The very first paragraph of IDPA's welcome message on their official website reads as follows:
"The International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) is the governing body of
a shooting sport that simulates self-defense scenarios and real life encounters".
So your "Nope" comment to my "Isn't IDPA a simulation of this real world" was unfounded.
Also, have you ever considered that too much regulation turns people away from the sport. Not much more makes newcomers more nervous than the thought of embarrassment if they don't do everything by the book.
I participate mostly for the comeradery and the fun of it and the realistic simulation (God forbid) to a real life encounter. If I wanted numbers and speed shoots without any mind set, I'd be IPSquicking it with a yard stick, ghosting and a walk through before I let go a round. But what fun is that.
Unless you're talking sanctioned matches, I'll happily trade procedurals for laughs.
Though I do appreciate Onagoth's opening post, your comment about not intending to complain or whine, I somewhat disagree.
It wasn't really necessary to point out something already spelled out in the book and that what most of us already know by having read the rules unless there was some sort of angst on his mind about the cover call. Hence my "What misconception?" comment.
It's really no big deal, I'm saying not to be so anal about a sport that is intended more for fun than saving lives, especially in a Country where you don't get to bring to the street what you learned on the range, or in a rule book.
