Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 29th, 2008
45,164 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
Week 23 will have to be remembered as The Week Stuff Broke. I guess putting more than 3,500 rounds in a week through a gun that's been shot as much (and maintained as little) as the M&P Torture Test gun can do that.
First, as you may have ...
Posted in Gear, M&P Monday | 4 Comments »
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Originally posted at M4Carbine.net and copied here with permission of the author, read the story of "Littlelebowski" (from Long Range International) who was shot when a passenger in the vehicle he was driving negligently discharged a Kimber .45, shooting Littlelebowski in the arm and leading to two years of surgeries ...
Posted in Learning | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
At the range last night, an instructor giving a private lesson reminded me of a teaching truism: demonstrations can help you, and demonstrations can hurt you.
In this case, the instructor wanted to prove something to his student. He sent a 25yd bullseye target out to fifty yards and emptied a ...
Posted in Teaching | 7 Comments »
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
41,659 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 1 parts breakage
As promised, we had a special guest star fire round #40,000 through the test gun. Here is the picture:
Thanks very much to our good friend Julie Golob (nee Goloski) of Smith & Wesson. If you've been living under a rock and don't know ...
Posted in Gear, M&P Monday | 5 Comments »
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
The September Design a Drill of the Week contest winner comes from an active duty Major in the U.S. Marine Corps who has asked not to be identified. He didn't have a name for the drill, so we just made one up. 8)
The drill provides a way to do color-shape drills ...
Posted in DotW, Learning | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Congrats to the winners of the 100,000 Visitors karma contest.
Grand prize winner is G34 Shooter. He'll be receiving a new pistol-training.com t-shirt.
Runners up will be winning a pistol-training.com hat:
Pepper
Adam
Great Bison
Redband D
JLM
Thanks once again to all of the contributors who've helped make pistol-training.com a resource for our readers, and thanks to ...
Posted in Administrative | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
39,999 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 1 parts breakage
What a busy week! Sorry for the day late post. I was in Canada yesterday. 8)
The test gun went on its first international trip. pistol-training.com held an Aim Fast, Hit Fast class in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Thanks to RobE and some of the other ...
Posted in Gear, M&P Monday | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Congrats to Travis Tomasie (US Army Marksmanship Unit) for winning Limited and to Bob Vogel for winning Production at the 2008 U.S. Practical Shooting Association Limited/Production Nationals!
Posted in Competition | 2 Comments »
Monday, September 8th, 2008
38,736 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 1 parts breakage
All good things, as they say ...
During Week 20, we had the first parts breakage on the test gun. At round 37,427 the trigger spring broke. The gun still fired, but the shooter had to push the trigger forward manually for each shot.
The gun had not ...
Posted in Gear, M&P Monday | 9 Comments »
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Less than a year after pistol-training.com came into existence, today we had our 100,000th visitor.
Thank you to every visitor, every contributor, and all of people who have supported us over the past eleven months.
To celebrate, we're having another give-away! Just respond with a comment to this post before 11:59pm on ...
Posted in Administrative | 40 Comments »
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
We all understand that when you own something that's worth a lot of money, it's smart to invest in insurance. That's why I'm always surprised to hear how few instructors actually have their own liability insurance policies.
Of course, safety should always be the #1 priority during any firearms training. Nonetheless, ...
Posted in Teaching | 2 Comments »
Monday, September 1st, 2008
35,731 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 0 parts breakages
Schedules collided this week and not quite as much shooting was accomplished. Nonetheless, the gun continues to chug along and is now well over 35,000 rounds. Still not a single stoppage since the suspected maintenance error thirteen weeks and twenty-five thousand rounds ago.
With so ...
Posted in Gear, M&P Monday, Range Reports | 1 Comment »
