Please refrain from inciting inter-forum warfare.
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Please refrain from inciting inter-forum warfare.
http://pistol-forum.com/misc.php?do=showrules
Sorry for the late response. I'm always behind on the internet goings-on over the weekend.
I do not at all disbelieve that it's been said or that you've heard it. If you don't know names or don't want to name them, I understand that too, as well as not carrying around a voice recorder to document it.
I personally have not heard it said that competition is 'just like the real thing.' That is over the course of a pretty modest number of USPSA matches (only around fourteen or so now :( ), mostly local, but a couple regional/state level matches too.
I haven't shot any IDPA, since AIWB need not apply, so I have fortunately been spared the tactical wisdom that I understand emanates from that organization so prevalently. Did you guys consult them to help form/guide your unit's TTPs? ;) Sorry, couldn't resist a sarcastic joke at IDPA's expense...And some of the statements you cite sound very much related to IDPA's prescribed tactics enforced through their various rules.
On the other hand, I have personally heard competition shooting denigrated during certain tactical training, with phrases approximate to 'there is no timer in a gunfight' and 'competition will get you killed' used.
What you'll find is that there is no single opinion as to what constitutes a "background check". Some simply want the current jacked-up system fixed, for instance. That's hardly an "anti-gun" position.
It's also the case that the poll in question is self-selected. It's not a poll of "CalGuns" or even a poll of all the members of the forum. It's a poll of those who saw, read and chose to respond ... basically meaningless.
This thread is done.