Racine IDPA 2013 Members Only Match

RACINE IDPA ? December 7th Match The next Racine IDPA match is coming up this Saturday, December 7th, 2013. The match is being held indoors at Shooters’ Sport Center in Racine. Directions can be found on our web site at http://www.racineidpa.com. This is the annual members potluck and member raffle match, and only current (2013) members of Racine IDPA may attend. Registration will begin at 5:15 PM. Setup and range preparation will start as soon as the range is released to us. Safety meeting will be at 6:00 PM with shooting to start immediately after. We will stop part way through the match for the pot luck and member raffle. You MUST attend the safety meeting to be able to shoot. If you arrive late and miss the safety meeting you will not be able to shoot. Also, eye and ear protection are required for all Shooters and any observers out on the range. COURSES OF FIRE This match will have three stages, plus a side match stage. The side match will require a pistol-caliber carbine. Concealment will be mandatory for some of the stages. Ammo requirements would suggest bringing a minimum of 50 rounds for your handgun as well as 10 rounds for your pistol-caliber carbine. Match fee is $15 for Racine IDPA members, $20 for all non-members. Safety Officers pay $10. NEW SHOOTERS If you are new to IDPA, we ask that you do not gear up until we meet to discuss basic IDPA safety and competition rules. As a reminder, we run a “cold range”- no firearms are to be loaded except under the command of a Safety Officer when it’s your turn to shoot a stage. Handguns can only be handled at the Safety Table or under the direction of an S.O. Also, there is NO handling of ammunition or ammunition carriers (mags, speedloaders, etc.) at the safety table. Failure to abide by these rules will result in a match disqualification. Please feel free to ask a Safety Officer or the Match Director if you have any questions regarding our safety rules. SAFETY OFFICERS We plan on 2 squads, and we need at least 6 people to step forward. If you can SO please email me at idpa_tom@comcast.net and/or post to the match event in the club’s Facebook group. The S.O.’s will also be responsible for stage set up, and two of the S.O.’s will be “bay bosses” in charge of their respective bays. MATCH DIRECTOR Tom Ropers will be the Match Director at this match. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE We’ll need to make sure we keep things moving along since we have the pot luck dinner and the member prize drawing in addition to the match. We’ll be giving away three firearms as part of the member prize drawing, and members do NOT need to be present to win one of the firearms. Members do need to be present for the other prizes, such as t-shirts, hats, etc. Remember, helping with the match will earn entries towards whatever prize guns the club gives away in December 2013. Registration, set up / teardown, S.O.-ing, etc., all count towards earning entries. The current club raffle is for a UZI .22LR rifle. We will sell a total of 54 tickets for this raffle, with prices of $10 each. We’ll hold the drawing as soon as all the tickets are sold. If anyone has any suggestions for stages, please send them my way. I’m always interested in other peoples’ stage design, and while I can’t guarantee they’ll get used at any particular match, the odds are good that they’ll get used eventually. Please keep in mind that the designs may be modified to keep them IDPA-legal or to fit the range the match is held at. Since a few members who ordered 2013 t-shirts never claimed them (or paid for their share of the cost), those t-shirts have been added to the member prize table that we’ll have at this match. The 2014 membership application is available on the club’s web site. Membership costs are remaining the same. For 2014, we?ll b e offering hats for our members. Exact details are to be determined, but the club will cover the majority, if not all, of the cost for members. Come ready to shoot and have some fun. See you on Saturday. Tom Ropers, Club President Please email us if you have any questions. www.racineidpa.com IDPA_Tom@comcast.net

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