Mohave Green Shooters by Larry Alexander, Match Director wecare4@earthlink.net 702-298-3591
Welcome to the world of USPSA, founded in the mid 1970;’s our sport has matured every year. Practical Shooting attempts to measure the ability to shoot rapidly and accurately with a full power handgun, rifle, and /or shotgun.
These three elements- speed, accuracy, and power—form the three sides of the practical shooting triangle. By design, each match will measure a shooter’s ability in all three areas.
To do this, shooters take on obstacle-laden shooting courses (called stages) requiring anywhere from six to 30+ shots to complete. The scoring system measures points scored per second, then weights the score to compensate for the number of shots fired. If they miss a target, or shoot inaccurately, points are deducted, lowering that all-important points-per-second score.
If shooting has an “extreme” sport, USPSA-sanctioned practical shooting is it. Competitors move, negotiate obstacles, run, speed-reload, and analyze the course AND shoot each of several courses as fast as their skills will allow.
Most practical shooters are just regular Joes that enjoy shooting on the weekends.
We offer competitive divisions for most handguns, from revolvers, to scope-sighted, recoil-compensated “race-guns” developed just for our sport.
Practical shooting is a sport that evolved from experimentation with handguns used for self-defense. The researchers were an international group of private individuals, law enforcement officers, and military people generally operating independently of each other, challenging the then-accepted standards of technique. Training practices and equipment. The work for the most part, conducted for their own purposes without official sanction. What they learned changed the face of police and military training forever.
Quickly became a sport requiring competitors to deal with constantly changing scenarios while shooting rapidly and accurately with full power handguns.
In 1976 an internationals group interested in what had become known as “practical “ shooting met in Columbia Mo. From that meeting came the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC). In 1984 USPSA was incorporated as the US Region of IPSC.
USPSA competition has provided a test bed for equipment and techniques, many of which are now the standard for police and military training. Some of USPSA’s top competitors are regularly employed as trainers for elite police and military units. Today, USPSA matches are conducted every week all over the United States.. USPSA members are generally the most proficient shooters in the world as witnessed by their domination in the world of firearms competition.
Historically USPSA has been primarily a handgun sport, However in recent years 3-gun competition had been growing very rapidly.
There are six handgun divisions :
1. Open dominated by cutting edge high capacity 1911 ‘s and CZ-75’s
2 Limited most popular division , mostly wide body 1911’s (Sti. SV. Para. Caspian) a glock or one of variants.
3. Limited 10 Single action auto loaders in 40 S&W and 45 ACP limited to 10 rounds 4 .Production limited to production handguns with double or safe action triggers .9mm or 40 S&W.
5 Revolver stock revolvers
6. Single Stack designed around the 1911 government model.
USPSA shooters are sticklers for safety much more so than in many other shooting sports. As a rule USPSA shooters are quite intolerant of sloppy gun –handling—they expect to be able to compete in a safe environment, and sloppy gun-handling puts everyone at a risk.
USPSA competitors come from every walk of life, every economic level , and all ages.
USPSA classification system categorizes practical shooters to allow them to compete against other competitors of the same level. To accomplish this USPSA publishes specific classifier stages for which scores fired by the best shooters in the world are available and distributes these stages to the affiliated clubs. Members are classified within the division in which they chose to compete.
Cowboy Action Shooting (SASS) was first created in1981 by Harper Creigh .
After watching a couple of old westerns on TV on a rainy Saturday afternoon, he had a brain storm. An avid shooter in Soldier of Fortune and IPSC type action shooting matches he called shooting buddies and presented an idea to shoot their next match using western type guns, The rest, is history.
All that’s missing to make USPSA/IPSC’s history a total success story is your involvement.
Why not JOIN us today.
Mohave Green Shooters (USPSA)
Larry Alexander Match Director Jan. 12, 2008
We had a great turn out and the weather was pretty good. I want to THANK those that set up the stages and also THANK everyone for helping tear down and put everything away after the match. If you weren’t there you missed a good match.
Our next match will be Feb 9. Match time will be 10:00 Az time with set up about 2 hours before.
