Short Course

This week on the podcast, I give an update on my Area 6 Director run and the World Pistol Shootout rules, discuss shooting local matches in "Production 15", and then talk about my thoughts on why USPSA should be doing more to help out shooters that qualify for the World Shoot teams.

This week on the podcast, I use the ruleset for an outlaw major match as lens to examine the things that USPSA rules get right and wrong.

This week on the podcast, I talk about five different ways that practical shooting can, does, and should play a larger role in society, and why it's important to not lose sight of that as we talk about the nitty gritty of changing the organization.

This week on the podcast, I provide some corrections and updates regarding the bans handed down last week, and then discuss the importance of understanding the values that underlie past decisions and the importance of evaluating if they still apply today. Links: Pat Brown's response letter to his suspension (slides 3 and 4): https://www.instagram.com/p/CjRwANZM1Ie/

This week on the podcast, I review the outcome of the five members suspended back in July, and discuss the issues with how little has been disclosed about what they did to earn their respective punishments, as well as their limited ability to defend themselves from unknown charges.

This week on the podcast, I talk about things that went well and lessons learned from running chrono and equipment check at the Carolina Classic this past year. For the email exchange I mention during the episode about random sampling of competitors and cheating, see this blog post.

This week on the podcast, I go over how I shot the 2022 Carolina Classic, as well as review things that went well and lessons learned from how the match was run.

This week on the podcast, I talk about my decision to run for Area 6 Director, and why I think it's important that we stay and try to turn the existing organization around instead of quitting. As mentioned in the podcast, USPSA is requiring me to submit my nomination petition on their particular form, but they have previously allowed petitions that include pages with single signatures. I will have a paper petition with me at Sir Walter for the match this weekend, so if you’re coming to that match, you can sign it there. Otherwise, if you want to sign my petition, you can download the form-fillable PDF here. You can then either fill it out on your computer if you have a way to insert a signature, or print it out, sign the paper, and take a picture. Either way, you can send your signed page to ben@ the URL of my blog. Also I mention in the podcast, here’s a list of blog posts and podcasts as a starting place for people who want to get a sense of who I am and what I think about the direction USPSA should go. Blo

The Board of USPSA is now banning members for criticizing them. I don't have any good news, but I talk for 28 minutes anyway.

This week on the podcast, I had Tyler Turner on to continue the discussion from last time about what the goals of the sport should be: shooters developing and getting better, or just more warm bodies in matches? For an automated transcript of this episode, see the accompanying blog post.

Mason Lane joins me for a discussion of what the priorities of USPSA should be and how we should think about boosting participation in the sport versus encouraging the development of competitive shooters. For a transcript of the episode, click here: https://berryshooting.com/?p=9257 .

This is the audio version of this blog post: https://berryshooting.com/?p=9193 .

This week on the podcast, I talk about this year's NC match from the staff perspective. I discuss everything that went well and is worth emulating, including the format of the shooting days, 5 minute walkthroughs, all-staff reset, and more.

This week on the podcast, I talk about this year's NC Section championship, focusing on my season leading up to the match and my performance during the match.

This episode is a rip of a YouTube livestream that I did talking about a particular stage at the 2020. If you want to see the video of the stage in question or the spreadsheet I use to illustrate the various scenarios, here's the video itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRIuwjVJS_w .

This week on the podcast, I say nice things about IDPA and discuss some things that I think they get right: things like simpler rules, more social culture, better range commands, and banning memory stages.

This week on the podcast, I talk about the recent 2020 South Carolina Section match. I discuss whether it's better to leave stages in or throw them out, why three minute walkthroughs are still a bad idea, and I shot the match overall.

This week on the podcast, I talk about the April 19th GoShoot USPSA match, and some things that I think they do differently that are worth emulating.

In a change of pace this week, I'm uploading the audio from a livestream I did of a recent USPSA match that I shot. If you can, I recommend just skipping this podcast episode and watching the video that accompanies the audio on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P50YS0hha5w . Regular episodes will return soon. Thanks for your patience.

This week on the podcast, I talk about the idea that there is no such thing as a perfect match. First, as a competitor: you'll never have a match without flaws, and that's fine. Second, as a match attendee: there will always be something imperfect about the match, and all you can do is let it go and shoot the challenge in front of you.