Archive for the ‘Safety’ Category
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Tim explains it well over at Gun Nuts.
Tim and I were in a class together recently where we ran into a similar issue. Another instructor teaching on the bay next to ours thought it was perfectly safe to have his carbine students climb up a hill behind us and shoot... ...
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
A couple of recent discussions over at pistol-forum have touched on the question of when is it ok to touch the trigger during the draw stroke?
Essentially it boils down to two schools of thought. Some folks think it is ok to begin prepping the trigger as long as the gun is ...
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
In the metric system, "pico" is the prefix denoting one trillionth (0.000000000001, or 10 to the -12th power). It's ridiculously small.
Pico is also the name of Beretta's latest mouse gun. To introduce their new polymer pocket wonder Beretta produced a video which, as pointed out by ByronG on pistol-forum.com, demonstrates ...
Posted in Gear, Safety | 5 Comments »
Saturday, May 4th, 2013
Read all about it at View From The Porch.
As a reminder, Heckler & Koch remains the only handgun manufacturer that designs all of its barrels to withstand firing a a live round behind a squib. They even use a proprietary steel for their barrels... the company that produces the steel ...
Posted in Gear, Safety | 9 Comments »
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
... or, Trying to Profit from the Sandy Hook Massacre Makes You a Giant Twit!
Yesterday, Computerworld published a story about Safe Gun Technology, a company that has (allegedly) developed a fingerprint authorization system for firearms. The company has only been able to produce one working prototype in ten years, but ...
Posted in Gear, Safety | 11 Comments »
Saturday, March 9th, 2013
By now you may have heard of the big Facebook flap regarding a newer training outfit and a video showing someone using an appendix (aiwb) holster in a manner most of us would consider unsafe. Rather than beat a dead horse, I'll refer you to Caleb's post over at Gun ...
Posted in Gear, Safety | 5 Comments »
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
My wife is a nationally recognized expert in her professional community, a community in which liberals are substantially more prevalent than conservatives. She travels the country quite a bit attending conferences and seminars, and many of her peers know she is a gun owner. She came home from one such ...
Posted in Other, Safety | 29 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Learning, Safety, Teaching | 22 Comments »
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
Remington has issued a recall for one specific lot number of .38 Special +p SJHP ammunition in 100rd boxes. If you have any of this ammunition you advised to return it to Remington. The press release says the boxes may contain .357 Magnum ammunition but because they're fearful of its use ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
... the tough, so the saying goes, go cyclic.
At last night's KSTG match at the NRA, we saw this happen frequently on two stages: 3 and 4.
Stage 3 was unusual in that we utilized the NRA Range's outstanding programmable target system. You had a regular KSTG target (IDPA target with a ...
Posted in Competition, Learning, Safety | 12 Comments »
