Your First Match
I often recommend competitive shooting – specifically action pistol type matches – to anyone with a CCW. Even so, there is always apprehension in p...
Category: IDPA
The Folly of Chasing Gear – Competition Version
In the last 18 months I have changed my competition gun 3 times while chasing the elusive “perfect” pistol so allow me to spin you a yarn on what no...
Student or Dry Fire Hero?
Dry Fire. It is both proven to work and often misunderstood. It applies to competition and to concealed carry skills. Many swear by it and some (foolishly) scof...
Mitigating Match Pressure
Today’s subject is a brief discussion about match pressure. If you shoot competition, you already know match pressure is real. So how can we control it? You dry...
IDPA thoughts
IDPA had a pretty eventful summer from what I understand. In addition to combining the revolver divisions and adding BUG and Compact as divisions of their own; ...
2014 IDPA BUG Nationals
Apparently if you don’t practice at all, you shoot like crap. Okay, let me back that one up a bit. I shot the 2014 IDPA BUG Nationals this past weekend in...
IDPA dumps flatfooted reload rule and other news
Lost in the election news was a big announcement from IDPA. In an email blast to members, IDPA made several very big announcements. We’ll go through them ...
BUG Nationals this week
One of my favorite matches on the calendar is this weekend, the IDPA BUG (Back-Up Gun) Nationals. I really like the BUG match because generally speaking, itR...
Photo of the day: 2014 IDPA Junior Champion Ashley Rheuark
Ashley finished as high Junior at the 2014 Nationals and 2nd Lady. She’s one to watch for on the action shooting circuit!
Reloads on the move
At the 2014 IDPA Nationals, I did more reloads on the move than I had done at every single IDPA national match before that combined. This despite reloads on the...