Archive for the ‘Gear’ Category
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
It may be a fool's errand but for what it's worth, I submitted the following to IDPA via their rules comment section (accessible to any IDPA member who is logged in to IDPA.com). If enough of us ask for it, perhaps the rule will get some new consideration.
Train hard & ...
Posted in Competition, Gear | 14 Comments »
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
In the metric system, "pico" is the prefix denoting one trillionth (0.000000000001, or 10 to the -12th power). It's ridiculously small.
Pico is also the name of Beretta's latest mouse gun. To introduce their new polymer pocket wonder Beretta produced a video which, as pointed out by ByronG on pistol-forum.com, demonstrates ...
Posted in Gear, Safety | 5 Comments »
Saturday, May 4th, 2013
Read all about it at View From The Porch.
As a reminder, Heckler & Koch remains the only handgun manufacturer that designs all of its barrels to withstand firing a a live round behind a squib. They even use a proprietary steel for their barrels... the company that produces the steel ...
Posted in Gear, Safety | 9 Comments »
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
... or, Trying to Profit from the Sandy Hook Massacre Makes You a Giant Twit!
Yesterday, Computerworld published a story about Safe Gun Technology, a company that has (allegedly) developed a fingerprint authorization system for firearms. The company has only been able to produce one working prototype in ten years, but ...
Posted in Gear, Safety | 11 Comments »
Saturday, April 20th, 2013
Most of the remaining details have been decided for the Heirloom gun being built by Jason Burton.
Checkering will be 25lpi. While I was initially concerned about the coarseness of the checkering on the SACS/Warren gun it has proven to be very effective while remaining comfortable enough for long practice sessions. ...
Posted in Heirloom Project | 13 Comments »
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
This is an actual product (the Gemini Defense Z-Flex Sight, courtesy of The Firearms Blog).
Submit your entries via the Comment section. You may make as many suggestions as you want. Entries must be received by 11:59pm Sunday 21-April-2013. Best one-liner wins a pistol-training.com baseball hat and my undying respect. (total prize ...
Posted in Gear, Humor | 142 Comments »
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
A perennial discussion over at pistol-forum.com revolves around a seemingly simple concept: how much gun is enough?
There are many schools of thought but they can be reduced to two opposing camps:
One says that a small gun (often represented by the ubiquitous Smith & Wesson j-frame) is likely to have every capability one ...
Posted in Gear | 22 Comments »
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
As threats of a new federal ban continue and some states already find themselves subject to new stricter limits, a question that arises often is, "How many mags should I have?"
The simple answer is that you can never have too many magazines. Get as many magazines as you can reasonably ...
Posted in Gear, Learning | 10 Comments »
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
The Caspian frame and slide will be at Heirloom Precision tomorrow. So the gun should be done, what, Friday?
Thanks to the pistol-training.com Heirloom Project sponsors:
Posted in Heirloom Project | 10 Comments »
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
... what would they ask for?
According to a current RFI (Request for Information) from PM SW (Program Manager Soldier Weapons) which is part of PEO Solider (Program Executive Office) they apparently want a gun that has a lot of acronyms in its name.
OK, maybe not. But the RFI is interesting. ...
Posted in Gear | 14 Comments »
