Archive for the ‘Competition’ Category
Saturday, January 14th, 2012
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I really need to make a shorter URL for the F.A.S.T. page...
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
The fifteenth Drill of the Week (Changing Gears) has been posted at pistol-forum.com.
Also, congratulations to GA Shooter for being the winner of December's DotW prize, a $400 gift certificate good towards any pistol-training.com class.
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011
As the Fundamentals Accuracy and Speed Test -- and the F.A.S.T. challenge coin -- become more well known, a need has arisen to clarify some things and establish some new rules to keep everything fair for all the folks who participate in official pistol-training.com events.
"Concealment" will be defined as the ...
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
Tuesday night, I shot a competition for the first time in a few years. It was the KSTG inaugural match. I was also the match director and watched almost every competitor shoot every stage. Some random thoughts:
Night sights work better in the dark than black sights, even if you have ...
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
For those not familiar, there are two rules in IDPA that are essentially in conflict:
Vickers Count scoring says that you can fire as many rounds as you want during a course of fire, there is no limit (as opposed to the appropriately named Limited Vickers scoring).
Getting a huge 20-second Failure ...
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Friday, December 9th, 2011
One more name was added to the F.A.S.T. Wall today when Gary Smidt turned in a very respectable 6.58 run. Gary earned the title of top shooter in the class held at the Harris County (TX) Sheriff's Office, beating out his fellow Deputy ifightcrime by just 0.06 seconds! Congrats to Gary and ...
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Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Congrats to ifightcrime for earning his spot on the Wall of Fame with a clean 6.64 during the last pistol-training.com class of 2011!
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
For those of you within striking distance of the NRA Range in Virginia, later this month we will be putting on a KSTG (Kinda Sorta Tactical Game) match. KSTG is a collaboration between SLG and me a few years ago to create a fun, objective pistol sport that we'd want ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
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When Julie Golob told me last year that she was writing a book about shooting and the shooting sports, I honestly couldn't think of anyone more qualified. As this year has proven, no one shoots as many types of competition at such a high level of success as Julie.
I've begged Julie ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
When Jose G. earned his F.A.S.T. pin this past Saturday, our little gathering of shooters was made up of one F.A.S.T. coin holder (me) and three other guys on the Wall: Jose, Krasen Georgiev, and Joe S. Wanting to achieve more harmonious balance with the universe and apparently having some ...
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