Jane

Because you're basically asking for a clear definition of what constitutes "slide lightening", I'd suggest you post this question on the "Ruling Requests" section of idpaforum.com. A reply might well get deferred, but whatever response you get will have more weight than somebody else's opinion.

Congratulations, Ted!

And ya know... part of it may not be related to the "guidelines/principles"... but to the practical administration of a game... Just from the standpoint of an SO running after a shooter, watching fingers and muzzles and use of cover -- to have to take his eyes off the gun and make a mental note each time a mag hits the ground when the gun isn't at slidelock to be sure that mag is empty... or to go back after the COF and inspect each mag on the ground... It's a lot easier to watch that either the gun is at slidelock or the mag gets stowed.

Win8 refused to load on the VMware 6.5 I had been running. I wound up paying the $99 to upgrade to VMware Workstation 8.02. Then once it's loaded, trick is to figure out how to kill it. I added a cmd shortcut to my desktop, so I can type shutdown /s /t 0

I hate people who send me an email asking for information and don't have the courtesy to white-list me with their spam blocker. So I reply, then get an email from their spam blocker asking me to prove myself. Bah. Humbug.

AS WELL YOU SHOULD!!!

Final version? There's a final version? All I find on their website is the provisional PDF to which you allude: http://www.idpa.com/...es_07062010.pdf Personally, I'm still waiting for clarification on the classification strategy :-( http://www.beachbunn...idpa/DMGpop.htm

Prolly cauz you got a scary avatar....

Either that, or you could be contributing to the 174 post (as of now) suggestion thread on idpaforum: http://idpaforum.yuku.com/topic/8027/IDEAS-for-rulebook-mods (Sometimes Mohammed needs to go to the mountain... )

On idpaforum, Bubba is posting a summary thread containing a list of changes that have been suggested.

Not this year, I'm told.

To add to Strick's reply... Your classification "expires" in the sense that the rule book lists shooting the classifier at least once each year as a shooter responsibility (page 52). Sanctioned matches generally require proof that you've shot a classifier in the 12 months prior to the match. However, if you haven't that doesn't mean that you become unclassified and can shoot the classifier at some later date as a newbie and become classified at a lower level. You cannot go down in classification without convincing IDPA headquarters that you have acquired a permanent disability that justifies the lower level. (page 72) A match bump does not take the place of shooting the classifier: http://idpaforum.yuku.com/topic/2072/Classifier-How-Often-is-it-to-be-Shot

After our IDPA club match last month, I was sitting talking with our new club MD and with another individual who has a certain amount of input on sanctioned matches. The other individual rather surprised me by his strong assertion that SOs who shoot a sanctioned match a day before the regular shooters do should be scored as a separate SO match , not scored in with everybody else. I was a bit tired after the match, so it's possible I somewhat misconstrued some of the things he said. But my recollection is that he used the words, "there's always cheating" - that SOs don't call their buddies on the same infractions for which they'd ding regular shooters, stages may get adjusted on the SO shoot day, etc. I told him that I've only personally ROed one sanctioned match (a USPSA match). But I've worked scores on a number of sanctioned matches (including 5 IDPA nationals), and have shot with the SOs at those matches. I certainly haven't seen this behavior. I recall that Ted Murphy and John May didn't shoot their Nationals for score when they were the MDs, but all the other SOs did at sanctioned matches I've attended. Taking the SOs out of the pool will affect match bumps for both groups, as well as awards. And I think it would make it a lot more difficult to get qualified SOs willing to work sanctioned matches. So I'm curious what y'all think.

Not to beat my same dead horse, Bob (actually, I don't even tilt at windmills ), but I don't know how somebody would set up such a match. The wording of how classifications are to be determined is incomprehensible to me, as I've detailed in two threads from when the provisional rules were first released: http://idpaforum.yuku.com/topic/6221 http://idpaforum.yuku.com/topic/6237 I know that many sanctioned matches use ForScore software, and that it will not support DMG until that rule is spelled out in language a little old blonde lady can comprehend.

Stages are posted: http://www.idpapostalmatch.com/

Nope. If not classified, you will have to enter as your highest ranking in another division. For a local match, yes. Not for a sanctioned match.

Think yer the only wordsmith around here, Duane ???? Señor Koski scribed a morsel in the May Tactical Journal.

I've seen some talk: http://idpaforum.yuku.com/sreply/51465/IDPA-Gun-Test-Box-for-sale- In that thread, Bob Hostetter also talked about possibly making some.

I sympathize, John.... being in the backwoods where my Tactical Journal didn't arrive until yesterday. But dude... did you miss the thread here where everyone has been talking about that article for a week? Or Joyce Wilson's comment a few days ago?

Addressed by Joyce Wilson.

Why would we want to do something that makes us look fat???

IDPA rules say: USPSA rules say: If the show you were listening to was about IDPA, it sounds as if they were correct.

Corroborating what Wak posted, this is addressed in the rules clarification section of idpaforum: http://idpaforum.yuku.com/topic/2080/Concealment-Garment-Required-for-Classifier

I guess you haven't. I've ROed the Golden Bullet as well as worked IDPA matches. For some reason, I was squadded with Taran Butler, John Flentz, and Barry Dueck at the California IDPA state match one year (guess a super squad needs a class dummy for some comic relief ). Those USPSA GMs were the most courteous to all the SOs and were always helpful with taping. Not a prima donna amongst them. Again, from IDPA Nationals' match book: