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Options to Compete 1. Join 4-H Shooting Sports. I would do this even if you pursue other options. I've worked with the program in Texas for several years. I can tell you that you will know safety, you will be well-instructed, and you will have opportunities to practice productively. 4-H has...

I shoot a P14.45, customized by Mike Caylor of Caylor Custom Guns. Before Mike did his thing I had a lot of stoppages. He put on a Bomar rear sight and Dawson fiber on the front, refinished the whole gun in black Teflon; melted the rear sight into the slide; stippled the grips; did a reliability...

Two Options I have two good rigs. One is for USPSA, for my Para, and it includes a Safariland 012 Holster (about $175), a CR Speed two-piece belt (about $45), and two Universal Shooting Academy adjustable mag pouches ($25 ea). This rig is not legal for UPSSA Production or for IDPA. I got the...

Lawyers You're talking about $25/hr take home. That is not even close to the same thing as the gross amount charged to the client. My clients would not want to hire me if I didn't have access to the most current information. That means I have to pay for a computerized legal research service. I...

Pouches I use Universal Shooting Academy pouches for IPSC. They can be angled and adjusted, but they're probably not IDPA legal. I use Fobus and Blade Tech kydex holsters and double mag pouches for IDPA. The Fobus pouches have a piece of carpet inside, so they're a little adjustable for...

"I worry about his safety and the types of weapons he will confront on the street [talking about his brother, a Houston SWAT officer]. The president has made it clear that he stands ready to sign a reauthorization of the federal assault weapons ban if it is sent to him by Congress. I, of course...

Go for it! I HIGHLY recommend jumping right in. You can do it without spending a lot of bucks, and you'll likely find that you enjoy it. Get some good advice on equipment before spending lots of money. Anything other than the gun, ammo, holster, belt, and mag pouches is a luxury rather than...

I just got my P14.45 back from Mike Caylor, and I could not be happier with his work. After the rear sight came off and hit me in the face during a match last month, I took it straight to him and asked him to install a new one, along with a fiber front sight and some other stuff. He refinished...

Cheap lawyers? Jeff - I know this is straying a bit from the topic, but a $25/hr lawyer would not have a computer, office, legal assistant, or any law books. A friend of mine studied his costs a number of years ago and found that it took him $45.00 per hour just to keep his doors open...

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Does anyone know of an upcoming IDPA Classifier in East Texas? I am not happy with my performance earlier this month, and I'd like to reshoot it. I'd like it to be within a couple hundred miles of Tyler. Dallas, Houston, Austin, Paris, Shreveport are all okay.

I've shot my P14.45 in IPSC, IDPA, and steel matches since February. I never had problems before starting to compete. For the first two months I had very few failures. In April I started having problems with the slide failing to go into battery, stopping three quarters of an inch or so...

Dress appropriately . . . When I started shooting IPSC and IDPA a few months ago, I started shooting with my Para P-14. For the most part I carried a 9 mm. I'm still developing the basic skills for shooting in these matches, and it's vital for me to eliminate as many distractions as I can...

I've had a stainless P-11 for several years. It's light, flat, and smaller than my hand, which means it's concealable enough that I can carry it a lot of places. Eleven rounds of 9 mm is a lot in such a small package. And I've never had any problems whatsoever with corrosion. Two minor...

I'm not coming into these sports and trying to change things after a couple of months. Shooting in these matches for two or three months hasn't given me enough knowledge to make changes, even if I had the power to do so. But that will not stop me from questioning the existing rules and...

Look what I stirred up . . . This idea comes from an old board game called Car Wars. It was like Mad Max with dice. The game let you build cars with various weapons and other components, with set prices. You then compete in combat on maps with the other players. The arena matches included...

Response The cost factor is an interesting question. My first response would be, "So what?" If one guy gets a better deal, then let him enjoy the benefits. But then you'd have the guy who got one as a Christmas present coming to shoot. You might have to standardize things in the end, or assign...

Response I have only been shooting in IPSC and IDPA since February, and I haven't yet helped design or set up stages. I defer on the issue of how much of a hassle the rule would be. But I'd like to see matches run and scoring kept using PDA's, so we could score things instantly. Maybe computers...

One More Thing . . . If you use the rule I proposed in the last post, some guns will rise to the top. I would guess that the fairly economical, well designed guns like Glocks would provide the most "bang for the buck" under those rules. I don't think someone with a $3500.00 race gun would have...

Classifying Pistols - Suggestion I have an idea for classifying pistols that might move your rules closer to the real world. What if we eliminate all the classes, but adjust the final score for differences in guns and ammo? We could take a shooter's raw score like USPSA and IDPA do now...