Archive for January, 2008
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Time to put everything we've worked on so far together into one drill: precision, speed, and the draw. We will begin with a close range target, hitting it as many times as we can in a given time. With each iteration increase the distance. Since our accuracy ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Tonight at the range I saw an all-too-common incident: new student being taught by someone who was basically a new student himself. The "instructor" is someone I've seen at the range taking basic lessons and learning fundamentals over the past few months. Now he's a self-appointed instructor and ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Negligent Discharge Page is an ongoing report from a forthright gentleman who shot himself in the leg. Some of the images may be considered graphic by folks who are sensitive.
From his site:
I learned two valuable lessons.
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Over the past few weeks we've worked on getting smoother and faster. Invariably, when shooters focus on their speed they start to lose a certain degree of precision. This week, we will address that with a great dry-fire drill called The Wall Drill.
The Wall Drill was developed by ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Instructors: Don't move on to the next lesson until your student understands the first one!
At the range this evening I saw someone "teaching" -- I'm sorry, just can't bring myself to type it without quotes in this instance -- a new shooter. After receiving mediocre instruction on marksmanship fundamentals, ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
While there is no doubt in my mind that the police got to this woman's home as quickly as they could, it wasn't quick enough. The rest of her life depended on whether or not she was armed and prepared to fight back.
Watch the YouTube video here.
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
This week we're going to work a very specific technique which will improve both accuracy and speed during the draw. Ironically, we won't be drawing our guns at all during this drill!
This week we'll work on press-outs. A press-out is simply extending the gun from your ready position ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
This post has been included as a permanent article here at pistol-training.com.
Trying to decide which pistol to buy? If so, you’re probably looking for one that is guaranteed to be durable and reliable. Well, I’ve got bad news for you. There is no such gun. ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
Just watch it ...
click the image to follow the link to YouTube
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
This week, we work on the draw, or presentation, of the pistol from a holster.
The last two Drills of the Week have involved learning to track our sights during recoil so that we can break a shot as quickly as possible but still know we're going to get ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
In response to our post Limp Wristing: The New Gremlin, reader Tim provided a link to a great test he performed, showing how a variety of different guns functioned when limp-wristed:
click image to see the full video
edited to add: Check out the Comments to this post for a link ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
This week we'll build upon the last DotW, which involved learning to watch your sights as the muzzle rises during recoil. By keeping your eyes on the front sight throughout the cycling of the gun, you should have the "fastest" possible sight picture to break your next shot. ...
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