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This is not Bullseye vs Action Steels. These are totally two different disciplines.
We are losing a lot of Jr's (New shooters to video/airsoft fields). This program IASP is something we could reel in the 8 to 18 year olds that are into airsoft most the kids now days like instant gratification so a program like IASP or IA3gun could help bring a lot of these kids into the shooting sports. Most of these kids are very tactical minded, the 10 meter or bullseye are slower shooting sports and the kids are not looking into these because how slow these shooting sports are. Now days fast action are what they are looking for now days, this is not all the kids but most.

I sat in a local airsoft in door field one day and watched some parents drop off there kids and the kids dropped avg of $100 in one night the next week they where back again.
I even watched this one mom bring her son and 3 of his friends and she must of spent about $350 to $400 in one night.
Not one of these Jr's had any basic safety skill down or basic idea of hold grip or understanding of breath control. We need to use what we can to bring these Jr's into the fold of safety and shooting sports. So this is why IASP and Umarex USA see we need to find a program that they could get into with some or most of the equipment they have now. This also makes a great way to also bring a new group of mom and dads into the shooting sports also.
So this is not about what shooting sport we think is better or even shooters better etc. This is about a group we may never reach if we do not bring a shooting program to them.

shootright wrote:This is not Bullseye vs Action Steels. These are totally two different disciplines.
We are losing a lot of Jr's (New shooters to video/airsoft fields). This program IASP is something we could reel in the 8 to 18 year olds that are into airsoft most the kids now days like instant gratification so a program like IASP or IA3gun could help bring a lot of these kids into the shooting sports.

It might help if you provided some background or links... Googling IASP brings back results for the International Association for the Study of Pain, International Association for Suicide Prevention, and then some affiliated local results like the British Pain Society.
No idea what IASP actually is other than it might have something to do with airsoft.

International Air Steels Program IASP. IASP is for the whole family and not just for semi auto airsoft you can use your reg semi auto airgun .177 straight off the store shelve.
IASP has been on ammoland, Umarex facebook, American Airgunner Face book, and NRA Blog.
American Airgunner will have a segment of IASP on this coming summer fall season. Last Dec (2013) American Airgunner showed up to the AZ airgun/airsoft expo and did some footage of IASP and IA3Gun.
IASP is a mirror of Scholastic Pistol Program (SPP). But IASP allows adults to shoot.

And how or why do you think this would do anything to grow the olympic or bullseye shooting discipline? Sounds like it will just make more wannabe rambos. One of the reason olympic and bullseye disciplines suffer in the US is because we can buy so many different types of guns/weapons and there are 50 different shooting disciplines. I don't have anything against any of them and they are all fun but not sure how introducing kids to this new airsoft sport has any crossover appeal to what this website and its members is all about.