International Defensive Pistol Association - 2008 National Championship

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The 1^st Law of Gun Safety - The Gun Is Always Loaded!

The 2^nd Law of Gun Safety - Never Point A Gun At Something You're Not Prepared To Destroy!

The 3^rd Law of Gun Safety - Always Be Sure Of Your Target And What Is Behind It!

The 4^th Law of Gun Safety - Keep Your Finger Off The Trigger Until Your Sights Are On The Target!

2008 IDPA Championship Results

Many thanks to the Guthsville Rod & Gun Club; host of the 2008 IDPA National Championship.

The 2008 IDPA National Championship is over and Ted Murphy pulled off another great match. This championship had 17 exciting stages requiring at least 197 rounds from each competitor. 316 competitors put at least 62,252 rounds downrange during the match. 127 competitors participated in the BUG Side Match, putting another 1,905 rounds downrange for a minimum of 64,157 rounds downrange.

Special thanks to Ted Murphy and all his staff for an absolutely wonderful experience for all competitors. The members of Guthsville Rod & Gun Club also deserve a special thanks for the use of their wonderful facilities.

As far as stats were concerned, Jennifer Wilson, Jane Fleming and Sandra Tumbleson managed to get scores posted within 15 minutes of the last shot being fired and most of that time was waiting for the printer. During the 4 days of the match, they entered 5,372 stage results for the championship and 381 stage results for the BUG Side Match. Thank you, ladies! We appreciate all your efforts.

There is one person that normally doesn't get mentioned. That's the person that finds wonderful things such as the match hotel, lunch, food for the hospitality room, food for the banquet, drinks on the range, the carts that get the drinks to the shooters, ice for those drinks, shooter's bags, things to go in the shooter's bags, sponsors for the match, banners for the sponsors, etc. There are so many things needed for the match that I could write all day and still forget something. Rest assured, if you enjoyed yourself at this match, you should thank this person in addition to the Match Director. This person is Robert Ray. If Ted didn't take care of it, Robert did. Thank you, Robert, for all you do!

Robert was also instrumental in getting NSSF First Shots Seminars set up for the last day of the match. What a wonderful thought; there were people at the 2008 IDPA National Championship taking their first shot ever while the championship was going on around them.

To everyone that took care of something for this match; Thank You! A special thanks to all the people listed below for their work during the match.

Safety Officers:

Bay 1 Iron Mike Webb CSO Michael Lahey Jenn Lahey Ken Reed Kitty Richards	Bay 2 Joe McGinty CSO Joe Buchanan Bill Pierson Jeff Brown	Bay 3 Kevin Schlier CSO Don Miller Gene Devereaux Harris Weisman	Bay 5 Terry Burba CSO Jorge Suarez Edgar Coronado Sam Owens Brian Chilcott
Bay 6 Wayne Ritchie CSO Matt McArthur Don Baker Cindy Bowser	Bay 7 Lance Biddle CSO Josh Lentz Tim Kirkpatrick Tom Vester	Bay 9 Curt Nichols CSO Ollie Hugo Chuck Owens Darrell West Ed Voychuk	Bay 10 (Indoor Range) Mathew Giltner CSO Steve Wolfe Dean Witt Patrick McCafferty

Other Personnel:

Staff:
John Shuter
Melissa Murphy

Stats:
Jane Fleming
Sandra Tumbleson
Jennifer Wilson

Drink Cart/
Score Sheet PickUp:
Jennie Baughn

Pro Shop:
Ronda Ray

BUG Side Match:
Jerry Greg
David Streichert
Carl Pidge
Bill Kulnis

SOs for the SOs and Staff:

Mike Alexander
Marty Acker
Frank Chiappardi
Jeff Kachel

Mike DiNunzio
Mike Keefe
Vince Palagruto
Bob Dwyer

Scott Shalter
Mike Gottlieb
Frank Tait
Bert Shaeffer

Rob Packett
Blair Wakeham
Carl Pidge
Greg Thomas

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Total Results by Division and Class Most Accurate Shooters Industry Press Lady Law Enforcement Senior Distinguished Senior Junior Military Military Veteran International Miscellaneous	Total Results by Division and Class Most Accurate Shooters Industry Press Lady Law Enforcement Senior Distinguished Senior Junior Military Military Veteran International

Total Shooters by Division and Class
	Total	MA	EX	SS	MM
CDP	77	12	18	34	13
ESP	94	15	22	37	20
SSP	118	31	30	42	15
ESR	12	2	0	4	6
SSR	15	4	3	6	2
Total	316	64	73	123	56

2008 IDPA Championship Courses of Fire

The 4th Law of Gun Safety - Keep Your Finger Off The Trigger Until Your Sights Are On The Target!

Many thanks to the Guthsville Rod & Gun Club; host of the 2008 IDPA National Championship.

Total Shooters by Division and Class

2008 IDPA Championship Sponsors

The 4^th Law of Gun Safety - Keep Your Finger Off The Trigger Until Your Sights Are On The Target!