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Me too. I also thought 10mm would make it into CDP.

I think I have used it once on a 18 round stage with a plate rack at about 15 yards. If there is no steel it never gets used.

Another possibility for the reason that 1911 and Revolver shooters are good shooters is that many have been shooting them since they were introduced. Additionally they can afford the higher cost of ammo because their kids are grown. NC Buckeye

In clt there are very few CDP shooters and they finish in line with there classification. It is the Indian not the arrow. NC Buckeye

This is how I do it now... http://www.balloongoesup.com/blog/2012/02/assessing-your-progress-in-a-local-idpa-match/ NC Buckeye

ESP I just did the mod myself. NC Buckeye

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. Anytime you can reuse the plane it's a great one.

I shot a couple of IDPA events last year but really started training seriously late in the summer, then scheduling conflicts et cetera didn't permit me to shoot again until last month and I shot my 5th event yesterday. So I am far from an advanced shooter, but I keep a religious range log, I analyze every drill, Shoot more on the clock than off, and record myself as often as possible so that I can see my mistakes. I am also a data geek so that helps. I have been attempting to track my progress against other local shooters and I have come up with metric that I think makes sense, but I wanted to see if it passes the sniff test here. The metric is "% of the High Division Corrected Score" I have attempted to control for the differences in division by normalizing the times based closely on the different classifier times. So for each Division I adjust the match score by multiplying by a the following factors. ESP: 1.00000 CDP: 0.97435 SSP: 0.94750 ESR: 0.89000 SSR: 0.87350 I then divide my time by the fastest corrected time of the day to calculate my metric. (On one occasion there were no masters at the event and I created a fake time to approximate their fast time to keep it reasonable) Obviously there is considerable bleeding of classifications at each match but I have found: The average Master time is within 10% of the fast time. (<110%) The average Expert time is about 25% slower than the fast time (~125%) The average Sharpshooter time is about 60% slower than the fast time (~160%) The average Marksman time is about double the the fast time (~200%) And oddly the average novice is slower than the average unclassified shooter. Does this analysis fit with what you would expect? I believe this is an approximation of the USPSA rating system, only at the local level. As an unclassified shooter I have been looking for a way to find a "peer group" to compare myself against and to benchmark my progress against changing fields of shooters. Based on these results my progress has been as follows... March 27, 2010: 1.877299987 May 22, 2010: 1.912255795 July 24, 2010: 1.709918511 April 23, 2011: 1.699458532 May 28, 2011: 1.363102113