NOT CAS with a 1911!!

[Whitey James]

I found out (The hard way) that WBAS is NOT just CAS with a 1911. I shoot a stage where you had to move to shoot your shotgun last and re-holstered my pistol and all I heard was "waaaaaaaait" but, alas, it was too late.

Being that I have shot way more CAS matches, I was used to doing that with my revolver(s). I still don't understand the logic but now at least I know.

[El Chapo]

1 hour ago, Whitey James said:

I found out (The hard way) that WBAS is NOT just CAS with a 1911. I shoot a stage where you had to move to shoot your shotgun last and re-holstered my pistol and all I heard was "waaaaaaaait" but, alas, it was too late.

Being that I have shot way more CAS matches, I was used to doing that with my revolver(s). I still don't understand the logic but now at least I know.

Maybe that's something we can fix someday.  There's no reason a safely holstered pistol should be any kind of penalty.

[Flying W Ramrod]

2 hours ago, El Chapo said:

Maybe that's something we can fix someday.  There's no reason a safely holstered pistol should be any kind of penalty.

except when in slide lock, it's easier for it to fall out of the holster.

Also, it would then require you to drop mag, slide forward, pull trigger, to ensure you don't have a live round in the chamber.

Too much time, and chances for baaad mistakes.

[Abe E.S. Corpus]

There are other action pistol sports in which reholstering the pistol is not allowed or at least discouraged.

[El Chapo]

1 hour ago, Abe E.S. Corpus said:

There are other action pistol sports in which reholstering the pistol is not allowed or at least discouraged.

Not true.  It cannot be required but it is not prohibited to holster a pistol on the clock in all of the other handgun shooting sports where I have shot tens of thousands of rounds through a 1911.

12 hours ago, Flying W Ramrod said:

except when in slide lock, it's easier for it to fall out of the holster.

Also, it would then require you to drop mag, slide forward, pull trigger, to ensure you don't have a live round in the chamber.

Too much time, and chances for baaad mistakes.

It is not required that one do any of those things.  The other sports 1) require a holster that covers the trigger and 2) permit the holstering of a pistol with a round in the chamber and the safety applied.  Really, it's that simple. 

In 5 decades of matches it has been proven that those safety rules are completely sufficient.

If the gun falls out of the holster, it's a match DQ.  Pick your holster carefully.

 

What we need is a serious culture and attitude change toward the automatic.

Edited 18 hours ago by El Chapo

[Flying W Ramrod]

4 hours ago, El Chapo said:

 

 

What we need is a serious culture and attitude change toward the automatic.

I would suggest you contact your TG, provide them with actual handbook citations regarding this issue, and help them work on it.

It all starts with the TG's.

[Jorge]

El Chapo,

Which shooting sports, action shooting, allowed reholstering a pistol without it being cleared by a "safety Officer" during a course of fire?