Archive for January, 2009
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
WINNER! CONGRATS TO james!
Approximately one in five visitors to pistol-training.com comes here via a search engine (Google, Yahoo, and the like).
The two most common search words are, of course, "pistol" and "training."
First person who can guess the third most common search word that brings people to pistol-training.com will win a ...
Posted in Administrative | 65 Comments »
Monday, January 26th, 2009
As firearms instructors, we have a lot of influence over our students. They come to us not just for tips and tricks to improve technique, but often rely on our expertise in terms of weapon selection and similar needs. And as pistol-training.com contributor Rich Verdi pointed out in his article ...
Posted in Gear, Teaching | 6 Comments »
Saturday, January 24th, 2009
pistol-training.com is excited to announce that we will be teaching Aim Fast, Hit Fast in Northeastern Pennsylvania on Friday 8 May & Saturday 9 May. The class will be held at the Blue Ridge Cherry Valley Rod & Gun Club in Stroudsburg.
See the class announcement in the Classes section. Hope to see ...
Posted in Teaching | 4 Comments »
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Love 'em or hate 'em, one thing that everyone has to admit about the 1911 is that the customization options are pretty much limitless. Thanks to INTrooper4255 from M4Carbine.net for the use of this photo he took of his reworked Kimber Warrior.
Posted in Gear | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
In order to bring greater variety and better pricing to our readers, we've decided to change our online store vendor. And to kick off the store on this historic Inauguration Day, we will donate 100% of the profit from all sales made today to the National Rifle Association!
Items now include ...
Posted in Gear | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
The folks at G&R Tactical have announced the price for the pistol-training.com limited edition M&P9.
The pistol will be $599 plus $20 for shipping & insurance.
Apparently there have already been quite a few people who've put their names on the pre-order list, as you can read about at M4Carbine.net. If you're ...
Posted in Gear | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
On display ready for the SHOT Show opening tomorrow:
A huge thank you to Joe Bergeron and all the other great folks at Smith & Wesson who brought this to life. And most of all, thanks go out to all of the pistol-training.com readers, mp-pistol.com members, and M4Carbine.net members who offered ...
Posted in Gear | 18 Comments »
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Thanks go to LanceinOregon from the Crimson Trace forum for finding this photo of the soon-to-be-announced polymer framed revolver being introduced by Ruger at the SHOT Show later this week:
Posted in Gear | 8 Comments »
Monday, January 12th, 2009
In a forum I visit daily (mp-pistol.com), there was recently a thread about how to disassemble a M&P pistol. The person starting the thread wrote:
I am not concerned at all about the safety aspect of it. (...) I am very proficient with gun handling so that is not an issue ...
Posted in Learning, Safety, Teaching | 11 Comments »
Saturday, January 10th, 2009
pistol-training.com is proud to announce that ATS will be hosting Aim Fast, Hit Fast at their renowned Camp Ares facility in Altha, Florida on 25-26 April. For more details, check out the Classes area.
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