Drill of the Week: Ball & Dummy
This week, we get back to basics with one of the oldest, most proven pistol drills in existence: the Ball & Dummy drill. As most…
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Drill of the Week: Knockdown
Following up from last week’s Reactive Response Drill, this week’s drill will require access to a Pepper popper steel target. The goal this week: get…
Men Are from Mars …
While a decent instructor should be able to teach both men & women, the cold hard fact is that many female students are much more…
More Thoughts on the SIMP Principle
I’ve read through the thread on the other board (editor: CALGUNS.NET). Some observations. A few posters focused on the number of guns “owned” rather than…
Drill of the Week: Reactive Response Drill
Last week, we began breaking the “two shots per target” habit with Rich Verdi’s Non-Standard Response Drill. Now we’ll expand on that concept to simulate…
Self-Inflicted Glock 18 Wound
Thanks to YouTube, here we see a fine example of what happens when someone who isn’t qualified to teach hands a gun to someone who…
Drill of the Week: Non-Standard Response Drill
Most of the drills people practice involve a predetermined number of rounds fired on the target. This is usually a double tap, two shots fired…
New Drill Added: the X-Drill
The X-Drill, a comprehensive multiple target drill, has been added to the Drills section.
Slide release or rack the slide?
A perennial question that is so appropriate for Learn To Reload Month here at pistol-training.com: When performing a slidelock reload, do you use the slide…
Drill of the Week: 3-Position Reloads
Learn to Reload Week comes to a close with one last Drill of the Week. Previous Drills this month were dry-fire practice, 1-Reload-2, and Surprise…