I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now.(Apologies to Queen) Instant gratification is wanting to experience fulfillment without delay. Basically, it’s “I want it now.” So how does this apply to firearms training? We tend to attract people who want to do well. As a result
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Fundamental Defensive Pistol
Fundamental skills necessary to use a pistol in a defensive capacity. There will be a focus on gun handling, marksmanship, and safety.
Continue reading »Thoughts from class 9-19-16
Fundamental Defensive Pistol – Thoughts From Class There’s always a flood of thoughts that follow every class. Thoughts in terms of what can we do better, thoughts in terms of lessons learned by the students. We had a wide variety of skill levels in this class from extremely experienced and talented, to people who had
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This class is designed to present the fundamental skills necessary to use a pistol in a defensive capacity. There will be a focus on gun handling, marksmanship, and safety.
Continue reading »The Pistol Shakes – Wobble Zone
One of the fundamentals of marksmanship is sight alignment – aligning the front and rear sights. Wobble zone, what is it? It’s that minor bit of movement you get when you try and get the sights perfectly aligned. Some people get concerned about it and try and wait until the sights are perfectly aligned
Continue reading »Pistol Familiarization
This class is scheduled by appointment. If you have just purchased a pistol and would like help getting started with the fundamentals of safety, marksmanship, and basic pistol manipulation, we can help you.
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Three shooters, three experience levels. Two Glocks, one Cz. All had one goal – increase accuracy. The people we work with have consistently shown focus; they listen, process, and apply the feedback they get and it shows in their targets. The improvements today were impressive even by the standard set by our shooters. There are
Continue reading »Have a plan for the range
I try and set 1 or 2 goals so I have a plane for the range. We all have the tendency to do things we’re good at and avoid the things that we’re not good at. I’m as guilty as anyone about this. =/ Lately when I’ve been going to the range I’ll limit myself to
Continue reading »Thoughts from class – 10/18/15
Classes are challenging on many fronts, on many levels. How do I keep students engaged? How do I ensure that people of varying skill levels are appropriately challenged? How do I track the progress and challenges of each student? The particular challenge I’m facing now is how do I narrow down the many accomplishments from
Continue reading »Focus on the front sight
Question: How / why does focusing on the pistol’s, or rifle’s, front sight improve accuracy? Your eyes can only focus on one distance at a time. Whether that distance is 20 inches, 23 inches, 5 feet, or 50 feet. While shooting it’s usually advocated to focus on the front sight; the target and rear sight
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