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Welcome to the Porter County Poppers
page.
We are a USPSA/IPSC affiliate club in Northwest Indiana.
Our USPSA liaison is John
Ornelas.
Our Match Coordinator is
Bill Zeller
The NPCCC USPSA Committe Page with stage director and planning information
is here.
The United States
Practical Shooting Association is a non-profit membership
association. Most of the more than 15,000 individual members belong to and
regularly compete at one of the nearly 400 affiliated clubs and sections
(groups of clubs banded together for mutual benefit) located across the
United States.
USPSA is affiliated with the
International Practical Shooting Confederation
(IPSC), which is comprised of organizations in approximately 67 nations. USPSA is the
American region of IPSC.
For 2008, USPSA now has its own distinct rulebook separate from the IPSC
one.
Porter County Poppers is a member
of the Indiana Section of USPSA. The Indiana Section is made up of
eight clubs across the state.
USPSA matches offer fast action
over varied courses of fire, with several equipment divisions to allow
almost any medium or high power centerfire pistol to compete. In
certain matches, there are also long gun stages and events for both
centerfire rifles and shotguns.
There
are classes for shooters of all experience levels from the newest of newbies
to master-level experts.
Courses may range from six to 36 rounds expended, with speed, accuracy, and
power all factoring into the equation. Many include movement by the
shooter over the course, with barricades, ports, and other setup props to
vary the action.
Someone wishing to try USPSA action pistol needs just a few things to get
started- a centerfire handgun of .38/9mm caliber or greater, at least three
magazines (four is much better) or speedloaders and carriers for same, a safe holster, and about
100-150 rounds of ammunition (for regular club-level matches).
No membership or special training is needed. What we do recommend,
though, is to come a bit early and let us know that you're new. We'll
walk you through the whole thing.
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Our USPSA Matches are on the first
Sundays of every month from April to November.
We set up at 12:30pm on the Saturday before the match.
Setup builders who put in at least two hours of work may have their
match fee waived if they wish.
Setup people and hardship cases may also shoot at the end of setup
on Saturday late afternoon.
Saturday shooters may also shoot again on Sunday, at full fee, and
with scores not being registered.
If you'd like to help out, just show up.
For non-setup Saturday shooting permission, ask
Bill
2009 matches:
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| April 5th, 2009 |
One classifier |
| May 3rd, 2009 |
Our "Super Sectional Prep
Special", four field courses, 130 rounds |
| June 7th, 2009 |
Four field courses |
| July 5th, 2009 |
Four field courses |
| August 2nd, 2009 |
All-classifer, seven planned |
| September 6th, 2009 |
Four field courses |
| October 4th, 2009 |
Three field courses, one
classifier |
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November 1st, 2009
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Multi-gun, four field courses |
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A note about
classifier stages:
For 2009, we're going to put at least six into a special all-classifer
match in August, and then have another classifer stage each in April and
October to fill out.
This gives us more room for better field courses the rest of the months!
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