From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The term "practical" has been used the turn of the century! Walter Winans uses it in his books, and deals at some length with the defensive use of the pistol. Tracey also use the term in his book "Revolver Shooting in War". It is certainly not a modern adoption. -- Umm, well, I think the usage is more to do with shooting sports. IPSC was originally called "combat shooting" but when IPSC was formed the non-US founders realised that "combat" was going to cause problems, so they called it "practical". However IPSC is, to quote Jeff Cooper, "not even vaguely practical" and he's right, frankly. It's still more interesting to me than ISSF though. One thing I will say against the Cooperites though is that they criticise IPSC for completely invalid reasons, saying that guns with compensators and red dots and so on are not "practical". Why not? In many US states you can carry openly, why not a racegun? A lot of SWAT teams use entry guns not far removed from an IPSC racegun. They're not single stack .45 1911s, that is really why they don't like them. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
