Zincwarrior

That seems kind of thankless...

Yes, Beta testing as it were. Then get feedback and implement. Wasn't that the Tiger Team concept though, which rumor had, inputs had been heavily ignored.

As an SO I agree. A simple rule is called for and easily done. "No feet may be touching across the fault line when shooting. In addition, at least one foot must be within the length of the fault line when shooting."

Yes, I don't see how the inside foot is involved at all. As an example, if its a wall with a right side foot fault. If we had a shooter with their right foot only on the ground (or even just go with they only have one foot), that would be the only thing that matters.

Yes, sorry. I joke with the wife that USPSA is 'run and gun' and and IDPA is 'waddle and shoot.' Given my age and etc., I am definitely the waddle type now.

I checked and technically there are nine in Texas. I don't know how many are actually active. Additionally if there's no support for them, the full costs are on the club/potential SO's. How does Run and Gun do it?

Well thats not good. I thought the class was excellent. Without it it inhibits new SOs and the old SOs will burn out.

I remember the state trainers (thats how I did mine). I did not know that has changed. How does it work now?

You should do a youtube video or such about how to do it. It sounds like a good fix that would literally save viewers hundreds of dollars.

Thats IDPA. Much of the rest of it is club specific. I shoot at different clubs (poorly, not like you fine fellows). Some run stages very close to old line IDPA, some are really just 18 round USPSA stages, it just depends on the club. And all of them are fun to me.

Thats USPSA. Different sport. I like both but I like like the differences.

Yes not seeing the downside. My old fart butt is often twice as old as most competitors out there. Its awesome when one of the far out old dudes show up. I do falling steel matches and they kick butt.

Why would Texas cancel due to Nationals being relocated?

Good points.

They are better than prior to bankruptcy (new I don't know about reloads), but their accuracy is really really poor. The powder loads can be dramatically different between rounds, not dangerous different but plays poopoo with accuracy. Range ammo only.

Thats a lot of bays!

OK thank you. I did not know that.

Wait, did someone do something?

Thank you.

Were there many that pulled out of the matches?

Yes, involuntarily being a test case is less than ideal.

How do they handle it at your local match? Next "official" match you attend I would suggest going to the new shooter briefing. Before that check out intro video to shooting steel challenge, etc.

Fair points.

Lack of tools, lack of talent. Before this change I had no need to do it.

This is purely related to IDPA in Central Texas, so your mileage may vary. I have found the change to 15 rounds to be a non event. Stages still typically are large enough to require a reload. Its frankly a pain as my P320 mags only show 10 and 17 rounds, which means I effectively have to get down to 10 rounds to know how many are in a mag after each stage, and at 12 rounds really requires a mag loader.