Harder Than I Expected
Having received my SIG .22 kit, I was planning to go to the range for the first time this past Friday. Before heading out, I…
Best Gun Mat Ever
Seen yesterday at my local gunshop. I want some royalties, darn it! (though I guess about $30,000 in ammo wasn’t a bad trade) Train hard…
Class Warfare
If I may, I’d like to riff off something written by my friend Baxter at Gun Nuts not too long ago. There are classes that…
Starting From Scratch … Again
As many of you know, eight weeks ago I had my right elbow completely replaced. The titanium elbow is a fairly new and uncommon procedure,…
Carry Gun, Training Gun
Probably the worst habit I’ve adopted since beginning the pistol-training.com annual endurance tests back in 2008 was a policy of using the endurance test gun…
Beretta Gets a New Spin
What happens when legendary gunsmith Bill Wilson (not to mention the resources and expertise of all the other incredible gunsmiths at Wilson Combat) take champion Beretta shooter & tuner Ernest…
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…
“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…
Drawstrings, Again
As I mentioned in 2012, drawstrings on concealment garments can be dangerous. Here’s a TV news segment about a police officer who sadly managed to…
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…