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Hi there. My local club offers a black badge 20 hour course every so often. I don’t own a shadow or any other 5” barrel pistol unfortunately. I do enjoy shooting my Glock 17 MOS with Venom red dot. My question is; would there be a point in doing my black badge and ipsc shoots with a glock, and would red dot even be allowed for either?

My apologies in advance for the newbie question but I’ve always been curious. Thanks in advance.


Trevis
 
Yes, a Glock is just fine for doing your course and learning how to compete. The red dot puts you into open or production optics I guess now. I am out of the loop. You might even have fun. Maybe not in open, those guys are nuts with lots of money invested but production optics looks fun.
 
You're good with that setup. Don't let the fact that lots of guys spend more on guns to get a slight advantage. I compete with a fns9l. I enjoy it. I more compete against myself than other necessarily. once I feel I'm outshooting my gun, then maybe I'll upgrade.
 
As others have said, you’re good to go with the Glock. Make sure you have a decent holster, sufficient magazines (4 minimum, 5 is better), and mag carriers. Otherwise be safe and have a blast!
 
Visit ipsc main page and determine which division you are going to shoot. For a Glock, you are in the Production https: //www.ipsc.org/rules/divlistP.php

Make sure your model / is on the list then you are good to go.

Enjoy
 
" Don't know what matches you attend but glocks haven't been popular in a while. "
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What's your definition of "popular"?

How many matches have you attended where nobody shot a Glock?
 
Dexter Morgan said:
What's your definition of "popular"?

How many matches have you attended where nobody shot a Glock?
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Well here's one definition. "liked, enjoyed, or admired by many people or by most people in a particular group" I don't see glocks being the popular gun in production like I do the shadow for example. Seeing one or two glocks at a match does not make them popular.

BTW, I've shot 283 sanctioned matches in the last 8 years. Just sharing as reference.
 
" I don't see glocks being the popular gun in production like I do the shadow for example. "
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Nobody said it was as popular as the CZ Shadow. Only that it's popular.

" I've shot almost 300 sanctioned matches in the last 8 years."
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Out of those 300 matches; How many where nobody shot a Glock?
 
carsmovies said:
Well here's one definition. "liked, enjoyed, or admired by many people or by most people in a particular group" I don't see glocks being the popular gun in production like I do the shadow for example. Seeing one or two glocks at a match does not make them popular.

BTW, I've shot 283 sanctioned matches in the last 8 years. Just sharing as reference.
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You come off as an "older gentleman" a lot in this forum, so it's possible your memory isn't quite what it used to be. Glock took #6 & 7 in Standard at Nationals this year.

BTW, those two shooters combined have less than half of your 283 matches. Just sharing as a reference.
 
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There is no doubt in IPSC that using a glock is a huge cramp but like I said before the gun is 15% the glock is light and fails to absorb recoil, no matter what trigger kit you install or custom tune you have a conflict, light trigger and have light primer strikes here and there or bad trigger and it always goes bang.

Glock isn’t a competition pistol by any means it’s to light, less accurate, and has nothing close to a match grade trigger.
 
OP, get your BB and have fun. It's a blast. You'll learn lots and more importantly have fun. I'm sure you could reach out to your local IPSC folks with questions beforehand. You're gonna love it.
Cheers
 
Production (or Production Optic now) is probably the best division to start in because it's the most popular one and easiest not to finish dead last. Statistically it's easier to move up in a big field, while a small field means each step up the standings is a bigger hurdle. A lot of the smaller "old dude" divisions like Classic, Revolver, and Standard are people with older styles of firearm that were popular back when they started and they've had an intimidating number of years to get good. Open has the people going for overall match winner, with the best shooters driving the expensive race guns.

If you've got any sort of pistol that's IPSC-legal and you're comfortable shooting it, then that'll be the right gun to get started. Watching a match or local club practice (bring eyes & ears) and listening to what the local shooters are chatting about is a good thing too. If you're out lane-shooting, work on shooting left-hand-only and right-hand-only as well as two-handed. Quick pairs of shots near the middle part of the target would be a good drill, seeing how quickly you can regain sight picture for the second shot; IPSC isn't about absolute bullseyes.
 
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