One of the IDPA clubs I shoot with held a Classifier instead of their regular match Thursday. Two of the women I shoot with in the Women's IDPA shot that Classifier — their first. The past several months I'd been encouraging our regulars to shoot a Classifier the next time one was held at that range. I'd already got them to join IDPA several months after they began shooting IDPA on a regular basis. So two goals down and more to go.
Another idea in my sneaky little mind is to get them integrated into at least occasionally shooting a match with the guys — at the regular semi-monthly IDPA matches. If I lived closer than 90+ miles from that range I'd be there for every match and that, I think, would get them to shoot with the guys even when I couldn't be there. They wouldn't be just a bunch of guys, mostly whom they don't know; they'd be a bunch of guys they shoot with on a regular basis — no longer mostly strangers but acquaintances, if not friends. I drove out mainly to 'be there' for the two women and to help with the match. As I most likely knew most of the other shooters and the other SO's (Safety Officers—none of them shot the Classifier but were there to help run the match) I did some introductions.
The Women's IDPA Match Director was one of the SO's so another familiar face. Between strings and shooters when a person that didn't have electronic ears could chat and not only be heard but hear the other person, I introduced both women to all the other shooters, particularly the other SO's and shooters I knew shot there on a regular basis. By the end of the evening, I noticed them in conversation with some of the other shooters. And when after each stage they took their score sheet into the 'booth' to be scored, they would spend a little more time with some of the regulars.
Hopefully one or both will venture in and shoot some regular matches with "the guys".
blogging to: Memories 89 1
reading: Relative Danger by June Shaw (a Cealie Gunther mystery)
Parting Shot:
Another idea in my sneaky little mind is to get them integrated into at least occasionally shooting a match with the guys — at the regular semi-monthly IDPA matches. If I lived closer than 90+ miles from that range I'd be there for every match and that, I think, would get them to shoot with the guys even when I couldn't be there. They wouldn't be just a bunch of guys, mostly whom they don't know; they'd be a bunch of guys they shoot with on a regular basis — no longer mostly strangers but acquaintances, if not friends. I drove out mainly to 'be there' for the two women and to help with the match. As I most likely knew most of the other shooters and the other SO's (Safety Officers—none of them shot the Classifier but were there to help run the match) I did some introductions.
The Women's IDPA Match Director was one of the SO's so another familiar face. Between strings and shooters when a person that didn't have electronic ears could chat and not only be heard but hear the other person, I introduced both women to all the other shooters, particularly the other SO's and shooters I knew shot there on a regular basis. By the end of the evening, I noticed them in conversation with some of the other shooters. And when after each stage they took their score sheet into the 'booth' to be scored, they would spend a little more time with some of the regulars.
Hopefully one or both will venture in and shoot some regular matches with "the guys".
blogging to: Memories 89 1
reading: Relative Danger by June Shaw (a Cealie Gunther mystery)
Parting Shot:
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