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I appreciate the direction guys. I've shelved the idea for the time being to a few factors:

#1 Lack of interest.
#2 I'm not qualified in my opinion to get this started considering I've never even shot a match.
#3 After sending emails I've found 2 or 3 different places that already have IDPA matches locally.
#4 The whole point was to shoot more but if I end up running these things I'll probably shoot less.

So I'll just go shoot matches where they are already established for a while and just keep having fun at the club. If any of you local guys want to come out and join us just send an email. A friend and I usually set up scenarios and shoot them and hopefully this Sunday will throw rifles into the mix on the short rifle range.

DMG you were right, spoke to one of the members/directors tonight and he is more than willing to help me along.

I shot their IDPA director an email to see what they say.

It doesn't seem all that difficult really, just wanting to make sure there is enough interest before I go ahead and go through with it all.

Appreciate the advice. I was thinking of doing the same thing.


I thought about contacting Golden Triangle but not real sure how they would take it honestly. I may give it a shot though anyway.

New to the forums, didn't even know these were here honestly .

My club (Southeast Texas Sportsmans Club, Orange County on Hwy 105 south of Vidor) has offered me to the opportunity to get IDPA matches going at the club. The owner has wanted to get it going there but just does not have the time to run it full time. He said he has the blinds and we have the space. It's a great club for us who shoot a little differently than just standing in one spot in front of a target and firing slow. We've got about 5 people on board now. The owner has all of the paperwork to get the range IDPA sanctioned also.

I've never shot IDPA but have been interested in doing so for a while. Golden Triangle Gun Club has IDPA matches and I am planning on going out there to watch and possibly participate to see how they are done. I'm trying to gauge the interest of our area shooters on having another place to shoot matches. We are not trying "outdo" Golden Triangle by any means, most likely we would hold our matches opposite of theirs to give anyone an opportunity who missed theirs to shoot ours or if they want to shoot more than 1-2 matches a month. I think they do 2 a month maybe, so if we could squeeze in 2 a month that is almost one per weekend for our little arm pit of Texas.

Also hoping we can get a couple seasoned IDPA shooters to help us along in this endeavor. It's a really nice club and if any of you want to check it out drop me a line and when I go out there next you can come check out the ranges. I'm a member there and you can bring an unlimited number of guests.

If interested drop me a line

ar15_1911@yahoo.com

Eric