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Agree with you 100% on the concept and reasons surrounding "trigger time." One of the biggest mistakes I ever made was joining IPSC and the USPSA as a life member. Because IPSC is a game...a sport that is even trying to gain acceptance into the Olympics. Good for them, but try to play that game on the street and not only will you get yourself killed, but a bunch of other folks too. So much for $5000 race guns. I know IPSC folks who can't even shoot with iron sights! Now that is sad.

IDPA club to which I belong is one of the few "teaching clubs" in the group and we were the first to hold an officially sanctioned shoot east of the Mississippi River. In fact I was the first shooter run at that shoot and in honor of that, I ran the course with combat JHP's in my gun...what I actually carried on the street.

IMHO, IDPA is the best possible and safest preparation for realistic street situational training.

I don't have a problem with someone shooting only IPSC. That may be the only chance the person has to draw and fire since doing presentations isn't allowed at most ranges. It depends on what a person wants to get out of the course. I remember when they timed Rob Latham with a $5000 race gun and with a stock 1911. His times weren't that far apart with each gun.

The club I shoot at is just starting and it's difficult to get the competitors to shoot from a concealed. I do and I think I'm the only one and I really don't care what the scenario reads. I shoot my street leather except for using lead for the plates. I still use the Commander that has the faulty extractor. So I'm not going to place first, second or third. Tough. What I should do is start using my street gun with the ports and just get disqualified for using it. Our score sheets allow me to have a copy and I can bring the copies home and compare what I did.