Too Much Gun
Sunday, December 30th, 2007From Break.com, a classic example of what happens when you have too much gun and too little training. Click the image to see the whole video.
Archive for December, 2007
From Break.com, a classic example of what happens when you have too much gun and too little training. Click the image to see the whole video.
The Finger
Thursday, December 20th, 2007I watched three different instructors teach seven students over the course of a range session tonight. Over and over again, I saw the same safety violation go unnoticed and uncorrected. When you are talking to your student, or your student is talking to you with a gun in his hand, ...
Drill of the Week: Tracking Your Sights
Sunday, December 16th, 2007We spent the last two weeks working on our marksmanship fundamentals. This week, we're going to see how fast we can exercise those same fundamentals. We'll do this by shooting a variation of the Bill Drill to focus on sight tracking. Tracking your sights is a critical aspect to ...
M&P9 Reaches 20,000 Rounds
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Shot the twenty-thousandth round through my personal M&P9 today. Most of the ammunition has been from ATK (including American Eagle, Blazer aluminum, and Speer Gold Dot). This is the gun I've been using and carrying exclusively for the past three months. It's only been cleaned four times during the ...
Drill of the Week: Accuracy (II)
Sunday, December 9th, 2007This week, we're going to build on last week's accuracy test. We'll use the same targets (3x5 cards) and follow the same program of six shots. The difference is that this week, we're going to see how far we can shoot and still maintain the necessary accuracy to hit that ...
Limp Wristing: The New Gremlin
Thursday, December 6th, 2007I can't tell you how many times I've seen a shooter, instructor, or firearms "expert" blame a malfunction on limp wristing. Please, just stop. Limp wristing is the gun industry's version of gremlins. Gremlins, if you don't know, were first "discovered" by pilots in the 1920's. They are ...
Drill of the Week: Accuracy
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007Beginning this week, we will put up a specific drill every Sunday (or Monday) to help develop a particular skill. To start things off, we're going to begin at the beginning ... marksmanship fundamentals. For a target, we'll use a cheap 3x5 card. They make outstanding targets because they ...
