Didn't get anything from them. Maybe I'll send an email voting for you!If you are a current USPSA member you should have received the email with instructions to cast your vote. You have until 8/1 to vote.
Anybody know how they narrow it down to just 2 people? Were they the only two guys interested?
Who is running?
Mike Foley and Mike Valentine
Is Valentine running on the PCC repeal platform?
Only the two are running.Anybody know how they narrow it down to just 2 people? Were they the only two guys interested?
Valentine did pretty good on the Practical Shooting After Dark podcast. But he is a mostly unknown, and seems that like any outsider would doesn't know what he'll actually be able to do.I haven't found their actual platforms listed anywhere. The side discussion I have seen says the decision is between the "douchebag" that tried to ban some high profile guys over a joke and the other guy who has never RO'd.
Life Member since 1994 here.
#1 - I don't vote for any of them. Haven't in over 20 years. Voting only encourages the board and officers (particularly the officers) to do more stupid crap, thinking they have been given a mandate from the members to make things more gooder.
#2 - I didn't get an email. I don't get emails from them even though they have it on record. Maybe I have been booted out and they forgot to email me to tell me.
I didn't get a paper ballot in the regular mail either. That's a thing of the past like an actual rule book to carry in your range bag. I do have a plastic Life Member card. Hope I never lose it, I'd need a 3D printer to download a replacement.
Someone (Phil, let's blame Phil, he's a good scapegoat) at HQ boogered my password so I can't get into the site. I would believe they think I already died except I do still get Front Sight. I could call and get the password and email straightened out, I suppose, but then that might lead them to believe I actually give a crap about what they do. It's beyond redemption so I don't.
#3 - No, my membership did not expire. It will never expire. Eventually I will expire. And they will probably still send the magazine after I do. Sponsors need eyeballs on their stuff, ya know, even dead eyeballs. Because sponsorship is and always has been the driving force behind USPSA.
People think that "inclusiveness" is a fairly recent phenomenon foisted on us by the liberals. It is not. USPSA started being "inclusive" way back in the early '90's before it became fashionable. Maybe it was because HQ was in liberal Washington.
First, Practical Carry (aka Production) Division for the Glock shooters who were so sad because they couldn't compete in Limited against the major power factor Paras. Then, Single Stack Division for the .45 ACP 1911 purist whiners (who promptly left to create IDPA anyhow - LOL).
You have to remember......... Para was an existential threat to anyone shooting Limited without a major PF wide body. So the members <wink, wink> petitioned for more divisions. Or so we were told.
Limited 10 eventually came along for those in the leftist states. Followed later by Carry Optics (aka Budget Open or Production for Failing Eyesight, depending on your age, I guess).
And the all time winner ---- Pistol Caliber Carbine for I have absolutely no freaking idea why. It's a RIFLE!!!!! Go play on the rifle playground.
But Revolver Division is still hanging in there for the few, the proud. Of course, if anyone thinks they can bring out the old six shooter........ um, no, that ain't gonna fly in today's 8 here, 8 there, 8 everywhere game.
And then we have the special award categories. Lady category and Junior category and Senior category and Super Senior category. What's next, Life Support category? Drag the old oxygen tank around and shoot strong hand only?
Military, Law Enforcement, Foreign. Is there anyone one who is not special in some way? An old female Canadian military police officer could really clean up on the awards.
A good friend of mine is hoping for the Fifty Five Year Old Italian Fat Guy category. And when a mid fifties Italian fat guy gets elected President it will happen. Watch and see. Past is prologue.
Member ID numbers are way beyond #100,000 and only 30,000 are active members (allegedly). What's that tell ya? Do you think those other 70,000 shooters all died or retired and moved to Costa Rica? Ha.
When the number of former participants more than doubles the current participants -- there's a reason for it and it's not just attrition. What once was a simple "shoot as fast and accurately as you can" fun day at the range has been turned into a participation trophy event where no one has to have any bad feelz, governed by a (online) rule book filled with bullshit to accommodate the unwritten mission statement of USPSA ----- Let No Sponsor Be Left Behind.
Resurrect Jeff Cooper and I'll vote for him.
ETA -- for all the sanctimonious blathering from the IDPA founders about IPSC having strayed and become an equipment race, it is interesting to see that IDPA now has 10 equipment divisions. But you still can't use moon clips. Oh noooooooooo, that would be gamer like. LOL
Valentine did pretty good on the Practical Shooting After Dark podcast. But he is a mostly unknown, and seems that like any outsider would doesn't know what he'll actually be able to do.
I think Foley thinks everything is roses how it is.
Amazing rant!
I'm considering framing this for my wall.
Thank you.
The incestuous relationship between USPSA leadership and industry sponsors has always been a thorn for me. I understand how sponsors underwrite the majors and, therefore, must be catered to somewhat.
But there was a time when there were equipment rules changes on a seemingly monthly basis which benefited those with stuff to sell to the members more so than the members themselves. And all the while we were told all this was being done for the betterment of the sport and for the good of the members. "Look at how the membership numbers are climbing", was the battle cry.
It's funny how the "entry level" division created as a result of the 1994 AWB and the relatively inexpensive Glock coming into prominence ended up taking up more space in the rule book than any other division. How could that have happened to "box stock" guns, I wonder?
Single Stack was the one that really frosted my cupcakes. That was nothing more than a good-old-boy gift to some sponsors. And, like I said above, they promptly bailed out anyhow. I'm sure there was a fair amount of "principle" involved in that move to create a new (fundamental) game but I am just as sure there was a fair amount of "principal" involved in the creation of the Single Stack division, too.
99% of us just want to bust some caps, bust some balls, have a burger & a couple beers on the way home but there are a lot of levels to the game.
ETA - "Don't piss down my back, Senator, and tell me it's raining."
And, sure PCC is lame, but once I saw Jessica Hook shoot it, I was quickly assembling mine and trying to lose weight.
No matter how hard you try, you will never be a gun bunny
ETA -- for all the sanctimonious blathering from the IDPA founders about IPSC having strayed and become an equipment race, it is interesting to see that IDPA now has 10 equipment divisions. But you still can't use moon clips. Oh noooooooooo, that would be gamer like. LOL
Didn't they come into the 21st century and start an optics division?I thought this was an IPSC/USPSA rant.
SSP, ESP, CDP, CCP, Rev, Bug, and....PCC.
7 divisions you’ll ever see run in in the largest club match in the Carolinas, probably in the southeast. Not sure which 10 you speak of.
And FWIW, we have, uh, er, unfortunate leadership these days.
so rant on, lol.
Okay, 8.Didn't they come into the 21st century and start an optics division?
In BUG specific matches we shoot semi and rev, but in regular matches it’s just BUG.I thought I read somewhere that Bug was broken out to revolver and auto. And Revolver was broken out to .38 Spl and .357.
But, yeah, optics and PCC makes 8 on the official site so I'll go with that.
Yeah, what's up with the "lady" category?? I'm new to all this, but I saw that and went, "What?? Why?"And then we have the special award categories. Lady category and Junior category and Senior category and Super Senior category. What's next, Life Support category? Drag the old oxygen tank around and shoot strong hand only?
It’s kind of weird that you’re griping about all these guns/arms race and then talking about buying A class yourself / buying a $3000 gun. On the flip side a lot of really good shooters (Ms and GMs with major wins) cut their teeth with cheap guns, some still shoot with them.
Yeah, what's up with the "lady" category?? I'm new to all this, but I saw that and went, "What?? Why?"
We can't shoot as well as men, seems to be the implication for having a separate category based on our gender. I don't get it. Maybe it's just me being contrary.
TRUTH!! And pants down hugsI just like going out and blasting! I enjoy the smack talk and the general camaraderie of the sport as well as the competition.
The Zev v. Salient v. Taran v. Agency division? Hope not.I prefer limited as a gateway because I want to fully load my magazines and mod my gun. Although the latest production rule changes did make my grip mods legal.
I would like it if limited minor became its own division because I don't reload. I think the growth of carry optics and the continued success of production partly comes from the availability of cheap 9mm ammo and no scoring disadvantage within the division.
It happened. Mike won.I fully expected an announcement by now