Personal Best vs. On Demand
Shooting a personal best on a drill is a great feeling. It’s evidence that all your effort is paying off. Many shooters can rattle off…
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Hi-Point Endurance Test by TCinVA
As you know, we here at pistol-training.com love a good pistol test. And now, someone has finally stepped up to the challenge of testing the…
A Blog to Watch
My friend Chris Rhines (who earned the best F.A.S.T. score at any pistol-training.com event to date) has rebooted his excellent shooting blog, The Way of…
SOM for Real
follow the link for video: South Carolina Deputy shoots charging knife-wielding attacker A couple months ago I wrote about shooting on the move (SOM) and the importance…
Competition: Pros and Cons
If your interest in handguns is focused toward carrying on duty and/or for personal defense, is competition a good way to supplement your practice or…
Action & Reaction
Thanks to VolDep45 for his comment on this video: To whit: “Bogus. Action beats reaction every time.” No, the only thing bogus is a hackneyed training cliche…
Dogma, Doctrine, Direction
A good instructor should know why he teaches certain techniques instead of others. If he uses a particular stance or grip, if he favors a…
Can You Shoot Too Much?
Caleb posits an interesting question at Gun Nuts: Can You Shoot Too Much? A similar but different question came up recently on pistol-forum.com, about feeling…
It’s Not Me, It’s My Gun!
One of the most common excuses heard on the line and online will always be “it’s the gun!” And for as many times as that…
Some People Have Too Much Class
Last week, 167 of Master Class Chronicles wrote a very interesting post called When does practice become more important than training? As someone who makes a significant…