no mention of Cooper or his passing on the IDPA website as much as I can see....?
What I did find was this, which is a direct bashing of IPSC, (although the specific "shooting sport" being bashed was not mentioned
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Why do we need another shooting sport?
Prior to the formation of IDPA, there was no place to compete and hone one’s skill with equipment designed for and suitable for self-defense. Other shooting sports are just that, sports that have no relevance to self-defense. IDPA offers an exciting forum for practical shooters in which truly practical equipment, techniques and courses of fire are mandated. Prior to IDPA, there was no place at all to compete with common service pistols such as the Beretta, Glock or Sig. Nor was there a shooting sport where your concealed carry holster could also be your match holster without handicap. When you come to an IDPA match, you can not only use your duty/CCW equipment, you can be completely competitive with it! Other shooting sports have become equipment “races”; IDPA will not. If you’re interested in using truly practical pistols to solve challenging and exciting defensive shooting problems, then IDPA is the sport for you.
Pretty petty to bash another shooting sport , and does nothing to make it more attractive to me. They are both shooting sports,
I do like the use of cover rule, but it is really subject to what the RO calls, like how much of your body was behind cover, etc... I like the drawing from concealment rule, but the mag retention rule is dependent on the situation in the "real world"
What I did find was this, which is a direct bashing of IPSC, (although the specific "shooting sport" being bashed was not mentioned
)Why do we need another shooting sport?
Prior to the formation of IDPA, there was no place to compete and hone one’s skill with equipment designed for and suitable for self-defense. Other shooting sports are just that, sports that have no relevance to self-defense. IDPA offers an exciting forum for practical shooters in which truly practical equipment, techniques and courses of fire are mandated. Prior to IDPA, there was no place at all to compete with common service pistols such as the Beretta, Glock or Sig. Nor was there a shooting sport where your concealed carry holster could also be your match holster without handicap. When you come to an IDPA match, you can not only use your duty/CCW equipment, you can be completely competitive with it! Other shooting sports have become equipment “races”; IDPA will not. If you’re interested in using truly practical pistols to solve challenging and exciting defensive shooting problems, then IDPA is the sport for you.
Pretty petty to bash another shooting sport
, and does nothing to make it more attractive to me. They are both shooting sports, I do like the use of cover rule, but it is really subject to what the RO calls, like how much of your body was behind cover, etc... I like the drawing from concealment rule, but the mag retention rule is dependent on the situation in the "real world"
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