Your First Action Shooting Match Part 1 Equipment

You’ve had your new gun for a little while and you’ve been going to the range shooting at a paper targets, you’re starting to get some consistent hits, but you’d like to do more. You’ve been reading the gun magazines or talking to other local shooters and you’ve heard them talk about Action Shooting competitions. You’re interested but you’re not sure where or how to get started or if you’re ready. Here are some tips to get you started in the Action Shooting Sports.

The USPSA Production Division originally was conceived to allow people who were interested in competitive Action Shooting to get into the sport without spending thousands of dollars to get started. The Production Division was also created to provide a category for the increasing number of Polymer frame, striker fired pistols popularized initially by Glock®.

Action Shooting Podcast Episode #2

– This is an Enhanced Podcast

In Episode 2 we reveal our Special Guest interview as none other than Rob Leatham. A preview of Rob’s interview is included as well as how you can receive the entire 4 part interview. This is the most extensive interview that Rob has given in many years.

International Practical Shooting Confederation better known as IPSC, (pronounced ip-sick), is credited with organizing a governing structure around an informal style of competition emerging primarily from a group of shooters in Southern California beginning in the late 1950′s.

International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) was formed as a competition to simulate self-defense scenarios that might occur in real life. As IPSC and USPSA moved more to the sport or gaming side of competition the founders found a segment of the shooting sports that were looking for a home closer to the martial-artist side of handgun competition.