Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.
Does Your Range Training Make Bad Shooters?
Things firearms instructors should be thinking about.
The Bad One — Training To Clear Double Feeds
I think this is a skill set most people should be spending more time mastering.
3 Ways to Escape Zip Ties: An Illustrated Guide
I recently wrote about an 85-year old woman who was restrained in a home invasion. knowing how to defeat restraints is a useful skill set to have. This is an informative infographic about escaping zip tie restraints. This is useful, but the best advice I can provide is to AVOID BEING RESTRAINED! I don’t care if there are five guys with rifles pointed at my head, it’s time to fight. Nothing good can happen after the restraints are applied.
THE CROSS-DOMINANT EYES
Sometimes I think we make this too complicated. The cross dominant shooter must either move the gun in front of the dominant eye or move the dominant eye behind the gun.
Types of Bullets
For those of you newer to the firearms game. You might also like Claude Werner’s Friday Fundamentals – Terminology.
The Shooting Drill You’re Probably Not Doing Enough…
It’s not cool. It’s not fun. But the simple one-shot “up” drill is probably the most important training drill you can do with either a rifle or pistol. You’ll also want to read my late friend Marcus Wynne’s take on this drill.
Need some more drills? Try Integrated Skills Group’s Handgun Proficiency Audit and The Ten Second Standards from Swift, Silent, Deadly.
Impact Expansion Bullets: The Better “Hollow Point”?
Dave Spaulding gives us a tutorial on terminal ballistics. And since we are speaking about ballistic performance, some of you might be interested in reading about .22 Flat Points.
The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger
A long form narrative detailing how any of us could fall for a complex financial scam.
Appendix Carry’s True Strength
I wish more folks would conduct their own scientific research to answer questions rather than trusting a YouTube expert. You might also like to watch Jeff’s concealed carry tips.
Building A Mission-Based Firearms System: Part 1-Your Primary Firearm System
“Assess your real-world needs and current skills. Get solid education and guidance to make good choices. You cannot buy skill. It takes work and dedication.”
POM Pepper Spray Runner Model
I carry POM as my choice of pepper spray whenever I leave the house. They just came out with a convenient carry package for you joggers/walkers.
Getting Started: AR 101
Kyle Lamb covers some AR-15 basics. For more of the man’s wisdom, read 5 Common Pistol Shooting Errors: And How to Fix Them!
Birdshot For Home Defense–Yea or Nay?
After the internet almost broke when I told people not to use birdshot for self protection last week, the Docent does a deep dive into everything relating to personal defense and birdshot. For the TL;DR crowd, he agrees with me.
Some Thoughts on Left Wing Preparedness Evangelism
I rarely write about politics on this blog because I generally think cheering about who is the best slave master doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. With that said, I think Paul is dead on in this article.
Since I’m breaking my “no politics” rule, I might as well also share Do progressive prosecutors increase crime? so both sides of the imaginary political aisle can hate me. Save your effort. I’m not going to read your hate mail and I don’t care if you never look at my site again.
Small Revolvers are Hard to Shoot
“Small revolvers don’t have to be “belly guns” or “card table guns.” With some skill you can really let them stretch their legs. It takes work to get there and stay there, though. When I say “work” I mean “work,” in the same way you and I mean it when we say, “I had a busy day at work.” I mean hard, mentally and physically tiring work.”
Zero Targets
A couple options to make zeroing your AR-15 a bit easier.
Rethinking Handgun Lasers
Laser sights on pocket pistols and other guns with crappy factory sights seem like a fine idea.
Don’t Let Injuries Keep You from Carrying! Tips for the Wounded Carrier
Given a long enough time frame, all of us will find ourselves injured or ailing at some point. It’s best to plan in advance for that possibility. For some other ideas, see my article on Self Defense After Surgery.
Starting From Scratch, a Beginner’s Guide to a Basic Armory
One writer’s opinion of where you should start if you were just beginning in the gun-owning world.
School Guns and Non-Disaster
Solid data about the relative lack of danger armed school staff present for students and other faculty members.
The “Reloading Pause” Fallacy
Doing the math on some active killer mythology.
The Best Shooting Instructors and Gunfighters of All Time
Many of the “Gun Culture 2.0” folks are not well versed in the history of our art. Massad Ayoob attempts to remedy that problem with this excellent tribute piece. I would postulate that if you are teaching gun classes and you don’t know who all of these men were, you have a lot of work to do.
How to Run a Lever Gun—the Right Way
Tips for those of you who want to shoot your lever guns better.
Running Ranges
“Perhaps the most salient point of this column is that a truly invested instructor pays attention to detail, genuinely cares for those s/he instructs, has a real-world verifiable background, can impart knowledge in an efficient manner, and runs evolutions that prepare individuals for that most likely to be encountered.
Experience allows for adaptation, the referencing of real-world shootings and debriefings with no need for a syllabus, and empathy for those who are about to go into harm’s way.
I’ve lost patience with stupidity and nonsensical courses and schools of instruction. As P.T. Barnum once stated, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” My suggestion is, don’t be that sucker.”
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