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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

IAPS – International Airsoft Practical Shooting Rules and Regulations. Part 2

Match levels

To standardize the match levels, events must conform to the folowing rules:

LEVEL I Match (example: club match) LEVEL II Match (example: National Match, National Championship) LEVEL III Match (example: World Shoot, International Championship)

N/A = Not Applicable, R = Recommended, M = Mandatory


This is a template given to show the required informations to ask for Match Level Agreement.
http://www.airsoft-shooting.org/IMG/pdf/MatchLevelRequirement.pdf



Practical Shooting Divisions

For all Divisions: - Handguns must be semi-automatic (self-loading) with a breech block. - Steel Ball Bearing (BB) ammunition is not permitted.
In case of non conformance between a shooter handgun and the divisions rules, the Range Master is the final authority to determine a division into which the shooter can make the match (default Open).


Open Division





Standard Division



Neither the handgun, nor any of its attachments, nor any allied equipment (e.g. magazines), can extend forward of the line illustrated below.





A handgun in its ready condition, but unloaded and with an empty magazine inserted, must fit wholly within the confines of a box which has internal dimensions of 250mm x 160mm x 45mm.
Competitors who has not been able to comply to these conditions must be transfered to the Open Division to make the match.



Production Division


Handgun must use original manufacturer parts and don’t have any external or internal custom or enhanced parts such as:


- air valves,
- inner or outer barrel,
- springs and so on,
- grip enhancements,
- attachments on pistols with tactical lights,
- compensators or attachments to outer or inner barrels,
- magazine extensions increasing OEM mag capacity or changing original size,
- anything that exceeds barrel length and maximum power limit.

From a general point of view, if you want to add, remove or change something, you’re in the wrong division, because that’s not the purpose of the Production Division. In addition to the above verifications and at the organizers initiative, the three first winners of the Production Division events can be controlled asking them to disassemble their replicas in front of experts to check if any parts have been used to improve the replica behaviour.

Single-action-only handguns are prohibited. Handguns with external hammers must be fully decocked. First shot attempted must be double action.
All DA/SA pistols without a de-cocking lever must start with the hammer fully down. Under the supervision of a Range Officer, the competitor will use the weak hand to safely lower the hammer with the pistol pointing down range during the "load and make ready" procedure. A discharge during this procedure will be considered as unsafe gun handling and the competitor will be disqualified.
In addition to the general holster rules, it may not be manufactured or cut lower than, and must cover the slide up to, 1 cm below the ejection port.
Other rules from Standard Division must be applied.
Only handguns approved and listed here may be used in Production Division (Range Officers may check compliance)


Please Read carefully the processes described in the following document:
http://www.airsoft-shooting.org/IMG/pdf/IAPS_Production_Division_Approved_List.pdf


Single Stack 1911 Division

Maximum ammunition capacity 15 Round

May use only single Stack 1911 series. Must be available to the general public and have their basis in the original 1911 service pistol.


May not extend original size with oversized accessories such as compensators, extralength magazines or optical/electronic sights.


A handgun in its ready condition, but unloaded and with an empty magazine inserted, must fit wholly within the confines of a box which has internal dimensions of 225mm x 150mm x 45mm (tolerance of +1 mm, -0 mm).


In addition to the general holster rules, it may not be manufactured or cut lower than, and must cover the slide up to, 1 cm below the ejection port.




IAPS – International Airsoft Practical Shooting http://www.airsoft-shooting.org/
Inspired from reading Hong Kong Airsoft Practical Shooting Confederation, International Practical Shooting Confederation, United States Practical Shooting Association and Single Stack Classic rules

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