Archive for the ‘Administrative’ Category
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Due to the winter storm that hit the Mid-Atlantic area over the weekend, the pistol-training.com command center (aka, my office) has been without power all weekend. We still don't have internet access, so I am typing this from the dining room of Tower Oaks Lodge in Rockville, MD. None of ...
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
As some of you informed us, apparently we missed our own anniversary party.
pistol-training.com went live to the public on 3-Oct-07. At the one year mark, we'd already seen over 115,000 visitors.
On our second anniversary, we had the 475,000th visitor at pistol-training.com! Thanks to all of the contributors and readers who've ...
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
Slip opinion just out today:
Nordyke v. King
We therefore conclude that the right to keep and bear arms is “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.” Colonial revolutionaries, the Founders, and a host of commentators and lawmakers living during the first one hundred years of the Republic ...
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
pistol-training.com is very proud to announce that we've been mentioned on The Shooting Wire. Smith & Wesson has issued a press release about the M&P endurance test that we performed, chronicling through the end of the planned 50,000 rounds. Click on the image above to read the entire thing.
If you ...
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
Louder Than Words was formed years ago by a group of America's finest gunsmiths and artisans. The group collaborates on projects, creating gun, knife, and accessory packages which are then sold to raise money for various charities and other worthy entities. LTW gives 100% of the proceeds from all sales ...
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
WINNER! CONGRATS TO james!
Approximately one in five visitors to pistol-training.com comes here via a search engine (Google, Yahoo, and the like).
The two most common search words are, of course, "pistol" and "training."
First person who can guess the third most common search word that brings people to pistol-training.com will win a ...
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
Since we announced the new F.A.S.T. coins and made the F.A.S.T. a Drill of the Week, interest (and questions) have gone through the roof. Here is a little Frequently Asked Questions list for the F.A.S.T.:
Q1. How do I win a coin?
There are three ways to win a F.A.S.T. coin.
Attend a ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
pistol-training.com is excited to announce that our F.A.S.T. challenge coins have arrived!
To earn a coin, a shooter must score less than 5.00 seconds on the F.A.S.T. drill twice in a row during an organized pistol-training.com event. The coins are individually numbered. So far, only #00 and #01 have been awarded. ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Congrats to the winners of the 100,000 Visitors karma contest.
Grand prize winner is G34 Shooter. He'll be receiving a new pistol-training.com t-shirt.
Runners up will be winning a pistol-training.com hat:
Pepper
Adam
Great Bison
Redband D
JLM
Thanks once again to all of the contributors who've helped make pistol-training.com a resource for our readers, and thanks to ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Less than a year after pistol-training.com came into existence, today we had our 100,000th visitor.
Thank you to every visitor, every contributor, and all of people who have supported us over the past eleven months.
To celebrate, we're having another give-away! Just respond with a comment to this post before 11:59pm on ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
We've updated the Drills section of the site with some of the drills which have been featured in our Drill of the Week program, including the first three Design a Drill of the Week Contest winners.
Acceleration
Pyramid
Switch Hitting
Tri-10
Triple Nickel
Triple Six
We hope you get a chance to try all of them.
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
We've added a new link to Xavier Thoughts, the extremely popular blog by self-described "nurse with a gun" Xavier. Xavier Thoughts is a great place to get up to date information about the political and practical sides of firearms ownership as well as other current newsworthy discussions, observations, and the ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Many of the products available at our online store will be subject to a price increase beginning 28 July. In particular our baseball caps and the Shooting Journal will all be affected by an increase imposed by the supplier. So if there was a great pistol-training.com item you were thinking about ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Don't forget the pistol-training.com Design a Drill of the Week contest. So far we've received less than a dozen entries. Come on, guys. We don't charge for admission, we don't ask for donations, so help us out with some drill ideas. And win a hat in ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
As promised, a review of last week's Rogers Shooting School class has now been added to the Articles section. Check it out and let us know what you think!
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Well, pistol-training.com had its 25,000th visitor on Sunday, 23-Mar-08. And to celebrate, we're having a free give-away of some products which will be offered for sale in the near future.
To participate, all you have to do is add a Comment to this post. Add only one comment! ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
A short video clip has been added to the El Presidente drill page.
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
pistol-training.com is proud to announce our partnership with the great folks at Magnum Tactical, a new online discussion forum for shooting enthusiasts.
They have included a built-in feature which will reference every new post made here at pistol-training.com automatically. You can see what the automatic feed looks like by clicking ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
CALGUNS.NET has a discussion, available to the public, on our previous post entitled The SIMP Principle. The theory: "A shooter’s skill seems to be in inverse proportion to the number of guns that he brings to the range." Check out the CALGUNS.NET discussion to see people on both ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Based on the popularity of the post and user requests, last month's entry entitled Trust No One: an insider's perspective has now been added to the permanent Articles section.
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