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Your score in IPSC is, or at least starts out with, a Hit Factor. Divide your points for hits on the target by your time from GO til the last shot. There is a good deal more calculation to derive final results, but that is the starting point.
IDPA uses the same timer but with simplified scoring. Your score is your time plus half a second per point DOWN for shots not in the center zones of the targets.
Thanks, both for the education. I would like to get my life arranged so I could do some of this shooting some day.
Pax, the question actually originated from my daughter after watching a Julie Goloski video on you tube. I'd love to get her over to shoot in one of your classes at FAS. She's 22, lives in Pullman and has an XD 9mm. Cornered Cat has been a great source of info (for both of us!)
Probably the closest you can get to shooting an IPSC match without actually SHOOTING an IPSC match is to watch some of the video clips at http://hosercam.com (see "video clips" on left); this guy produces a little camera/transmitter unit that fits into your earmuffs and takes a "shooter's-eye view" of what you see while you're shooting a stage.
These activities really are fun as long as you are not a compulsive/obsessive gamer. Good activity and great excuse to spend quality time with quality people. And ultra safe compared to being on the public marksmanship line.
Niner4tango, I started shooting IPSC in April 1987. I gave up motocross,1/4 mile drag racing and golf. I still shoot IPSC. I told my girlfriend that I WILL shoot at least once a month, deal with it. IPSC is an adrenalin rush, try it
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4. It causes mechanical malfunctions.
How many times have any of us IPSC or IDPA shooters heard it said (or said) "I don't understand, it worked 100% for practice yesterday."
richardschennberg has it right. Remember the "flashy thing" from the Men In Black movie? It's actually one of those.
You walk through the course and rehearse your carefully designed plan a dozen times in your head--then the beeper goes off and all the plans go out the window
I'd add "panic inducer" to the list ; more times than I'd like to remember, my run would start out OK, but that little voice in the back of your head that asks "OK, what do I do NOW?" starts getting louder and louder, until it's standing at the back of your eyeballs and screaming through a megaphone. Usually, it's at a point in the stage that's either really going to help you, or really going to hurt you, and glaciers will advance and retreat before you can decide what you do next.
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