Jane

But Flex..... aren't ALL ROs gods ????

Curses! Foiled Again

So you goin aroun dissin IDPA saying their way of answering questions amounts to rumors??? I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I SAY !!!!! (Where's them mods when ya need them ????? )

I took my P229 out of the safe the other night. For some weird reason, felt like doing some dry-firing. I haven't played with that gun in some years... have basically only been shooting Glocks. The SIG has a short trigger installed. It also has a really nice set of Nill grips (the old stippling that they don't make any longer). I have above average hand strength for a woman. I've played piano for years. And a year or so ago, bought some grip-strength devices based on the article that Carina referenced. But I was still really struggling with the SIG's first DA pull. I think when I had shot the gun in the past, I had rotated my grip somewhat to get more finger on the trigger. I wound up taking off my lovely Nills and putting the stock plastic grips back on. They're a bit slimmer, and I have better leverage. Which, I guess, is a long-winded way of saying, "good post, Duane".

Julie Goloski / Golob has written some articles on the subject for the IDPA magazine. Here are links: http://www.idpa.com/tj.asp?ID=241 http://www.idpa.com/tj.asp?ID=233 http://www.idpa.com/tj.asp?ID=197 http://www.idpa.com/tj.asp?ID=177 http://www.idpa.com/tj.asp?ID=169 http://www.idpa.com/tj.asp?ID=159 http://www.idpa.com/tj.asp?ID=150 (sometimes their website is slow. be patient.)

I've replaced the factory "extended" release on my 34 and 35 with a regular 23-style for that very reason. Jane (AKA slide-stop thumbs!)

You might look at a Ghost Rocket connector. A bit less overtravel than a stock Glock connector.

Ted has results online now at http://www.idpapostalmatch.com/home.html

As far as the "software" argument... I know that holds true for me. When I SO people on the classifier, which only has 20 yard shots, I caution them to "aim high" on stage 3... not because of ballistic issues but because of psychological ones. Some posters in this thread have spoken of putting their sights on the top of the down-zero ring at 35 yards. Great if your eyes are good enough for that and you're patient enough to be shooting with "bullseye" accuracy in an IDPA match. But I think for many people, particularly under time pressure, the tendency at distances of 20 or more yards is to aim at the center of the target. And the zero ring sits higher - the center of an IDPA target "body" will put you down 1 if you hit it accurately. YMMV

We occasionally have a few guys who want trigger time with their open guns. Sometimes we just don't do their scores. Other times they get put in a separate "division" like "Tom's Cheatin' Open Scoped Gun" at the bottom of this match.

Check out this section of idpaforum.com: http://idpaforum.yuku.com/forums/11

The match runs through the end of October. The rules say that results must be received by November 8 and will be posted on the IDPA website shortly thereafter (item # 16 on that page).

It's a lot harder to write a bullet-proof course description when you don't have the benefit of a shooter's meeting or walk-through to deal with questions that you haven't thought of. I know that several people (including me) proof-read the descriptions before they were posted, but all of us missed some things. Which is why the FAQ was put online by the organizer to address questions that arise.

From the postal match FAQ page: http://www.idpapostalmatch.com/FAQ.html

There's a (primarily cosmetic) bug in the Postal Match software. The scores are submitted correctly. However, if you use the software to print out the match scores or to create a PDF of the scores, the total time for stage 1 is wrong. It only shows string 1 plus the penalties. The total match time/score and rankings shown in the PDF and printouts are correct. It's just that the stage 1 number is wrong, so things don't appear to add up correctly. If you've already installed the software, you can download a patch from the postal match webpage. That page also has an updated installer for the full package. Again, if your club has already submitted scores, you don't need to do anything. This only affects the display of the stage 1 score on your own printouts. My apologies. Jane

Where are you getting that from, Steve? The only thing I see in the rule book is a limitation of 18 required hits PER STRING. There's no explicit limitation of the number of rounds for an entire stage, other than the somewhat vague wording on page 50: Also stated as per-string on page 18: This limitation makes sense given the maximum of 31 shots carried by an autoloader shooter or 24 for revolvers.

I've had missing bags with guns twice in two years - both times involved flights that had been delayed/rescheduled. Last year it was en route to IDPA nationals in PA. In 2006 it was flying out of Little Rock, described in gory detail here

Hard to second-guess, not having been there. That said, I would have tried "MUZZLE" first. From rule book, page 78: As a safety officer, safety is what you're responsible for regardless of where some cones may be. You obviously felt he was doing or about to do something unsafe. 180 is a club rule, if it exists. IDPA rule book (page 6) specifically says (emphasis in the original) : He may have been within the limits of item B, but apparently your gut told you he was close to violating item A.

[ThreadDrift] On the topic of taking peoples' money and letting them use non-IDPA-legal equipment... our club will do that. But it's either a group of IPSC guys who shoot the stages as a squad and don't turn in score sheets or a few people who get scored in a separate "division" such as the "Tom's Cheatin Open Scoped Gun" division in this match. [/ThreadDrift] Not to push the IPSC/IDPA line here, Flex.... Most of the IDPA rulebook language about "competitive advantage" applies to equipment, such as "add-on weights for a competitive advantage" (page 18) or slide lightening (page 81). The two particular penalizable actions listed in that context are not reloading to fire a final required shot (page 13) and everybody's favorite - "round dumping" (page 42) - each of which incurs a failure to do right penalty. IPSC has penalties tied specifically to "significant advantage" such as 10.2.1 giving one procedural for each shot fired while any part of the body is touching outside of a fault line. My "not having been there hindsight armchair quarterbacking" would agree with those who feel is was an honest mistake and should get one procedural penalty. But even that provokes a bit of a quandary. The IDPA rule book doesn't specifically mention lasers. It does explicitly forbid "lights mounted on guns", saying The Crimson Trace are obviously not a light mounted on the gun. Nor are they a guide-rod change like the Lasermax (which would also not be allowed). The rule book allows grip modifications that fit this criterion for SSP: ESP and CDP are similar, minus the "similar to factory configuration" language. As the appendix defines "weighted grips" as being more than "2 ounces over standard factory weight for the model", I think the only place you could argue against having Crimson Trace grips on the gun might possibly be in SSP. So I don't think having CT grips on the gun is illegal... unless you consider them "sights"... The rule book says that sights can be "changed" to "conventional notch and post type", but the CT doesn't involve "changing" the gun's sights. Specific forbidden examples the rule book gives are ghost rings and bomar. And the rule book doesn't say you can't use a laser. So although my gut says one procedural, I think that logic agrees with Capel. (Dang... HATE it when that happens!!! )

IDPA doesn't do "per-shot" procedurals.

If you have an "iffy" gun, it might be worth buying your own IDPA box so you can do your own "does it fit". You have to phone IDPA to order one. IIRC, it costs something like $15 or $20 plus $5 shipping. Or you can make your own based on the dimensions in the rule book.

Yes, IMNSHO... As with many shooting sports, I think there's more concern about sandbaggers than the other way around. The Classifier is intended to reflect somebody's shooting ability with reasonable accuracy. You can shoot the Classifier as many times as you want... but can only reshoot a particular stage once without reshooting the whole Classifier

I have. I hear it all the time. Craig I'm printing this for Kim

Ken, I'm criticizing a formula that seems illogical to me. I'm proposing a solution - that the multiplier not be such that it requires you to beat a higher number of shooters if they're classified above you. For that matter, I've set up a separate forum where people can propose rule changes. My intention is to be constructive... not to trash IDPA.

Some of my favorite skirts have ruffles The top two MM are obvious in that there were 21 in MM. Third place MM beat 18 MM and 7 SS (not counting the DQ, whom she didn't "beat") - no bump Top two SS are obvious. Third place SS (labeled "4") beat 22 SS (not including DQ) and 7 EX, so I say no bump. I've had the way my software calculates bumps debated. An email I got from Robert Ray last year read in part, "I do feel that it is the right call to count DNF's & DQ for trophies but not bumps. "