Can anyone give me No BS discrpition for different competitions?

[Pocket Ninja]

So, I know how IDPA/IPSC is like... IDPA - stricter rules on equicpment in SSP, no as big asIPSC, have to be draw from concealed....

Then there's PPC. My friend's friend do Bianchi Cup or something. I am going to Steel Challenge first time today. Is there thing called Ladysmith too???

Can anyone tell me how those are like and what else out there? Is there one to win cash award??

 

[Jim Watson]

My, you ARE thinking big, aren't you?

IPSC has the most prizes, cash and merchandise, at the most shoots I know of.
I think Bianchi Cup and Steel Challenge pay well, but they don't have nearly as many matches.

All you have to do is win.

PPC is police only, it is mostly run by NRA and they don't like Americans shooting at humanoid targets. IDPA does not give prizes for score, only a few by drawings.

Never heard of a Ladysmith competition, that is a Smith & Wesson trademark for guns marketed toward women.

www.uspsa.org (Don't look up IPSC that is for foreigners, Americans have their own rules, even though they call it IPSC.)

www.idpa.com

www.nra.org (Bianchi Cup is run by NRA as Action Pistol)

http://www.isishootists.com/ (Steel Challenge and related events.)

 

[pistolero]

Don't forget ICORE (International Confederation Of Revolver Enthusiasts).

 

[Jim Watson]

Or IHMSA, or NRA Conventional, or ISU, or SASS, or NCOWS.
But I don't think those give big prizes.

 

[Grump]

So we're limited in the question to handgun competitions?

Anyone hear of "Paladin" matches? Someone local told me about them in the late 1980s, supposedly some "stages" could be "won" ONLY by not engaging at all. Supposed to encourage you to think. Sounded like "Paladin" started the Vickers/Points down scoring.

 

[Jim Watson]

There is a writer for Combat Handguns who still pushes the Paladin System. It requires a set number of points to neutralize a threat target. I never heard of anybody running consequential matches on it, though.
The IDSA startup organization uses something similar.
Neither is a way to win big prizes, which was PN's final question and one I take to be important to him.

I have stuck to handgun competition because the original post did.

If you wan to make money shooting, the best paying thing I know of is trap. Of course you still have to win, but it can't be hard to hit that clay pigeon with a few of the 400 bbs in a shotgun shell. Can it?

 

[ClarkEMyers]

also Single Stack Classic and Polite Society

Then expanding the definition, or perhaps veering off subject just a tad, there's the NTI -

Notice there are matches with brand associations SSC and lately Springfield; Glock has done well by its customers.

I think the answer to the original question is no.

 

[Pocket Ninja]

Hehehe... I was caliculating cost of ammo, range fee etc and like "I have to win something!"

I only can shoot handguns, so question was limitted to the handgun. Didn't know Trap '"pays well" I will check out all those acronymous (sp?)

Oh, I won $50 in GSSF by chance.

 

[Sunray]

"...PPC is police only..." Not up here it isn't. There are lots of non-cops shooting PPC. Mind you, they get kidded a lot about their heavy revolvers and target loads.

 

[Ktulu]

PPC is police only

Not here in MI.



The difference between IDPA and USPSA is in the rules of engagement.

IDPA pretends to be more of a "realistic" shooting sport. So it's rules of engagement are based on the assumption that the targets are shooting back at you. So you must use cover and you must shoot the targets in a specific order.

USPSA's rules of engagement are based on puzzle solving. Here is the basic outline of the stage, shoot it as fast as you can. Solve the puzzle, so to speak. If you think you can shoot it faster standing directly in front of the closest target while you engage all the other targets first, go ahead. Tactics mean nothing.