USPSA 2008 Rules

Thanks to the USPSA Board of Directors (and with a hat tip to Bill Noyes on the USPSA Forum), we now have the 'final' copy of the 2008 USPSA Rule Book.

Please note that this is not the 'final final' version or (as Evil Bill terms it), the "final--no more changes---we are sending these to the printer NOW version of the 2008 rules."

It is 'merely' the version which was accepted by the USPSA Board of Directors during their online board meeting last week.

For a look at these minutes, you can go to the MEMBERS section of the USPSA website.

(Access to this part of the USPSA webside requires user ID and password, which is available only to USPSA members. You can find the common user ID and password on the first page of The Front Sight magazine, at the bottom of the center column.)

After you have logged into the MEMBERS section, you can click on the Board Meeting Minutes button on the left-hand frame, then click on On-Line Meeting Minutes in the resulting page.

Then select:

Meeting Minutes Details 8/08/07 12:00 AM8/18/07 11:59 PM

(no link is provided here to avoid publishing a link which may not be password protected)

The link to the HANDGUN RULES is embedded in the minutes.
I know, these instructions are sufficiently detailed, but confusing.

If you don't want to, or can't follow the trail described above, I've downloaded the 2008 USPSA Rule Book (August 10, 2007 version) here. It's 65 pages long. I've also downloaded the "forbidden actions" addendum here. It's only 2 pages long.

Both are downloads of PDF files, under 1mb in size. Clicking on the above links will perform the download. You can save the files to your computer for archival purposes, or just read them on your computer monitor.


Obviously, at least one more version of the rule book will be required to incorporate the "forbidden actions" section. As soon as I know about it, you'll know about it.

The rules will probably generate a lot of discussion, because there are one or two issues which were not directly addressed in the original draft (such as "the 25% rule".)

Also, the entire "forbidden actions" addendum is a working copy, which means it is full of color-coded, hi-lighted and/or strike-through phrases making it difficult to read, let alone difficult to understand.

I have just found and downloaded these two PDF documents this evening, so I haven't had time to look them over myself.

But I wanted to give you the same advantage of early review, so you can read them as I do.

If our previous experiences with new competition rule-book versions is a reliable guide, we'll have a lot to talk about in the near future.

Enjoy!
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UPDATE: 23 August, 2007

For those of you who don't read the comments, Bill Noyes has provided us with a link to his Georgia IPSC website where you can read the 2008 USPSA Rule Book with the "Forbidden Actions" changes already commented in. It's a nice (downloadable) PDF with a bookmarks sidebar which provides immediate access to each new clause.

You can get it at:
http://georgiaipsc.com/20070810_handgunRules.pdf