Archive for November, 2009
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
I believe the internet meme is:
FAIL!
Pictured here, courtesy of Pilgrim at M4Carbine.net, is a beautiful Lorcin .380 semiautomatic pistol. As you can see, the gun developed a minor structural issue before its owner could complete what I am sure was headed towards an otherwise successful 50,000 round endurance test.
The crack ...
Posted in Gear | 14 Comments »
Friday, November 27th, 2009
61,246 rounds
9 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 3 parts breakages
Happy Thanksgiving! Exactly 2,500 rounds went through the P30 this week.
Recently, I was talking to firearms instructor David Blinder of Personal Defense Training about ways to help students achieve an optimal grip during the drawstroke. Around that same time, I had the opportunity to ...
Posted in Gear, P30 Thursday | 12 Comments »
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Yet another 1911 on the market. There are two ways to look at it.
First, "1911" is supposed to be the model name, not the number of companies building versions of it. Building a 1911 is just a lazy way to enter the handgun market. There is little design and testing ...
Posted in Gear | 5 Comments »
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Another common error I see, especially among new shooters or old-but-untrained shooters is that they select a handgun based on caliber or, heaven help us, "stopping power" rather than their ability to shoot the thing properly.
Here is a simple clue for new shooters: a hit with a 9mm is far ...
Posted in Gear, Learning | 11 Comments »
Friday, November 20th, 2009
From this morning's Shooting Wire:
An "Organizational Announcement" from Chief Marketing Officer Marc Hill to all of Remington's employees confirmed the existence of a Remington handgun team by naming Tom Taylor to the position of Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product-Handguns.
(...)
A 1911 is in first-production testing, and may be ready ...
Posted in Gear, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
58,746 rounds
9 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 3 parts breakages
A lot of shooting but nothing particularly exciting to report this week. The pistol has gone close to 9,000 rounds without a cleaning since getting back from the HK "checkup" at 50k. I can feel it getting a little balky, so I'll break ...
Posted in Gear, P30 Thursday | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
I know, I know. "Guns don't kill, people kill."
Guns are still deadly weapons. And far too often, shooters seem to forget that fact. The attitude that many casual shooters take towards safety is that as long as they're not trying to hurt someone, the gun is just a tool no ...
Posted in Learning, Teaching | 11 Comments »
Friday, November 13th, 2009
55,686 rounds
9 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 3 parts breakages
Late again! But "P30 Friday Morning" just doesn't sound as snappy, does it?
I hit a major milestone with the pistol during Week 27, setting a personal best on the F.A.S.T. drill:
4.22 (clean): 1.44, .41 / 1.71 / .22, .21, 23
Needless to say, that ...
Posted in Gear, P30 Thursday | 9 Comments »
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Perhaps it's just local, but the double-tap seems to be seeing a resurgence in popularity from what I'm seeing at the range. And that's unfortunate.
A staple of handgun training for decades, the double-tap went out of vogue with the advent of terminal ballistics research and serious analysis of real world ...
Posted in Learning, Teaching | 23 Comments »
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
53,482 rounds
9 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 3 parts breakages
The P30 is back. Heckler & Koch replaced all the springs in the gun and magazines, and also replaced the magazine followers. With the help of some fellow M4Carbine.net Northern Virginia Training Group members almost 3,500 rounds have been fired through the gun in ...
Posted in Gear, P30 Thursday | 14 Comments »
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
I'm just speechless.
Center for Media & Democracy slams M&P9 JG Breast Cancer Awareness campaign.
For those of you who don't know, Julie Golob (nee Goloski) -- The "JG" in M&P9 JG -- gave up the royalties she would have earned from the use of her name so that Smith & Wesson ...
Posted in Uncategorized | 11 Comments »
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Fast! We all want to go fast! Unfortunately, not everyone is ready to be a speed demon. As mentioned here a couple years ago, there is a natural progression of training priorities that shooters & instructors should follow. But what do you do when a group of shooters -- whether students ...
Posted in Learning, Teaching | 15 Comments »
