Archive for March, 2008

Drill of the Week: Knockdown

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!), ...

Karma Winners!

Monday, March 31st, 2008

The winners from last week's 25,000th Visitor Celebration have been randomly selected by computer.  Congratulations go out to the following readers: Winners of the pistol-training.com Shooting Journals are: jason bourne TheFish Grand-prize winner of our fancy new pistol-training.com Khaki Hat was Howard Cohodas. Congratulations to all the winners!  You have been contacted by email for instructions on ...

Men Are from Mars …

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 ...

More Thoughts on the SIMP Principle

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

I’ve read through the thread on the other board (editor:

25,000th Visitor Karma

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Well, pistol-training.com had its 25,000th visitor on Sunday, 23-Mar-08. And to celebrate, we're having a free give-away of some products which will be offered for sale in the near future. To participate, all you have to do is add a Comment to this post. Add only one comment! ...

Drill of the Week: Reactive Response Drill

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 ...

Self-Inflicted Glock 18 Wound

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 ...

Drill of the Week: Non-Standard Response Drill

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 ...

Great IWB holster!

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Developed by Custom Carry Concepts with input from ToddG at pistol-training.com, the "Looper" is a kydex IWB holster that eliminates one of the biggest weaknesses seen in competing products: thin kydex clips that snap in half under stress. Kydex clips break. They can break through normal wear and tear ...

More Video Added

Friday, March 7th, 2008

A short video clip has been added to the El Presidente drill page.