I love it when my mail carrier delivers some goodness! Armed with a gift card from Amazon (courtesy of the parents of one of my students last year), and with some money sitting in my PayPal account from some items I had recently sold, I decided to add to/upgrade my Everyday Carry (EDC) gear. What […]
My recent experiences in multiple pistol classes and my aging eyesight have resulted in somewhat of a personal odyssey in finding sights that I like and that also work well for me. In short, I’ve been disappointed with my accuracy despite frequent practice and I’ve also been compelled to adapt to progressive lenses in my eyeglasses due to […]
I don’t teach hardly at all anymore, but for a few years I considered teaching a seminar titled “Moving From IDPA to Survival Shooting”. The idea being that if you shoot IDPA (or almost any competitive venue) you were already good enough at pure shooting, but that you needed to work on more than just […] […]
One good thing about working on the blog with John for the last year has been the opportunity to meet some cool people. Because of my involvement with the blog and my presence on a local firearms forum, John Murphy of FPF Training reached out to me in late 2015 and invited me to take […]
Regular readers of this blog no doubt fall into the “let’s mock the gun-free-zone concept after another mass shooting in a gun-free-zone” camp. Since we are all probably on the same page when it comes to such zones, there’s no need to beat that dead horse (at least not today). Instead, I wanted to talk […]
I am very clearly on record here on the blog saying that the Glock 19 is my favorite pistol (probably my favorite firearm). The Glock 19 is the last firearm I would ever get rid of, as it can fill many different roles. However, though it can fill many roles, it is not necessarily the perfect […]
