Dennis Sherman

Are they not just the "nuts" Duane? Craig and his staff did a great job and his dedication is appreciated. I have talke do many people and they were as jazzed about the match as I was. This challenge coin was a real classy thing to do, sort of like fraternal to all of us who shot the match. Peace be with you....... Dennis

I think all the equipment checks were done in a fair and consistent manner. As I have said many times before, in my area of the country, the S&W league set the standard in running an IDPA match when we were starting out with our own programs in Upstate NY. That is still the way it is in my mind. And how about the challenge coin, what a classy gesture. Dennis

Its really interesting to read these forums. We, those of us who participate in the shooting sports, may be our own worst enemy.

Yes, and there has been for some time in that region of the huge state of NY. Maybe some of our 150 members moved there.

We managed to gather 6-7 of us from the Albany/Saratoga "UPSTATE" area of NY to support the Indoor National IDPA match and had a great time. I do not recall seeing the others listed below while I was there. Gary Hellmers used to run a fine IDPA regional match years ago.

Thats where the Albany, Saratoga IDPA members must have migrated to, Rochester, Tioga and Owego.

I thought it was a great match with excellent stages. My hats off to Julie, Craig, and the entire staff. Dennis

Hey J, I will tell you we could sure use a visit from you once in a while. There is a small league where we host monthly match's outside and of course there is practice at Sara Spa as usual. Even I am there. Then of course we have the league of misfit toys that no one can play with. Most of us now shoot USPSA as well. How have you been? Dennis So this is what happens when I leave? Gee, what kind of club isn't open to ALL IDPA shooters?

If you are buying the Glock for the "game", I would suggest you go with the G34. If you currently shoot IDPA or USPSA, perhaps you can use another persons 34/17 at a practice or match and see the differences before you buy. As far as my setup, I currently do not own any Glocks, but have owned the G17, G21, G30, and the G36 and all were stock and worked like a watch. But again, if you want to progress in the game, I have seen people really make forward progress the most with the G34.

Craig, I had some thoughts on this post of yours,,,,,,,,,,, Dennis

Craig, I did plan to be there, but I will take any load data you have for 4in 686 38spl. Dennis

I shoot a compact because that is what I have, and I can't afford/justify buying another gun to play the game. That is what IDPA was promoted to be for in the early days of the sport, "shoot what you have"

Every other month I shoot my j-frame at weekly practice, as it is my carry gun. On the competitive side, well, its not good for that.

Dennis K. Sherman IDPA SOI A06627 CDP SS ESP SS SSR SS SSP, why bother

I think you have the best from NY with Dale.

Maybe you would be interested in being an SOI for your area of NYS, it is needed out that way. I would be glad to make a suggestion to Robert Ray to get that to happen. Couple folks from out past Buffalo came out here to Schenectady to get the CRO class in so they would be able to start a league as per the IDPA requirements.

Up here in the Albany/Saratoga area, we consider Binghampton to be Southern Tier, lol. I am happy to hear IDPA is very active where you are located. I shot 3 of the State match's out that way hosted at Cortland some years back and they did a great job. A couple of us have been keeping what there is of IDPA "alive" since we started shooting it at Sara Spa in the late 90's. I along with 3-4 other dedicated people formed Sara Spa IDPA, Guan Ho Ha IDPA, Iraquios IDPA as well as Woodlawn IDPA. I have a desire to see this sport stay around for the core principles that attracted me to it in 1999. As I said in my original post, we once had around 150 IDPA members, and over the years have maybe 30 are still around. Again, glad things are going well down your way, IDPA has been big there for some time. Dennis A06627

I have had one of those in my hand and it is a neat product. However, I think it will require as much training as the lights most of us use, e.g. surefire. Its a different design of a tool. If I did not have a half dozen white lights in my collection, I would buy one. I am also reminded that in my area, we shoot indoors in the Winter and do very little low light, no light shooting practice as our match's are for the most part outside. Only time we ramp up practice for that part of IDPA shooting is if folks we practice with are going to the S&W match for a few weeks previous. Back in the day, 99-02, we used to load a van and 6-8 of us would go to the S&W league match's in Springfield in preperation of thier match. 4 hours total drive to shoot 50 rounds, but it was more to get used to the range's and movers and such.

As I continue on the downward spiral that is my participation in the action pistol sports, before I am done, I will host a major match where the SO's and the organizers will shoot the match for fun and not be part of the match results. This way, it will be a true surprise to those who compete and no one will have an advantage. Its not popular with most, but my old shooting pal Dale once suggested it and I think its a great idea.

Rob, Sorry for my comments, and I understand what you are saying. I will PM the details about the results, in kind. Dennis

Hi Rob, Pretty sure I was asking about the 2009 USPSA/IDPA shooting season at Westfield, not as to whom was running the event when the child was killed. While you are here, as the area 7 director, do you think it is reasonable that local USPSA match's have the results available within 3 weeks? Dennis

Was wondering if anyone had any updates about the status of the Westfield club in terms of USPSA/IDPA match's in 2009. I made it out to Chris and Judith's IDPA program once this summer and it was first class. They both of course are very great shooters in thier own right and very helpful to others getting started. I was curious if things have settled since the terrible incident this past fall.

Yup, Thats the deal in NY, you must have a permit that takes 4-6 months to get. I am not looking for the IDPA vs USPSA. Any shooting sport is a good one, all a matter of choice.

In shooting this sport since 1999 both in the local area as well as many regional matches, I have seen plenty of off the wall courses of fire. This was just another lack of enough information in the course description. RO's get angry when a person can think on thier feet and adapt and use what they can to solve a problem and after they watch the shooter prevail, they remember what they forgot to write in the course description and start the penalty phase. The bigger issue here for me is that why would you want to try and confuse the shooter with a bunch of extra words such as the 2nd issue. A good way to ensure that you have some people not return is to be unprofessional and leave information out of a course of fire and then try to ding them after the fact. I recall a state match where we were required to do a one handed reload, using the weak hand only. You can just imagine the danger this created for some people. It was stupid, period. While I go with the crowd and shoot the low light/ no light stuff, I feel that if I never shot another stage with it, I would be fine. The firearms I have for my defensive use all have mounted lights on them, and all concerned in my posse are well versed in thier use. In my simple mind, IDPA should allow the use of mounted lights, then maybe these match killing, time wasteing stages would be gone, lol.

I shoot the Watervliet program and I hope you get there next summer. They used to host the AWARE years back and the original people have retired, if you will.