Greater Atlanta Defensive Pistol Association

This blog is where I will post information regarding the use of electronics and other mechanical devices that we have used in our local and sanctioned IDPA matches. Since we have spent a lot of time working on these electronic moving target systems, we feel like what has been learned is worth sharing. While this blog covers ground a lot of experienced IDPA shooters, MD's and course designers already know, the background information is included for the sake of completeness.

Below are a series of videos that walk through our motivation for experimenting with electronics in Course Of Fire (COF) design.

• Introduction - An intro to the discussion (2 min)
• Moving targets and activation (3 min 48 sec)
• Drop and turn targets (2 min 24 sec)
• Track runners (2 min 12 sec)
• Cable and trolley runners (2 min 3 sec)
• Rolling Ball Pop-up Example Video from the 2005 Carolina Cup. It pops up behind the car and is engaged through the front seat windows.
• Activation (3 min 21 sec)
• Programmable Logic Controllers - PLC's (2 min 33 sec)
• PLC demo (1 min 8 sec)
• Linear actuator (2 min 29 sec)
• Challenges and Conclusion (2 min 22 sec)
• Runner with a PLC video (8 min 4 sec) You may need to save this one to your disk before viewing it.
• Swinger with linear actuator video (6 min 4 sec) Save this one to your disk as well.

I hope you have found this information interesting and encourage you to consider using something like this in your IDPA courses of fire.

Sincerely,
Capel English