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Gordon makes the news......and an article about the just ended Nationals

http://www.mcall.com/sports/outdoors/al ... 1523.story

Bob

''Even though it's [IDPA] an international organization, 70 percent of the members are in the Northeast,'' Murphy [Ted Murphy, Match Director for the 2007 Nationals] said. ''They opened the floodgates by bringing it here.''

Wow. Now that's a statistic I never would have guessed! Seventy percent of all IDPA members live in the northeastern states? Wow. Or did he mean that 70% of the ones who attended the Nationals in Pennsylvania lived in the Northeast?

Thanks for posting the link, Bob. Gordon at least comes home knowing he beat all but one person; he was only 3 3/4 seconds behind SSP division champion Bob Vogel, who was also High Law Enforcement. Gordon also won two of the stages. It looked like Stage 7 ("Can't Get Away from Them") was the only one where he really lost some ground, and to a lesser degree, Stage 13. Something tells me he had a stoppage on Stage 7.

It'd be nice if the stage numbers on the results page linked to a description of the CoF, wouldn't it? The CoF is contained in the match handout that's online (http://www.idpa.com/matchresults/2007_n ... k_2007.pdf), but it would be handy to link directly to a specific stage from the results page.

I also I admit I always enjoy looking at the revolver results; some guy named Miculek won again, and his margin over his next nearest competitor was...wait for it...over 50 seconds.

Anyone who'd like to look at all the results from Nationals can do so here: http://www.idpa.com/2007_match.asp.

For those, like myself, who could not attend....the Match Book

http://www.idpa.com/matchresults/2007_n ... k_2007.pdf

Bob

Gordon at least comes home knowing he beat all but one person; he was only 3 3/4 seconds behind SSP division champion Bob Vogel, who was also High Law Enforcement. Gordon also won two of the stages. It looked like Stage 7 ("Can't Get Away from Them") was the only one where he really lost some ground, and to a lesser degree, Stage 13. Something tells me he had a stoppage on Stage 7.

No stoppage on Stage 7. The M&P ran flawlessly during the entire match. I had "brain stoppage" on stages 7 & 13 and Bob took full advantage of it. He shot a great match and deserves the win.