Black badge lifespan

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sureshot66

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I took my black badge back in the mid nineties and was wondering if it still
is in effect or would I have to do the course over again. Can you get away
with just a refresher with a RO or does it need to be completely redone?
 
I would redo it. Heck, you get to shoot for 2-full days!!!! That's a lot of fun.

With the length of time you had been away from the game, they will require you to retake the course, just my opinion although I am not a black badge instructor.
 
Contact the Black Badge coordinator through the IPSC Ontario website and he can fill you in on what's required.
 
You Will have to re-take the Black badge, but there is no charge for the course, just your membership free and the intructors expenses, which is normaly $50.00
 
15ish years of being away is going to need a whole BB Course... send an email to your sections training coordinator for details.

A lot has changed in 15 years... I bet the rulebook is twice as thick as back then.

You will get a ton out of the BB Course.
 
sureshot66 said:
I took my black badge back in the mid nineties and was wondering if it still
is in effect or would I have to do the course over again. Can you get away
with just a refresher with a RO or does it need to be completely redone?
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I wouldn't get away with just a refresher with a RO. I will retake everything to demonstrate you are safe so that other will not be afraid to shoot with you at the match. ;)
 
beltfed said:
+1

How many guys are still competing in the sport that never went through it and were grandfathered in the first place?
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Two Randy Fisher and Murray Gardner.

if you have not shot in Alberta for Two years you need at least a refresher course. 15 years will require you to take it over again. the rules have changed significantly in 15 years.
 
D_ said:
Ridiculous money grab. For shame.
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Totally! And after the course they want us to pay the annual fees, also pay all the costs traveling to the matches and then pay match fees and spend lots of money on the guns, equipment and even more on the ammo. I think it all should be free.
 
The rules have changed that much that the rule book is now almost 2 times as thick
as it once was-Wow. I understand a refresher course but to re-do the whole thing?
Maybe I guess but muzzle direction and where your finger were while moving and reloading were the big things from what I remember. I thought if you satisfy the RO or
CRO at the match, it would be good enough and they would be the ones to judge your
competency since they run the show.
 
IPSC is like anything else. if you don't use the skill sets they deteriorate. at what point they no longer become second nature is open to debate. so now who wants to take the liability that someone who hasn't shot IPSC for x years is still good to go and he has an AD at a match resulting in injury to himself or someone else?
 
we have to draw the line somewhere and we did. Having been out for that long I don't think its too much to ask that you redo the course. Now if you can prove that for the last 15 years you've been active in USPSA, Then I think you would have a case for only doing a refesher. How much do you want to shoot IPSC again?
 
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Geeese ....
Randy Fisher and Murray Gardner.
Now there are a couple of names to conjure with.
BOTH former IPSC Canuckistan Champs,
PLUS
MDG was the original, very first Regional director for Canuckistan

So
who would be more qualified than these two???

PS: does any one know where to find the OLD OLD match results for the IPSC Canada championships.
I am talking here of the 1980s and 1990s.
thanks
LAZ 1
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We could dig them up, but they were written in the hieroglyphics of an ancient peoples. I doubt there are any alive today who could translate such an ancient set of scrolls. ;)
 
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