My last SSP classifier, with my M&P compact, missed SS by only a few sec.) When scores were posted, I was happy to see my name at the top of SSP/MM. There were only 8 shooters though, so I needed to beat two in SSP/SS. So, I started reading up the list and was ecstatic to get to the top of SSP/SS without finding a faster time. Hopefully I can carry this momentum in to the winter season and stay motivated for regular practice. I spent an hour on the phone yesterday with one of the better local shooters talking about goal setting and practice. My short term foci are to improve my accuracy and shot calling, start streamlining my movement, and get a better handle on stage planning. Medium term goal is to get to SSP/Expert. I ordered Brian's book, Steve Anderson's dryfire book, and 'Talking practical shooting' today. I've started working the dry fire drills in the sample pdf. Since the Maine match, I've set a goal to dry and/or live fire every day. So far so good. I think this is going to be a long journey, but I've taken the first step.

Whew, then I won't sit at the bottom of the expert results until my skill catches up to my classification. Darrin, did you beat the bottom guy in SSP EX? I did, and I think we were pretty close. Craig, where are you seeing the results? Thanks to all who put in the work to put together a fun match. After SOing the NER's, I have an understanding just how much work is involved.

I'm a noob here, but I was there. I shot on squad 7. I thought it was a pretty good match. I would've liked some steel or some more activating targets for a state match, but the stage designs were good. I thought the muzzle below the berm on reloads rule was going to bother me more than it did. I shot in SSP Marksman, but I ended up beating all the SS shooters also. I'm not sure if that bumps me clear to expert or not. If so, I have a lot of practicing to do. A couple things just clicked for me at this match. I had a few longer shots that I took much faster than I usually would. I saw the sight picture I needed, so why wait any longer. Now I just need to put in the work in dry fire building my index so this happens more often.