Archive for the ‘Learning’ Category
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
A group of us from pistol-forum.com are attending Rogers Shooting School this week. To keep up with the week's results, you can check out the official class thread as well as the shooting journals of JV, mariodsantana, and me.
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
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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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Monday, April 30th, 2012
The lastest pistol-forum.com Drill of the Week has been posted. This time, we're giving you a chance to try a twisted version of the Hackathorn 3-second Headshot Standards: the iHack... strong- and weak-hand only!
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
Paul Markel, host of Sportsman Channel's Student of the Gun, wrote an outstanding article about his recent class with Ken Hackathorn down in Texas.
"Every field of endeavor has its legends. NASCAR has Richard Petty. The NFL has Joe Montana. In the realm of firearms training there are a handful of ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
People talk about group size all the time, but how often do they actually think about what they're measuring?
The simplest way to measure groups is to use extreme spread (ES). The vast majority of the time someone reports group size, it's based on ES. Essentially, ES is the distance between ...
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Saturday, April 21st, 2012
About a decade ago, I received some incredibly insightful advice from my friend Erik Lund (now a member of FN's successful 3-gun competition team): if you want to get fast, sometimes you have to go so fast that you miss.
Like many folks, that was a foreign and perhaps even hostile concept. ...
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
What are you trying to accomplish when you go to the range?
As regular readers of pistol-training.com know, I've written repeatedly about the need for an organized plan when shooting. "I'm going to the range today" just doesn't cut it for anything beyond recreational activity. Part of that plan has to ...
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
At last night's KSTG match, the first stage involved going prone before firing six shots at a fairly close cardboard target and knocking down one full size Pepper popper at 25yd. A significant number of people had a hard time remembering to fire six rounds at the paper. Many people fired ...
Posted in Competition, Learning | 15 Comments »
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
About halfway through my practice session yesterday, a young guy came onto the range and started blasting merrily away at his target with little to no regard for whether he actually hit anything. He alternated between dumping full 30-round mags out of his AR15 and full 15-round mags out of ...
Posted in Learning, Safety | 23 Comments »
