With either sport, perhaps with every sport, some people get really twisted up about calls or rules that they don't agree with and others shrug and move on.
I think that anyone starting out who gets their safety habits down right and then comes to matches determined not to sweat the petty...
Some have played with glasses that occlude vision in the dominant eye. Based on getting my arse handed to me a thousand times by a shooter who is only able to see with one eye, you don't have to have two eyes to shoot well.
Not that far from E'ville & you don't have to join to attend any events. http://www.orpci.org/ContentFiles/matchschedules/ORPCI_2024_Match_Schedule-Final.pdf
Odds are in your favor, but I have lost friends to cancer and car wrecks and etc well before their time, you never know. Regardless I think we will both be better off if I try out the ignore user function, have a good life.
My first thought when seeing this most recent squabbling was that somebody didn't bother to carefully read and attempt to understand what Bosshoss wrote or else they would not have found reason to take umbrage. I think you nailed it.
With production becoming just one more special needs division it really doesn't matter, just spray bullets all around and you are bound to hit something.
Not so much. Smith and Wesson 929 , 6.5" barrel. IDPA rule A.5.5.6 "Barrel length must be 4 1/4 or less" , it would also be tough to meet the cover garment rules, and my holster is illegal and so is my belt.
Interestingly the IDPA rules folks were able to scientifically determine that a longer...
I shoot whatever I want to shoot at my local IDPA matches and have never seen any instance of a new shooter not being welcomed with open arms even though their equipment doesn't fit the rule book, they may ask you to shoot for zero score. The same holds for the local USPSA matches I am familiar...
Most local IDPA matches will allow you to register as "not for competition" and shoot something that doesn't cross all of the tees. I do it with an 8 shot revolver & USPSA belt rig when the mood strikes.
I enjoy both sports but in order to make IDPA rules more strange I think you'd have to put a lot of work into it.
You can't use the expensive and fun Texas stars your club already bought because they are not real world self defensie, but you can have stages where you shoot zombies and aliens...