Completed My 1st IDPA Match

[fourlives44more]

It went.....Terrible but had tons of fun. My shooting was pretty bad at the start but slowly got better. When I say terrible that only ment my scores. It was a great learning experience. Have a couple pictures heres one, and also a video.

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee57/zburd82/IDPA1.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V26FsFNCudY

[MSgt G]

Looks like you had a lot of fun! Probably learned a lot too. I observed my first IDPA match yesterday and wish I would have shot; I will next month. Such great folks! I can hardly wait.

[B Glover]

My first trip out showed me how bad I was with a gun I had been carrying for 3 years. I couldn't hit the mag well to save my life heck the holster even messed with me. Its intresting how a little pressure can mess with you. Now after a few matches I'm a 100 percent improved but have miles to go.

[Ping Ping]

Hey, the way I see it, if you had fun, you were doing it right! I really like the photo. It shows you being back on target and the brass still in the pic. Very good.

[Hersh]

Glad you enjoyed your match! A day spent shooting badly is still a good day! Remember to stick with the fundamentals, practice and the speed will eventually come.

[fourlives44more]

The shooting will come around when I'm not focusing on how to negotiate everything. The stage that really killed me was a classifier stage where You engage 3 targets at about 30 meters from behind a wall then engage the same three targets from behind a barrell at about half the distance, 18 rounds total. After all the plus 3's and 5's I had a basketball score on my hands.

[fourlives44more]

I just got my results emailed to me I came in 50th out of..........51. 51 did not finish. I not mad at least I let myself some room for improvement.

[sigfla]

Look forward to seeing you at a few matches. I missed Titusville that day b/c I shot another match on Saturday. Impressed with the quick scoring over there.

[Jim Watson]

The shooting will come around when I'm not focusing on how to negotiate everything.

I look at it the other way.
The shooting should be automatic, target, front sight, press, front sight, press. If you are confident of hitting the target, you can focus on negotiating the props.
Shoot the Classifier. It is standardized and covers a lot of what you need to know.

[Dutch1948]

The last time I shot at Titusville we only had 12 shooters course that was 03 so it seems like they are attracting more. My club was Port Malabar R & P club when I lived in Sebastian.

[redhart]

fourlives44more,I am going to shoot ipsc nxt month,for the first time,if i have fun it will be a success ,just as you had success

[davegran]

I've just started my second year of IDPA competition and for, the first year was learning the fundamentals (with an emphasis on safety), learning the rules (with an emphasis on safety), and learning my equipment (with an emphasis on safety). Do you see a pattern here....?

Anyway, I've heard it said that a person needs to do 300 - 500 presentations before muscle memory starts to take over and you begin to condition that particular set of muscles that comes into play when drawing and firing and reloading a pistol.

I got myself a set of snap caps and set up a classifier COF in my back yard. I worked on my grip, my presentation, squeezing off that first shot, and changing mags. Once you have the fundamentals (with an emphasis on safety), you can concentrate on the COF and really have some fun! Welcome to IDPA!

[Tom in Ohio]

I am absolutely a Kool-aid drinking believer in IDPA.

I've been shooting competitively since I was 14. I shot highpower rifle, service rifle, and international small-bore. I've hunted since I was 12. My father was a police firearms instructor.

I shot competitively in college. I shot expert in rifle and pistol in the Marines.

I was the "top gun" of my police academy class. I became a police firearms instructor myself and had come to the conclusion that I was a pretty good shot.

Then I found out about IDPA.

I went to my first match about three years ago and found that I was about average to a bunch of civilians and only about as good as some guys who had been shooting, period, for less than a year. It was one of the most humbling experiences of my life.

Many police officers and military people never go back to "practical" pistol competition after similar experiences and conclude that they are just games that have either nothing to do with real combat or will just teach you things that will get you killed in real combat. I think they do this to make themselves feel better.

I went back. I bought a shot timer and worked at being fast AND accurate. My shooting skills have surpased what I ever thought possible at one point.

There is no doubt in my mind that my chances of winning a gunfight have been improved through IDPA.

[B Glover]

Many police officers and military people never go back to "practical" pistol competition after similar experiences and conclude that they are just games that have either nothing to do with real combat or will just teach you things that will get you killed in real combat. I think they do this to make themselves feel better.


I agree Tom. I was fair with the gun before I started IPDA, not great not but bad. My first match showed me that square range training does not really help officer all that much. Sure you can practice sight alignment and sight picture, tigger press, and all that but moving and shooting, moving targets and reloading on the move make it a diffrent game. Making decisions about cover, ect. My marksmenship also improved. I am a firm believer in this type of shooting for training. The one thing I'm cheating myself on is I haven't been using my duty gear. Besides it fun and I get to shoot.

I've seen the elephant and you have to be able to move and shoot.

Brett
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