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From: cfor@ciba-geigy.ch (Rainer Foeppl)
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Subject: IPSC Minor versus Major
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Date: 4 Jun 91 20:04:11 GMT
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There are discussions in progress about the major/minor system used by IPSC
competitions to score matches.

the current system has a lot of problems, e.g. a lot of shooters clearly exeed
the maximum pressure of their cartridges to get the major factor. on the other
side there is no way to measure the pressure used by the competitors load on
the spot to prove him his unsafe ammo.

regarding those facts, we think that it would be the best, just to define the
minimum facts, every shooter has to fulfill to take part of a competiton.

we think this should be a factor of 125 and a minimum diameter of .354

major is no more used, as todays guns with compensators do not have the 
same recoil as the old one factory models. if you think practically then
i have to tell you that if you should come into a situation to use your gun
you will also not be sored by minor/major....

I think in south africa at the individual world shoot will be the next
IPSC - meeting to discuss those things - but i would like to get some
ideas of other people, too.

regards
rainer.


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Rainer Foeppl
email: cfor@ciba-geigy.ch