Once again this year, separate from my annual “Pay to Play” article, this is what has become another tradition: looking back at my year. What goals did I achieve or fail to achieve? What surprises came up along the way? Formal Training As I predicted in my 2019 Training Goals article, I could not maintain […]
There’s not much more I can say about the latest attack on a congregation that hasn’t already been said, and it’s not even been a full 24 hours yet. I refer of course to the lone gunman who opened fire in a White Settlement, TX church and was quickly and definitively put down by an […]
Happy Holidays to all of our readers! Each of the last few years (see here, here, and here) I have written an article along these lines. Frankly, I mostly write these articles for myself, as I find it interesting (and somewhat depressing) to see how much I spent on classes and competitive matches over the […]
I had figured that my third match of 2019 would be my last, but as it happened all of the holiday “life events” my kids were involved in were stacked upon each other two weekends ago. Thus, I was happy when a friend of mine asked me if I was free to shoot in an […]
The time that John and I have been putting into the study of the shotgun continued for me last week. Less than two months after taking “Shotgun Skills” with Tim Chandler and Ashton Ray (taught under the FPF Training banner), I once again got to learn under the expert tutelage of Tim in his Home […]
Last week, I was fortunate enough to get to train with Bill Rapier again. For those that may not know, Rapier is a retired Nayy SEAL and the owner and lead instructor of Amercian Tactical Shooting Instruction, LLC. Back in 2017, both Robert and I attended his Integrated Combatives course in Pennsylvania. I didn’t make […]
As noted in the report from my last match, “life” events this year just haven’t had me shooting as many matches as I had hoped. I did not expect to have time to compete in a match this weekend due to more stuff going on. However, it was announced on Monday afternoon that my school […]
