Today we’re continuing our look at the new IDPA rules revisions; and I want to go over a section in the “safety” portion of the rules that doesn’t actually make anyone safer, but in fact is quite dangerous. Turn your…
Yesterday in our first look at the IDPA rules revision, I mostly glossed over section R9, which deals with reloads behind cover. In my first pass at the rulebook, it seemed fairly benign, however that section has been interpreted to…
Through the week I’m going to be taking an exhaustive look at the new IDPA rulebook. I did a front to back read-through of the entire rulebook this morning, and I wanted to share the quick thoughts I had on…
From an email from HQ: The proposed rulebook, vetted by the IDPA Board of Directors and Legal, will be posted on IDPA.com for member review and input May 7th thru May 28th. This rulebook represents a significant change for IDPA…
This is the POV view from the run I talked about in my “run it until the wheels come off” post. One of the advantages of POV video is that if you’re like me, you can remember what was going through your head (or not) when you pulled a shot. For example, from the video I can remember some of the low points, like throwing a miss on the strong hand only string on Stage 1 because I got on the trigger too soon. But it was a lot of fun to just blaze the IDPA classifier and not worry about points down.
When I took the Automatic Accuracy USPSA class, one of the instructor’s suggestions to me was that I needed to “run it until the wheels come off” in practice so I can find out how fast I’m capable of running…
By now in our discussion of IDPA rules, we’ve look at the overarching issues, round dumping, and of course cover. Today we’ll look at the last major issue and how it ties into all three – reloads. The IDPA rulebook…
Yesterday’s discussion of round dumping generated some healthy discussion in the comments, which is good because it’s an issue that needs to be discussed. Today, we move on to the issue that is in many ways at the heart of…
Yesterday we took a look at some of the issues facing IDPA as they prepare to launch a new rulebook, today we’re going to take a look at one of the specific rules and how it represents more than just…
When Caleb hired me to write for the Gun Nuts team, his instructions were simply to write about anything I wanted, as long as it related to guns. I considered his knowledge of me and my gun background and decided…
