Interesting IDPA website, IDPA Tech

[PC7]

http://www.idpa.tech/

I found this website through another forum. Word is it is managed by an area coordinator with HQ's blessings. 

Some very interesting stuff is there. Such as new Carry Optics division rules: http://www.idpa.tech/become-classified-in-carry-optics-postal-match/

An abbreviated Classifier with times: http://www.idpa.tech/the-5x5-classifier-abbreviated/

A PCC Classifier with classification times: http://www.idpa.tech/pistol-caliber-carbine-classifier/

And some great clarification on fault lines and flagrant penalties: http://www.idpa.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Ruling-on-Fault-lines.pdf   

 http://www.idpa.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Flagrant-Penalties.pdf

 

Edited January 6, 2018 by PC7

[DMark]

PC7, thanks for the link.

A lot of MDs are putting their Fault Lines in too tight using the first target presented as their base for cover.  This results in folks crowding cover and worst hooking their weapons around corners to shoot the additional targets.

When the idea of FLs was first brought up in IDPA a few tears ago, the idea was that there would have to be a FL for each target as it would appear as you sliced the pie.  It didn't take long for everyone to realize that this would be unmanageable, some points of cover would have 3-4 FLs!

IMHO, the last target that will be presented from the point of cover is the one that decides where the FL goes and it seems that is what the ruling you linked to is saying with the statement, "A wide fault line does not mean a shooter cannot use cover and pie around a barrier or wall."

Edited January 8, 2018 by DMark

[jmecklen]

PC7, thanks for the info. Good resource.

In reference to DMarks  Fault line discussion, I still find the new ruling about as clear as mud. So you have the option to use cover as we did in the old rules or go to a "wide" FL at that POC and be exposed to multiple targets?

[DMark]

jmecklen,

The wide FL allows the use of cover as we did under the old rules, and also the way most of us have been trained to do using standoff from cover.  Using movement around the cover to expose each target, the wide FL will let the shooter arrive where we would have under the old rules to engage the last target.  In this regard the wide FL is sort of a limit of advance around the cover.

And Yes...., based on the statement from the link it also appears that the Gamers can rush full-speed directly to the wide FL fully exposed to all targets and engage each target as they would have appeared if they where actually using cover. 

Yet, I think the wide FL is necessary.  Based on some the tight FLs that I have been seeing at local matches - - - nearly 90 degrees from the edge of the cover - - - there is little to no way to correctly employ standoff from the cover, it forces the shooter to crowd cover leaving little or no room for actual movement.