{"id":3631,"date":"2012-01-11T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/01\/11\/beginners-guide-to-idpa-competitions\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:17:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:17:18","slug":"beginners-guide-to-idpa-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3631","title":{"rendered":"Beginner&#8217;s Guide To IDPA Competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16419,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.powerfactorshow.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251006113555\\\/http:\\\/\\\/powerfactorshow.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 21:59:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 08:51:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 08:51:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16420,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/gunrightsradio.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/mark.vanderberg&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Ruger sponsored this video of a beginner&#8217;s guide to IDPA. Shooting an IDPA match or two is on my list of things that I&#8217;d like to do this year.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eFDaVIbJ4AU\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nAnother great resource is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerfactorshow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PowerFactor Show<\/a> which is available as both video and audio podcasts. It was started by Pacific NW shooters Steve Sopfi and Rick Brenneman. They have added Caleb Giddings to their lineup as a co-host. It is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gunrightsradio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gun Rights Radio Network<\/a> and the videos are available on iTunes, Zune, and YouTube.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruger sponsored this video of a beginner&#8217;s guide to IDPA. Shooting an IDPA match or two is on my&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4002,4003,4004],"class_list":["post-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gun-rights-radio-network","tag-idpa","tag-powerfactor-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7576,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions\/7576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}