Yesterday I threw a post up with some quick rant-style thoughts on the state of the professional firearms training community. Read “You are not an operator” before you read this post; I can honestly say that if I’d known when…
Operator-speak has become the lingua franca of the shooting community, and it’s annoying. Here’s the thing: Special Forces, Delta, Navy SEALs, etc are all super rad dudes – our nation is well served by this group of steely-eyed killing machines.…
We all agree that if you want to get better at the shooting sports you’re eventually going to have to go to the range and actually pull some triggers. Because we’re all busy people, we’re all looking for ways to…
One of the areas I’ve been working on to improve my performance has been my reload; which with a single stack gun is especially important. After taking the Automatic Accuracy USPSA class, I spent the majority of my dry practice…
Cory & Erika have a video up from their recent class with Haley Strategic. Ron Avery (whom we’ve featured in the past) talks Cory through the science of drawing the gun; it’s interesting because you can tell that Cory is struggling with some of the things that Ron has to say, but is obviously interested in learning from Ron.
Just recently, I had a chance to see a 1911 extractor break in the strangest fashion – the base of the part. Check out the pictures: A side note, why is it that guns always break in the most interesting…
The weekend of April 13th-14th, I drove down to lovely Eastern Nebraska to attend Automatic Accuracy’s USPSA class, hosted by the Eastern Nebraska Practical shooters. The class instructors were Matt Mink and Ben Stoeger, both USPSA Grandmasters with a considerable…
When discussions of self defense come up on various forums, invariably the word “mindset” is worked in the conversation. People make a lot of noise about the word but often few having the discussion really grasp the significance. In some of the more…
The topic of competition shooting as a vector for all manner of ills that will get you killed has been popping up in various places of late, and I have to confess it’s an argument that I find completely ridiculous.…
When Caleb hired me to write for the Gun Nuts team, his instructions were simply to write about anything I wanted, as long as it related to guns. I considered his knowledge of me and my gun background and decided…
