Hi,
4V50 Gary,
The IDPA club I shoot at in the SF Bay Area is held on the 3rd. Saturday each month and the Chabot Gun Club in Castro Valley:
http://www.chabotgunclub.com/
Their web site doesn't mention IDPA yet, but it has directions etc. The 3-Gun club has mostly the same people involved.
The IDPA matches go from around 8:30am to 2:00pm, but you can contiue to use the range for practise till 5.00pm.
Ryan,
I started shooting IDPA in December '98 after trying IPSC for a couple of months. I had no formal pistol training but I now finish in the top half of scores (most of the time
).
Don't worry about times etc. even the best shooters in the club have brain f*rts. In the last but one match two of the top shooters in the club nailed no-shoots with perfect center-mass double taps...
Hope to see you there.
Phill.