Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Contributor Rich Verdi has provided us with another excellent article, this one called Keep an Open Mind! Rich discusses a critically important lesson about the importance of teaching students without being tied down to personal preferences about your gear. All too often, instructors like to wax philosophically about their personal likes ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
1,000 rounds
As we reported last week, with the help of the folks at Smith & Wesson we are conducting a test of the M&P9 pistol. Every Monday we'll update the status of the test.
So far, I've fired one thousand rounds through the gun without any stoppages or problems of any ...
Posted in Gear, M&P Monday, Range Reports | 7 Comments »
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
This week, we're going to readdress some of the issues from Tracking Your Sights and Tracking Your Sights II in January. Sometimes you can make perfectly good hits without much of a sight picture ... or, in the case of the photo below, no sight picture at all!
This drill is ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Today began a serious test of a brand new M&P9 thanks to the folks at Smith & Wesson. They sent us this pistol for long term evaluation. Our plan is to put 50,000 (fifty thousand) rounds through the gun in the next six months. And we'll detail every step in ...
Posted in Gear, Range Reports | 11 Comments »
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
After spending a couple weeks working on accuracy, it's time to ramp up the speed again. No drill serves better as a bridge between "slow" and "fast" than the Circle Drill.
The Circle Drill is intended to teach students the relationship between speed and accuracy, and how time affects marksmanship ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Although many people have heard of the Israeli method, there is little available information about how much time the extra step of racking the slide requires. When they guess, most people cite figures of a second or more. Some time ago I decided to answer the question for myself by ...
Posted in Learning, Teaching | 35 Comments »
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
The so-called "Israeli" Draw is a technique advocated by some for presenting a pistol from the holster. The gun is carried with an loaded magazine but no round in the chamber. As the gun is drawn from the holster, the shooter racks the slide to load the gun.
Posted in Learning, Teaching | 55 Comments »
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
We warned you last week that this was going to be an accuracy-intensive drill, and we weren't kidding. It's called Dot Torture for a reason. This drill first came to us from good friends at the NRA Headquarters Range in Fairfax, Virginia. They got it from David Blinder at Personal Defense Training. ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
(thanks to Howard Potash for sending us this information)
RUGER® SR9™ PRODUCT SAFETY WARNING AND RECALL NOTICE
DO NOT USE YOUR RUGER SR9 PISTOL
We have determined that some Ruger SR9 pistols manufactured between October 2007 and April 2008 can, under certain conditions, fire if dropped with their manual safeties in the "off" ...
Posted in Gear, Safety | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
pistol-training.com is proud to announce that "Sam McCord" has joined our staff and posted his first article, Custom Combat Modifications in Iraq. "Sam McCord" is the pen name of an active duty U.S. Marine with conventional, anti-terrorist, and irregular operations experience in Central America, the Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa.
The ...
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