NROI Podcast USPSA NROI

This episode is the second half of the session recorded in late May 2024. In this episode the NROI crew is again joined by Jake Martens. The topics discuss include: Using a decocker or not, Manipulating a safety while holstered and when CAN you do it, when is a hole not a hole, timer dos and don'ts, can you DQ by breaking the 180 outside of the course of fire, the need for members to vote in your Area elections, and more.Note: Transcriptions done by AI or other means may not be en...

For this episode: Jodi brings us a report on the recently completed Area 1 match in Winnemucca NV on a range that was built just before this match happened. Jake Martens also joins the gang for a discussion on by-law 16.2 as it pertains to the CO/LO discussion; we then discuss holstering and muzzle pointing distances; what is the call when the optic falls off a CO/LO handgun during the course of fire; and age requirements for participating in USPSA/SCSA matches and some of the details a...

During this episode the NROI crew discuss: USPSA matches that aren't run like/as USPSA matches & clubs that zealously enforce some rules but disregard others because "it's a local match"; Helping with setup, reset, ROing and tear down at local matches; Making up miss on a target engaged freestyle after switching to SHO/WHO (as req'd by WSB) - Freestyle or maintain SHO/WHO; Dryfire mag use at safe area; Overlays, obtaining, again; Major PF - Why have it; Make ready in the box only? (SCSA);...

In this episode: Troy reports on the recently completed US IPSC Nationals in Mesa AZ, SCSA rules updated in the app after original error in updating, Omnivore holster with plastic guides legal for Production/CO, Membership requirements to shoot various match levels, Approved local rules (3.3) - how to find out what is where, Safety checks/classes to participate in competition - Legal? Local rule needing 3.3 letter?, Shooters barred from participation 6.4.5 - how/when to subm...

In this episode, the team discusses some of the basics of calibration firearms for RMs at matches, what to do when a competitor arrives at the line with a magazine in the gun, modifying SCSA stages to fit local bays, changing divisions for competitors in SCSA whose firearm does not fit their declared division, limited optics in SCSA, scoring partial bullet hits in cardboard targets, more discussion on "aiming" related to last episode, why the "finger" rule exists and the consequences of not h...

This week the team discusses some tips and tricks around classifer reshoots and Practiscore; the Alien Retro handgun is not legal for CO despite being legal for IPSC Prod Optics and why; Equipment checks at US IPSC Nationals; WHO/SHO & Penalties; Finger in the trigger guard and aiming at targets beyond a wall; using cadence in SCSA range commands; REF and stopping competitors; Issuing Warnings to shooters per 8.6.1; Long guns in SCSA; Production Optics and Production trigger pull we...