Gun Digest's IDPA Gear & Concealed Carry Clothing eShort Collection by Massad Ayoob

Author:Massad Ayoob [Ayoob, Massad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4402-3425-5
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

Movement is life in a gunfight, and is required in IDPA. Here, safely holding Glock 34, teenager Randi Rogers sprints toward her next target and the National Woman’s Champion title of 2007. Randi, shooting under the monicker “Holy Terror,” beat all male contestants at a recent national Cowboy Action Shooting championship.

The Use of Cover Factor

History shows us that when bad tactics get good guys killed in gunfights, the failure to use available cover is usually the single biggest of the fatal errors. In IDPA, you are required to have at least half of your upper body behind “cover” if such replicated cover is available on that stage, and your whole lower body behind it as well.

One direction in which competitive shooting went wrong insofar as being a positive learning experience for those who took handguns into harm’s way, was in emphasizing speed of shot placement over use of cover. In the real world, as any firefight survivor can tell you, the bullets are going in both directions. The goal is not to shoot the bad guy; the goal is not to get shot. Shooting the bad guy is merely one of your options in achieving the goal of survival.

The emphasis on use of cover in IDPA is, to this reviewer’s mind, one of the strongest aspects of the game as far as its value to the person who carries a gun “for real.” I was certified as an IDPA Safety Officer several years ago under Mike Briggs, and recently audited another such class by Florida’s IDPA go-to guy, Lance Biddle. Both emphasized the importance of staying true to the core concepts of IDPA by assessing penalties on shooters who exposed themselves to what in real life would be incoming fire, unnecessarily. It was good to see. It shows me that, then and now, IDPA is about Defensive Shooting more than it’s about Defensive Shooting.

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