If any of you have taken a pistol course from Kyle Defoor of Defoor Proformance Shooting, then you’ve been through these tests. If you have not attended, then this will give you a good idea of where you need to be before taking his course. Generally people who sign up for his courses have their […]
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Tyler On Training: When You Can’t Carry
What do you do when you can’t carry? There are some locations and time that you cannot carry. Airports, Federal Buildings, and work are just some examples of where you are not going to be able to carry. You have to have your situational awareness at the highest level in these cases. One great example […]
Tactical Professor – Establishing Your Baseline
Courtesy of Breach Bang Clear Friday Fundamentals 01 – Establishing Your Baseline As seen on tacticalprofessor. My friend Mark Luell, the author of Growing Up Guns suggested I provide a ‘Friday Fundamentals’ post weekly. We got the idea from my colleague Cecil Burch who wrote a blog post about Fundamentals. It’s a great idea to stay in touch with […]
3 Must-Know Drills to Help You Identify & Clear a Gun Malfunction
Courtesy of Tactical Life Everything manmade will fail. I don’t care how expensive or well maintained your car, your watch or your gun is—eventually, it will fail. There are several common types of pistol malfunctions, and you need to know how to quickly clear them to get back in the fight. Over 90 percent of pistol […]
Keep Your Training Fresh
Dry fire is extremely important at getting better on the range. However, what also gets you better is actually shooting. People have the tendency to do one of two things when they hit the range. They either go without a plan of what they want to work on (you wouldn’t go to the gym without […]
GORUCK FAD Pistol | Counter Ambush Response
Odin All Father, King of the Aesir, in his quest for Wisdom drank from the Well of Urd amongst the roots of the world tree Yggdrasil. He whispered these words of wisdom into the ears of the warrior poet Archilochus that “We do not rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the […]
Watch: SCAR 17 Recoil Demonstration
In the following video Lucas of T.REX Arms shred the SCAR 17s. Some individuals tend to think of .308 as a uncontrollable round. However the SCAR 17s has a very soft recoil impulse, and the balance and slow recoil cycle make for a very controllable weapon. Don’t take my word for it though, watch below! […]
Atlas 8 System Review – Dynamic Dry fire
I’ve had the Salted Earth Atlas 8 target systems for a little over a month now. I have two units, but this review will be solely on the Atlas-08. For picture references, it will be the black unit, with a multitude of buttons. The gray model is more or less a prototype and wouldn’t be […]
Language Lessons: Splits
Courtesy of Breach Bang Clear Language Lessons: Splits Tamara Keel TERM: Split ALSO KNOWN AS: Shot-to-shot time, Split Times APPLICATION OF USE: Referring to the rate of fire in a string of shots. DEFINITION: The term “split” describes the interval between one shot and the next in a string of fire. It’s most often encountered […]
Language Lessons: Press Check
Courtesy of Breach Bang Clear We’ve press checked a shit ton of things, and honestly it’s nice to know you’re in the right hole. After all, a slip up could cost a happy ending. Wait — we mean guns, not shooting loads. Eh, whatever… read on to hear some thoughts on press checks (which are […]