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I really enjoy shooting IDPA. No, its not training. Anyone who goes into it thinking it is training has the wrong mindset. It is supposed to be fun. Real training shouldn't be fun most of the time. If it is, its not intense enough.
That said, it does provide excellent experience with gun handling under stress, fast and accurate shooting, at least considering cover and concealment, etc.
My only real gripes with IDPA are the somewhat silly reload rules when a gun is empty (if its empty its time to start reloading, IDPA requires the reload to wait until one is behind cover, it makes a lot more sense to start the reload while moving to cover rather than to wait until one gets there to start) and the points down system. I think we could do away with a lot of the gaming if we assigned a more significant penalty for -1 and -3 hits. I think each scored hit in -1 should be a full second penalty (not a 1/2) and a scored hit in -3 should be a 3 second penalty.
Other than that, I have no real complaints about the sport and I find it to be a tremendous amount of fun.
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-Landric
"The Engine could still smile...it seemed to scare them" -Felix
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