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Archives for December 2025

Club Culture and You

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(Be a Do Bee, Not a Don’t Bee)

As you may have noted, USPSA membership is growing and so is the number of affiliated clubs, both Steel Challenge and USPSA.  With growth comes growing pains, naturally, but there are a few things you as an experienced club member, range officer, club contact, match director, section coordinator or Area Director can do to help alleviate some of the common issues.  This will be especially necessary with the advent of “The USPSA Experience”, a web site dedicated to cleanly and simply introducing people to our sport.

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Dangerous Talk

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In this day and age, we have reached a point where the possibility that everything we say and do is being recorded, especially on a shooting range at a match. And, because an awful lot of this is shared on social media, how we comport ourselves on the range really does become the public face of the shooting community and can have far reaching impacts. Let’s discuss a bit deeper.

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What does weak side really mean?

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This Question of the Month was inspired by Stage 4 from the 2025 Racegun Nationals. When my staff squad shot it, I was asked by a PCC shooter if he could shoot from the hip right after the start signal. I gave him an answer, and then told him I better double check the rulebook. Based on the results of this poll, I don’t think many folks checked the rulebook. Let’s revisit the question and find out what the correct answer is!

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