Teaching to Your Audience
If you teach basic CCW, do you teach those first time students about sight alignment and trigger control and breathing and the other fundamentals of…
Category: Tacticality
10 Posts
“Looking Back” Series
I recently reposted these on my Facebook page. They’re the five greatest influences on me as a shooter and instructor over the years: Chuck Davis…
The Julie Method Flashlight Technique
At the 2006 (could have been 2005) S&W IDPA Match, my friend Julie Golob showed me a flashlight/pistol technique that she’d come up with… possibly…
Omnibus Good Stuff Collection: 5-Mar-14
Some great articles from around the web, a.k.a. I’m too lazy to write anything myself… Spot Shooting by Jerry Jones at Modern Service Weapons Should…
In Defense of the Traditional Double Action
The mere title of this post makes me sad. I have come to accept, begrudgingly, that we live in a world where the perception “one…
Shooting is Easy, Thinking is Hard
One of the first force-on-force (FOF) scenarios I ever went through as a student back in the mid-90’s: I walk around a corner and se two…
When To Safe
One question I get asked frequently in class is, “When do you use the safety?” Now obviously you switch the safety off before firing. I…
The Vehicle Holster
A friend just emailed me about the “holster” someone bought him as a gift for Christmas. It’s intended to be mounted to a car. It’s…
A Capacity to Love
Tim started a series about handgun capacity over at Gun Nuts that stemmed from an earlier discussion about the ubiquitous j-frame as a defensive sidearm.…
Be Like Max?
Max Wins, eleventy-time national pistol champion, closes his eyes when he draws and turns his pistol upside down to reload. Should you? Maybe, maybe not.…