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Gun Nuts tonight – Armed America

Posted on by Caleb

And you thought we weren’t going to have a killer episode of Gun Nuts Radio tonight, didn’t you?  Well, you were wrong. Joining us tonight on Gun Nuts Radio at 9pm Eastern time will be Kathy Jackson, co-author of the new book Lessons from Armed America.  Kathy will be speaking about the book, her inspiration in writing the book, as well as sharing some of the stories from it with us.

We’ll also be taking questions from you, our listeners to our dedicated call in line at 347-539-5436, so if you have a question for Kathy about the book, or about her work as a firearms instructor, get ready to call in once I open the phone lines.  If you join us live at www.blogtalkradio.com/gunnuts, you’ll also get the chance to participate in the Gun Nuts Chat, a lively real-time discussion of the issues being presented on the show.

That’s tonight, 9pm Eastern time at www.blogtalkradio.com/gunnuts!  Don’t miss the show!

IDPA

It's like raaaaiiiiiinn

Posted on by Caleb

These were the conditions that shooters faced on Friday at the IDPA State Championship match.  Knowing that, I’m almost okay with finishing 3rd instead of winning outright.

2009 State Match-1

2009 State Match-2

Pictures by Jere Wilmering – he was on one of the squads we ran on Friday, full of guys that were very good sports about the rain and the many technical difficulties that it caused.  Soggy targets, plastic bags, and raindrops on your front sight make for an interesting and challenging match.

Indiana IDPA – we shoot in the rain, because you fight like you train!

IDPA

Match Status update

Posted on by Caleb

The short version? I have no idea where I’m sitting in the standings right now. I feel okay about yesterday’s runs, but I also feel like I left too many points on the board in terms of points down. I only had one “bad” stage, but it was a doozy with a hostage shot and 10 points down on a swinging target.

I guess we’ll see how the scores turn out today! I would have liked to have powered Through yesterday and been able to sit and watch from a position of confidence…but then that wouldn’t be any fun, now would it?

Hoosier/IDPA

Indiana IDPA State Championship starts today!

Posted on by Caleb

Getting ready to head out to the range for the start of the IDPA state match. Today the staff and Safety Officers are shooting the match, as well as a few paid participants.

Blogging will necessarily be light today as I’m not going to have a whole lot of free time once the match gets underway. However, make sure you check out the Gun Nuts Twitter feed as I’ll be dropping updates in Twitter as the match goes on.

I’m going to ask the match director if instead of my 625, I can “shoot” the match with a cup of coffee and my Jetfire. 🙂

IDPA

Rain, rain, go away

Posted on by Caleb

And don’t come back until Sunday!

Right now, the weather for the IDPA State Championship is looking like rain and mid 60’s on Friday…which is when the match staff gets to shoot.  Saturday, for the actual main match shooters is looking like about the same, but sans rain.  So if you’re coming on Friday to Atlanta Conservation Club to watch, bring an umbrella.  Bring one on Saturday as well, but you might not need it!

The great thing about IDPA is that I actually encourage shooting in the rain.  Like I said a couple of days ago – if you get into a gunfight, you don’t know what the weather’s going to be like, so better practice keeping your footing, moving, and reloading in mud and the rain with as much control as possible.  And what better way to do that than to shoot IDPA?

ICORE/IDPA/revolvers

Revolver Practice

Posted on by Caleb

One of the advantages of shooting a revolver competitively is that with a little imagination and enough snap caps, a shooter can simulate entire courses of fire in the comfort of their own home.

Of course, we can’t simulate recoil, but for a major IDPA match for example, you can practice everything but managing the recoil of each round. To get even more creative, you can hang printouts of standard action shooting targets in your “practice area” to help with sight picture and trigger management.

The big gain here is that with a revolver, there’s never any racking the slide to get a fresh trigger pull. This means you can simply press the trigger each time, just like you will in the match. Dry firing this way is a great way to plan out the courses of fire ahead of time. Hopefully you’ll be able to do this enough to prevent the “crap, now what?” moment that is so common in matches!