We lost one of our squad mates on stage 10, the lying in a swing stage. The DQ was for a muzzle call. The problem I had with the DQ was that there was a muzzle safe point to the right but there was no muzzle safe point marked to the left. He was called for going too far to the left. I encouraged the shooter to fight the DQ since there was no mark to the left to violate. After I pointed out that there was to muzzle safe point to the left they put one up but that didn't do anything for our squad mate. He was too depressed to argue it after getting DQ'ed on his second stage of the match.

Most people assume that muzzle safe points give you more room than the 180 rule but at "The Range" it usually means a more narrow field than the 180. I would like to see IDPA adopt a 180 rule on all stages unless muzzle safe points have been established and marked. This way we can be safe and still have the fredom for exceptions when a stage design needs a wider or more narrow field of fire.