I had a PCSL match today that almost made me cry.

The worst performance I’ve had in a long time. The results popped up on PractiScore………10/28. Considering I started looking at the bottom for my name I guess it goes to show that things aren’t as bad as they seem mid match.

Signed up for the Missouri Fall Classic.

Fall Classic is supposed to be a good match. I talked to a guy at Inidana Sectional that shot it last year (the day before Indiana) and he dug it.

Signed up for an IDPA match on the 19th. Last time I wound up having to work. I’ve been promised that day off. Prolly gonna shoot the DWX or 2k11.

Looking forward to it, again!

Hello

There has been talk at our club of a new shooting game GPA (Galactic Pistol Alliance)
And possible trying to bring it to our club

Any one familiar with this game, any thoughts?

We have a lot of Shooting opportunities in my area

I shoot a bunch of IDPA, occasionally an Outlaw Defensive Pistol match, and just shot a USPSA match last month,

What do you guys think of this game?

Everything I’ve heard about GPA has been overwhelmingly positive. Basically it’s what IDPA should be.

I am probably going to step on some toes, but IDPA has really failed to evolve. And they are hemorrhaging members. Yes, they have evolved some and allowed PCC, appendix carry, and optics. But, it’s still based upon 1980s and 1990s tech. As an example, the ideal BUG gun is still a Glock 26 without an optic. If you chose to shoot a common bug gun like a 43x and optic, it puts you in a higher time penalty. Matter of fact, the exact same time penalty as shooting a Glock 19.

IDPA claims that it’s competing with your real world carry gear. But, they have restrictions that don’t match today’s concealed carry.

GPA corrects virtually all the problems one might have with IDPA.

I’m actually in hopes that GPA siphons off more of IDPAs population, it will force positive evolution for IDPA.

Yep

I agree, that’s why GPA sounded interesting

We have a IDPA match coming up beginning of October where we are encouraging the shooters to bring their small guns,

I have already asked our IT guy to add Bug optic and CCP optic to the divisions, I believe those will be popular divisions.

There’s a 5th Saturday GPA match in October at BGSL. Probably going to drive up and check it out.

Send an update
If you shoot it

I think they are asking our club if November 29th is available that weekend for a GPA match as Oct 31 is our IDPA set up day,

Match tomorrow cancelled due to weather.

Yep weather shut down a bunch of matches
We had a choice of a USPSA and a IDPA match Saturday

USPSA cancelled, the IDPA group likes to shoot and has good stages so we shot the IDPA match

And the rain came hard and was not going to let up

So we got wet, and had fun

Because I shoot Revolver, rain, mud and sand can be a challenge.

I was able to confirm my new gear setup worked for the conditions and I didn’t have any problems with the rain and mud this match.

What revolver, what division?

I shoot a Smith and Wesson 686- 6 shot 38/357

I shoot a lot of IDPA in the Stock Revolver Division, occasionally I’ll shoot some other games

Such as Defensive Pistol Matches where the rules follow some of the IDPA book but different

Or I am starting to shoot some USPSA, just for the variation and to pick up some of the speed I’ve lost over the past few years

For any of the games I use the 38 loaded to about the same power factor as a 9mm

Reloading is with speed loaders

My goal for the MO Fall Classic was to be cool and not get DQ’d. I finished the match around 132/190 combined. If you want a metric of being cool, I finished with almost 95% alphas for the entire match. I went slow and was almost paranoid about breaking the 180. I did not, however one of my squad mates did on the 10th stage.

It was a good learning experience. Shot a local match yesterday. It was a new club and they held their first match. It was a fun Ricky Bobby hoser match. Three more matches before Area 2 and the end of the season.

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Originally posted by jljones:
My goal for the MO Fall Classic was to be cool and not get DQ’d. I finished the match around 132/190 combined. If you want a metric of being cool, I finished with almost 95% alphas for the entire match. I went slow and was almost paranoid about breaking the 180. I did not, however one of my squad mates did on the 10th stage.

It was a good learning experience. Shot a local match yesterday. It was a new club and they held their first match. It was a fun Ricky Bobby hoser match. Three more matches before Area 2 and the end of the season.

I'd like to try to get down to the Fall Classic next year. It just didn't work out this year.

I guess I haven't thrown an update in here in a bit:

Iowa Sectional Match:
Shot staff day because I had to work that night and the two nights of the main match. Ended up at 15/72 in CO at 77.64%. Finished the mass with no misses but kind of sloppy at only 82% of the points. The finish is in line with my CO classification but I *KNOW* that I can do better. I would really like to be top 10 in CO or LO next year.

Crossroads Classic:
First year for this indoor level 2 at a cool club/range a couple hours away. Only 58 shooters and I think that is a function of it still being outdoor shooting season. They are talking about doing it in the winter next time. This was a great match and the staff really worked their asses off to give us 9 unique stages (and in only about 6 hours). Highlight: pretty big CO win. Low light: one of the other shooters on the squad, who is competent and I respect ND'ed a around into their leg. Handled very well by all involved but still sucks.

LE Matches:
Ended up having to cancel one due to flooding on the range and just ran the last one for the year this week. Attendance was pretty lame at only 11 shooters. I had a goal to increase these matches to 6 (from 5) this year and we ended up only shooting 4. Also had a goal of increasing attendance and my guess is that we failed to do that as well. I'm working on a couple ideas to increase participation next year.

Classification:

Sitting at 83.4% in LO and 79.8% in CO. Classifiers have not been a huge priority as some of the majors (nationals in particular) have caused me to miss locals. I have one more outdoor local this season and it has two classifiers so I suppose anything could happen but I'm content rolling into next year still solidly in A.