12/11/11 IDPA shoot at Tin Star Shooting Range in Weatherford

[TinStarShootingRange]

Here we go again!! Rain, Snow, or shine we will shoot!!

http://tinstarshooti...ge.com/idpa.htm

Thanks,
Matt

 

[Burk Cornelius]

Thanks Matt, if I can reschedule the stupid satellite repairman, I am going to come down, meet you guys and shoot with you.

 

[Prdator]

I might try and make this one myself!!

 

[David E]

Very hard to read the announcement due to the font color and background, but looks like it starts at 2 pm. Didn't see how many stages or if it was the Classifier.

 

[TinStarShootingRange]

Four stages and we start at 2PM. This will be a good one.

Matt

 

[Burk Cornelius]

Matt, How does IDPA score 5-shot snubby shooters? Is the COF different for them or the same?

 

[Pstmstr]

I'm not Matt but it scores the same. We shot a BUG gun match once at Hinton that was fun. It would be in Stock Service Revolver at a regular IDPA match.

 

[TinStarShootingRange]

Correct, the course of fire would be the same.

 

[Burk Cornelius]

So a snubby will likely have three reloads in a standards COF?

 

[Rickc1st]

What time does this match usually end.

 

[David E]

Burk, IDPA does not recognize a 5-shot revolver any differently than a 6-shot revolver during a regular match. This means you'll be doing standing reloads to get thru the typical stage. If it's 18 rds you're looking at 4-5 reloads, depending how often you miss.

All the BUG stages I've shot at the nationals were five shots long.

 

[mike cyrwus]

-even the ones that were 4 rounds minimum.
:85:

 

[Jefpainthorse]

I made it... good time. Burk, you missed your chance for some "cold weather shooting". Tin Star is climate controlled by Mother Nature and Sunday Texas blew and Kansas was sucking. Barbed wire doesnt slow the wind down much.

It's no skin off my nose.... but the safety demo was done with a "real" gun . That gun was was checked and proven void of ammunition and only pointed in a safe direction... but a few folks got uptight about it. One party left because of that.

Blue guns are cheap. Finger pointing as a pretend gun works too.

Just a suggestion... use that back class room for a designated safe room. Gunning up should happen in a designated area... where no ammo is handled.

As your groups get bigger, things that seem petty in the safety process become more critical.

I will be back...good group, fun stages.... and some good shooters out that way.

 

[TinStarShootingRange]

Thanks for the tips. We are always looking for ways to improve what we do.

Matt

 

[David E]

Unfortunately, a previous IDPA club in OKC set the standard for dangerous gunhandling.

There were cases of folks pointing their gun at the targets while people were still taping them, unsafe angles of fire where the bullets cleared the indoor backstop (and ignored those pointing it out)

But the capper was when someone shot a stage, supposedly unloaded and showed clear before he went to the "safe" room and fired a round thru the wall. If the owner had been at his copy machine, he'd have been hit, possibly killed.

Wait, that wasn't the capper.....the WTF moment was when they didn't send that person home! In fact, he was allowed to finish the match.

I stopped attending that match before that incident, so it's second hand. But I did see the bullet hole in the wall.

Happily, that club is defunct and the guy running it hasn't been heard from in awhile. But it could be that folks remember crap like that and are holding you to an even higher safety standard.