Archive for the ‘Learning’ Category
Saturday, May 18th, 2013
Details to follow...
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Sunday, May 12th, 2013
My friend Josh Savani (aka joshs on pistol-forum.com), F.A.S.T. Coin #10, has just announced that he is committing to an entire unbroken year of pistol practice. Whether live fire or dry fire, he'll be working on his shooting skills for three hundred and sixty five days. Not only that, but he's ...
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
You've seen it a hundred times on the internet: "I don't want to go to a class and learn the wrong thing!" The implication is that someone could attend a class and learn something bad.
Is it bad to learn one of those techniques or attend a class where some of ...
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Friday, April 26th, 2013
A recent post by Caleb over at Gun Nuts (Run it until the wheels fall off) got me thinking about the different approaches people take to shooting fast & accurately.
As I've mentioned before (Permission to Miss), at a certain point it becomes necessary to miss if you want to shoot faster. More ...
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
When I first got serious about defensive/tactical shooting about twenty years ago, one of the golden rules was never take your eyes off the bad guy. Specifically, they applied this rule to reloads. It was the height of suicidal stupidity, they said, to look at your gun when reloading.
But as ...
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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 ...
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Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
From a modern poet:
Anyone perfect must be lying
Anything easy has its cost
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
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Friday, March 22nd, 2013
empty ranges
With the current ammo drought, the internet is ablaze with discussions and comments about ways to cope. Most such comments revolve around various ways to do more with less. But the hard truth is this: if you've already been training efficiently, you can't improve certain skills without live fire practice. Pretty ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
Catching up on two months of blogs from around the net I came across an interesting post about safety. It opined that the Cardinal Rules should be followed not just with live firearms but with blue guns, SIRT pistols, and the like. It's a view shared by others, certainly; at ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
... attention.
It's a pet peeve of mine when teaching: the student who doesn't pay attention and constantly holds up the class needing special attention.
We're not talking about a class being confused because the instructor was unclear. We're not talking about a student who once or twice over the course of ...
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