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Long weekend, lots of shooting.

May 28th, 2010 No Comments

Unless something mildly interesting pops in my feeble mind, I’ll probably won’t be blogging. IDPA Classifier tomorrow (No shooting, just doing scores) and getting the cobwebs out of the long guns on Sunday in some sort of weird three gun match that is not 3Gun. Don’t ask me what that means, that is what I [...]

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Reloading on the Ground.

May 14th, 2010 1 Comment

Your hard cover is way low so you must do some dirt hugging in order to avoid catching some rounds from the bad guys and return some of your own. But, curses! You are out of ammo and must reload!
My dear buddy Dale does a great job even though he is missing half his left [...]

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Shooting on the move when you ain’t moving but you are.

March 22nd, 2010 3 Comments

IDPA is fun if you have a twisted & deranged person designing Courses of Fire. Yesterday we had a match for Safety Officers Only to say thanks for all the hard labor they put in herding our club members safely all year long.
The last stage was interesting to say the least.

Yes that is a shooter [...]

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Other advantages of Action Shooting Sports.

February 13th, 2010 No Comments

I am an advocate of Action Shooting Sports for the enormous benefits a shooter can derive. Static Range will only give you a measurement of Marksmanship & Gun Handling in a quiet, pressure-less environment but it is a myth that goes down the drain the second you are under the slightest influence of adrenalin.  I [...]

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The dumbing down of IDPA.

September 9th, 2009 No Comments

I am a 100%, dyed-in-the-wool, no-holds-barred IDPA shooter. I have to check with HQ but I think I almost have a decade participating in the sport and I am know in a couple of forums of coming down hard on anybody who dismisses IDPA with the old “IDPA will get you killed” crap. I believe [...]

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