USPSA Rules Changes: 2008

"Spread the Word" he says.

I received an email from Rhino, a member of The Unofficial IPSC List, warning us that NOW is the time to tell your USPSA Area Director what you like and what you don't like about them.

Here's the full text of his email.

To all people with interest in the future if (sic) the United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA), especially members:

Some of you may be unaware that a new set of proposed USPSA rules have been released for comment and feedback from the membership. The new rules are intended to go into effect in 2008 and will completely replace the USPSA/IPSC rules for USPSA matches. All IPSC matches will be held under IPSC rules.

You can find the proposed rules at www.uspsa.org.

There are currently some lively discussions happening on the forums in the members' area at www.uspsa.org. If you care about the future of our sport, whether you like the new rules or hate them or somewhere in between, you owe it to yourself to go and participate there.

The board of directors can't know how you feel unless you tell them.

Along those lines, you should also contact your Area Director directly with your opinions!

Summary:

• Go to www.uspsa.org.
• Download the proposed 2008 rules.
• Download the document providing a list of changes and new rules.
• Read the changes and new rules.
• Go back to www.uspsa.org and enter the members' area.
• Go to the Forums and register if you have not done so already.
• Read and Participate! Repeat as necessary.
• Contact your Area Director at least once before the Board votes on the rules.

(H/T: Horney-Nosed One)

You don't have to be a USPSA member to access these rules changes. (The "Members" function was temporarily unavailable when I looked there, so that's a good thing.) Instead, from the main page click on the "Match Rules" tab in the side-frame. All of the downloads mentioned will be available on the resulting page.

Note, however, that the USPSA Forum IS in the Members Area.
I think.

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I expect to be reviewing these changes for the next week or so, and I'll be writing my own "Geek Yay or Nay" evaluation for submittal to my Area Director. I did that with the 2004 "Green" handbook on December 15, 2003, and it was a fairly lengthy document. Rather than full up a single blog article with escruciating detail (as is my usual practice), I'll put it in a MSWord file and make it available for downloading on this site.