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Tangent alert!

BCGlocker wrote: Wow, I too started in the early 80's with Mike Dalton and Micky Fowler at ISI. He also got me started with IPSC and IDPA at Piru. I retired two years ago and moved to Texas too. Small world.

Lake Piru! It was a long drive for me, but that was a pretty active place when I was there. I was living in Los Angeles when I decided to get serious about guns for self-defense, and I took several courses from ISI. I was using my Dad's Model 19, so Mike recommended I check out the revolver club across the valley from his range. I joined the "Wheel Burners", learned to reload, and shot up about 10K .38 rounds per year while I was out there.

I moved to Texas (via Saudi Arabia) and retired here too.

Small world indeed.

2) Although IDPA is a sport, I really like the defensive pistol aspect of it.

This is interesting. I joined IDPA when it was brand spanking new in the early 1990s, when I was in California and taking my first serious pistol lessons from Mike Dalton. I don't remember if he was one of the actual founders or just an enthusiastic early proponent, but he was really pushing it. My recollection is that he and others felt IPSC and the other sports at the time were just that, and too much that; "that" being sports. Race guns and competition holsters, gamesmanship, competition tactics that won matches but were suicide for the street...and rules that changed every year.

So IDPA was to be different. Real defensive guns, use of cover, draw from concealment, defensive tactics to be rewarded over game tactics, (Is "failure to do right" still on the books?). The rules were supposed to promote defensive/street shooting craftsman ship over scoring points to win...

Oh, and stable rules. Only change them....every two years.