One of my consistent goals of late has been to focus on my pistol fundamentals, and become as good as I can with the weapon that I’m most likely to have on hand in an armed encounter. To that end, I usually attempt to get to the range at least once a week, dry fire […]
As I write this article, it is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. As a teacher, I have the day off from work. In between various “how do I entertain the kids enough to tire them out so they’ll leave me alone” events, I remembered that today marks an anniversary of sorts. It has been exactly […]
With the constant goal of shooting better in mind, I decided to go somewhat old school for the new year. To start with, I’m breaking a couple of oldies but goodies out of the safe. First, as I type this, my original Glock, a Gen3 G19, is en route to Boresight Solutions for a grip […]
As I have done the last few years (see here and here), I thought it worthwhile to post some of my formal training and more informal goals for the year. These are not all necessarily meant to be of the “by the end of the year, I will shoot a sub-six second F.A.S.T. drill”, but […]
In this, what should be the last of the “this is what happened in 2017” posts, I thought I would take just a few minutes and outline for our readers a summary of how we faired in 2017. Overall I took this photo off the computer screen: Though I’m hesitant to put up the raw […]
As I have done each year since the blog’s inception, I thought it worthwhile to revisit my goals for 2017 to see what I did, what goals were met, and how I (hopefully) improved. Formal Training I ended up taking 7 courses in 2017, six of which were one-day affairs (one was a two-day class). […]
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