Best handgun for IDPA?

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I know that generally the best gun for any sport is either the one you own or the one you shoot best. It's a personal thing. But I would like to hear from experienced IDPA shooters what NEW gun they would go out and buy if they had a sudden windfall. I'm interested in which one they would choose and their reasons why. And what caliber?
Thanks.
 
I have no experience in IDPA, except what I read. Glocks are very popular. 1911 's, and some HK's.
 
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It would depend on two things. What caliber you want, and what division you want to be in.

If you like .45acp then shoot the Custom Defensive Pistol division. All those that compete against you will shoot .45 also.

If you don't like .45 then 9mm is best as .40 compete on the same level as 9mm in Enhanced Service Pistol or Stock Service Pistol Divisions.

As far as what Pistol to get, get what you like.

The match our club had this year, I was the course designer. The one course that had the maximum round count (18) I shot it with my 1911 .45. The time I did it in was (don't quite remember) lets say 40 seconds. -1 down so a .5 second added to my time. Was the best time that day. I won the match.

Anyway the next day the course was still set up so I tried the one again with my .45. I did it faster but had -5 so 2.5 seconds added to my time. Was about 2 seconds faster then the day before.

Then I did it with my BHP 9mm. Was -1 down so it added a .5second to my time but my final score was ten seconds faster then my score in the match for the same course of fire.

Lesson learnt, use .45acp in the divison for .45acp

There is talk of an Ontario Provincial IDPA match next year. YES

Sticker
 
Thanks guys for the info. Looks like I will have to find out more about IDPA before asking such general questions. I was just trying to find out if there are any run-away favourite guns in use in IDPA in each division.
 
HOWDY, I would go to a 9mm cal. cheapest to buy or reload , easy on wrist after years of shooting. Glock cause it ready to go as is and simple for a new shooter to operate . and old revolver shooter do not have switchs to operate. K.I.S.S. ! method
Someone is always selling a glock.
 
Glocks are very popular in Stock Service Pistol, especially the Glock 34. But you can use just about any centerfire auto or revolver you may own, there is probably an IDPA category for it.
 
Re: Best handgun for IDPA: Revolver Time Eh!

As a "newbie" to IDPA I am going to start with two pistols I know well in either Enhanced Revolver or Service Revolver. These are respectively, the S&W 625 and the Colt Python both with " short barrels" . The IDPA Classification Course should be fun to practice this Winter with either pistol. Both pistols work with the same IDPA holster from Haugen leather.
I have shot IPSC Revolver with either one so it will be some "crossover training" as well for IPSC. Please keep me in the loop for the first IDPA Provincials or Nationals. Its great that CSSA is showing some initiative here; you cant have too many pistol practice opportunties.
 
There are three divisions in IDPA (after you forget about revolvers that is).

1. CDP (Custom defensive pistol). MUST be a .45 acp. 8 rounds MAX. Dominated by single stack 1911s although Langdon did win this division at nats a few years back with a sig 220. Most IPSC single stack gun are OK so long as they don't have bull barrels, full length dust cover, or lightening cuts in the slide.
2. SSP (Stock service pistol). Must be DA/SA or safe action. 10 round limit. Min caliber is 9mm and min power factor is 125. Very limited modifications (Sights, grips). Lots of Glocks, Berettas, S&W, Sig, etc. No XD as someone classified it as a true single action and is verboten in this division. No frame/grip mods or additions. Extended slide stops and safeties are OK so long as the factory provides them.
3. ESP (Enhanced service pistol). Minimum caliber is 9mm and minimum power factor is 125. Lots of 9mm and 38super variants of the 1911. There are also lots of polomers with grip mods and magwells such as glock & XD. This is the division for single action variants from CZ, XD, or Beretta.

Easiest division to play in is SSP because everyone has something that fits that division. I personally use a Beretta 40sw Vertec with nice powder puff minor loads.

-dave
www.olhasso.com/beretta
 
Hello, I am the IDPA Match Director at my club, and over the last 3 years I have seen alot of shooters with all sorts of guns. Some shooters bring 2 or 3 guns to a match just because thay have not shot that particular gun lately, and wanted to see how it would do. Wether you choose a 45, 9mm, 40, 38, or 357mag, just make sure you keep the power facter high. I shot a match last year with hot factory 357 mag loads, and I did not brake. I shoot my Para P14 most of the time and almost always use factory ammo. I have never kicked anyone off the line of having wimpy loads but I do give the shooter a 20 sec. FTDR penalty.
 
greg moser said:
I have never kicked anyone off the line of having wimpy loads but I do give the shooter a 20 sec. FTDR penalty.
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If the shooter's ammo makes the minimum power floor for the applicable division (in accordance with the rule book Appendix 1 Section B Para 1) what basis do you give a FTDR penalty? Para 2 of Section B states that: "Any competitor whose ammunition fails to meet the minimum power floor will be
disqualified from the entire match and receive a DNF score."
 
The best handgun for idpa...???

One that works. That goes for ammo too.
Match day is not the time to see "if" your latest attempt at home gunsmithing is a success... Nor is it the time to try out a new reloading recipe...
 
If you are looking to getting into IDPA on the cheap take a hard look at the Norinco NP29, there gun in 1911 format in 9MM. I have one and it is as accurate as my Trojan 9MM. The NOrinco A1 in .45acp is another inexpensive option but unless you handload is fairly expensive to shoot.

Great fun in IDPA. I fyou like shooting you will like IDPA.

Stay Safe

Bob
 
Canuck44 said:
If you are looking to getting into IDPA on the cheap take a hard look at the Norinco NP29,
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But... if you plan on shooting in the US you will not be able to take the Norinco into the states...
 
I like the idea of IDPA (without slagging off any other shooting disciplines). It seems realistic and based on the shooter rather than the gear. But aside from a little pocket of interest in Ontario someplace, there seems to be nothing elsewhere. Canuck44, you're isolated up in Terrace, where do you get your competition?
 
pontcanna said:
But aside from a little pocket of interest in Ontario someplace, there seems to be nothing elsewhere.
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There will be an affiliated club starting up in Alberta in the new year. Watch this forum for an annoucement on the inaugeration of the "Alberta Tactical Handgun League".......
 
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