Archive for the ‘Learning’ Category
Tuesday, January 27th, 2015
Fighting Smarter: A Practical Guide for Surviving Violent Confrontations by well known instructor Tom Givens has now been released in a new, updated 3rd Edition available from Amazon.
While students often judge instructors based on the number of gun battles the instructor has been in, it seems obvious that a better measure ...
Posted in Learning, Tacticality | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, January 21st, 2015
As anyone who has followed me here or on pistol-forum.com has to know, I'm a big fan of a technique called the press-out. So following up on last week's "All or Nothing: Unsighted Fire" I thought turnabout is fair play and so I'll examine the pros and cons of this ...
Posted in Competition, Learning, Safety, Tacticality, Teaching | 16 Comments »
Saturday, January 17th, 2015
The Burton 9mm Commander averaged 1.507" five shot groups from a foam rest at 25yd. Ammunition is Federal 124gr +p HST. This is the best of the groups at 0.776 inches.
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
Posted in Heirloom Project, Range Reports, Starting From Scratch | 11 Comments »
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
Hackathorn's Law: under stress you won't try to do anything you're not confident you can accomplish.
Lately I've seen quite a few discussion about sighted vs. unsighted fire both at pistol-forum.com and on Ballistic Radio's FaceBook page. And like so many internet discussions it seems to devolve into an all or nothing binary only ...
Posted in Learning, Tacticality, Teaching | 15 Comments »
Monday, January 5th, 2015
Bill Wilson of Wilson Combat posted another great skill test (the 5x5 Test) at pistol-forum.com last week and it has been added to the pistol-training.com Drills page with his permission.
Check it out, give it a try, and post your results!
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
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Friday, December 26th, 2014
After being offline for so long this year, I'd forgotten just how often people insist that there is only One Way when it comes to shooting. It's not the guy who says "this pistol works best for me" that bothers me. It's the guy who insists it will work best for everyone if ...
Posted in Gear, Learning, Teaching | 12 Comments »
Thursday, December 25th, 2014
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2014
Does hardware or software matter the most, Todd?
Yes they do, Other Todd. Yes they do.
An accepted truism among shooters is that it's better to use software (skill building) than hardware (changing equipment) to solve problems. And usually, that's true. Beginners in particular are too quick to jump from gun to gun ...
Posted in Gear, Learning, Starting From Scratch, Tacticality | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, December 10th, 2014
My family consists of pretty well educated, intelligent, and fair-minded people. Nonetheless, recent events regarding law enforcement use of force (UOF) -- Ferguson, NYC, etc. -- have thrown into stark relief just how much their ideas of right & wrong, reasonable & unreasonable are based on fictional television events rather ...
Posted in Learning, Safety, Tacticality, Teaching | 13 Comments »
Thursday, November 27th, 2014
From my friend Jack "Failure2Stop" Leuba in another slow is smooth, smooth is fast discussion on pistol-forum.com:
My problem is with the phrase itself with regard to being "fast" in a competitive field.
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I do want to point out that interpersonal conflict with kinetic weapons is a competitive event (before anyone gets ...
Posted in Competition, Learning, Tacticality | 4 Comments »
