Perry,
I've started this reply several times, lets see if I like this one.

Maybe it is a big club, small club thing. Maybe by the time a club gets pretty big, there are too many that are intolerant of something perfectly logical and innocent if they do poorly.

Maybe it is an old club vs a new club thing. Ours was shooting defensive pistol, rifle and shotgun way before IDPA. Our way was to indicate threats, not non-threats... you know like real life. But we have adopted to IDPA, and for the most part are better off for it.

Maybe it is a "I just wanna shoot" vs MD, SO, COF design thing. I dunno. I suspect that after dozens of matches, hundreds of COFs, it is hard to keep coming up with interesting things to do. It is the shooter that loses when things are boring and predictable.

I thought it was a clever idea, in keeping with the spirit of IDPA. It isn't USPSA gear for IDPA after all, but you are right, it is not within the rules, since around May of 2001.

Ken Reed

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