Archive for the ‘Gear’ Category
Saturday, May 19th, 2012
Go to pistol-forum.com for details on how to find the photo and the contest to see who'll be first to figure out what gun it is...
edited to add: Congratulations to klugtrane for his quick work on solving the puzzle and identifying the Springfield 9mm 1911!
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
You don't know what it is yet, but can you guess when it will have its first stoppage?
See the contest rules and participate at pistol-forum.com.
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
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Saturday, May 12th, 2012
The next endurance test gun has been selected. The test will not begin for a while, but when it does I believe it will be very interesting to a lot of people who've followed this site over the years. So without further ado:
The 2012-2013 pistol-training.com Endurance Test Gun will be ...
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Saturday, May 5th, 2012
When it comes to shooting, I'm a performance oriented guy. I measure. I track. I care about hundredths of seconds and tenths of inches. Whenever possible, I make choices about techniques and gear based on maximizing that performance.
But sometimes there are other higher priorities. It is those priorities which define ...
Posted in Gear, Learning, Safety | 6 Comments »
Friday, May 4th, 2012
Byron provides an incredible in-depth review of the NLT SIRT Pro 110 after ten months of serious dedicated use... of many different types:
Definitely worth reading. Definitely worth reading for anyone considering a SIRT for their own practice.
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
The latest adventure comparing my Crimson Trace LG-850 Lasergrips to the great Ameriglo CAP/Pro Operator night sights was very interesting. I used Chris Edwards's 4567 Drill, which also happens to be the Drill of the Week at pistol-forum.com this week.
Technically, the laser won... by literally one one-hundredth of a second.
Irons
Laser
Total ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
Last week I began some comparative testing between my current favorite iron sight setup (Ameriglo's orange CAP front with Pro Operator rear) and the Crimson Trace LG-850 Lasergrip. To save you the trouble of looking back, the results were pretty straightforward. The Lasergrip averaged better than a quarter second faster ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
Smith has been playing with the idea of a single-stack "subcompact" cousin to its M&P line for years. One particularly loud but easily fooled "industry insider" was telling everyone that they'd be on display at the SHOT Show... in 2011. Nor was the gun released (or discussed much) at SHOT ...
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
Comparing the Ameriglo C.A.P. front/Pro Operator rear tritium sights to the Crimson Trace LG-850 from ten runs of the F.A.S.T. using each:
Irons
Laser
Avg Score
4.80
4.52
3x5 acc
95%
95%
8" acc
95%
98%
avg draw
1.51
1.35
avg 3x5 splits
0.42
0.40
avg reload
1.80
1.81
avg 8" split
0.23
0.22
best run
4.19
3.96
worst run
6.51
6.39
The biggest difference was on first shot times, which obviously were much faster using the laser. Knocking more ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012
Next Level Training has released the plastic-slide version of its enormously successful SIRT training pistol. As mentioned here at pistol-training.com back in January, the new SIRT, called the "Performer," has a plastic slide and two red lasers.
It lists on NLT's website for $219 MSRP, one hundred dollars less than the ...
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