Archive for the ‘Learning’ Category
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
We've all seen some wild stuff at the range. The photo, left, was taken in 2006 at Ken Hackathorn's 60th Birthday "Party" match, of a local shooter who, yes, uses spent cartridge cases for hearing protection.
Tonight at the range, there were two incidents that are really just too crazy to ...
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
This week's drill comes from Bryan Williams, the first winner in our Design a Drill of the Week Contest. Thanks to Bryan for the great write-up. We hope you enjoy your new pistol-training.com hat!
For this drill, you will need three IPSC targets (or similar) and a shot timer.
Bryan explains the ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Last week's drill was about delivering precise hits strong and weak hand only under stress. Now it's time to turn up the speed by a notch or two.
Set up two large targets (an 8" paper plate is ideal) about two feet apart. Range is 3 yards. Put your shot timer on ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Don't forget the pistol-training.com Design a Drill of the Week contest!
A few weeks ago, we did some one-handed shooting for the Drill of the Week. Response from readers was good, and there aren't many people who don't need to work on their one-handed shooting so we figured it was time to ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
The DotW this week is designed to improve transitions, moving the gun from one target to the next.
The target array will involve three targets at a range of 5 yards. The targets should be about 1 yard apart. The two outside targets will be large (paper plate, 8.5x11 ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Day 2 at the Rogers Shooting School Intermediate/Advanced Pistol Class and we're down to nine students. It seems that one gentleman, who'd traveled halfway down the East Coast to be here, was responsible for the unexpected loud noise in our hotel last night. Yup, he had an AD (accidental discharge). ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
One of the worst habits most shooters get into is avoiding the "hard stuff." We love to practice what we're already good at, because it makes us feel skilled and accomplished. But instead of spending an afternoon trying to shave two hundredths of a second off your draw, ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
This week, we're going to readdress some of the issues from Tracking Your Sights and Tracking Your Sights II in January. Sometimes you can make perfectly good hits without much of a sight picture ... or, in the case of the photo below, no sight picture at all!
This drill is ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
After spending a couple weeks working on accuracy, it's time to ramp up the speed again. No drill serves better as a bridge between "slow" and "fast" than the Circle Drill.
The Circle Drill is intended to teach students the relationship between speed and accuracy, and how time affects marksmanship ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Although many people have heard of the Israeli method, there is little available information about how much time the extra step of racking the slide requires. When they guess, most people cite figures of a second or more. Some time ago I decided to answer the question for myself by ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
The so-called "Israeli" Draw is a technique advocated by some for presenting a pistol from the holster. The gun is carried with an loaded magazine but no round in the chamber. As the gun is drawn from the holster, the shooter racks the slide to load the gun.
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
We warned you last week that this was going to be an accuracy-intensive drill, and we weren't kidding. It's called Dot Torture for a reason. This drill first came to us from good friends at the NRA Headquarters Range in Fairfax, Virginia. They got it from David Blinder at Personal Defense Training. ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
This week, we get back to basics with one of the oldest, most proven pistol drills in existence: the Ball & Dummy drill. As most people begin to speed up their shooting, they tend to get a little cavalier about trigger manipulation and the ability to shoot for maximum ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Following up from last week's Reactive Response Drill, this week's drill will require access to a Pepper popper steel target.
The goal this week: get in the habit of shooting a target all the way to the ground. Not really as useful for competition under most circumstances (though there are exceptions!), ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
While a decent instructor should be able to teach both men & women, the cold hard fact is that many female students are much more comfortable and enthusiastic when their instructors and fellow students are also women. Who better to teach women how to shoot than one of the ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
I’ve read through the thread on the other board (editor: CALGUNS.NET). Some observations.
A few posters focused on the number of guns “owned” rather than “practice with” or something similar. The criticism is trivial, however, because the original article was about guns taken to the range, or in other words, practiced ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Last week, we began breaking the "two shots per target" habit with Rich Verdi's Non-Standard Response Drill. Now we'll expand on that concept to simulate a more realistic shooting situation.
First, let's remember why we were doing Verdi's Non-Standard Response Drill in the first place. There is ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Thanks to YouTube, here we see a fine example of what happens when someone who isn't qualified to teach hands a gun to someone who isn't qualified to shoot.
Of course, it's also a good example of why one should not handle a fully-automatic weapon without decent instruction ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Most of the drills people practice involve a predetermined number of rounds fired on the target. This is usually a double tap, two shots fired in quick succession. In fact, many law enforcement agencies teach "two to the body" as what is called the standard response, and shooters ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
The X-Drill, a comprehensive multiple target drill, has been added to the Drills section.
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