Mike Seeklander on 2018 IDPA National Champion

Mike Seeklander talks about what he did to prepare for IDPA National Championship.



From: Wilsom Combat

The Origins of IPSC, IDPA & 3 Gun

Ian interviewed Ken Hackathorn about the history of action shooting competitions.




From: InRange TV

New IDPA rule book is out

IDPA released a new rule book. There are some changes that alters the IDPA many are used to seeing.

Link: http://www.idpa.com/misc/Rulebook%202017%20Master.pdf

Some of the changes are

• Fault lines can be used instead of relying on RO to call cover
• Flagrant Penalty is 10 seconds.
• Reload while moving is ok, but speed reload(one in chamber, empty magazine) is still forbidden
• New classifier
• One second per point
• Smaller head -0 area(4 inches)
• No required tactical sequence
• Pistol Caliber Carbine division
• Weight for BUG division increased to include M&P Shield

Here's more on changed through the eyes of the Florida Area Coordinator

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showpost.php?p=19349493&postcount=39

2016 Washington State IDPA Championships Match review

Powerfactor Show goes over the game that had some interesting sponsorship from Walther. If you want to see the stage, start from 14:28


From: Powerfactor Show

2016 Carolina Cup result

2016 Carolina Cup was held on June 17/18. Unlike previous years, it was not an IDPA sanctioned match. Rumor is that there was some friction last year and the match organizer decided not to make this an IDPA sanctioned match

Results: http://the-carolinacup.com/results/2016/2016CarolinaCup.pdf


From: Carolina Cup

How to become an IDPA Safety Officer

Powerfactor Show talks about the process of becoming an IDPA safety officer from the admin's point of view.


From: Powerfactor Show

S&W IDPA BUG National result

S&W IDPA BUG Nationals was last weekend and here are the results

High BUG: Shane Coley
High Distinguished Senior: Paul Jones
High Industry: Shane Coley
High International: Federico Iannelli
High Junior: Padraic Sullivan
High Lady: Randi Rogers
High Law Enforcement: Eugene Jankowski
High Military: Mike Seeklander
High Senior: Eugene Jankowski
Most Accurate: Jim Meyers

Congratulations!

From: IDPA

Is it a Shooting Position or Not?

Powerfactor Show discusses some interesting stage problem that Rick went through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfwEloB1swI


From: Powerfactor Show

IDPA to change scoring

IDPA mentioned in their Tactical Brief on Sept. 29, 2015 that,

"Last week at the World Championship awards banquet, I announced that the IDPA Board of Directors has elected to increase the Point Down penalty from a half second to 1 second. The BoD is comprised of two MA shooters (both Founders of the sport) and one EX with a combined total of more than 57 years of IDPA experience. This decision was made to keep the sport aligned with the founder's intent of valuing accuracy over speed. As concealed carry holders, which many of our members are, we are responsible for every round that leaves our gun, and IDPA needs to reflect that in our practices. I met with some of the Area Coordinators recently to share this information and the feedback received from them was very positive. There is no hard timetable for this change. Classification scores and other areas will need to reflect the change, and we are already working with some of our scoring vendors on this change. More information will be available as the work progresses and we will make updates on this via the Tactical Journal and Tactical Brief."

So instead of multiplying points down with 0.5, now it will be recorded as just points down. If you have 4 points down, it would be 2 added to the time, but with this change it will be 4.

This is not exactly something new. During the creation of IDPA, there were discussions about whether penalty should be 0.x or 1. The compromise was 0.5 we have now.

There has been quite a few opinions about the proposed penalty change. Some saw this as attempt to close the gap between top shooters and bottom levels, others saw this as attempt to keep USPSA out, or trying to help old shooters. Or maybe just a focus on accuracy as the statement says.

Readers question episode

Powerfactorshow goes over some of the questions from readers. Most are IDPA related.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayDnDjQp7v4


From: Powerfactor show

2015 Washington State IDPA Championships Review

Powerfactor Show looks back at the WA state IDPA Championship. Rick also talks about a small but interesting failure he had.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf3HB_HaDuE


From: Powerfactor Show

Discussing appearing/surprised targets for IDPA

Powerfactorshow looks at the problem of shooting on the move and targets that appear as you move. It is a bit of confusing situation due to difference between cover and visual barrier, as well as range safety rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jmSS0kD5Ec


From: Powerfactorshow

2015 Carolina Cup

This year's Carolina Cup was held on last week(end) and here's a video from shootinglefty with all of 16 stages. (some sound delays are present)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0bd4JhijBs


Result can be found by clicking on this PDF fle
http://the-carolinacup.com/results/2015/Results.pdf

CDP: Scott Warren
ESP: Dillon Glenn
SSP: Shannon Smith
Revolver: Bill Thorpe
CCP: Joel Hodges

New 2015 IDPA Backup Gun BUG Division Rules

Powerfactor Show looks at the new BUG division rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4ikVj2ShJY


From: Powerfactor Show

New 2015 IDPA Cover & Reloading Rules

Powerfactor show looks at the effects of the new IDPA cover rule and compares it with the previous rules. This becomes a bit more technical and maybe boring for those not interested in IDPA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EMJfVC7bDk


From: Powerfactor show

2015 IDPA S&W Indoor Nationals result

Bob Vogel once again took the top spot at IDPA S&W Indoor Nationals

Other winners are,
ESP: Nils Jonasson
CDP: Glenn Shelby
Ladies: Randi Rogers
Senior: Mark Redl
ESR: Jerry Miculek
SSR: Joe Linskey
High Junior: Mason Lane

Stages

1: On The Fence, the Calm Before The Storm
2: Munchkin Land Gone a Little Wrong
3: Bad Dreams in the Poppy Field
4: The Enchanted Forest
5. Evil Enchanted forrest
6. Get out of my house
7: Get off my lawn
8: Home Invasion
9: Attacked by Bears
10: Save your Spouse!
11: A Good Day, Ice Fishing, Goes Bad
13: Cubical Craze
14: Carry the fallen

From: IDPA

IDPA Official Steel Practice Target

IDPA worked with Action Target to come up with the first ever steel practice target

It is named PT IDPA Practice Torso and features zones cut out for COM and CNS area. It can stand handgun rounds as well as rifle rounds at 100 yards.

Some specifications
- As Low As: $339
- Height: 5’ (with recommended 3’ stand)
- Weight: 59 lbs.
- Torso Dimensions: 12” x 25.75” (adjusted for target angle)
- Reactive -0 Square Dimensions: 3” x 3”
- Reactive -0 Circle Dimensions: 6”
- Steel Grade: 3/8” AR550
- Handgun Shooting Distance: 10 yards+
- Rifle Shooting Distance: 100 yards+ using ammunition below 3,000 fps

From: IDPA blog

New IDPA Divisions & Box Dimensions

Powerfactor show talks about the new IDPA divisions and box divisions. IDPA changed a few things for 2015. Even after change done by the Tiger team, there were some kinks to iron out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_oN_zY3USA



From: Powerfactor show

2014 IDPA BUG National

2014 BUG Nationals was held at S&W shooting range and the winners are,

Champion: Mike Seeklander(also High military)
Revolver Champion: Jerry Miculek(also High senior)
High Lady: Randi Rogers

Results are here: http://www.matchreg.com/bug/11-06-14.htm

You can see the stage here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7e6YJshE7E



and some more from,
William Daugherty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwLxVFz0Aow

IntenseImage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70DAOjHVlgQ


From: IDPA, ORTBACH, William Daugherty, IntenseImage

IDPA rule changes

IDPA sent out email with several imporatnat changes to the rule.

First is dropping 'Flat foot reload'. When the new rule came out in 2013, the only time competitor can reload was when both of his feet were flat on the ground. This created quite a bit of discontent since it is possible and tactically useful to reload while on the move. Starting with the next rule book, this will change.

Also, IDPA will introduce a new division that will allow optics/RDS(Red Dot Sights). There has been some interest in using RDS for the game and this seems to be a step towards it.

Third, 2015 World Championship is moving from Puerto Rico to Tulsa.

From: IDPA