IDPA explained
One of the reasons I’ve never tried IDPA is because my actual carry rig doesn’t fit the rules of their reindeer games. And I looked at the guy I was telling this and said I’m carrying it now. Shockingly, I wasn’t wearing a shoot-me first vest.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:16 am
You hush your sweet sassed mouth!
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:09 am
So it never crossed your mind that IDPA just might be fun to try? Even if you don’t carry in the manner they prescribe, it is a lot of fun. BTW, it is my understanding that the rules around carry are primarily for safety reason. Also, I don’t shoot IDPA with a “tactical” fishing vest. I shoot with my normal clothes, which probably explains my low scores.
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:27 am
IDPA is built on the notion that a $3,000 custom 1911 is a defensive weapon…but the factory-stock Taurus snubby with the factory ported barrel is not.
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:35 am
“BTW, it is my understanding that the rules around carry are primarily for safety reason”
I’m with Uncle on their holster rules being pretty stupid. I carry a Don Hume H726 for my Springfield 1911. The top of it is open too far down for their rules. I also had an RO at my first, and only, match question whether that slight amount of forward cant on that holster was really allowable because of the 180 degree rule.
December 22nd, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Weird, I never had those problems. I shot 1911 drawn from a Kramer. It was a great time and good leaning experience for what works and what doesn’t.
December 22nd, 2010 at 12:08 pm
IDPA can be fun or not fun depending on who’s running the match. The rules are the rules, and yes, some are silly but so is the designated hitter.
December 22nd, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Guess Cowboy action shooting is out
Guess the games with the metal fast holster is out
Guess Cowboy mounted shooting is out
IDPA is fun..I don’t use my carry gun for IDPA so what…I don’t carry my cowboy action rig either..but I enjoy playing the games.
December 22nd, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Though I agree about the IDPA silliness, I don’t buy this ‘shoot-me-first vest’ nonsense. At not least until I see the data.
Much like our insistence that the japetes of the world show us the data on how often a person’s gun gets taken away from him and he’s shot with it, I want to see the data on how often someone gets shot by a perp because he’s wearing his so-called shoot-me-first vest.
*We* recognize a concealment vest when we see it. Please site some stats that show that perps have figured that out and are acting on it. Even if they figure out we’re carrying, to say they’re going to shoot rather than quietly leave is admitting that open-carry isn’t a deterrent, either.
December 22nd, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Alan is right in that the level of fun at any given IDPA match is usually determined by the Safety Officers and Match Director. While IDPA has some truly silly-assed rules, the best matches are ones that stick to the rules and eliminate the bane of IDPA shooters: SO interpretation.
December 22nd, 2010 at 7:06 pm
I have a lot of fun at the local matches. Then again they do run things pretty loose with the intention of everyone having fun. I can see where a state match would be a PIA uptight affair but I’m not good enough to even consider such an endeavor.
Heh, shoot me first vest. My shoot me first vest is the brightest, loudest, god awful ugly Hawaiian print shirt I could find the night before my first match. What’s even more fun is scoring ahead of the guys in their shoot me first vests that have been at it a while wearing said ugly shirt. Maybe I’ll get a big straw hat for my next match. 🙂