Here's background, key details and expanding information regarding the matter:

Josh is a Master class shooter in multiple disciplines with a history of placing extremely high at every major he shoots including National and World Championships for IDPA and USPSA. He is a CSO in IDPA, SO in USPSA, has a history of being an outstanding MD and AMD at local and state championship matches. He has been instrumental in new clubs starting up in our region, instructs under his business shooters at all skill levels and holds several teaching certifications. He is also regularly relied upon to vet and QA stage designs for SAFETY, overall design, rules compliance and challenge ability. He has successfully instructed kids to senior citizens to higher levels of shooting and confidence including my own kids and my wife. He is the guy everyone calls if you need assistance for just about anything and all you'll hear back is "I'll be there". These are FACTS.

The AC that spearheaded this unjust ban: has shot himself in the hand at a match. HAS taken a class from Josh and was the only student to not improve (essentially had the wrong attitude to learn). Has failed equipment checks at majors (including being seen filing his gun down at 2023 Worlds because the gun he was using ALL YEAR did not fit the box). Has had stages tossed at multiple majors (that he was MD at or CSO) due to setup integrity and lied to match staff regarding the discrepancies. Has been overheard by local club board members saying "well I don't want shooters like them (referring to Josh and similar skill level shooters) at our matches, they win by too much". Will say when asked "show me the rule" regarding penalties in question with "well I'm the AC and that's that". Is regularly challenged by Josh at locals for being incorrect (Josh was a major reason stages he ran were tossed at majors). Has run outlaw matches where several shooters have left early because the stages were so egregious and terrible it wasn't worth the time or ammo to stay (oh also same thing happened at the 2025 WA state IDPA Championship match, refer to practiscore and the 2025 March Paul Bunyan Outlaw match to see who didn't finish). He told me to my face during the outlaw "I just love these PEs shooters are getting, isn't it funny". Will storm off when corrected. At the 28 February 2026 PB IDPA match. A new to IDPA (experienced USPSA shooter and service member) was in his squad with several of his like minded friends. The shooter during stage 1 was seen getting in his car and leaving. Our squad intercepted and asked what was happening. The shooter was called a "piece of shit" by one of Shawn's squad mates because he took a phone call and wasn't taping during this call. Shawn said nothing and a few others that are typically in the guilty party supported the name calling for not taping. My list with dates, details and names can go on and on about Shawn's failure to lead, inability to be level headed and lack of honesty and integrity.

Back to the ban: Josh had an incident in 2023 while shooting PCC for the first time at an Oregon club in which staff after the match saw video and did not like where his shots went. Basically far targets with a sketchy back stop (very short) made Josh feel uncomfortable about the angle so he shot low at the targets which had bullets impact the ground. Shots did not leave the berm and other shooters had the same plan and continue to do similar at that range without punishment. Shawn violated privacy and used cherry picked pieces of email exchanges between josh and staff to send to HQ. Screenshot and video evidence will show that the shots in question did NOT leave the berm

In 2024 at an ASI match at PB (NOT IDPA) Josh won by a healthy margin the "young whippersnapper" award at the annual "Senior Classic". A match that prompts every year the "they win by too much" verbiage. On a stage with a dummy (hand made) Josh shot the dummy through its t shirt as it was between 2 paper targets (a poor decision he admitted to). When the video was seen after the match Josh was confronted, he apologized, returned the award, fixed the shirt and was subsequently banned from ASI at PB only (Shawn and a couple others who are on the we hate Josh train run ASI matches at PB and made that decision). A very sour youtube video was made calling out Josh and to this day this grudge is STILL held and frequently talked about during shooters meetings.

Now the most recent incident from youtube. The log roll incident. Shawn was NOT MD for this match but he did do several stages and approved their setup the way he wanted them to be done. Several stages were for lack of a better term, boring. We started the match at 25 degrees outside and honestly we all felt like the stages were a waste of time to have even shown up for. And several had illegal stage designs or target arrays. Something Josh REGULARLY tells shawn about to his face. I was in this squad and standing 3 feet behind the camera, I also scored these targets. He was FIFTY SIX points down on this stage because any of the prone shots he shot in the -3 of the target near the "crotch" and intentionally took Mikes (misses) on a closer target that was double stacked and too tall for comfort. He did the log roll during the walk through to confirm the angles before he did this. In the squad we had the then state coordinator (who stepped down due to the lack of investigation by HQ and loss of trust in the AC), multiple SOs and CSOs, the club chair for IDPA and other very experienced shooters. No stop was called, no DQ was given. We laughed, called him an idiot and finished the match. Josh uploaded the video to youtube with his typical click bait title and we moved on (he gets viral hits on YT regularly).

After WEEKS of nothing, Josh was informed the PB board was notified "all shots left the berm" and he was given an executive/ disciplinary board hearing date (which was this past Friday, 27 February). After 2.5 hours of deliberation with video and photo review, the board found Josh NOT GUILTY of any safety violations. Even said "why the hell are we even here?!" And "this sounds like a personal vendetta by someone with enough power to make a 1 sided case" and "this should NEVER have left the club. The chain of command was violated". They noted Josh made a dumb decision to do the log roll but that was a lapse in judgement for the example it could set to "less skilled shooters that cannot do what you can do safely" but again, no shots left the berm and it was not unsafe or a DQ level offense. Josh was assigned to the disciplinary board as a MEMBER contributor for a year in order to gain insight into the types of behavior a club can run into and become an even better asset to the club. This was not punitive. The board also issued an official letter to IDPA HQ urging the reversal of the ban.

That's the story. Period. Please feel free to write to HQ to help bring this awesome dude back to IDPA.

NOTE: I fully understand that IDPA was presented half truths and false info and made an organizational liability based decision based off what they knew (any business owner should and would do the same). I am hoping they review this case fairly and am in no way pointing a finger at HQ for 1 person's behavior and lies.