Howdy Doc
I have been shooting my 1911(45acp) recently because I have just completed the "Black Badge" course which is what you have to do if you want to shoot IPSC here in Canada.
One must pass a two day shooting test of IPSC exercises, a written test(and score better than 90%)and shoot an IPSC match sucessfully.(no DQ) I just did that on Sunday, Oct 17/04.
After 12 years as a SASS shooter I am luke warm to IPSC but more shooting is good. Read somewhere that you were in a rut and Brian Enos' book helped. I keep going back to this book when I feel the same and it helps every time.
I run indoor CAS shoots here in a SASS affiliated club. In a previous e-mail to you I mentioned that we ran a couple of "Timewarp" matches..... IPSC VS Cowboys in a one on one.... as close as we could come to the EOT shoot offs....falling plate to determine winner. The local IPSC crowd don't want to play anymore. They were very suprised.
The next step for us is to try Western 3Gun and let the IPSC folks shoot" Eastern 2Gun" IPSC pistol and a shotgun.
Because of the Gov. up here anything we can do get shooters together is positive.
Sorry for the ramble
regards Stoney