Archive for January, 2010
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
During the Aim Fast, Hit Fast class I was teaching in Memphis this weekend, a student shot himself in the leg while holstering his pistol.
I will not get into details -- or answer questions -- about the shooter's identity, make and model of gun, etc. However, the incident and the ...
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
77,003 rounds
10 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 4 parts breakages
That's right. We're back! The endurance test gun has returned from the SHOT Show and is ready to get back to work. And with just a couple of days at the range this week, the pistol shot over 2,000 rounds before I broke ...
Posted in Gear, P30 Thursday | 12 Comments »
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Dave Sevigny, captain of Team Glock and many-times world & national champion in USPSA, IPSC, IDPA, etc., etc., recently set a personal record on the IDPA Classifier. Must have been that F.A.S.T. Challenge Coin bringing him good luck, right?
For those who are not familiar with the Classifier, in order to ...
Posted in Competition | 17 Comments »
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Eagle Creek Park Pistol Range will be hosting a pistol-training.com Aim Fast, Hit Fast class on 16-17 October. More details are available on the class announcement page.
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Blockbuster announcement today made during the pistol-training.com/HK get together at HK's booth this morning. HK has won a contract to provide HK45 Compact pistols to the U.S. Navy special operations community, replacing the SIG P226 for personnel in certain roles. Specifically, the model will be the HK45C-SD with threaded barrel ...
Posted in Gear | 49 Comments »
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
SHOT Show 2010 will be the end of champion USPSA shooter Todd Jarrett's years as spokesman and sponsored shooter of pistol maker ParaOrdnance.
Todd is planning to start up his own 1911 company building guns to his specifications. Expect to see more about Jarrett and his company in the coming months...
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
The first five F.A.S.T. Challenge Coin holders were all at one place at the same time today, so we took the opportunity to get a photo of the whole gang:
(left to right: Todd Louis Green #00, Simon G. #01, Dave Sevigny #02, Todd Kennedy #03, Ernest Landgon #04)
Train hard & ...
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
It was pistol day for me at the show, trying to be ready for the Gun Nuts Radio show. Compared to the past couple of years, SHOT Show 2010 is bursting with new handguns and new handgun products.
First stop for me was Heckler & Koch and the new P30S. Any ...
Posted in Gear | 21 Comments »
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Seriously, that's a lot of boxes.
Posted in P30 Thursday | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Tonight's Gun Nuts Radio will be focused on SHOT Show reports, including a spot featuring yours truly with details about many of the new handguns being introduced this week... including the just-announced Smith & Wesson Bodyguard .380 pocket pistol and .38 revolver with integrated built-in laser aiming device.
The show begins ...
Posted in Gear | 5 Comments »
Saturday, January 16th, 2010
While every red-blooded American male has an innate understanding of masterful firearms operation, once in a very rare while you may find yourself face to face with someone who was not born an expert marksmen. Hard to believe, I know. But it can happen.
Whether you're teaching a formal class or ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Smith & Wesson is still officially hush about the new M&P .22lr pistol. This is not about that. Sorry!
However, it has been publicly announced that there will be new additions to the S&W Performance Center M&P line. Specifically:
A new M&P40 Pro with 5" barrel, which should make USPSA shooters everywhere ...
Posted in Gear | 5 Comments »
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
pistol-training.com is announcing two classes in Culpeper, VA:
Get SOM, a one-day program devoted entirely to Shooting On the Move. February 27, 2010.
Aim Fast Hit Fast. May 15 & 16, 2010.
For details, follow the links above. As always, class size is very limited. We look forward to seeing you there.
Train hard ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Heckler & Koch, sponsor of the P30 Thursday endurance test, is teaming with pistol-training.com for a get together at the 2010 SHOT Show. In addition to a Q&A session with HK VIPs such as HK-USA president Wayne Weber, they will also be giving away a brand new HK P30 .40-cal ...
Posted in Gear | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
pistol-training.com will be holding a repeat of last year's successful Aim Fast, Hit Fast program at the Sacramento Valley Shooting Center. Dates are Saturday 13-March and Sunday 14-March. For details or to register, follow this link.
Class size is strictly limited and a number of last year's students have already reserved ...
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Responding to the growing competition from polymer-framed pistols, SIG-Sauer today announced the much anticipated Enhanced Ergonomics versions of its P226 and P229 handguns. Responding to demands from both competitive shooters and the law enforcement community, SIG has made a number of changes to the grip and controls of the pistol ...
Posted in Gear | 12 Comments »
Monday, January 11th, 2010
As I've written before, the task of diagnosing students is one of the most critical responsibilities for any instructor. Proper and effective diagnosis makes or breaks a student's experience. Just a few months ago, I also wrote about ways to deal with shooters of differing skill levels in one group.
While ...
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Tam at View From The Porch strikes a chord with her recent post entitled "If this is Tuesday, I must be carrying the Luger..."
The whole concept of a "CCW rotation" has never made any sense to me.
.45 in the winter, 9mm in the summer? You've clearly been sleeping during the ...
Posted in Gear | 11 Comments »
Friday, January 8th, 2010
Using a .22lr pistol as a training aid is nothing new. Conversion kits for 1911-pattern guns have been around for a very long time. In the revolver world, rimfire equivalents to full size duty guns go back even further. A major resurgence of .22 training has come about in response ...
Posted in Gear, Learning, Teaching | 21 Comments »
Monday, January 4th, 2010
The Oklahoma City Gun Club will be hosting pistol-training.com's Aim Fast, Hit Fast program on May 1-2. For details, see here.
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