IDPA thoughts

By Caleb

IDPA had a pretty eventual summer from what I understand. In addition to combining the revolver divisions and adding BUG and Compact as divisions of their own; apparently at Nationals it was announced that the point down penalty would be changed from 0.5 seconds to an entire second. While that last bit hasn’t been finalized yet, it’s an interesting change for IDPA at this moment in time.

Right now, there is more unrest in the pistol shooting sports community than I can recall seeing in a long time. USPSA added a new division (and kept a stupid one) with weird rules that don’t quite make sense, at a time where their most popular division (Production) is being dominated by purpose designed race guns. IDPA adds two new divisions, completely ignores the trend in optic guns, and now might change their scoring system in a fairly dramatic fashion. Steel Challenge still exists (thankfully), and NRA recently parted ways with the man who saved Bianchi Cup. So things are pretty tumultuous right now in the pistol sports.

Which brings us back to IDPA. I want to talk about all of the stuff they’ve done, starting first with the combining of revolver into …Read the Rest

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