Archive for July, 2010
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Received an email this morning from National Target. If all goes well, the official pistol-training.com target should be delivered by the end of August. Hopefully, they'll be here in time for the Aim Fast, Hit Fast class in Los Alamos.
Minimum initial order was 10,000 targets, so I'll have a few ...
Posted in Gear | 23 Comments »
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The Green Family telephone tree has been ablaze the past couple of days because a relative in Iowa read a copy of Gun World and says there is an article about me (or at least mentioning me) in there somewhere. The article seems to be related to the Rangemaster Tactical ...
Posted in Administrative | 15 Comments »
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
20,625 rounds
0 stoppages
0 malfunctions
0 parts breakages
Well, the 20,000 round point is nothing but a memory.
Yes, it took a little longer than previous tests (12 weeks for the P30 and just 10 for the M&P). But the plan was always to go a little slower with the .45, ...
Posted in Gear, HK45, Uncategorized | 16 Comments »
Monday, July 26th, 2010
(this class is now full)
Ernest Langdon, many-times IDPA and USPSA champion and former chief instructor at the U.S. Marine Corps' famous High Risk Personnel program, is one of the best pistol instructors you could ever find.
I count myself lucky to have met Ernest early in my shooting career and he ...
Posted in Teaching | 15 Comments »
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Congratulations to four of last weekend's Aim Fast, Hit Fast students for their great success in achieving Advanced scores on the F.A.S.T.:
Bill Blowers (5.16)
Emanuel Plotnikov (5.22)
Mark Kruger (5.81)
T.J. Lurvey (6.01)
Special recognition for Bill Blowers, who set an all-time Aim Fast, Hit Fast student record. Outstanding job, Bill. All four shooters ...
Posted in Competition | 8 Comments »
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
19,050 rounds
0 stoppages
0 malfunctions
0 parts breakages
Pictured above is Freyja, who as you can see has prevented anyone from shooting the pistol over the last couple of days.
Nonetheless, there was a major milestone passed over the weekend while teaching in Washington. The HK45 has now gone over 10,000 ...
Posted in Gear, HK45 | 19 Comments »
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Checking in for my flight from Baltimore to Seattle this morning, the ticket counter clerk clearly hasn't gone through her post-9/11 "Declared Firearm" training yet.
Not only did she insist on checking each individual gun (nothing in the magazine well = empty, you know) but she also wanted to see ...
Posted in Gear | 17 Comments »
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
My "home range" has been at the NRA Headquarters since they opened in 1996. I even worked there for a couple of years as both a range officer and an instructor. When it first opened, the NRA Range was truly a state of the art facility. Over the past decade ...
Posted in Range Reports | 20 Comments »
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
18,578 rounds
0 stoppages
0 malfunctions
0 parts breakages
(this week's report comes from TCinVA after he spent all day Saturday running the pistol during Speed Kills)
When Todd offered to give me the HK45 test gun for the duration of the “Speed Kills” class held over the weekend, my first thought ...
Posted in Gear, HK45 | 14 Comments »
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Cheaper Than Dirt recently began promoting itself through a blog called The Shooter's Log. Earlier this week, they published an outstanding interview with Dave Sevigny (who is famous for being a F.A.S.T. coin holder and maybe winning a few dozen other things, too). Read it all here.
Train hard & stay ...
Posted in Learning | No Comments »
