April 2024 SDPS IDPA and 3-gun match Well, a rainy Thursday and Friday did not deter our Saturday 3-gun match and Sunday regular IDPA match. Many thanks to David Rice and David Hong for designing the 3-gun match and those who helped them do the set up. Also, David Rice deserves the trooper award for being Sunday’s match director and,…
March 2024 SDPS IDPA Match Well, the rain gods favored us both for setup Saturday and for the match on Sunday. Thank you to Kevin Ballment, our match director, and his faithful minions for setup on Saturday. Our fearless club president, El Presidente Harrigan, announced that there are/were 30 open spots for the Western match in May so get on…
SDPS IDPA Classifier January 2024 Best wishes to everyone for a prosperous and happy new year. May all your matches be memorable and your rank rise in the sport. Since this was a classifier and a warmup stage was the only addition, I will not report results as I would in a regular match. Many thanks to Fred Mowrey and…
SDPS December 2023 Match And Membership Appreciation What a beautiful day for gathering with friends and burning powder. Many thanks to Nick Harrigan for being the match director and giving us quick and exciting stages. Although we did not end at noon as advertised, we did finish, clean up the stages and get the vittles by 1PM. Marty Johnson and…
SDPS Match November 5th, 2023 Holiday season is just around the corner and all the shooters who showed up Sunday were in a festive mood. Marty Johnson, the match director, with the assistance of Phil Zidek and many others put up a very good set of stage designs that offered something for everybody. Ryan Harrigan announced December’s match will be…
October 2023 SDPS IDPA Match What a gorgeous weekend for a match. Many thanks to Ryan Harrigan for stepping in to be the match director. Also, thanks to David Hong, Phil Zidek and Fred Mowrey for designing the stages and for everyone who helped with setup on Saturday. We had challenges with this one but got through stage 2 even…
SDPS September 2023 IDPA Match The merciless string of hot weekend match events finally ended this month. We got mild weather with a hint of precipitation. Steve Reeder was our peerless match director. He and his crew put together a set of very fast shooting, but interesting, stages that left everyone happy and leaving at a decent time to…
SDPS IDPA Match July 2023 So old king Sol delivered a hot one this Sunday. Thanks to Phil Zidek for designing the stages and being our match director. Phil had a crew of twelve to do the set up on Saturday and they were very motivated to get everything up before noon to beat the heat. Our thanks to Phil…
April 2023 SDPS Match If only the match had been on Saturday during setup, as the weather was sunny and warm. Instead we got an overcast and cool, some would say chilly, day. Regardless, the match was great with Ryan Harrigan, the match director, and his protege, Eric LIntz doing a fine job designing stages. As always, many thanks to…
February 2023 SDPS Match David Rice, as our intrepid match director, designed a very challenging course of fire that kept us on our toes. Many thanks to all those who helped set up the stage and to David for putting all the thought and planning to make this happen. Next month’s match director is Kevin Ballment and April is Ryan…