Basic Pistol classes starting in South Dakota soon
After spending nearly a year looking for a host range we’ve finally found a range to host the classes that’s withing a reasonable driving distance o...
Category: training
Navy recruits don’t train with the M16
At least according to wikipedia, they don’t. I was doing some research, and in the article about Navy Recruit training, it mentioned that the marksmanship...
EAG Basic Carbine Class Review/AAR, Aug 02-3 2014 (Pat Rogers)
On the days of August 2nd and 3rd, 2014; I attended EAG Tactical’s Basic Carbine Class at Echo Valley Training Center in West Virginia. Presented as a &#...
LAPD Retired Officer CCW Qualification Course
To comply with the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) which allows retired cops to carry concealed legally across the nation, LAPD instituted a qualifi...
Why do people hit performance plateaus?
In my quick post analyzing my classifier performance at yesterday’s USPSA match, I noted that my shooting hasn’t really gotten any better or worse i...
FBI Shooting for Survival
I love these old training films. It feels like the guys who filmed Adam-12 made a PSA about the dangers of getting shot at. What is interesting to me is that th...
Guided Chaos Combat Derp Training
If wanted the experience of having a fat dude breathe heavily on me while trying to push me around, I’d cut in line at Sizzler. (aside: is Sizzler still a...
Shooting the Humbler – 700 point aggregate
Last week I wrote about training with limited time and ammo, and I specifically called out two drills you can use to train on and test your improvement. The fir...
Training with limited time and ammo
Time is not on our side. Time is an awful, cruel mistress, the worst zero sum game of them all. For every second you spend doing anything, that is time that you...