HSMITH
I am sorry the local guys do it like that...only 700 miles....I would crawl across 700 miles of broken kitkat bars to , oh wait, never mind...
Seriuosly, I agree that IDPA has a lot of problems, the biggest being the guy in Arkansas who holds the reigns. (SIDEBAR: it amazes me that this man claims to have >15,000 members who pay $35.00/year to be members, yet also claims to make ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for his efforts
Sounds like new math to me!!! Don't get me wrong the guy deserves to make ALL HE CAN, just don't petend you aren't making anything.
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Anyway, some of the rules really SUCK and are stupid and will probably get you killed in the "real world", but since it is a game, I just play i by King Bill's rules. We have the same problem in Alabama that you have were you shoot...people want to control "gaming" so they superscript everything to avoid the gamers. What this does is actually punish shooters.
Some of us try
really hard to overcome this urge and instead try to provide a good course of fire for everyone from Novice to Master to Celebrity Shooters allowing each to shoot the course as they see fit. If you can do it within the rules, go for it! The novice can follow the script, the Celebrity can game all he wants...I am very guilty of gaming to win,
which of course is the goal of an IDPA match.
I have been shooting IDPA for 4 years now and have still never seen a dreaded FTDR, which is in and of itself aone of those stupid "get you killed" rules if you ask me.
The way I see it, in a "real"gunfigt, the ONLY rule is to win.
Maybe one day, enough of us will get fed up with King Bill and his cronies
and start a sport that uses the best of IDPA, IPSC and Three-Gun to promote real world skills fora gunfight.
Now all we need is someone who's actually been throuh a gunfight to set all the rules....