We are bringing you Part Two of the interviews we recorded at the 2009 IDPA Nationals. This episode we feature interviews with four very different female shooters. First we talk to Joyce Wilson, the Executive Director of IDPA. Second we talk to Nikki Pinto a 16 year old high school student, shooting her first national match and she did a great job, remember her name because she’s going to go far. Our third interview is with Randi Rogers of Team Glock (also known as Holy Terror) who we caught a brief interview with between stages. Finally we talk with Cyndi Dalena of the First Shots Program.
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Nikki Pinto getting some expert coaching from Tom Carpenter and Mark Redl of Team EOTAC
Randi Rogers shooting the infamous “Is This on Candid Camera” Stage at the IDPA Nationals
These are the voices of the Nationals! Hear from Curt Nichols, the long-standing Stock Service Revolver national champ who devoted about three full time months worth of work to running this year’s event as match director. Hear from Robert Ray, who is the voice of International Defensive Pistol Association at headquarters on a daily basis, and the de facto arbiter of the sport’s rules. Hear from John Sayle, a prime mover first in IPSC in the US and then one of the founders of IDPA, and still a member of the IDPA Board, who was there on the ground when the whole movement developed. Fascinating listening, even for those who don’t shoot IDPA! The match was held at the beautiful U.S. Shooting Academy in Tulsa OK a must see destination for all shooters.
But wait, there’s more!! We had so many good interviews from the match that we decided to split them up into Two!, count ‘em, Two Podcasts. Watch for the ProArms Broad-Cast. We interview Joyce Wilson, the Executive Director of IDPA, Randi Rogers, winner of High-Lady at the Nationals, Nikki Pinto a 16 year old shooter at her first national match and Cyndi Dalena who runs the First Shots Program.
So check back soon for more!!!
Gail interviewing John Sayle
Curt Nichols receiving his award for top revolver shooter presented by Bill Wilson
It’s been a while since we had one of our round-table discussions so this week we decides to get together and discuss revolvers, a lot of things but not everything about revolvers. We have a lot of videos demonstrating reloading techniques for the revolver below. Oh, and if you tried to count up how many years of experience with revolvers we have had, that we enumerated on the podcast it come up to at least 245.
Paul Barrett visited our group twice in the course of putting together his cover story on the rise of the Glock pistol for Business Week magazine. We found him to be that rare reporter who seemed to truly be neutral on the explosive “gun control issue.” He even came with us to a couple of IDPA matches, and “got into the spirit” enough that he shot the second one with us! Used a Glock…and didn’t finish last, either.
Never owning a firearm himself and having fired one only on rare occasions in conjunction with writing assignments on the firearms industry for Wall Street Journal and now, Business Week, he has no ego invested that we can detect on either side of the gun control issue. Thus, he gives us an uncommon perspective: a “non-gun,” “non-gun-politics” person who is knowledgeable about the firearms industry…and striving to learn more.
His impressions after shooting…and his perspectives on the whole, intensely hot firearms debate…make fascinating listening, all the more timely since his current cover story in Business Week is the talk of the industry.
Paul Barrett competing in his first IDPA match with a Glock17.When you shoot with Team ProArms Everybody Pastes!
This is a story of justice gone wrong. It doesn’t include guns or shooting but there are many lessons to be learned here.
If you spend any time on the various internet fora you will come across many discussions of what would happen if one is involved in a self-defense shooting. You will hear people state something to the effect of “It doesn’t matter what kind of gun, ammo, trigger etc. that I use, all that matters is if it’s a good shoot.” The people who actually work in the courts have seen otherwise. Often, personal agendas and political correctness drive lawsuits that have no merit, and occasionally, they even engender wrongful prosecutions.
Here, Attorney Jim Fleming details one of the latter. It wasn’t a shooting case, but the same dynamics that occurred in this incident will be familiar to anyone who has ever been wrongfully accused.
You can get the book “The Bison King” at Tate Publishing or at Amazon for the Kindle.
Another all female podcast (except for Steve’s intro and outro). We present a roundtable discussion with Gila Hayes of the Firearms Academy of Seattle and author of several books and many magazine articles, Kathy Jackson of the fabulous Cornered Cat website and Editor of Concealed Carry Magazine, Diane Walls a writer for Women and Guns Magazine and Gail Pepin from this very Podcast. We start out discussing “Women in the gun media” but quickly move on from there. So put your wives, girlfriends, daughters and mothers in the car and play for them this all female discussion of guns.
When Andy Brown was a 25 year old Airforce Security Policeman at Fairchild AFB in Washington he single-handedly stop an active killer who had already killed or injured injured over 25 people. Andy shared his story with a recent LFI class and gave us permission to share his story with our listeners. This is a very moving story and conjures up some very disturbing images, yet is a story worth telling and hearing from a young man who was truly a hero that day.
We shoot a match “mirror image” meaning that everything is done exactly opposite of what you usually do. In this case we were all right handed, meaning we had our holsters on the left and magazines on the right, revolver shooters had their speedloaders on the left since they usually carry them on their gun side. Hear the many reasons why we did it, and what we learned.
Kevin, making a mirror-image re-load of his Springfield Armory 1911The Assortment of holsters and guns we used for the “mirror image” match
This Episode takes us back to Indiana where Mas and Gail had a conversation with Keith Jones, a veteran Police officer as well as a military combat veteran. Join us as we talk to Keith about what he has learned over the years.
This week we travel up to New Hampshire and are joined by the recently retired Chief of Police of Grantham, Russ Lary. Together we visit the Ruger plant where they make all of the long guns and revolvers. Our focus is mainly on the SR-556 but we also check out where the other guns are made; particularly the LCR. We have pictures of hundreds of guns getting ready to ship, there’s no shortage here, they’re making them as fast as they realistically can. They have a new manufacturing paradigm at Ruger, now they can rapidly ramp up production on the guns that they have more orders for. For instance the 10/22s are turned out at a rate of 2 rifles per minute, while the manufacturing cells of the less ordered guns may have one or two people working in them.
We shot two different SR-556s at two different ranges with excellent results at both sessions. The guns ran smoothly, even with rapid fire, we got good groups and we experienced no malfunctions at all, with several different types of ammo.
In the second segment we talk with Russ about his opinion of the SR-556 and what he thinks of the rifle’s future in the military and law enforcement, despite the fact the company is only marketing to the civilian market right now.
Racks of SR-556 Rifles in the assembly process
Russ Lary testing the SR-556 at the range.There’s no gun shortage here, racks of guns getting ready to be test fired and shipped.
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The Assortment of holsters and guns we used for the “mirror image” match 
There’s no gun shortage here, racks of guns getting ready to be test fired and shipped.
