I shot IPSC for a few years, Bill Drills, El Presadentes, etc. Would love to hear some more history of the beginning, stories of the originators etc. If you are one, I'd love to meet you, & offer a cyber handshake.
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IPSC started in 1976, in Columbia, MO, but the SWPL had been conducting similar matches since the late 50's. That sprang out of Jeff' creating the annual Leatherslap, a simple draw and hit stage, 5 tries, 7 yds, 10" disk. The early winners used SA revolvers. Then some DA revolvers did well, Jeff wanted to create a more practical, defensive training sort of thing, to make himself rich, and he succeeded beyond his dreams. As the matches became ever more broad as to what skills were tested, the autoloaders took over. He set things up to handicap the 9mm's, but they eventually won-out. The scoring rings favor the .45, IF you dont stay in the 10" A zone, which is scored the same, for "minor" and "major" calibers. We used the ballistic pendulum to test for wussy loads, and caught Raul Waters cheating, big time, at the 79 Nationals. His 45 loads didn't even make Minor caliber recoil standards.
