Action shooting gear at your club?

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I belong to a smallish, member-owned handgun club. We have weekly, club-level, ISPC-compliant action shoots. Most of the shooter are club members - with the occasional ISPC-qualified drop-in(s) from other clubs. People shoot what they bring – from full-on race guns to out-of-the box Norincos. Here’s what observed over the last few shoots:

  • All shooters have been male. Too bad about that (ladies, please join in).
  • One or two guys out of 15 or so have been those odd, "wheelgun" types.
  • Everybody else shot semi autos with one type or another of user controllable/ active safety systems (i.e., SAs with manual safeties, or DAs with decockers, etc.). Only on guy had a polymer framed gun - and he had Czech thing with ambidextrous safeties. No one has ever showed-up with a plastic, safetyless (or “passive-only safety”) gun.
Is this weird or common? What’s up at your club?
 
Plenty of Glocks show up at our fun matches as well as our sanctioned matches. CZ and Tanfoglio pretty much dominate Production division, while 1911/2011 style take the rest.
 
hayday said:
I belong to a smallish, member-owned handgun club. We have weekly, club-level, ISPC-compliant action shoots. Most of the shooter are club members - with the occasional ISPC-qualified drop-in(s) from other clubs. People shoot what they bring – from full-on race guns to out-of-the box Norincos. Here’s what observed over the last few shoots:

  • All shooters have been male. Too bad about that (ladies, please join in).
  • One or two guys out of 15 or so have been those odd, "wheelgun" types.
  • Everybody else shot semi autos with one type or another of user controllable/ active safety systems (i.e., SAs with manual safeties, or DAs with decockers, etc.). Only on guy had a polymer framed gun - and he had Czech thing with ambidextrous safeties. No one has ever showed-up with a plastic, safetyless (or “passive-only safety”) gun.
Is this weird or common? What’s up at your club?
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At EESA, there are some ladies that join in on the fun, but it's the wives. I have yet to meet a single female member or a female member that doesn't involve their husband/children that shoots for fun. I have met a female LEO that uses the club for training purposes, not necessarily for fun.
 
I see M&P's and Glocks all the time at my club's shoots...in fact, I have been known to use an M&P9 or a Glock 22 on occasion myself.
 
At the last major IPSC match in BC it was more or less 1-2 women per squad of 10 on average. Since these draw competitors from all the surrounding clubs in south B.C. that gives you an idea. The women in our region I've observed are pretty close so it's good to see that they support each other and are supported. I'm very glad of this because it keeps the atmosphere lighter - which isn't to say they are not good shooters because most of them are great. Shooting isn't 100% competitive. I would not be so eager to drive early mornings and spend long days if there weren't friends and joking around.

There are definitely few revolver shooters. I was thinking of doing revolver one match out of the year. The one detraction is because there are so few, that means usually no trophies.

Glocks, M&Ps are not unusual at all.
 
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