Good News! The NRA Range has confirmed that we have the 4th Tuesdays evening time slot for the foreseeable future. We have also added the NRA IDPA Club to the IDPA Website as an affiliated club. I have also created a dedicated email address: NRAIDPA@verizon.net. Please use this email for all correspondence. For now I will use the pistol-forum website for announcements, but I want to build a google groups list for notifications as well. Registrations will be done using clubs.practiscore.com and scoring will be done on practiscore as well.
I am seeking assistance for setup. Please let me know if you can help. I am also seeking a backup Match Director for those times when I may be out of town.
The April match will be a classifier.
Debbie Crews has arranged to get new target stands build but they won't be ready until April sometime.
Debbie Crews deserves a ton of thanks for making this arrangement. Please personally thank her when you see her at the range.
Hope to see you at Peacemaker IDPA this saturday AND at the NRA Match March 24.
We will have 5 stages and about 75 rounds.
In the meantime make sure you have these critical skills through dry fire practice:
1) You must be able to do a reload without your finger going into the trigger area. It must be indexed on the frame. (I have seen many expert shooters who think they never violate this rule, but as a Safety Officer running a timer I observe it happening all the time. It is a good idea to videotape yourself and watch what happens or have someone else observe. It amazes me how many people violate this safety rule.)
2) You must be able to move from one point of cover to another point of cover with the gun in your hand and your finger indexed on the frame. The only time your finger should ever be in the trigger area is when you are actually engaging a target. Practice this in dry-fire by moving at least three steps between standing positions, pull the trigger at targets, then move to the other point, pull the trigger at targets, then back and forth, focusing on moving your finger to index as soon as you finish pulling the trigger on targets.
3) You must be able to do a reload with the muzzle pointed at the berm downrange. Skyward reloads are prohibited at our range (except for revolver shooters).
4) You must be able to draw and holster one-handed. If you use a regular shirt as concealment, you may use your weak hand to pull the shirt up, BUT your weak hand may not go anywhere near the gun until the gun is out of the holster and the muzzle pointed downrange. Same thing for re-holstering. It is important to have a good holster so your weak hand is never needed. Practice holstering slowly...you are not on the clock.
DRY FIRE PRACTICE: Please clear your gun, check it twice, and put all ammo away, empty two mags. You can use snapcaps if you like. Then dry-fire practice these skills at least 20 times until you can do them proficiently and without reverting to old habits.
There is a new rulebook. Please make sure you know the rules: http://members.idpa.com/Content/Rules/x2gukat1.wyt.pdf
Some new rules:
- Each hit on a non-threat is worth 5 seconds;
- Dropping a magazine with bullets when not doing a reload is a penalty;
- You may do a reload while moving behind cover, but you may never do a reload or cross an opening with an empty gun;
- In some cases you may do a reload while moving with a visible target that has been engaged. In other cases you may not. Read the rulebook.
- More non-threats may be used;
- A standards stage may use foot fault lines or boards;
- There is only one revolver division, a new Compact Concealed Pistol division, and BUG division in addition to SSP, ESP and CDP;
- Intentionally failing to take a final shot on a final target to avoid the reload time is an automatic FTDR;
- I am sorry, but no AIWB holsters are allowed for IDPA, even NFS.
NOTE: This is not the forum to debate these rules. Rules debates belong in the IDPA subforum.
Thanks,
Cody Claxton
NRA IDPA Match Director
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