Jane

A witty response considering you only took 4 minutes to post it....

Airsoft?? ATF says they can be turned into machine guns: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/06/exclusive-toy-gun-sold-easily-turned-real-thing/

It's up to the club to go to the IDPA website and upload them. Contact your club's match director.

It's a "public" poll, Steve. Click the "view" link next to each of the results.

Thanks, Ken. My first experience creating a poll on this board. I added a generic NO answer to the second question. Jane

Poll questions taken from page 3 of May, 2010, Tactical Journal.

Waiters / waitresses who collect the check, and if I pay with cash ask "do you want any change back?" Especially if I'm paying with a $20 for an $11 check. Bring me the change and I'll leave the tip that I'm gonna leave.

Wide screen (16x9) TVs in restaurants or bars that take regular video broadcast for a normal (4x3) display and stretch it to fit the wide screen, rendering all the people fat and squatty looking.

Steve, one of my mottos is "only steal from the best" If it's useful, go for it...

We have a handout that we give to the shooters at the new shooters orientation. And the SO doing the orientation goes over it and explains what things mean. The handout seems a good idea because it's possible that people may be a bit nervous at their first match and suffer from information overload. So they have something to refer back to. A copy of what we hand out and go over is here.

Not a dumb question. I've had people at matches ask me about my "ported" gun when I've shot a G34 or G35. But as the other guys replied, that's how Glock engineered these models - they're not available with a different slide. And AFAIK, Glock doesn't offer a compensated 34 or 35.

They do. The SOs shoot the entire match on Wednesday. Some people sign up to shoot the entire match on Thursday. The others shoot half the stages Friday and the other half on Saturday. I'm in my 60s and don't have the stamina of you young guys (besides being a girl). The 2009 match was quite fatiguing for me to shoot in one day. My last two stages I just walked through - I was ready for it to be over. I'm pretty sure I would have shot a bit better if I'd split the match. YMMV. Which day do they announce the scores and give away the goodies? Jason In 2006 and 2007, the awards presentation was Sunday morning. In 2008 and 2009 it was at the dinner Saturday night. Interim scores are posted on the IDPA website each night. Final scores are posted at the match hotel when the stats crew gets there after Saturday's shooting is finished. You can download the match books from 2006 onward from the idpa website. The match schedule is toward the front. This is a link for last year's: http://www.idpa.com/matchresults/2009_nationals/2009_MB.pdf

They do. The SOs shoot the entire match on Wednesday. Some people sign up to shoot the entire match on Thursday. The others shoot half the stages Friday and the other half on Saturday. I'm in my 60s and don't have the stamina of you young guys (besides being a girl). The 2009 match was quite fatiguing for me to shoot in one day. My last two stages I just walked through - I was ready for it to be over. I'm pretty sure I would have shot a bit better if I'd split the match. YMMV.

There's no such thing as IDPA 3-gun. Not yet, anyway. There's been some talk that 3-gun rules may happen in the future. If an IDPA club holds a 3-gun match, it's not an IDPA match. So since it's not an IDPA match, the equipment rules are whatever the club says they are.

Depends on whether you're just glad to see me.....

Your post sort of raises two questions to me - how long to improve as a shooter and how long to do well on the classifier. Which are related, but not necessarily the same. I was 54 when I first shot a gun. After I bought it, I took several classes at Front Sight in Nevada over the next six months. At one of those classes, a part-time instructor suggested I look into IDPA for the type of practice that one can't get at most regular ranges. Being comfortable making a fool of myself, I found a local club and showed up at a match. The second match I shot with them (about 9 months after I'd bought my first gun) was a classifier, and I barely made SSP Marksman. My shooting then and since has been focused on feeling competent to keep a gun at home (I live by myself since my husband died). I'm now an SSP Sharpshooter and just-barely-borderline ESP Sharpshooter. As for my first statement, I personally find I do better in the classifier than in regular matches. I've finished at the bottom of SS in any of the sanctioned matches I shoot. The thing I'd suggest you focus on for the classifier is being sure to get 90 holes on the target. This is particularly critical in The 9 head shots in stage 1 All the shots in stage 3 Remember that each miss adds 2.5 seconds to your score. It's better to take an extra second to get that shot on paper. Also - on stage 3, at that distance and particularly around the barricade, your eye is drawn to the center of the target. The down-zero zone is not in the center, so you want to remind yourself to aim a bit higher on those shots. Also... when I started shooting, everybody talked about focusing on the front sight. I really thought I was. I wasn't

[continued thread drift] You may be right, Chris. I shot most of the 07 match on SO day and for the 08 match tried to get out of the score shack from time to time to pick up a few stages at a time over the course of the 3 days... so I don't know how the bays were run for most of the competitors. But I do know that shooters were not hot outside of the bays. [/continued thread drift]

Chris, Or can also interpret "range" as you want. From what Ken Reed has written, for example, his home range is a "hot range" for all non-sanctioned matches. People can arrive hot, leave hot, and go through their day at the range hot. The Allentown matches, in contrast, had a couple of what I'd call "hot bays" - shooters had to be unloaded before they could leave the bay. A matter of definition, obviously, and YMMV.

That's only true for SOs and Thursday shooters. Everybody else shoots half the stages Friday and the other half Saturday.

Ken, I'm one of those who in this thread has urged the dropping of the round-dumping rule, with reasoning that I happen to think survives Bones' dismissal (the boy's logic approaches blondeness ). I'm not sure I understand into which "one place" that makes me fit. You and I have worked several Nationals matches together. I hope that you and I personally have enough mutual respect that you can at least concede the legitimacy of my opinion. Jane

Duane, For me (who happens to be a get-rid-of-this-rule opiner), the issue is that most laws in our society are based on the consequences of actions rather than on intentions. The ever-popular "hate crimes" laws are a notable exception to this principle in that they require an inference as to the perpetrator's mindset. Even with those, however, there are usually incontrovertible actions on which to begin that analysis - somebody is dead (which is already a murder rap based on the usual consequences-of-actions based laws) but is his death more egregious because he was gay or Jewish or black or... The action itself is already prosecutable... the mindset is then called into question. With round-dumping, by the nature of "UNlimited" Vickers the action of firing an "insurance" or "makeup" shot is not against the normal rules, unless the mindset is suspect in which case it is. I've seen round-dumping called at one sanctioned match. This was AFTER pretty much everyone on a squad (the team from Trinidad) had fired an extra round at one particular target in order to be at slidelock at specific place in the stage. The SO specifically announced that if anybody else fired an extra round at that spot he'd award an FTDR. A shooter did. He did. But even in that situation, you can argue that it was unfair because those whose actions had led to the explicit ultimatum that she violated were not subject to the same penalty. I suppose one could draw an analogy to the highway patrol. They ticket a small percentage of speeders on the highway, but the chance of a ticket no doubt contributes somewhat to compliance in spite of the inconsistent enforcement. Here again, though, the enforcement (albeit not inflicted upon all offenders) is based strictly on actions, not on imputed intentions. You speak of what is set down in the rule book "in black and white". A hit on a non-threat is generally pretty much a black and white call. A round-dumping penalty is not, regardless of whether it's "black and white" in the rule book. I'm sure my little rant, incomplete as it is, won't change your mind. And you're unlikely to sway my opinion. The fact that that rule has been around for so long and still provokes so much dispute is, to me, enough reason to get rid of it. YMMV (and obviously does )

You are correct on both counts, if a mag is dislodged from your carrier it's a 3 second penalty no matter what. The only reason to stop and pick it up is if you need it to finish the COF. Two clarifications from IDPA on this: http://idpaforum.yuku.com/topic/2077 http://idpaforum.yuku.com/topic/2079

Duh, I'm as blind as a bat. Thanks Download the PDF rule book from the IDPA website. Often easier to search electronically rather than scanning through pages of paper.

Yes Rulebook page 33: page 35: