Class Review: Intensive Pistol Skills with Tom & Lynn Givens
If you are a regular reader of this space, you may remember mention of the name Tom Givens from previous articles, but you probably don’t know a whole lot...
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Getting a FAST coin with a revolver
An idea I’ve toyed around with for a while has been getting a FAST coin with a revolver. Now that someone is going to be preserving the test and the coin ...
Winter self-defense training
If you’re one of the lucky people that lives in a state that experiences this thing called “winter” you’ve probably faced the same dilem...
Tactical First Aid and “System Collapse” Medicine with Active Response Training
If you carry a firearm for personal defense, you do so because you recognize a basic reality: Should you find yourself the target of criminal violence it will b...
Close Quarters Pistol with Active Response Training
One of the benefits of the recent uptick in concealed carry permits is a growing interest in obtaining training in the use of the firearm as a instrument of sel...
The Altar of Competency
The ability to perform a skill on command regardless of circumstance is the highest level of that skill This can be as broad as you like, or as narrow as you li...
Basic pistol class: September 28th, Brookings SD
I really wanted to work a quote in here about witnessing the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station…and I guess I did. To the point:...
Breaking two out of four gun safety rules
Sometimes I get bored when I’m done practicing, and I do stuff like that. Then for some reason, I post the video on the internet, likely because I’m...
On the danger of being a gear and training Luddite
I like training classes. A lot. Pistol and/or carbine. I learn things at these classes. Training classes, while (sometimes justly so) derided as “ente...
100 round revolver practice session
One of the things I like to do is put together simple practice sessions for shooters who are on a time and money budget. Let’s face facts, ammo costs mone...