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The International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) is the world's largest shooting sport association, and the largest and oldest within practical shooting.Founded in 1976, the IPSC nowadays affiliates over 100 regions from Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. [1]
The IPSC Handgun World Shoot is the highest level handgun match within the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) which consists of several days and at least 30 separate courses of fire. [2] The Handgun World Shoots are held triennially on a rotational cycle with the other two main IPSC disciplines Rifle and Shotgun.
The IPSC US Handgun Championship are yearly IPSC level 3 matches held by the United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA) run under IPSC-rules (contrary to the USPSA Handgun Championship, which is run under USPSA-rules). Sometimes, all of the pistol IPSC nationals are held at the same time, other years, they have been broken up between ...
IPSC was formed in 1976 at a meeting in Columbia, Missouri, led by the late Jeff Cooper. [2] It was here that the sport of Practical Shooting was formally established after years of independent efforts around the country to build upon the handgun skills and training for self-defense.
The 2022 IPSC Handgun World Shoot XIX was held in Thailand from November 27 to December 3. The match consisted of 30 stages over 5 areas, and the main-match sponsor was CZ firearms . [ 1 ] The match had a capacity of 1600 competitors, [ 1 ] and 1345 competitors from 73 countries completed.
A few years later he began shooting the 9x25 dillon handgun round and brought that cartridge into the mainstream. [3] Leatham first shot the Steel Challenge and The Bianchi Cup in 1982. [4] In 1985, he won the Triple Crown of practical pistol shooting: the IPSC US Nationals, the Bianchi Cup and the Steel Challenge.
IPSC provides the two power factors minor and major, which have different scoring points on paper targets. The IPSC target has the three scoring zones; A, C, and D, with the points 5-3-1 for minor and 5-4-2 for major. Good hits are scored equally regardless of power factor, while lesser hits are penalized less with major power factor.
A competitor reloads a shotgun during the 2018 USPSA Multigun Championship in Boulder City, Nevada.. Multigun, Multi Gun or Multi-Gun, often also called 2-Gun or 3-Gun depending on the types of firearms used, are practical shooting events where each of the stages require the competitor to use a combination of handguns, rifles, and/or shotguns [1] Multigun has a lot in common with ordinary IPSC ...