Archive for October, 2008
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
For the second time this year, Sturm, Ruger, & Co. is recalling a new pistol due to a potential to discharge if dropped with a loaded chamber.
From the Ruger website:
Ruger has recently received a small number of reports from the field indicating that LCP pistols can discharge when dropped onto ...
Posted in Gear | 7 Comments »
Monday, October 27th, 2008
54,880 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
This past week was quite mundane: a few range sessions with nothing unusual to report. A little over 1,600 rounds were fired with no problems.
Hopefully, this week we'll put the finishing touches on the pistol-training.com limited edition S&W M&P9. More info on that will ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
This week's drill comes from one of the most talented and famous firearms instructors in the world, Ken Hackathorn. While Ken has been responsible for the creation and proliferation of many different drills over the years, his 3-Second Standards is incredibly easy to set up and administer.
For this drill, you will need:
Three ...
Posted in DotW, Learning | 5 Comments »
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Call me culturally insensitive, but this just seems like a really weird wedding tradition. Like me, I'm sure you would have some reservations about putting a loaded pistol in the hands of a young child in the middle of a crowd. And that, my friend, is where you and I differ ...
Posted in Learning | 4 Comments »
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
... in your life. That's how long you have to make the next shot.
What does that mean? It means you can go as slowly as you want as long as you have all the time in the world. But when time is a factor, you cannot go slow anymore. For ...
Posted in Learning, Teaching | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Earlier this month, the 11th Annual IDPA National Championship was held in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Congratulations to this year's IDPA Nationals Champions!
Stock Service Pistol (and high overall): Dave Sevigny
184.36 seconds
Glock 34
Enhanced Service Pistol: Bob Vogel
189.99 seconds
Glock 34
Custom Defense Pistol: David Olhasso
210.15 seconds
Smith & Wesson M&P45
Enhanced Service Revolver: Jerry Miculek
234.08 seconds
Smith & Wesson ...
Posted in Competition | 4 Comments »
Monday, October 20th, 2008
53,227 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
As we proudly announced last week, the M&P test continues! In fact, this week was quite a busy one.
I attended the outstanding Concealed & Off-Duty Pistol Class put on by David Pennington in South Hill, Virginia. As you can see if you follow the ...
Posted in Gear, M&P Monday | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
As promised on Monday, there is exciting news to announce regarding the Smith & Wesson pistol-training.com M&P Torture Test.
The test isn't over yet.
pistol-training.com and Smith & Wesson have agreed to continue their partnership and the test through SHOT Show 2009, which begins on 15-January in Orlando, Florida. To get the test ...
Posted in Gear | 14 Comments »
Monday, October 13th, 2008
50,343 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
Bullet #50,000 recovered from M&P Torture Test
On Friday 10-October 2008, Smith & Wesson's Senior Vice President Leland Nichols fired round #50,000 at the Smith & Wesson Academy (pictured left). If Leland looks like he knows what he's doing behind a pistol, that's because he ...
Posted in Gear, M&P Monday | 11 Comments »
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
With the help of fifteen friends and customers at the NRA Range, tonight we managed to put 1,329 rounds through the M&P test gun in about three hours. It's now hovering at 49,999 rounds and will be at Smith & Wesson later this week for # 50,000.
So, a big thank ...
Posted in Range Reports | 1 Comment »
Monday, October 6th, 2008
47,618 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
We're fast approaching the end of the M&P 50,000 Round Torture Test, and it looks like we'll actually finish a little ahead of schedule. Nothing particularly exciting to report about this week, except that the ammo fairy dropped over 2,500 rounds of Speer 124gr ...
Posted in Gear, M&P Monday | 5 Comments »
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Today, 3-Oct-08, marks the one year anniversary of pistol-training.com going live to the public.
We've had over 115,000 visitors, more than a dozen contributors, and hundreds of comments from readers. The site continues to grow both in content and popularity. Thanks, as ever, to everyone who has played a role in ...
Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
To kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Smith & Wesson has issued a press release about the new M&P9 JG. The JG gun is named for Julie Golob (better known as Julie Goloski), one of Smith's Champion Shooters and their Consumer Program Manager. Julie worked very hard for many months to bring ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
... or anything else. Yes, thanks to the wonder that is YouTube, now we can watch people who have no idea what they're doing give us product reviews on handguns they don't know how to handle.
This tool (the guy, not the Walther) reviews three pistols by pointing them at himself, ...
Posted in Teaching | 9 Comments »
