I'm planning to get into IDPA soon, but I fully understand that, when you introduce rules, you are no longer dealing realistically with street fight reality. I do, however, hope to govern my own IDPA approach, by using a true carry gun, rig, and ammunition, so that my experience will at least have some relevance to my real world carry/self-defense plan. Though this game is not really to be construed as training, I don't see any virtue in carefully skating the edge of the game's legality to cook up some unlikely pistol/rig/cartridge platform that you would never really carry, for the mere sake of winning a game. At the same time, the rules are ridiculouly prohibitive of legitimate carry gear, in some areas - It's retarded that a single action pistol can't be used in SSP. It's downright suspicious that "ghost ring" type sights are not allowed. No bull barrels, but Accu-Rails are just fine? And what's this about angled mag pouches more than 10 degrees from vertical not being allowed? Oh well, I guess I'll have to play as much of my game as their rules allow. I was looking at the IDPA schedule on a local club's site, and found the nearest upcoming event is a Glock shoot, that welcomes other pistols as well.