Archive for the ‘Learning’ Category
Monday, March 2nd, 2015
About a month ago on pistol-forum.com I described a scenario I've run in Force on Force scenarios many times:
I used to run a pretty straightforward FOF scenario in which the student was standing around minding his own business when a couple walked around the corner. First the guy started calling ...
Posted in Learning, Tacticality | 12 Comments »
Thursday, February 26th, 2015
Finally, after multiple repeated failures, I managed to squeak out an Advanced score on the F.A.S.T. yesterday at the NRA Headquarters Range. I shot three runs at the end of a short practice sessions:
7.32 (clean / 2.39, .60 / 3.29 / .36, .37, .31)
7.01 (clean / 2.28, .63 / 2.87 / .42, .35, .36)
6.62 (clean ...
Posted in Heirloom Project, Starting From Scratch | 16 Comments »
Sunday, February 15th, 2015
I'll be on Ballistic Radio tonight at 7pm. The topic of discussion will be what it's like losing your shooting ability and what it's like trying to get it back. Should be a barrel of laughs! Listen in or check out the podcast once it's up on the 'net.
Train hard & ...
Posted in Starting From Scratch | 6 Comments »
Thursday, February 5th, 2015
It took more than a month to get there, but the Jason Burton Heirloom Precision 9mm Commander broke the 2,000 round mark on Wednesday. A detailed description of the gun part by part is in the works along with plenty of new photos.
Thanks as always to the pistol-training.com Heirloom Project ...
Posted in Heirloom Project, Range Reports, Starting From Scratch | 6 Comments »
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 | 6 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 | 14 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
Posted in Competition, Learning | 1 Comment »
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 »
