.22LR idpa Action Pistol

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Due to our winter weather of rain and snow November marks the first month of our .22LR idpa Action Pistol shoots.

For those who are interested we have two divisions. Regular .22LR Pistols and Conversion Kit. If you have no holster we allow shooters to start from the low ready position with a 3 second penalty (Drawing from winter coats and/or rain gear is something less than an art form:D).

Last year we froze in three sets of stages. Basically an L shape, a high baricade and a low baricade. We then designed stages around the three barriors plus an open stage. Scenarios are contained to 10 rounds or less as some folks don't have 2nd mags for their .22 pistols.

Loads of fun and we don't have to pick up our brass. Inexpensive too. Works great for clubs with outdoor ranges only.

Take Care

Bob
 
Steve you are a cruel, cruel man!

That said I look out my bedroom window and see a snow capped Glacier gleaming in the morning sun.....;)*

Take Care

Bob
*When it isn't raining!:(
 
BCRider

Our club is an affiliated IDPA club. We shoot IDPA monthly and last year hosted the B.C. Provincial Championships. Over the winter, due to the cold rain and snow we shoot our .22lr pistols and call it "idpa" as opposed to IDPA. Our members either use conversion kits on their center fire guns or use .22 pistols.

We freeze in three variations of barriors for the winter and then just change the target arays. Great fun.

The range at Chilliwack shoots IDPA indoors and are considering building shooting bays for outdoor shooting. Your best bet is to contact the club and get involved with IDPA there. There maybe interest in shooting with .22 pistols over the winter.

Take Care

Bob
 
SSJChar said:
any pictures/vids yet? rimfire competition sounds like my kind of stuff.
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I think it's up to the local clubs to figure out what sort of .22 action they want to do. And likely it'll be the .22 owners that'll be running AND competiing in it I suspect.

It would be nice if both Canuck44 and someone from our own local Thompson Mountain could post up what their events and rules and manpower arrangements are to help guide other clubs that want to follow in their footsteps.

Once my R-PAL arrives in a couple more weeks I'll be joining at least one club and partaking in some IPSC this coming season. I'm also keen on exploring or suggesting .22 events based on these other club's ideas.

It seems like the grins to cost ratio has GOT to be super high for something like this.
 
BCRider

We shoot our idpa .22lr Action Pistol using IDPA Rules. We use IDPA targets and IDPA scoring. As most of our .22LR pistol shooters don't have holsters and to keep costs to the shooter down we start our shooters with gun in hand in the ready position (About .45 degree angle at arms length). To keep things simple we have three set stages set up and just move targets to come up with various scenarios. We also try to occassionaly have a pistol shooting exercise as well. We have two divisions .22 pistol and .22lr Conversion Kit based guns.

Nice thing about action pistol is we don't have to worry about our brass. Makes for a fun event during the winter shooting outside.

I noticed on this weeks Shooting USA show there now are .22LR pistol steel shoots. This is something we are going to look at for next summer.

Send me a PM with your phone number and I can phone and we can discuss further.

At the end of the year we play for 6 3/4 cent certificates instead of our regular 13 1/2 cent certificates.:D

Take Care

Bob
 
Thanks, I'll take you up on that offer.

One aspect I like about the Thompson Mountian club's event is that it can be shot using a pistol or rifle. Obviously it would be nice to run the two as different scoring categories..... or maybe not just for intreast. At least until it becomes obvious that pistol or rifle has a clear advantage. Then it could be moved to even things up by running the different scoring classes like IPSC and I imagine IDPA does.

I like the idea of keeping it simple using either hand hold or perhaps have the gun sitting on a table or in a box with the magazines loose or similar to avoid the need for buying all the waist harness. A nice touch that is.
 
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