Springfield/Warren 9mm 1911 Endurance Test: Report #19
32,893 rounds 11 stoppages 0 malfunctions 3 parts breakages The pistol is back from SACS and has already seen one long day of practice. The whole trip…
IDPA and AIWB
It may be a fool’s errand but for what it’s worth, I submitted the following to IDPA via their rules comment section (accessible to any…
Round Dumping Now Only on the History Channel
The IDPA “round dumping” rule is history, verified a short while ago in an email I received from IDPA Executive Director Joyce Wilson. Thanks very…
Initial Thoughts on New IDPA Rulebook
I’ve only read through it once and scratched some very rough notes but here are some of the issues that particularly stood out to me:…
One Picosafety
In the metric system, “pico” is the prefix denoting one trillionth (0.000000000001, or 10 to the -12th power). It’s ridiculously small. Pico is also the…
IDPA’s New Rulebook Inbound
The new IDPA rulebook, which has been a work in progress for the past couple of years through the use of anonymous “tiger teams” set…
Free Crack at Tam’s
Read all about it at View From The Porch. As a reminder, Heckler & Koch remains the only handgun manufacturer that designs all of its…
When Men Were Men
… and bulletproof, apparently. Train hard & stay safe! ToddG (H/T to Ken W. for the link!)
When Smart Is Stupid
… or, Trying to Profit from the Sandy Hook Massacre Makes You a Giant Twit! Yesterday, Computerworld published a story about Safe Gun Technology, a…
Is Bad That Bad?
You’ve seen it a hundred times on the internet: “I don’t want to go to a class and learn the wrong thing!” The implication is…