Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
CALGUNS.NET has a discussion, available to the public, on our previous post entitled The SIMP Principle. The theory: "A shooter’s skill seems to be in inverse proportion to the number of guns that he brings to the range." Check out the CALGUNS.NET discussion to see people on both ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
A perennial question that is so appropriate for Learn To Reload Month here at pistol-training.com:
When performing a slidelock reload, do you use the slide release lever or do you pull the slide back and release it?
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Short answer: Both ways work.
Long answer:
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Learn to Reload Week comes to a close with one last Drill of the Week. Previous Drills this month were dry-fire practice, 1-Reload-2, and Surprise Reloads. We'll finish the month by practicing these skills from standing, kneeling, and prone positions.
Whether you're practicing to play or to fight, being ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Learn to Reload Month continues here at pistol-training.com.
In the past two weeks we've worked on dry-fire practice and then live-fire planned reloads. This week we're going to take that smooth skill and learn to apply it on demand with the Surprise Reload Drill.
This drill is ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
pistol-training.com contributor Rich Verdi's article Laser Sighting Systems as Training Aids is now available in the Articles section.
This article first appeared in the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (IALEFI) journal. For anyone involved in training law enforcement officers, we strongly recommend you get involved with IALEFI as ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
As Learn to Reload month continues here at pistol-training.com, it's time to take the skills we worked on in dry-fire practice last week and execute them live on the firing line.
The most common basic reload drill involves firing a shot, performing a reload, and firing another shot to record the ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Based on the popularity of the post and user requests, last month's entry entitled Trust No One: an insider's perspective has now been added to the permanent Articles section.
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Plenty of people use night sights, and they are required equipment in most law enforcement and military pistol procurements these days. But how, exactly, do those glowing sights work?
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Well, SHOT Show 2008 is over and sadly many consider it one of, perhaps the worst SHOT in recent memory. There just wasn't much to see that was new and exciting. The event was spread out over two large halls as well as three temporary building-size tents. ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
February is Learn to Reload month at pistol-training.com so for our first DotW this month we'll begin with the basics.
There are many different kinds of reloads for different situations. But they all have certain basic elements in common ... elements which many shooters fail to master because they see ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
All too often, instructors and enthusiasts alike use the phrase "It's a training issue" as justification for troublesome equipment or poor techniques. Of course, we here at pistol-training.com are the last ones to excuse lack of training, but a dose of reality is needed.
When someone accidentally discharges a Glock ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
The Crime of the "Reliability Package"
Spend enough time on any gun forum and you will soon be led to believe that you can't live without a trigger job on your pistol to smooth, lighten, and otherwise "improve" your shooting. While it's important not to take such modifications to unsafe ...
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