Archive for the ‘Gear’ Category
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
89,136 rounds
10 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 5 parts breakages
As promised, this week allowed for lots of range time; I didn't waste the opportunity. And it's been a crazy week with the P30. A small piece of the frame sheared off, the gun still fired another 3,000+ rounds without a hiccup, and the ...
Posted in Gear, P30 Thursday | 9 Comments »
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
(from an email sent by my good friend Baxter)
Instruction From The Editor To The Journalist: Frangible Arms just bought a four page color ad in our next issue. They sent us their latest offering, the CQB MK-V Tactical Destroyer. I told Fred to take it out to the range to ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
85,043 rounds
10 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 4 parts breakages
Less than fifteen thousand rounds to go! The gun continues to perform without any trouble even though it's gone more than eight thousand rounds since it was last cleaned. The biggest news was the day John_Wayne777 spent shooting the pistol as reported here. Thanks ...
Posted in Gear, P30 Thursday | 7 Comments »
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
When I originally signed up for Todd’s SOM class he was magnanimous enough to offer the P30 test gun (and the ammo for it) to me for use in the class. Since I’m the kind of guy who is always ready to help a friend... and the kind of guy ...
Posted in Gear, Range Reports | 18 Comments »
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Rumored for centuries and known to only a handful of people who have access to the Internet...
G&R Tactical has received its first shipment of the pistol-training.com M&P9 pistols that we first mentioned here sometime during the last Presidential Administration. And, the guns arrive just in time to make use of ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
81,145 rounds
10 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 4 parts breakages
This past Monday, the P30 broke through the 80,000 round mark. The last 3,753 rounds have been without cleaning or lubricating... not so much to torture the gun, but because I just haven't got around to cleaning or lubing it. You have to ...
Posted in Gear, P30 Thursday, Range Reports | 10 Comments »
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Whether you just want to look hip at your next range meet or you genuinely have use for the latest in purpose-built "operator" clothing, the new Vertx pants (referred to sometimes as Vertx tactical pants or low-profile tactical pants) are the way to go.
Vertx is a new offshoot of Arc'Teryx, ...
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
A regular P30 Thursday will be coming along next week, but after yesterday's trip to the range it seemed appropriate to give a little update. While the P30 was carried and even saw some dry fire over the unplanned 3-week holiday, yesterday was the first live fire since I returned ...
Posted in Gear, P30 Thursday | 10 Comments »
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
77,003 rounds
10 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 4 parts breakages
That's right. We're back! The endurance test gun has returned from the SHOT Show and is ready to get back to work. And with just a couple of days at the range this week, the pistol shot over 2,000 rounds before I broke ...
Posted in Gear, P30 Thursday | 12 Comments »
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Blockbuster announcement today made during the pistol-training.com/HK get together at HK's booth this morning. HK has won a contract to provide HK45 Compact pistols to the U.S. Navy special operations community, replacing the SIG P226 for personnel in certain roles. Specifically, the model will be the HK45C-SD with threaded barrel ...
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
It was pistol day for me at the show, trying to be ready for the Gun Nuts Radio show. Compared to the past couple of years, SHOT Show 2010 is bursting with new handguns and new handgun products.
First stop for me was Heckler & Koch and the new P30S. Any ...
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Tonight's Gun Nuts Radio will be focused on SHOT Show reports, including a spot featuring yours truly with details about many of the new handguns being introduced this week... including the just-announced Smith & Wesson Bodyguard .380 pocket pistol and .38 revolver with integrated built-in laser aiming device.
The show begins ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Smith & Wesson is still officially hush about the new M&P .22lr pistol. This is not about that. Sorry!
However, it has been publicly announced that there will be new additions to the S&W Performance Center M&P line. Specifically:
A new M&P40 Pro with 5" barrel, which should make USPSA shooters everywhere ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Heckler & Koch, sponsor of the P30 Thursday endurance test, is teaming with pistol-training.com for a get together at the 2010 SHOT Show. In addition to a Q&A session with HK VIPs such as HK-USA president Wayne Weber, they will also be giving away a brand new HK P30 .40-cal ...
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Responding to the growing competition from polymer-framed pistols, SIG-Sauer today announced the much anticipated Enhanced Ergonomics versions of its P226 and P229 handguns. Responding to demands from both competitive shooters and the law enforcement community, SIG has made a number of changes to the grip and controls of the pistol ...
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Tam at View From The Porch strikes a chord with her recent post entitled "If this is Tuesday, I must be carrying the Luger..."
The whole concept of a "CCW rotation" has never made any sense to me.
.45 in the winter, 9mm in the summer? You've clearly been sleeping during the ...
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Using a .22lr pistol as a training aid is nothing new. Conversion kits for 1911-pattern guns have been around for a very long time. In the revolver world, rimfire equivalents to full size duty guns go back even further. A major resurgence of .22 training has come about in response ...
Posted in Gear, Learning, Teaching | 21 Comments »
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Ruger today pushed out a number of press releases on new handguns being debuted at the SHOT Show. The most detailed information so far has come from Caleb over at Gun Nuts Media.
Probably most interesting to pistol-training.com readers will be the Ruger SR9 Compact, pictured at left. Gun Nuts reports ...
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
M4Carbine.net moderator Greg Bell is detailing his commitment to shoot a Glock 26 exclusively for one year in this thread. Greg expects to put over 10,000 rounds through the gun as well as attend at least a couple of handgun training classes during the year.
With Greg's permission, pistol-training.com will be ...
Posted in Gear, Range Reports | 10 Comments »
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
Time for a little rant.
I just finished reading a thread on a to-remain-unnamed discussion board about trigger reset and how it plays a role in shooting. There were some good points and some bad points, as you would expect from any online discussion about shooting technique. But one particular point ...
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