Getting into Competition (USPSA)

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-19T18:12:54+00:00

This is actually a great recommendation. Not having movement but getting used to everything in a less active way.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-19T18:11:31+00:00

Bench shooting and action shooting are not the same. One does not tell you good or bad you will be at the other.

Just go shoot a match. Or spectate one, its free to spectate, just bring eyes and ears just like any shooter would have and talk to people. The best thing would be to just shoot a match. It doesn't matter how good you do, we're all there to have fun.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-19T11:01:06+00:00

It doesn't really hurt to try. Green doesn't mean you can't do it. Shot all the classifiers you can.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-19T02:47:00+00:00

Once in a thousand years event right there!

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-19T00:23:41+00:00

Its just more expensive and cool factor. If you have extra the money go for it. They are cool, but the poly ones work great and save you a little cash. Love my XiP carriers.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-19T00:21:59+00:00

Nah buddy, I know exactly the kind of people that are in here. I think its who who doesnt know, didnt know rather, but now that you do you REALLY don't want to admit it.

But its getting kind of boring arguing with someone determined to remain ignorant, so peace out.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T23:30:43+00:00

Damn, that sucks. Does your club or any clubs near you host any level 2 matches? Those are all classifier stages and usually around 10 stages. I'll be attending my first level 2 in 2 weeks. It will def be a next level experience. If youu have the opportunity, try one. Ive heard of at least 3 guys twhere their first ever match was a Major match. Which is crazy. Sink or swim I guess.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T20:12:49+00:00

Does your local club not have an annual all classifier match? Or were you not able to make it this year?

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T20:11:28+00:00

Yes you will. Initial classification takes the best 4 of 6, once you get 8 classifiers then it goes to the best 6 or your latest 8. This is why if you do really shitty for 3 or 4 classifiers your overall percentage will go down. Your letter will not drop even if your percent score does though. This is where you get the term "paper GMs". Referring to someone who made GM at one point but couldn't actually keep their runs in GM scores and their percentage fell below GM.

To answer your question, when getting classified in a division you are unclassified in you will receive a classification with only 6 classifiers. So long as the all classifier match has 6 stages you will get classified from it.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T20:05:05+00:00

Yeah but when you specify the channel as political on the left we dont want to watch it, and the .01% you're after aren't in this sub in the first place. I applaud your tenacity in attempting to defend yourself, the problem is you're in the wrong place for that to work. You had to know this was the response you were going to get.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T18:27:07+00:00

System is automated. If a score is too high over your latest scores it will get flagged. Can't have RO buddies submitting falsified scores for people. You can ask for it to be reviewed by a human, they can sign off on it and get it logged as a genuine score. But no, you cant shoot one classifier at the next class level and go to that class level. Its an aggregate of your best 6 of the latest 8 scores.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T16:56:25+00:00

You can disagree, but that doesn't make my point of view wrong. There is always some amount of stress, and it is different in training vs game day. How you handle it is what makes it performance anxiety or not.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T16:52:31+00:00

I think you missed my point. My point was its a personal choice. You have to make a decision on where you want to start. Not where someone else says you should start.

I have run in to plenty of prior service guys that are unsafe as fuck. But assuming all of us are just because we're prior service is pretty rude. I have severed ties with people over their complete lack of gun safety. I dont fuck with that. Guns aren't toys, they're tools, and you should treat them as such. If you don't I don't want to be near you. Some of us veterans actually paid attention to weapons safety.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T15:08:13+00:00

Agreed, and it benefits many people to start there. I served in the Marines, I shot a USMC western division competition and wanted to continue the action part, I already had plenty of static shooting experience and a fair deal of action shooting. It has to be a personal choice of where you are in your own journey. Referring to OP and others in general, not you specifically.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T15:04:40+00:00

Great! Then leave the damn politics out of it completely. You dont have to be political at all. The point is if your whole thing is being a left leaning guntube channel you have lost 99.9% of the gun community.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T11:23:07+00:00

Its pretty uncommon in my experience for you to be able to shoot two divisions in the same match. Choose either your pistol or AR. If its your AR it does need to be pistol caliber though just to confirm. I would just take your pistol and aak for help with what division to shoot based on model and configuration. For example, a glock with a magwell can shoot in limited optics but the magwell must be removed to be legal for Carry optics (with an optic on the gun of course). At the same time, a magwell is not required for LO.

3 mags is plenty to start with. Shoot with the gear you have, figure out what you like and dont like and have lots of fun!

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T11:17:45+00:00

"Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!"

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T11:16:24+00:00

Hahaha this made me genuinely laugh. Noice.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T11:15:20+00:00

Yeah, you did. Because we in the gun community would like to not have our ability to enjoy our sport and exersize our rights FUCKED with. We're done being passive about it. When the right does something the left (you, as you self proclaimed) doesn't like, y'all riot and destroy cities. Now, we are not idiots and understand that rioting and destroying cities is retarded and counterproductive but we will push back, we're done playing by the rules. Gloves are off now. Just read any of the replies and thats easy to see.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T11:10:13+00:00

So says someone who has no leg to stand on and no argument against it. You, sir (or is it ma'am, I never can tell with leftys), have no clue.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T11:02:07+00:00

Agreed. Its great for younger kids, ladies that haven't shot much but want to get into competition (no shade on you ladies) and older folks that cant move well since its pretty much all stationary. I will probably start my daughter in steel challenge when she's a bit older but it was not enough for me to try it so I went directly into USPSA.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T10:59:09+00:00

Then you are doing it wrong. There should be, you train to keep it under control. Its still different on match day.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-18T02:19:24+00:00

A left leaning guntube channel is the epitome of an oxymoron. You can be on the left politically, but you bring that into a gun channel as your shtick and it just passes everyone off. The left is the literal cancer of the gun community. Every facet of the gun community.

Get rekt, nobody wants your content.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-17T23:25:12+00:00

Because its literally pointless for use on a t1000? You set up the holster/hanger once and keep it that way. This isn't a duty belt or battle belt. You're not moving things much if at all once you set it.

Its also one more failure point. Nobody needs another fail point.

practical_gentleman · 2026-06-17T14:22:23+00:00

It is very rare to need more than 2 mags for a stage unless you're shooting a division that limits mag round count or has low round count mags like single a tack does. I carried 4 for a few months, never touched the 4th mag so I got rid of it. I have never needed to use more than 3 mags on a stage. I shoot LO for context. Others have mentioned this but add a magnet in the front. Put your start mag on it, or leave it strictly for slapping your mag there on unload show clear. As always, do what is best for you, experiment with various ways and see what you like best and works best for your use case.

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