{"id":30710,"date":"2014-08-07T10:42:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=30710"},"modified":"2014-08-06T13:02:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T18:02:41","slug":"idpa-previews-smith-wesson-new-england-regional-course-of-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/idpa-previews-smith-wesson-new-england-regional-course-of-fire-2\/30710\/","title":{"rendered":"IDPA Previews Smith &#038; Wesson New England Regional Course Of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Apex-King-of-NE.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Apex-King-of-NE-300x176.png\" alt=\"Apex-King-of-NE\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Apex-King-of-NE-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Apex-King-of-NE.png 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BERRYVILLE, Ark. \u2013 Starting with the King of New England stages, organizers of the 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/compete\/competitiondetails\/18247\" target=\"_blank\">Smith &amp; Wesson New England Regional IDPA Championship<\/a> are previewing all 14 stages of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/blog\/?tag=\/Stage+Diagrams\" target=\"_blank\">course of fire<\/a> competitors will face at this year\u2019s championship.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place the weekend of August 15-17, the 2014 Smith &amp; Wesson New England Regional IDPA Championship is again being hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrowesttactical.com\" target=\"_blank\">MetroWest Tactical<\/a> IDPA club at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvardsportsmansclub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Sportsmen\u2019s Club<\/a> in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/NER-SW_Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/NER-SW_Logo-300x300.png\" alt=\"New England Regional logo\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/NER-SW_Logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/NER-SW_Logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/NER-SW_Logo-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/NER-SW_Logo.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>In addition to determining the regional champion in each of IDPA\u2019s five handgun competition divisions, the match also serves as the second leg of the popular King of New England series, which is being presented by Apex Tactical Specialties. In June the 18th Annual Massachusetts State IDPA Championship, presented by Smith &amp; Wesson, kicked off the series which concludes with New Hampshire\u2019s Smith &amp; Wesson Live Free Or Die State IDPA Championship in October.<\/p>\n<p>Four stages from each of the three major New England championships make up the 12 stage challenge. The following stages represent the New England Regional Championship\u2019s portion of the King of New England:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Stage 1 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/blog\/post\/2014\/08\/04\/NER-14-Stage-1-Graveyard-Shift-at-the-Warehouse.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Graveyard Shift at the Warehouse<\/a><br \/>\nStage 3 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/blog\/post\/2014\/08\/04\/NER-14-Stage-3-Never-Stop-for-Directions.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Never Stop for Directions<\/a><br \/>\nStage 6 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/blog\/post\/2014\/08\/04\/NER-14-Stage-6-On-The-Move.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">On The Move<\/a><br \/>\nStage 7 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/blog\/post\/2014\/08\/04\/NER-14-Stage-7-Trouble-in-Iquitos-1.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Trouble in Iquitos 1<\/a><br \/>\nStage 10 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/blog\/post\/2014\/08\/04\/NER-14-Stage-10-Working-the-Angles.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Working the Angles<\/a> (alternate)<\/p>\n<p>For more information on IDPA, or to join the nearly 24,000 IDPA members competing each week, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.IDPA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can further connect with the IDPA community through IDPA\u2019s social media, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/officialidpa\" target=\"_blank\">@OfficialIDPA<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter and ShootIDPA on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ShootIDPA\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/shootidpa#\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/shootidpa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/shootidpa.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>,\u00a0or check for regular news and updates on the\u00a0organization\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/blog\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">DOWN ZERO Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERRYVILLE, Ark. \u2013 Starting with the King of New England stages, organizers of the 2014 Smith &amp; Wesson New England Regional IDPA Championship are previewing all 14 stages of the course of fire competitors will face at this year\u2019s championship. Taking place the weekend of August 15-17, the 2014 Smith &amp; Wesson New England Regional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[164,2597],"tags":[489,3029,2553,59],"class_list":["post-30710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idpa","category-shootingsports","tag-apex-tactical","tag-king-of-new-england","tag-new-england-regional","tag-smith-wesson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}